A Basil Brush fan has finally tracked down an episode of a show he appeared in as a young boy.

Brian Chau Rodriguez's five minutes of fame led to five years of desperate hunting for any trace of the series three Christmas special - It's a wonderful Brush, which first aired in 2004.

The 21-year-old from Langley said: "Whenever I tell my friends I was in Basil Brush they do not believe me. A lot of them are fans and I wanted to prove to them I was on the show."

Since he was 16, Mr Chau Rodriguez has been pleading with the BBC, Wikipedia, YouTube and Maidstone Studios, where the show was filmed, to help him find the episode.

He was "over the moon" when the BBC emailed him saying they have found it on a VHS tape.

"At last I received a snapshot of me with my sister Daisy and two friends on set, with Basil and Santa peering through the window behind us.

"It was a pleasure to appear on Basil Brush with some brilliant actors."

In the episode, Basil and his friends only have 79p for Christmas and Mr Brush blames himself. It was based on Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life.

And it seems this will not be Mr Chau Rodriguez's final claim to fame - he is now applying to game and dating shows, hoping to feature on our screens again soon.

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