Oludotun Davey Moore "Dotun" Adebayo was born on 25 August 1959 and is a British radio presenter, writer, and publisher.
20 Facts About Dotun Adebayo
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Dotun Adebayo is best known for his work on Up All Night on BBC Radio 5 Live, as well as the former obituary programme Brief Lives.
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Dotun Adebayo is known as the "King of Overnight" Radio and known as "Radio Dotun"m the pen name by which he has recently published his noir-moir memoirs EFFRIES.
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Oludotun "Dotun" Adebayo was born on 25 August 1959, in Lagos, Nigeria, and moved to join his parents in England at the age of six.
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Dotun Adebayo's younger brother Diran Adebayo is a novelist, and his nephew Tobi Adebayo-Rowling is a professional footballer.
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Dotun Adebayo was educated at Woodlands Park Junior School in Tottenham, where he was in the year below Winston Silcott.
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Dotun Adebayo went on to Stationers' Company's Comprehensive School in Hornsey, North London, followed by Stockholm University, where he studied Literature.
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Dotun Adebayo then returned to the UK to study Philosophy at the Wivenhoe Park campus of the University of Essex.
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Dotun Adebayo graduated from Essex in 1987 with a BA degree in Philosophy.
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Dotun Adebayo revealed during an episode of Up All Night that his middle names were "Davey Moore".
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Dotun Adebayo's parents were boxing fans and had given him these middle names because the boxer Davey Moore had boxed and beaten British-Nigerian Hogan Bassey a year earlier.
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Dotun Adebayo appeared in The Oblong Box at the age of eight, and as a schoolboy in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.
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Dotun Adebayo resigned as president of the University of Essex Students' Union within a few months to take up a job with The Voice, Britain's main black newspaper, where he was music editor until 1991.
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Dotun Adebayo is working on his first novel, Promised Land, an epic saga spanning 50 years in the lives of Britain's richest black family.
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Dotun Adebayo founded the publishing company X Press, with Steve Pope, producing black fiction such as Baby Father, Victor Headley's Yardie, and Cop Killer.
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Dotun Adebayo is co-founder of Colourtelly, Britain's first general-interest black internet television station.
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In September 2020, Dotun Adebayo became a co-presenter of On The Continent as part of the new Football Ramble Presents network, alongside Andy Brassell.
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Dotun Adebayo using his pen-name Radio Dotun published his 'memoirs' called Effries in October 2023 which he states tells the story of how he was once arrested for murder.
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Dotun Adebayo is married to singer Carroll Thompson, and they have two daughters.
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In October 1999, Dotun Adebayo was invited to Buckingham Palace to meet Queen Elizabeth II.