Who is angelos epithemiou on shooting stars

Shooting Stars panellist Angelos Epithemiou a character played by comedy actor Dan Skinner is to become the new 'man with the scores' on the surreal panel show. The character takes over the post from George Dawes, the 'big baby' who has kept the score tally on Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer 's hit comedy since the show started in The change comes about because Matt Lucas , who dressed in a romper suit to play the drumming scorer, was unavailable to take part in the new series because it conflicted with the production schedule for Come Fly With Me , the airport-based comedy he is currently creating with his Little Britain co-star David Walliams.

Study with us. Student life. Our research. Business and partnerships. About us. Get in touch. But, whereas Angelos aka Dan Renton Skinner, of sketch troupe Dutch Elm Conservatoire has found a neat-fitting niche on Shooting Stars, onstage he is a character still in search of a role. Angelos isn't like John Shuttleworth , say a perfectly observed character with a bulletproof internal logic. Far from it. On the one hand, he's a familiar type, sporting all the supposed signifiers — anorak, NHS specs, overbite, Sainsbury's plastic bag — of social misfit.

Which it feels a little ungracious to laugh at. On the other, his flair for impersonations, and some of his well-orchestrated stage business miming a broom-handle in perfect synch with a flute solo would be beyond a character of this exaggeratedly limited ability. So if Angelos isn't believable, what is he? An absurd cartoon of oddball lowlife, whose sullen diffidence he just wants to get this gig out of the way and get home , lack of self-consciousness and Roy Hattersley sibilants all raise a reliable smile.