I used to run a Tango club in Brighton and now work as a model for such names as Balenciaga and Martine Rose https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2022-menswear/martine-rose. For the past 30 years I have been working the twelve-step program of Narcotics Anonymous and have written a memoir about my recovery from addiction.
I was a football hooligan in provincial England in the 1970s, then began taking LSD, became a glam rocker, drug dealer, heroin user and hustler in West London. I smuggled drugs from Pakistan on several occasions before being arrested with ten kilos of cannabis in a false-bottomed suitcase. After eight months inside, I became a computer programmer, but then lived a double-life, dealing drugs in the demimonde of London and Amsterdam, until I left that world behind and became a tango dancer.
I began writing on a screenwriting course at Birkbeck College when I wrote a feature-length screenplay about drug smuggling. I started my memoir on the Creative Writing Programme at New Writing South in Brighton. In 2018, I won the Spread The Word life writing competition with my entry ‘New Boy’: https://www.spreadtheword.org.uk/read-the-winning-stories-of-the-life-w…
