
The Channel 4 show about an idiotic lettings agent, which Demetriou first began working on in 2013, is a phenomenon that floats around in a category almost entirely of its own. With Demetriou now the award-winning creator, writer and star of an internationally acclaimed sitcom, it is hard to believe that those who turned him down don’t feel foolish for letting him slip through their grasp.īut it would be disingenuous to say that Stath Lets Flats, Demetriou’s baby, was ever an obvious hit.

“I thought it was what I wanted to do, because I didn’t really know what options there were,” he tells NME.

In his teens, he auditioned for “every drama school” two years in a row and never got a single callback.

Jamie Demetriou says that when he was young, he was a rubbish actor.
