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It’s nearly a decade since Grint signed up to play Weasley, and he’s already earned an estimated £7 million from the movies, so he can afford any grown-up plaything you care to mention. But yachts and Ferraris are not his style…

‘There was an advert in the local paper – an Italian man was selling an entire fleet of them and I couldn’t resist. It looked so beautiful: half pink, half cream with a blue roof, fibreglass body and wings at the back. ‘As a kid my first ambition was to be an ice-cream man,’ he says. ‘As soon as I had enough money, I bought a 1974 Mr Whippy Bedford CF. 

‘I remember the first time I took it out around my neighbourhood. I pulled in to the pub to do a U-turn and there were eight kids with their pocket money out, hoping to buy a choc-ice or whatever. But I had nothing to give them. I’ve learnt my lesson since then. These days I keep it well stocked. I probably spend more time driving around in that van than anything else, and if the acting suddenly comes to a halt, I can’t imagine a better job than being an ice-cream man. I love going on eBay and buying accessories for the van, things like light-up cones that I’ve stuck on the front. ’

When he’s describing his van, or talking about his other boys’ toys, Grint’s voice raises an octave and he begins to sound like a schoolboy describing a particularly lucrative Christmas. 

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