Natasia Demetriou: ‘Music, fashion and media all push the idea that women are more attractive if they look like little girls’

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. I feel like I’ve been ridden.” 10 best black comedy films of all time Show all 10 “If there is a theme of the sketch show, it is about social anxiety and being a woman today,” says Demetriou, who lives in north London with her dogs and enjoys gardening. “It’s in the fashion and media industries too – this idea that women are more attractive if they look like little girls.” But on the whole, they steer away from social commentary, often preferring pure absurdity instead. “It’s a dreamy, dreamy job,” she says about the show, which is inspired by their eccentric north London Anglo-Greek-Cypriot upbringing, and returns for a second series later this year. open image in gallery Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White In 2015, they made up a comedy supergroup of writer-performers in BBC3‘s People Time alongside Jamie, Liam Williams and Claudia O’Doherty, before taking their own live comedy show Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White are Gettin’ Big to Edinburgh and the Soho Theatre, for a sell out run in 2018.