Hollywood star Ryan Gosling said his “heart goes out” to the family and friends of a man who became an online sensation after posting video clips of the actor apparently refusing to eat cereal.

Ryan McHenry, from Glasgow, used the videos to highlight his own struggle with cancer before his death at the weekend.

He got the idea while eating cereal and watching Gosling in the hit film Drive and realised that by holding his spoon in front of the screen he could make it appear that Gosling was refusing to eat.

After the news of his death emerged, Gosling posted a video of himself tucking into a bowl of cereal.

A group of the film-maker’s friends have set up a page for donations to a cancer charity in his memory, saying there was “nothing more appropriate to honour Ryan’s life than by making a positive impact on the lives of others suffering from this disease”.