After rubbing shoulders with some of film’s biggest stars, a Whitehaven actor will now appear in a popular reality TV show.

Calvin Davidson, originally from Bransty, will star in E4’s Coach Trip: Road to Marbella. He is also due to appear on the big screen for cameo appearances in T2 Trainspotting, the follow-up to Danny Boyle’s hit ’90s film, which opens in cinemas this month.

The former St Benedict’s School pupil, who now lives in Montrose, Scotland, will make his reality TV debut on Monday at 7.30pm when Coach Trip gets underway.

“I applied with my friend Conrad,” he said. “Out of several thousand applications we got an audition. Some weeks later we got the phone call to say we had been successful and they wanted us to be in the starting cast so we were flown out to Palma.

“The whole concept has been changed on Coach Trip now. It used to be mixed ages doing boring things but since the Geordie Shore production team took it over it’s all 18 to 30s with lots of partying. It has been the best thing I have ever done.”

The show sees Calvin and his friend Conrad Williams take part in activities and check out the local nightlife with other teams of two. At the end of each day, the pairs will vote to decide who they no longer wish to travel with.

Calvin, who works for a security team when he’s not attending castings, will appear in cinemas across the country when the new Trainspotting film is released after he secured a role as an extra in three scenes.

He said: “One of my agencies got me booked into T2 Trainspotting. We got to hang out with the cast and talk to them, I sat down and had lunch with Danny Boyle and Ewen Bremner. It was surreal, they were calling me by my first name. Danny Boyle is amazing. He’s such a lovely guy, friendly and down to earth.

“Robert Carlyle was amazing, he took selfies with everyone and made us all laugh in a nightclub scene. He was cracking jokes and messing about.”

He also met Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller, who stayed in character during his time on set.