Chronicle Gave West End Dec His Tv Break ; As One Half of Tv Duo Ant and Dec, Declan Donnelly has Become One of the Most Famous Geordie Personalities in Showbusiness. Reporter Tom Mullen Discovers How the Former Byker Grove Star's First Big Break Came Along - Thanks to the Chronicle

Evening Chronicle › October 01, 2009

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HE was the ordinary kid from Newcastle's West End who made it big.

As he played in the streets beside his Cruddas Park home, schoolboy Declan Donnelly couldn't possibly have imagined the stellar career in acting, music and presenting that would soon catapult him into the limelight.

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Chronicle Gave West End Dec His Tv Break ; As One Half of Tv Duo Ant and Dec, Declan Donnelly has Become One of the Most Famous Geordie Personalities in Showbusiness. Reporter Tom Mullen Discovers How the Former Byker Grove Star's First Big Break Came Along - Thanks to the Chronicle

His star-studded future would soon see him light up our screens in kids' TV series Byker Grove; singing as o...

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