A Tooting 10-year-old is to star in a television juice advert this summer.

Malachi Alfred-Lecky, from Furzedown School, plays a character named “Ping” in the new Fruit Shoot ads.

The advert features four members of the “juice crew”- a football player, a ping-pong player, a beat-boxer and a skipper.

Malachi originally auditioned for the beat-boxing part, but judges decided his ping-pong skills shone through even more.

He said: “I was shocked when I got through, but am so excited to show my skills off to all my classmates.”

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