Children in Need: who is 15-year-old presenter Lenny Rush?

Lenny Rush, the youngest ever presenter connected BBC’s Children successful Need coverage, returns to the relation contiguous for a packed evening of amusive and fundraising.

The 15-year-old histrion has starred successful Doctor Who and Am I Being Unreasonable? the Daisy May Cooper drama show, for which helium won a BAFTA successful 2023.

He archetypal appeared connected the 2022 variation of BBC Children successful Need successful a sketch spoofing The Office, wherever helium played the supervisor to a telephone centre afloat of misbehaving celebrities including Peter Andre, Mo Farah, Jonathan Bailey (then caller disconnected his relation arsenic a romanticist pb successful Bridgerton) and a chaotic Mr Blobby.

In 2023, helium joined the presenting squad for the fund-raising show. “It’s an honour and a thrill to beryllium the archetypal kid presenter for Children successful Need,” helium told the BBC. This twelvemonth helium has re-joined the line-up of presenters, including Ade Adepitan, Mel Giedroyc, Rochelle Humes, Vernon Kay, and Chris Ramsey.

His archetypal on-camera quality was successful 2017, for the CBeebies documentary Our Family. He went connected to play roles successful CBeebies Apple Tree House and The Dumping Ground connected CBBC.

He starred arsenic Tiny Tim successful the 2017 and 2018 accumulation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol connected signifier astatine London’s Old Vic, reprising the relation successful a televised mentation successful 2019, directed by Steven Knight.

Having won a bid regular relation arsenic The Sweeper connected BBC amusement Dodger alongside Christopher Eccleston, his relation was expanded to make the quality of Morgon. The amusement won a BAFTA successful 2022. He besides had a spot portion arsenic a paper lad successful Netflix amusement Enola Holmes 2.

His best-known relation was playing Ollie other Daisy May Cooper successful her 2022 show, Am I Being Unreasonable? Rush won effusive praise for his acting and improvisation skills – and the BAFTA for Male Performance successful a Comedy Programme. He besides took location the Breakthrough Award and Best Comedy Performance (Male) astatine the Royal Television Society Programme Awards.

He has besides starred alongside Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor successful the 14th play of the long-running show, which aired earlier this year. Having archetypal been formed arsenic the dependable of Eric successful the Doctor Who occurrence Space Babies earlier this year, he was fixed the relation of Morris Gibbons, a technological advisor for UNIT, the in-show universe’s subject organisation.

Rush has spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a uncommon bony maturation upset that results successful dwarfism, and spent the archetypal 4 months of his beingness successful hospital. The histrion is simply a disabilty advocator and is vocal astir practice successful tv and film.

“Disability oregon not, I deliberation anyone tin play a role,” helium said connected Good Morning Britain. “It’s bully for radical with disabilities to person the aforesaid opportunities that different radical do, due to the fact that wherefore not?”