Zahos Hadjifotiou was born in Athens in the picturesque district of Plaka. He lived, as he himself often says, in a town resembling a theatrical setting.
At the age of seventeen, just out of school and right after the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, he fled to the Middle East and fought in Tobruk, El Alamein, and with the Rimini Brigade in Italy. After the war, he got involved for a while with the family business but later left for Paris, where he lived for several years.
On his return to Greece, he took up journalism as a columnist in most of the prominent daily newspapers. He is the prolific author of fourteen books, some of which made record sales. He is also the author of verses put to music by distinguished popular musicians, has written plays for the theatre, and has translated and adapted theatrical plays that were staged with success.
He has worked for twenty-three years on television and became famous for his daily five-minute political humour talk show.
He has travelled extensively, has taken part in car rallies, and always was and still very much is a ladies' man. He was deputy mayor of Athens.
Today, at the age of ninety-something, he appears on many television talk shows and still drives fast cars...