A STAR-STRUCK Rubery nine-year-old has won VIP tickets to appear in the audience of a Saturday morning television programme.

Ben Allsopp will be able to meet Ant, Dec and Cat, presenters of SM:TV Live after he picked a winning lid from a lucky dip.

He narrowly missed out on winning a guest spot on the ITV series' Friends spoof 'Chums', because the didn't pick the right lid out of the box.

The contest was run by Robinson's squash which brought its lucky dip to ER Mason Youth Centre, in Birmingham.

Ben will be in the audience during an episode next month.