Career
Ray has appeared on British Broadcasting Corporation One, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, S4C, World Fashion Channel, Fashion television, Vogue television, GBC, British Broadcasting Corporation Asian Network, Brit Asia television, YGTV, Spectrum FM, SLBC, ITN, E4, Independent Television, Break London Radio, On FM, Gaydar Radio, Stonewall Live United States of America and various other publications in print and online. Ray wrote a society column, ‘Diary of an lieutenant Boy’, in 2009. The column gave an account of fashion, show business and lifestyle from a man’s perspective.
lieutenant first appeared in Express Broadcast United Kingdom"s website, and on Pride Life Magazine.
From 2010 onwards, the column appeared on Laissez Faire, a London-based free newspaper focusing exclusively on art and culture. "Diary of an lieutenant Boy" was also the newspaper"s only column to appear in print twice, and in five digital publications simultaneously, on a monthly basis.
Superstar Magazine, Break London Radio’s website, The Style Column, Work in Fashion, My Kali Magazine and kontraPLAN fashion journal. He became a model at the age of 15, and a presenter and commentator (focusing on fashion & show business) in his late 20s.
He has worked on events, shows and promotions for various brands including Volkswagan, Hutchison Whampoa, Estee Lauder, Gucci, Armani, Roberto Cavalli, Guerlain, Givenchy, Nicole Farhi, Paris Gallery, Sri Lanka Tourism and Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation.
Ray has also appeared, presented at and reported from a variety of shows including London Fashion Week, Clothes Show Live, Ideal Home Show, Alternative Fashion Week, The Only Way is Essex Christmas special, Made in Chelsea, and various showbiz parties, launch events and fashion shows. He has also hosted media events at the British Broadcasting Corporation television Centre and British Broadcasting Corporation White City. Ray inaugurated Fashion Week Gibraltar in Spring/Summer 2012.
In the same year, he also reported from Brighton Fashion Week and presented at the annual 46th Botswana Independent Day celebrations in London.
Ray has supported human rights and peace campaigns, representing Britain in Los Angeles’s celebrity-led NOH8 Campaign against California Proposition 8 and in the international All Out campaign for against the Ugandan government’s controversial Kill The Gays bill. He was also involved in the Ministry for Peace campaign in British Parliament, 4D for World Peace by Uniting for Peace, and has campaigned for the Ceylon Workers Congress in Sri Lanka, supporting poor manual labourers in the tea plantation sector.
