Damon Rochefort

He has had success in music in the 1990s with his group Nomad,[1] with the international hit "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" and others as well as writing and producing hits for Kim Wilde, Bad Boys Inc, Michelle Gayle and La Toya Jackson.

[2] Prior to enjoying success with Nomad, Rochefort recorded "Don't Believe the Hype" under the name Mista E, an acid house single featuring a pre-fame Steve Coogan doing impersonations of Prince Charles and Alastair Burnet.

[2] He switched to script-writing in 1995, completing a script-writing course led by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (who created Birds of a Feather) and subsequently starting his writing career with several episodes of Birds of a Feather.

Rochefort is also a script consultant on BBC 4's award-winning comedy Getting On starring Jo Brand, Vicky Pepperdine and Jo Scanlan, as well as the more recent Puppy Love also starring Scanlan and Pepperdine.

[3] In October 2016, Rochefort married Daniel Alexis at a ceremony on the Balearic Island of Ibiza.