Dotun Adebayo
| Dotun Adebayo MBE |
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| Born |
Oludotun Adebayo 25 August 1960 Lagos, Nigeria |
| Other names | The Referee |
| Occupation | Radio presenter, writer, publisher |
| Spouse(s) | Carroll Thompson |
| Children | 2 |
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Oludotun "Dotun" Adebayo, MBE (born 25 August 1960) is a British radio presenter, writer, and publisher. He is best known for his work on Up All Night on BBC Radio 5 Live, as well as the obituary programme Brief Lives.
Adebayo was born in Lagos, but moved with his family to England at the age of six. His younger brother Diran Adebayo is a novelist and his nephew Tobi Adebayo-Rowling is a professional footballer. As a young boy, he joined the National Youth Theatre, where he starred in Killing Time by Barrie Keeffe, Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, and several other productions.
Adebayo was educated at Woodlands Park Junior School in Tottenham, where he was in the year below Winston Silcott. He then went on to Stationers' Company's Comprehensive School in Hornsey, North London, followed by , where he studied Literature. While there, he had a reggae segment inside a Saturday-night radio programme on Sveriges Radio P3. He then returned to the UK to study Philosophy at the Wivenhoe Park campus of the University of Essex.
While studying at the University of Essex, and presenting two programmes on the student radio station, in 1987 Adebayo was elected President of the University of Essex Students' Union to serve in the 1987/1988 academic year. Standing as an independent, he defeated Labour Students candidate Asad Rehman.
The American playwright Tennessee Williams chose Adebayo to play a small part in the world premiere of his last play, The Red Devil Battery Sign, in which Adebayo acted opposite Pierce Brosnan.
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