Real life of Saturday Night Takeaway guest announcer Lenny Rush

Lenny Rush started his TV career on CBeebies - now the young star is following in the footsteps of Maya Jama, Stephen Merchant and Joe Lycett with his latest role. The Bafta-winning actor will be the star guest announcer on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway this weekend.

The teenager has become one of the best known young actors in the country over the last few years. Now 15, he won a TV Bafta for best male comedy performance for his role as Ollie in Daisy May Cooper's dark comedy Am I Being Unreasonable? and picked up two Royal Television Society Programme awards.

Last year he became Children in Need's first child presenter - resulting in one critic hailing him as a "fearless" scene-stealer, while another called him "phenomenal" in Am I Being Unreasonable? And he will soon be seen in the new series of Doctor Who.

He told his Instagram followers he "cannot wait" for his Saturday Night Takeaway appearance, adding: "I've watched it all through my childhood and I'm still watching it today so to get asked was a dream come true."

Read on to find out all you need to know about Lenny's life at home and career so far.

Lenny was born on March 18, 2009. He lives in Essex with his parents Lisa and Steve and younger brother Bobby.

Steve runs a kitchen design company and Lisa trained as a dental nurse before giving up her career to care for Lenny. He has spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SEDC), a form of dwarfism, and spent four months in hospital when he was born.

He has had operations on his legs and to close a cleft palate and most recently had spinal surgery, saying his doctor at Great Ormond Street hospital "has changed my life. He says his condition can affect sight, walking, stamina, balance and hearing, joking to