When Sam Fender first shot to fame, did you get a feeling you've seen him somewhere before?
That could be because teenage Sam appeared on TV as an actor years before he topped the charts.
As well as a well-documented stint in Vera, Sam, now 27, had a significant speaking part in a long-running CBBC drama filmed in the North East when he was a teenager, having taken up acting as a way to channel his energy, on the advice of his gran.
