A YEAR ago Demetrios Demetriou, a balding, slightly overweight 40-year-old Greek Cypriot, took his son Lagi to see the switching on of the Enfield Christmas lights in North London. As the crowds strained for a glimpse of whichever celebrity was throwing the switch, it never occurred to him that 12 months on it would be the two of them doing the -honours. And not just in Enfield.
Britain’s Got Talent stars StavrosFlatley will be back on your TV screens this autumn, this time on BBC cookery show Ready Steady Cook. Who will win the cooking challenge, Big Papa or Shimmying Son? Leave your comments below.
On the programme today - Matt Driscoll - the former News of the World sportswriter who's been awarded nearly £800,000 for unfair dismissal from the paper. A tribunal said he was the victim of a campaign of bullying led by the papes then editor Andy Coulson - who's now the Conservative Party's Director of Communications. And Demitrious from Britain's Got Talent's father and son act Stavros...
... mania all over again. And don't rule out the John and Edward promo video starring BGT finalists StavrosFlatley as backing dancers. Oh, the Jedward stage is coming on over the hill . . .
Thousands of screaming fans crammed into Merry Hill as TV talent show stars Diversity and StavrosFlatley took to the stage to kick off the festive shopping season.
Two hours later, I am standing in Bacon's kitchen, one of a 30-strong crowd being drawn into a mass Greek dancing lesson with the Britain's Got Talent father-and-son contestants collectively known as StavrosFlatley. The taverna music starts up again and the father, Demetrios Demetriou, takes off, pulling off his T-shirt to reveal a 10in tattoo of himself with "Danke? You mean DANCE?"...