[1] He is the star, alongside Natalie Clark, of Ryan Hendrick's multi-award winning short film Perfect Strangers (2015) and of the same director's feature-film version Lost at Christmas (2020).

[2] He plays the role of Detective Marvin Starke in BBC Scotland comedy sitcom Scot Squad (2022) [3].

[9] His debut novel The Tick and the Tock of the Crocodile Clock, about an aspiring writer from the Southside of Glasgow, was published by Lightning Books in May 2022.

[13] In February 2022, he sought help from the public to find the inspirational primary school teacher who had made him promise to send her his first book when it was published.

Twenty-six years on, he managed to find her when the story went viral on social media and was then picked up on TV, radio and in the press.