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Andrew Hayden-Smith
Benjamin Cook (left) and Andrew Hayden-Smith (right) in 2011
Born	Andrew John Smith (1983-11-05)5 November 1983 (age 41) Gateshead,England
Nationality	English
Occupation(s)	Actor, voiceover artist, television presenter
Years active	1996–present
Television	CBBC,ITV,Disney Channel
Partner	Dan Maton

Andrew Hayden-Smith (bornAndrew John Smith, 5 November 1983 inGateshead, England) is an English actor and voiceover artist and former television presenter.

Hayden-Smith grew up inChester-le-Street in County Durham and attended thePeltonRoseberry Sports and Community College. He has an older sister, Kerri Hayden, who also worked onByker Grove as a 2nd AD. While visiting the set of Byker Grove one day, he was spotted by the series' Executive ProducerMatthew Robinson, who cast him in the role of 'Ben Carter', making his first appearance in the eighth series of the show in 1996.

Initially just using the name Andrew Smith, he appeared as a guest on Saturday morning CBBC showLive & Kicking with several other characters from the show. Smith soon became a regular guest on the show. This led to appearances on other shows and also in teen-magazines, as well as twopantomime appearances. In 2001 he applied forEquity membership and was accepted under the name Andrew Hayden-Smith (Hayden being another surname in his family), as the name Andrew Smith was already taken. He announced his change of stage name onLive & Kicking.

Hayden-Smith isgay,^[1] coming out inAttitude magazine in February 2005, when he was 21.^[2]

He is in a long-term relationship with his boyfriend,^[3][4] Dan Maton.^[5]

Hayden-Smith was a regular guest in theCBBC studio for some time, and was invited to guest present the studio links in autumn 2002. He had expressed a wish for some time to have a go at presenting, and was encouraged by existing CBBC presenterJake Humphrey to ask the bosses if he could stay on. This was agreed and Hayden-Smith moved to London to become half of the main presenting team for the afternoon slot on BBC1, a position he would continue to hold for just under four years. During that period from time to time he also presented the CBBC breakfast shows on BBC1 and BBC2 as well as the digital CBBC channel. In 2003 he also filmed his final scenes ofByker Grove, in which his character was killed off. Hayden-Smith became close friends with several of his fellow presenters, includingAngellica Bell andAdrian Dickson.^[6]

During his time onCBBC, Hayden-Smith was oncegunged in the studio after a phone-in deciding which presenter should get gunged in honour of the gameshowGet Your Own Back. With 63% of the votes, Hayden-Smith had a bucket of pink gunge and a bucket of green gunge poured directly over his head.

By this time he had begun presenting theUK Top 40 on CBBC. The show had begun in early 2002 along with the CBBC digital channel and was originally presented byAdrian Dickson andKonnie Huq. It was aired on Sunday nights concurrently with the Top 40 show on Radio One. After Dickson and Huq left the show in September 2004, Hayden-Smith was approached to become the sole presenter, having stood in for Dickson at the last minute one Sunday night several months previously. At first the show continued its success, but in 2005 the format changed to become more "computerised" and this was not received well. The last show was broadcast in June 2005.

Hayden-Smith appeared in the episodes "Rise of the Cybermen", "The Age of Steel" and "Doomsday" asJake Simmonds in the2006 series ofDoctor Who. He returned to CBBC having completed the filming, but decided that he wished to concentrate on acting. His final day of presenting was on 7 July 2006, the day before his third and final Doctor Who appearance.^[7] On leaving CBBC and after his final Doctor Who appearance, Hayden-Smith played Romeo in Shakespeare'sRomeo and Juliet at theJermyn Street Theatre, London, 21 April – 17 May 2008. His position as Jake Simmonds on Doctor Who earned him a spot onThe Weakest Link. In the first round, he banked the £5,000 target. Eventually, he placed fifth.

Hayden-Smith has been aroving reporter forChannel 5's morning programme,Live with Gabby, and was a regular presenter in The Hub onThis Morning during the summer of 2013.

In 2014 and 2015, Hayden-Smith joined the cast of theChannel 4 seriesCucumber and E4 seriesBanana,^[8][9] both from writerRussell T Davies.^[10]

In September 2015 he was onHacker's Birthday Bash, screened on CBBC, a children's reunion show also featuringAndi Peters andPhillip Schofield.^[6]

Hayden-Smith is a regularcontinuity announcer, mainly onITV andITV2 but also does voiceover work for other channels,^[11] and is a contributor toAttitude.co.uk.^[12]

In July 2016, Hayden-Smith joined the cast of Channel 4soap opera,Hollyoaks, as new regular police officer,DS Gavin Armstrong, the chief inspector investigating the murder ofPatrick Blake (Jeremy Sheffield).^[13]

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