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About me:

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'I really enjoyed Dirty White Boy (the play). I was by turns moved, much amused, charmed and affected. Clayton has created a vivid kaleidoscope of gay/polysexual/social/shop selling/Soho life with most economical means, shrinking the text so deftly to allow the most individual of customers to become the play's backbone.' (Nicholas de Jongh. Evening Standard theatre critic (1991-2009)

For three years my partner, Jorge Betancourt, and I had a clothes shop on Old Compton Street, Soho called Dirty White Boy (just below a rather popular brothel).

Between serving sugar daddies and rent boys, I wrote a blog about Soho which was turned into a book Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho (Gay Times Book of the Year 2009)

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'The best book I read last year. Touching, funny and poignant.' (Sir Elton John)

'Funny, perceptive, sexy, exquisitely observed.' (Stephen Fry)

'When writers try to make art that is universal and not personal they always fail - it’s being personal which makes it universal in the end. Clayton Littlewood’s book is tender, warm and full of humanity. Soho is like an upturned dustbin and he like a drunk rummaging through it. He shows us all that glitters is not gold. And all that smells is not garbage. ' (Sebastian Horsley, author of Dandy in the Underworld)

'His novel truly shines. Gay Times Book of the Year.' (Gay Times)

'Downright hysterical.' (QX Magazine)

'This book is awesome.' (Instinct Magazine)

‘A collection of witty and piquant vignettes.’ (The London Paper)

‘As evocative in it's own way as Isherwood's take on that other sin bin, the Berlin of the 1920's...probably the best book about one section of Soho life...a twenty first century love story to Soho.' (The Soho Society)

‘Original anecdotes and real life stories told with a Hogarthian incisiveness – a sort of unofficial tourist guide evoking a vivid portrait of an area that is like no other.’ (West End Extra)

‘His book is not sensationalist, but neither does he shirk from airing dirty laundry: he is not writing for the tourists…Dirty White Boy is a warts’n’all year of seedy beauty, faded glamour and real danger….It is honest: writing without preconceptions, Clayton stayed true to himself, and so his book stays true to Soho.’ (reFresh magazine)

'Your book is not nearly as bad as I was hoping you cunt.' (Sebastian Horsley)

'Like the queer descendant of Samuel Pepys, Clayton Littlewood captures the day-to-day drama of his London in all of its demented glory.' (Michael Thomas Ford, author of Alec Baldwin Doesn’t Love Me and Last Summer)

'Clayton Littlewood recreates the real Soho, from its beauty to its underbelly…insightful, humorous, heartbreaking.’ (Arthur Wooten, author of On Picking Fruit and Fruit Cocktail)

'A hilarious and poignant fly-on-the-wall view of Soho. Clayton Littlewood is the wisest fly you will ever meet.' (Josh Kilmer-Purcell, author of I Am Not Myself These Days)

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A book reading I did with my friend Sebastian Horsley in Soho in Dec 2008. I'll be thinking about him for the rest of my life. I love you Sebastian.




Here is a quick clip from Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho - 2009's 'try out' shows at the Trafalgar Studios. The character of 'Leslie' is played by David Benson (see my Top Friends list).



Clayton Littlewood grew up in sunny Weston-Super-Mare and moved to London in his teens to join a band called Spongefinger as the lead singer. After being rejected by every record company in town, Clayton turned to pirate radio, hosting a comedy show where he posed as a female West Country aromatherapist by the name of Doctor Bunty. This led to an MA in Film and Television and a comedy script, which inspired one agent to say 'This is the most disgusting piece of filth we've ever read. Don't ever contact us again.'

Clayton's latest incarnations have been running the shop Dirty White Boy in Soho with his partner Jorge Betancourt, writing the Soho Stories column for The London Paper and being a regular contributor to BBC Radio (although I suppose I should add I have now been escorted from the building on two occasions for saying rude words).

A play based on his book was premiered at the Trafalgar Studios in July 2009 and ran again at the Trafalgar Studios in May 2010
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Details

  • Status: Married
  • Hometown: Ye Old London Town
  • Orientation: Gay
  • Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Schools

  • University of Westminster

    • London, LO
    • Graduated: 2002
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: Master's Degree
    • Major: Film and Television
    1999 to 2002

  • University of North London

    • LONDON, LO
    • Graduated: 1999
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: Bachelor's Degree
    • Major: Communications
    • Minor: Cultural Studies
    1996 to 1999

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