![]() ![]() Literally seconds later we bump into someone he knows from, yep, the Fringe. “I basically know everyone I know from the Fringe, cringe as that is,” he says. After that, attending Bristol University gave him his first dabble on the comedy scene, before taking Bristol Revunions to the Edinburgh Fringe alongside future Stath Lets Flats collaborator Ellie White and up against more future Stath stars in the form of Al Roberts (“He was in Cambridge Footlights when I was at uni, and he was like a rockstar to me”), The Pin’s Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen, and Daran Johnson (who, along with Roberts and Ladhood’s Liam Williams, formed sketch troupe Sheeps). We should recap the career: Jamie Demetriou was born to an English mother and a Greek-Cypriot father in Friern Barnet, London, the very end of the 134 bus route. And worst of all it just makes me depressed about how many of my clothes I have in those boxes that I apparently just don’t need.”Īll good now, though. “I’d been alone for four weeks and I was looking down the barrel of five more weeks. So Jamie Demetriou’s big-Hollywood-break-buy-a-house-and-finally-become-an-adult moment actually looked like ‘living out of a suitcase in an LA Airbnb’ and ‘not quite knowing which cardboard box had all the Baftas in it’ (he still hasn’t unpacked them). No way of doing that final Land Registry search. And then – say it with me now – The Cyberattack On Hackney Council. “The National Crime Agency continues to investigate the incident.” So what does this mean? It means in winter 2020 Jamie Demetriou was about to buy a house in Hackney, and was so confident it was going to happen – he was in his moment! He’d just won three Baftas! He was about to go to Hollywood! – that he packed everything he owned into boxes and went to Los Angeles to film The Afterparty, the new AppleTV+ 10-part murder-mystery that has every living comedian on the planet in it. “How is no one talking about the cyberattack on Hackney Council?”). ‘The sophisticated attack on 11 October left many systems unavailable for Council staff to deliver essential services, with months of painstaking work to safely recover them,’ it says on the Hackney Council website (“Did you know about this?” Jamie asks. For Jamie Demetriou it felt like this: a raging pandemic meant he was locked inside for most of his nine-week Hollywood breakthrough, everything he owned was in a pile of unmarked boxes back at a flat he thought he’d already moved out of, and a cyberattack across the east London postcodes had left him fairly unsure about his council tax status. What it feels like when years of hard work and talent and potential suddenly align and become bathed in golden light, when everyone recognises your worth and your power and your capability, when you finally take that step up out of the swampy water of ‘trying’ into the cool clean air of ‘succeeding’. You often wonder what it feels like to be ‘in a moment’: Jordan’s ascendant season in the NBA, Rooney’s Euro 2004, some other analogy that isn’t just sport. “But basically… it was the cyberattack on Hackney Council.” We’re sitting on a bench in an east London park so indistinct it doesn’t have a name, there is mud beneath our feet and the air is velvety with drizzle. Series 2 begins this Monday 19th August at 10pm on Channel 4.“Well, what happened with me was – I mean, it’s annoying that the thing that happened to me was like, fucking boring,” Jamie Demetriou says. Stath Lets Flats is written and stars Jamie Demetriou in the title role, and also features Ellie White, Nick Mohammed, David Mumeni and Danielle Vitalis – we can’t wait to watch! In series two he and the rest of the team will be forced to work under his arch rival Julian – and re-think his life goals. ![]() The action will pick up from where we left it at the end of series one with Stath having been denied the manager’s position by his own father. Series two of the BAFTA-nominated comedy about an incompetent Greek-Cypriot letting agent returns this month, and focuses on the antics at ‘Michael & Eagle Lets’, a dodgy London agency run by Stath’s father, Vasos.Īlmost everything he touches breaks (or sets on fire), every customer he comes into contact with is highly alarmed by everything he says, and the most tragic part is that he’s operating at maximum capacity, trying his absolute best to do his job well and win his dad’s approval.
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