Biography

Previous jobs: Bartender, lifeguard, working for the NHS (National Health Service).

He can play the guitar, harmonica, saxophone, and piano.

He was the lead singer of multiple bands, including Makora and Shere Khan.

He is the son of Jane (Martin) and Philip Taptiklis. He is of one-fourth Greek descent, with the rest of his ancestry being English, Scottish, and more distant German. His paternal grandmother, Barbara Jean Dorothy (Keech), was born in West Derby, England, and his paternal grandfather, Nicholas Theodore Taptiklis, was born in Greece; they moved to New Zealand, where Theo's father, Philip, was raised. Theo's mother's family is from Glasgow, Scotland.

He enjoys boxing, basketball, rugby, and deep sea scuba diving.

I know I often get a job because of how I look. I hope that I keep the job because of how I act.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'

I've got two brothers and two sisters, so there's five of us and we're all very close, which is cool.

I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weekend away and was in a bar in England, years ago, with an ex-girlfriend. I heard this scratching. I was about to go to bed and I was thinking, 'It's an old ghost.' I could hear this noise, but I couldn't work out where it was coming from.