But I’ve never won an award so it’s often, you know, me doing my smiley clappy face.” Last year’s Baftas were “incomparable, really – I could have done with a few more reality-TV stars knocking about my living room”. “There’s definitely been an absence of that this year. But I was thrilled.”ĭemetriou had attended plenty of awards ceremonies in the past, which he saw as a chance to catch up with people he’d worked with over the years doing one-line or one-episode parts. “I just felt incredibly lucky to have any good news last year. He remembers worrying about having repeated himself in the speeches, which he had recorded in a rush assuming no one would ever see them. “I just can’t even begin to explain how surprised I was,” says Demetriou.

And to have what happened happen.” What happened, it turned out, was two more Baftas. “It was a double celebration: seeing people for the first time in months and months.

For the night they were joined by his sister and co-star Natasia, his girlfriend, and fellow cast member Al Roberts and his girlfriend (everyone had been tested in advance). His excellent comedy series Stath Lets Flats, about a Greek-Cypriot letting agent, was nominated for best scripted comedy and best male comedy performance. Two weeks later, for the Bafta TV awards proper, he was better prepared.

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