A famous face joined hundreds of students as they tossed mortarboards in the air to celebrate graduating from a Norwich university.
On Thursday, students from the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School and schools of art, media and American studies, arts and humanities, education and lifelong learning, history, law and health science donned robes for their ceremonies.
In total, about 3,900 students will graduate over the course of this week.
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For one well-known face, the ceremony was a trip down memory lane.
Norwich City chairman Ed Balls gathered alongside hundreds of students on Thursday, having been chosen as one of the university's 20 honorary graduates for 2017.
He attended his ceremony with his mother Carolyn and father Michael, a former lecturer in zoology at the university - and reflected on earlier years spent on the campus.
He revealed how an experience while at the university saw him turn down a spot on a reality television show.
He said: 'It's my dad's first time back here for 40 years so it's quite nice to have a family reunion in a place which was very special in our family all those years ago.
'He used to come and check his animals on a Saturday morning and get the mail and I used to come in with him as well.
'In fact, I was actually asked to do a different reality television show a couple of years ago and I had to say no.
'And the reason is when I was three-years-old coming to the university on a Saturday morning I stuck my finger in a cage and got bitten by a rat, which has instilled a lifelong fear of rats for me, which meant the ITV reality show was definitely a no no for me.'
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He said he was 'very proud' to be chosen as an honorary graduate, which he described as 'a special thing to come and be part of'.
Honorary graduates including Caroline Jarrold and Patrick Peal, who had a key role in setting up the East Anglian Air Ambulance and is now its chief executive, celebrated their ceremonies earlier in the week.
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