The Paisley singer made a blink‑and‑you‑miss‑it appearance as an uncredited extra in hit BBC comedy Still Game, and even the cast did not realise at the time.

The story was revealed by Sanjeev Kohli, who played shopkeeper Navid Harrid, during a chat with Jackie McNamara and Simon Donnelly on Not Another Football Podcast.

A massive “Weclome” mat, styled exactly like the famously misspelt doormat from cult sitcom Still Game (Image: Archives)

Kohli said: “Paolo Nutini was in Still Game. It was before he was famous. He gets onto a bus, he’s about age 14.”

The moment appears in the episode “Courting”, which first aired on 20 September 2002 as the third episode of the first series.

The storyline follows Jack asking out Barbara, who works in a charity shop, leaving his pal Victor feeling left out, while Winston finds himself barred from The Clansman and forced to drink elsewhere.

Somewhere in the background of that Craiglang day, a future Paisley star was quietly getting off a bus.

At the time Nutini was still a local teenager expected to follow his dad into the family fish and chip business. His family’s shop, Castelvecchi, has been a Paisley institution for more than a century.

For Still Game fans, it is a small slice of shared Glasgow and Paisley history that has been hiding in plain sight for more than 20 years – and a surprise even for the cast, who only found out decades later.