Everyone knows that many stars of the kids' TV series Byker Grove went on to have illustrious careers.

Jill Halfpenny recently won Strictly Come Dancing and has also starred in Eastenders, Donna Air still acts, lives in London's Belsize Park and married a billionaire and, most famously, Ant and Dec mutated from a geeky pop duo into the hottest television presenters around.

But what many people don't know is that Steve Bradley, who played the dim Speedy in the Geordie drama, left the world of fame for mortgages and is currently employed by Terry Pritchard as IT director for Chase UK.

All Mole can says is: "Whey aye man."