FORMER Tavistock College student and children?s television favourite, Steve Wilson, has become an all action hero in his latest series.
Steve, who shot to fame on BBC?s Saturday morning programme Live and Kicking, presents the new series of Call the Shots, starting tomorrow (Friday) in which he receives professional training as a stuntman and takes a behind the scenes look at the film and television industry.
He spent a week training at an ex-RAF base in Oxfordshire, with stunt co-ordinator Jim Dowell, who has worked on many films including nine James Bond movies.
Stunt sequences included Steve crashing cars, being blown up, fighting with scaffolding poles and diving through windows.
Steve also had the chance to relive childhood days while filming BMX bike stunts, a favourite pastime when he was growing up in Tavistock.
Mum Gill Wilson said: ?Steve really enjoyed filming the bike stunts, he loves riding and anything to do with bikes. His first television appearance showed him jumping over my car with the Tavistock BMX club on TSW, so he had great fun filming the stunts.
?The most spectacular stunt was a 70-feet free fall drop into a skip. He was especially delighted to have completed that stunt as he does not have a good head for heights.?
Each of the 13 episodes will focus on one of the stunts, culminating in a dramatic feature called ?Steve Wilson ? Action Hero?.
Steve also filmed in Los Angeles and Hollywood, interviewing film stars such as Bruce Willis and Tim Curry and trying on Wolverine?s costume from box-office smash movie X-Men and Brad Pitt?s Fight Club jacket and shirt.
Call the Shots runs for 13 weeks, Friday 5pm on Children?s BBC 1.