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• Has aspired to become a professional soccer player.
• Got his start in acting in 2000 after winning the role of the Antichrist in the horror film The Calling.
• First TV role was Jay Keaton on the children's sci-fi drama series The Fugitives.
• Earned a sixth-form scholarship to the prestigious Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith thanks to his talent as a soccer player and his minor success in acting, and was later approached by actor Jennifer Saunders after she saw him in that school's production of Our Country's Good.
• Practiced every day for 3 months with Brett Boyett, the music supervisor on Forever My Girl, to prepare for his role, and also studied interviews with various country music stars.