Draft:Jay Ruckley

Draft article not currently submitted for review.

This is a draft Articles for creation (AfC) submission. It is not currently pending review. While there are no deadlines, abandoned drafts may be deleted after six months. To edit the draft click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.

To be accepted, a draft should:

Show the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article by using multiple sources that meet four criteria. The sources should be (1) reliable (2) secondary (3) independent of the subject (4) talk about the subject in some depth. For some topics, there are alternative criteria.
Be written from a neutral point of view
Respect copyright and do not plagiarize. Do not copy-paste.

It is strongly discouraged to write about yourself, your business or employer. If you do so, you must declare it.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

Last edited by Boleyn (talk | contribs) 2 months ago. (Update)

Submit the draft for review!

Jay Cameron Ruckley (born September 6, 1998) is a Welsh former child actor, appearing initially in stage productions and later on television.

Early life[edit]

Ruckley was born in Barry, South Wales, the son of Jake and Faye Ruckley. He attended the All Saints Church in Wales Primary School.

Early stage career[edit]

At the age of seven, Ruckley was chosen by his model agency Mustard to represent Hubba Bubba gum. Ruckley had not attended stage school nor had any singing lessons, but at the age of eight, after his parents responded to a newspaper advertisement, he starred as Tiny Tim in the Wales Theatre Company’s production of A Christmas Carol in December 2006, starring alongside Ron Moody. In January 2007, he won the role of Jeremy Potts in a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Bristol Hippodrome, having queued in rain to audition for five hours. Ruckley went on to tour the UK in a production of Mary Poppins as Michael Banks.

Grandpa in My Pocket[edit]

At the age of ten, Ruckley successfully auditioned to be cast as Jason Mason, a major character in a television comedy drama named Grandpa in My Pocket, which featured a boy’s adventures with his mischievous Grandpa, who owned a magic cap which made him shrink to around 4 inches tall. Grandpa was portrayed by James Bolam, and Jason, who was the only person to know about the shrinking cap, narrated each adventure.

Grandpa in My Pocket was broadcast on CBeebies and was first aired in February 2009. Following the success of the first series in April 2009, a second was commissioned in March 2010, with a third filmed in 2011. After the third season, the series was assumed to have ended, but two years later, a fourth season went into production, and began broadcast in 2014. Ruckley had appeared in all 66 episodes of the first three series. The final season in 2014 introduced some changes to the plot, with Ruckley, now a 15 year old, portraying Jason Mason as a recurring character with his role as series narrator being replaced by two younger actors, Harvey Thorn and Sezen Djouma who portrayed Jason’s younger cousins Josh and Elsie after Grandpa decided to let them in on the secret of the shrinking cap.

Other television work[edit]

In addition to Grandpa in My Pocket, Ruckley appeared in four episodes of medical drama Casualty during 2010, portraying Sam Marshall. Ruckley played Mungo Mole in science fiction television series The Sparticle Mystery (2011). Ruckley was also part of a cameo cast of The Itch of the Golden Nit (2011), an animated adventure film, providing one of the voices.