A TALENTED young presenter has taken the next step towards his dream of broadcasting fame by interviewing former Celtic manager Martin O'Neill.

Budding broadcaster Max Marner quizzed the former Celtic and Aston Villa boss about his illustrious footballing career in a taped interview for his YouTube channel.

Mr O'Neill is the latest big name the 12-year-old has put in the hot seat, with TV presenter Jean Johansson, professional darts player Alan Soutar and DJ George Bowie also being interviewed by the youngster.

Max told the Tele that he was delighted to have got the chance to chat with the former Northern Ireland player and treble-winning Parkhead chief.

He said: "I'm a huge Celtic fan and I knew he was a big deal there, my dad talks about him all the time.

"We talked about him winning the European Cup at Nottingham Forest and his time at Celtic.

"It was amazing.

"This all started when was watching TV one night and I thought to myself 'I'd quite like to do this as a career'.

"I told my mum and dad and they decided to help me out.

"During lockdown I did a quiz with my school over Zoom, which was good fun then I did some videos in my school where I interviewed my teachers, before I moved on to my current YouTube channel.

"I've had some great interviews since then, with Martin being the most recent."

Max hopes to follow in the footsteps of his idols Ant and Dec by one day presenting his own gameshow.

The youngster has also visited the BBC and STV's office for a tour and a chat with some of the country's top broadcasters.

Max added: "My dream interviewees would be Ange Postecoglou or Martin Compston.

"I would love to be like Stephen Mulhern or Ant and Dec.

"I love them because they're funny, they're great presenters and I'd want to be like them.

"I like entertaining people, hopefully one day I can do it as a job.

"I couldn't do this without my mum and dad and I need to say a huge thanks to them for supporting me.

"My dad does loads of stuff to help make this work."