A TV antiques expert who grew up in Newbury has stripped off as part of a national campaign designed to raise awareness of testicular cancer.

Bargain Hunt's Jonathan Pratt is one of a number of famous faces who've posed naked for posters urging men to take the disease seriously using the slogan 'Checkum.'

He lines up against other stars including Ronan Keating, Shane Ward and Mark Foster.

Jonathan grew up in the village of Ashmore Green near Newbury and went to Winchcombe Primary school, Shaw House and St Barts before moving away to study fine arts.

He says the whole idea of getting his kit off for the campaign scared him at first, but he soon got in to it:

"Because I've got a big warehouse and because we take a lot of photographs we have a backdrop and all that sort of stuff. I actually got the photographers to come to me, I managed to get the heaters on, I did it in the evening, so I had a bit more comfort and control over it.

"But the taking the clothes off and standing in front of a photographer was very hard indeed, but you know oddly enough, towards the end I kind of enjoyed it."

Check out Jonathan's posters below and to hear more of our interview with him click play on the right.