DJ Charlie Sloth, self-proclaimed 'best-looking fat guy in the universe', was let go by Radio 1 after ranting to Edith Bowman

He bills himself as the voice of disaffected youth, born in the ghetto and playing up to a life of crime as he mingles with top hip-hop stars on his agenda-setting BBC rap show.

But Charlie Sloth, the host let go by Radio 1 this week after storming the stage at a music awards show to launch a foul-mouthed rant against Edith Bowman when she beat him to a prize, is today revealed as a father-of-three living in a sprawling £500,000 home in the heart of the English countryside.

And, at 37 years old, the self-styled 'best-looking fat guy in the universe' is six years nearer to middle age than his public profiles claim - a fact his image-conscious team seemingly go to extraordinary lengths to hide from his young fans.

In fact they try to hide a lot from his audience, with the brash DJ clamming up in interviews whenever his private life or family history is brought up.

So not much was known about the north Londoner when he took to the stage at the ARIA Awards to tell fellow DJ Edith Bowman 'f*** your life' when she scooped the best music specialist gong at the Audio and Radio Industry Awards, which he'd also been in the running for.

During the eyebrow-raising speech, he also took aim at his employers of ten years, saying: 'I just wanna say BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra, Saturday night rap show. F*** your life. God bless.' It led to the BBC cutting short the final shows he was due to host, and him leaving the station immediately.

It was the first fall from grace for streetwise 'Charlie', who was born Ian Rouillon in 1981, the second child of electrician Ian senior and his wife Sharon, who says she is a black cab driver.

Sloth bills himself as the voice of disaffected youth, born in the ghetto and playing up to a life of crime as he mingles with top hip-hop stars on his agenda-setting BBC rap show

Records show he lives in this sprawling £500,000 home in a leafy, affluent village in Northamptonshire

His Liverpudlian parents raised him and his two sisters in council houses in north-west London.

His Wikipedia page lists his hometown as Somers Town, a tough inner-city area in Camden.

The Source Magazine described 'Sloth' as having grown up in 'the closest place London has to a Ghetto'.

But records suggest that by his mid-teens he was living above a nail bar in a Camden Town council flat worth £600,000.

It was from there that he set out for stardom - becoming an MC in both the UK garage and hip hop scenes.

His profile first forged as a key member of two rap crews – Hype Squad and the Grimey Limeys.

In 2007 he started making his own records and created a solo Internet show called Being Charlie Sloth.

He was uploading the show weekly on YouTube and got picked up by WorldStarHipHop, a hip hop video site in the US, where it was soon averaging over a million hits a week.

Sloth would record the ups and downs of the life of an independent British rap artist while fusing documentary reportage, pranks, comedy skits and rap freestyles.

Companies House records suggest he spent his mid-teens living in this council flat above a nail salon in Camden Town

But somewhere along the way his age started dropping, likely to remain appealing to his young audience.

Companies House records show him to be aged 37, but you wouldn't know that from searching him on Google.

In every media report and interview, and even on his Wikipedia page, he's listed as having been born in 1987, which would make him 31.

It's part of his image that someone seemingly wants to protect.

The Source Magazine described Rouillon as having grown up in 'the closest place London has to a ghetto'. Here he's pictured in front of his fleet of cars

Over the weekend Rouillon's Wikipedia page was updated to include his true date of birth and legal name. But within hours it was changed back - by a user with an internet address registered in the Northamptonshire countryside... just a stone's throw from that £500,000 home listed in the DJ's name.

After the mystery intervention, Rouillon was Sloth again, and Sloth a youthful 31.

At some point in his twenties, as he was fine tuning his rap character, Sloth changed his name on legal papers from 'Ian' to 'Charlie'.

At some point in his twenties, as he was fine tuning his rap character, Sloth changed his name from 'Ian' to 'Charlie'

But some of his family members were still referring to the self-proclaimed 'best-looking fat guy in the universe' as 'Little Ian' on social media as recently as 2012.

Online records reveal the his most recent residence was that £500,000 home in the shadow of a seventh century church in a leafy, affluent, Northamptonshire village.

But even that might not be sufficient for a man of Rouillon's stature. More recent photos on his Instagram suggest he's upgraded to a larger, pricier abode elsewhere in the countryside.

And he poses freely outside it, showing off his collection of expensive cars.

He wasn't afraid to tell Bowman what he wanted to do to her life... but his young fans may raise an eyebrow about the life he leads, now he's swapped the streets for the village green.