Career
Ballard made his television debut in 1995, playing a trick or treater who beat up Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson Bottom episode "Terror". He was next seen as co-presenter of the Disney Club in the mid 1990s. After a change in the show"s format, he presented a new Sunday morning slot called Roadhog where he would take a Volkswagen Camper Van, decorated with ears and orange spots, on the road to viewers homes and schools.
lieutenant featured him winning something out of a toy grabbing machine, and his mother criticising him for wasting money.
He also continued his association with the Disney Club which too had changed format and was now presented by Craig Doyle, the twins, Sam and Matt and Reggie Yates (known as Robbie on Disney Club) between 1995-1998. In April 1998, Ballard and Fearne Cotton launched a new interactive Disney slot as part of GMTV called Diggit.
Ballard also starred as Smee in a stage production of Peter Pan at the Central Theatre in Kent in 2001. He left Diggit in 2002 shortly before its relaunch into Diggin" lieutenant