A BOY who overcame a brain tumour is one of the stars of the Beefy Boys' hit Christmas advert that went viral. 

Bill Symonds is the son of Lee Symonds, one of the co-founders of the Hereford burger chain. 

The 11-year-old Aylestone School pupil plays the role of a boy whose attention is drawn to an elderly couple sharing a Beefy Boys takeaway on a bench on a summer's day.

He is with a mum a girl, played by Beefy Boys director Anthony 'Murf' Murphy's wife, Jo and daughter, Matilda respectively. 

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However, fast forward to autumn, and the boy walks past them again to see them again enjoying a delicious burger, but this time the old man appears unwell.

Tissues will then have to be at the ready as the advert again shows the boy, but this time when he looks at the bench, only the woman is sat there.

With snow falling, the boy looks down at a £20 note and goes into the Beefy Boys restaurant and is served a burger.

He goes to the woman with the bag, resulting in her smiling. The boy waves her goodbye and is seen smiling in a car as it's driven away.

However, viewers have to watch the advert until the end for a hilarious twist. 

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The commercial has been watched by at least two million people, proving that what the big national firms can do, the Beefy Boys can do just as well. 

Mr Symonds said that Bill loves making videos and has his own YouTube channel, Bill Power. 

"We just watch stuff off the Internet and make videos from them," said Mr Symonds, who is also seen in the advert.

"He was pleased with the quality and I was really proud of him.

"It took about seven to eight hours of filming on a cold day.

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"Murf had a concept of what he wanted. We wrote down the ideas and came up with the joke.

"We've talked about it for years and eventually decided to do it."

When Bill was a baby, he was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Thankfully, it turned out not to be cancerous when then he was 19-months-old underwent seven hours' of surgery.

he still had to go for regular checks, but that stopped last year.

"He is absolutely fine now," said Mr Symonds.