But we soon settled in. I found a job on a glossy magazine and we bought our own flat. After a few months, Tsedup was spotted and began occasional work as a model and actor. He was booked as an Inuit, a Native American and a Mongolian warlord. Never a Tibetan.
Most people didn t even know where Tibet was.
Appearing in magazines such as The Face and Arena, in fashion shoots for Paul Smith, on TV in music videos for brands such as The Verve, or in commercials for Sony PlayStation, he became successful. But it was an alien world that he never aspired to. He endured it all for me. Still, despite our love, there was a part of him I had yet to discover, and I knew that until I saw in his beloved homeland I would never find it. After four years in London, it was time for us to go to Tibet.