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Who is Lenny Rush Saturday Night Takeaway host role for BAFTA
BAFTA winner Lenny Rush is the latest celeb to be a Star Guest Announcer on ITV's Saturday Night Takeaway

There are now just two episodes left of Saturday Night Takeaway and this weekend the show will welcome its youngest Star Guest Announcers to date, in the form of BAFTA winner Lenny Rush.

This year, everyone from Joe Lycett to Matt and Emma Willis have taken on the coveted role alongside Ant and Dec and on April 6's penultimate instalment of Takeaway's new series, it will be Lenny who enters the booth, to also follow in the footsteps of other big names like RuPaul, James Corden, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson.

News that Lenny would be taking on the job was released by ITV earlier this week, as it was also confirmed that Ant would be pranked by Dermot O'Leary and Alison Hammond and Dec by Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden, as stars get their own back in I'm A Celebrity Get Out of My Ear revenge specials.

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Saturday's show will also see live music from Take That, while the line-up for next week's bumper two hour Saturday Night Takeaway finale includes S Club, Tony Hadley, Scarlett Moffatt and Girls Aloud, who will be the Star Guest Announcers.

Who is Lenny Rush on Saturday Night Takeaway?

Lenny, who is still just 15 years old is best know for starring alongside Daisy May Cooper in Am I Being Unreasonable, as well as for roles in Dodger and The Dumping Ground.

Having won accolades at both the National Comedy and Royal Television Society awards, Lenny was the toast of the TV BAFTAs last year, when he took home the trophy for Male Performance in a Comedy Performance.

Being a Star Guest Announcer on Takeaway isn't the only major TV hosting gig Lenny has had, last year, at just 14-years-old, he was on the presenting team for BBC's Children in Need.

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