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Inside Stephen Mulhern’s rise to fame – from Butlin’s Redcoat to darling of Saturday night TV

King of Saturday night telly, this is the rise to fame of Stephen Mulhern from Butlin's Redcoat to Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.

Saturday Night Takeaway star Stephen Mulhern may be a super-popular fixture of weekend telly on ITV these days. Stephen’s parents were market traders in London when he was growing up – and it has been claimed he first got a sense of how to play to a crowd when helping out on the family stall aged 11. His Britain’s Got More Talent gig began in 2007, and around that time he was also involved with DOI’s spin-off show Defrosted, as well as alongside Ant and Dec on Saturday Night Takeaway.

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