 Potts' rowing career finished in 2000 coinciding with the completion of his doctoral thesis on "The Development of the Playhouse in Seventeenth-Century London".Potts is now a writer and broadcaster, and had a brief acting part in the Australian soap opera "Neighbours" in 2004.He and his wife Emily are directors of Party Ark, an internet-based children's party supplies business and administer the Titulus Regius website on the history of Richard III.