Todd Gold

Todd Gold has collaborated on dozens of books across multiple genres with celebrities and newsmakers, many of them bestsellers, including several titles that reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List. These books have also appeared on bestseller lists on Amazon and in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly. His work includes books with Michael Richards, Dick Van Dyke, Valerie Bertinelli, Melissa Gilbert, Billy Dee Williams, Penny Marshall, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ann-Margret, Drew Barrymore, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Burns, Cliff Bleszinski, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Burt Reynolds, Richard Pryor, Louie Anderson, Belinda Carlisle, Sharon Rocha, and Elisabeth Kübler Ross. Between 2007 and 2019, Gold was Editor-in-Chief for Comcast’s XFINITY TV, overseeing the award-winning editorial and programming team responsible for creating and innovating the programming for TV, Music, Kids & Family content for Xfinity On Demand and related platforms. His multi-part series behind-the-scenes look at the return of Will & Grace won a Telly Award in 2018. Prior to that position, he spent 20+ years as a journalist with People and Us Weekly magazines in Los Angeles, including stints as Assistant Managing Editor, West Coast Bureau Chief, and West Coast Editor. He was recognized for his newsbreaking exclusives with Michael Jackson, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Michael J. Fox, Matthew Perry, Britney Spears, and many others.