MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2019‘It’s a very lowbrow show’
As oddball sitcom ‘Stath Lets Flats’ returns, Ellie Harrison talks to
writer and star Jamie Demetriou about Greekness, sarky pigeons and
the joys of playing a ‘sweet idiot’
‘My Greekness was bound to come out of one orifice or another’ (Michael Shelford)
Jamie Demetriou’s favourite game as a child was to stack up all of his class photos from throughout his years
at school, knock on his sister Natasia’s bedroom door and ask her to do impressions of everyone in the
pictures. “That was my dream,” he smiles at the memory. “I would just love her to do that. It was like I had
my favourite comedian just living down the hall who I could go and ask to do a set for me.”
Demetriou, 31, is the creator and star of Stath Lets Flats on Channel 4, a shrewdly observed, supremely
quotable comedy about a moronic, yet lovable, Greek-Cypriot lettings agent. The actor is charming, self-
effacing and gloriously silly when we meet on a much-too-chilly August day in Fitzrovia. We had arranged
to go to a cafe but, when we arrive, we’re told that it caught fire a few days ago, so we shiver into our hot