Inside Derren Litten’s life after Benidorm from losing | UK News

ITV sitcom legend Derren Litten will go down in the historical past books for creating Benidorm – one of the best cherished comedy programmes in latest a long time. The show ran from 2007 until 2018, starring everybody from Sherrie Hewson to Joan Collins, and was comprised of an spectacular 74 episodes – plus a live theatre tour.

For creator Derren, issues appeared good when he tied the knot with his co-star Jake Canuso, best identified for his position of barman Mateo Castellanos. When Derren first got here out as homosexual to his mother and father, his father told him: “I don’t understand what you’ve chosen to be, but promise me one thing – you’ll never bring any of your friends around here.”

Though the pair had been together for a number of years, Derren and Jake called it quits in 2022 and separated, with their divorce being finalised two years later in 2024.

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Derren has since claimed he has been pressured to promote his Spanish villa, where the pair lived together, due to a “shameless, career gold digger”. He didn’t title names in his tweet, but hooked up an property agent itemizing for the four-bedroom property.

He is presently thought to be single.

Speaking of his divorce, Derren said on X in 2023: “I don’t really talk about my personal life here but the reason I’ve been a bit scarce on the socials is for the last 18 months I’ve been going through a pretty miserable divorce.

“So I’m obviously poor now. And you thought we couldn’t have more in common than we already do?!”

Earlier in 2026, he requested followers: “Would you like to buy the house where I wrote the Benidorm TV series?

“I love this house but thanks to a shameless, career gold digger I have to sell. As the Spanish say, ‘No pasa nada!’”

Meanwhile, his divorce has thrown a spanner into the works relating to plans to revive Benidorm for a new sequence, with one TV source claiming: “Mateo is Benidorm, he is the character that everybody needs to see.

“He’s been half of the Solana since the start so for him not to characteristic in any future reboot, effectively it just wouldn’t be the same without him.

Express.co.uk has contacted representatives for Derren and Jake for remark.