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See the Stars before they were famous - From Susanna Reid to Jesy Nelson

Hey, isn’t that you-Knowles-who standing behind Helena Bonham Carter?

We are used to seeing Nick on TV hit DIY SOS so we were stunned when a throwback snap showed him in classic 1985 period drama A Room with a View.

But the 56-year-old is not the only celebrity who had an unsung first career as an actor.

Here are some more you may have missed…

SUSANNA REID

Before being a journalist and long-suffering TV wife to Piers Morgan, the GMB host, 48, was a child actress, starring in a 1985 episode of The Price as Dame Harriet Walter’s on-screen daughter.

Susanna said of the role: “I did an Agatha Christie on stage with Shirley Anne Fields, and then after that I got the role playing Dame Harriet Water’s daughter.”

JESY NELSON

She may be a Little Mix superstar now but Jesy, 28, got her first taste of fame in the Hugh Grant film About a Boy in 2002, left.

She played a schoolgirl but her name doesn’t appear in credits.

She said: “I was in About A Boy – you can see my little round head.”

And bandmate Perrie Edwards says: “Every time I watch it, I pause it.”

Jesy was also an extra in 2005’s Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, in the Yule Ball scene.

MICHAEL GOVE

The wannabe Prime Minister has tried to command attention from an early age.

He played a clergyman in 1994 comedy film A Feast at Midnight, starring Christopher Lee.

Gove managed to grab the part through a filmmaking friend, having just graduated from Oxford University.

He played the school chaplain but most of his dialogue was cut from the final edit – apart from one utterance of “Amen”.

After his brief stint in acting, the 51-year-old became a journalist, then an MP in 2005.

REGGIE YATES

Documentary maker and DJ Reggie, 36, had his first big break at the age of eight.

He landed the role of “little brother” in the hit C4 comedy Desmond’s, right.

Reggie, who also appeared in Doctor Who as Leo Jones, said of his time on TV: “As my career developed, I acted in Grange Hill, presented kids’ TV for the BBC.

“At 18 I became one of the many faces fronting Top of the Pops.”

TOM KERRIDGE

He may be the face of BBC2’s Food & Drink, a winner of the Great British Menu and a regular on Saturday Kitchen, but it wasn’t always on the menu for the 45-year-old.

He was a child actor with roles including “borstal boy” and “thug one” in Miss Marple, left, and London’s Burning.

He said: “A friend and I joined the local youth theatre, we were getting a bit wayward and our mums thought it would be a good distraction.

"Three weeks later I was filming Miss Marple.

“It’s a claim to fame but I never took it seriously.”

GERMAINE GREER

The intellectual and writer, 80, is one of our most controversial feminists.

And after graduating from Cambridge she was keen to make a name for herself.

So in 1967 she appeared in BBC shows Good Old Nocker and Twice a Fortnight, which featured many future Monty Python and Goodies stars.

She was also in short film Darling, Do You Love Me in 1968, left.

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