Ryan Gosling Finally Eats Cereal In Tribute Vid

Ryan Gosling has recorded a video tribute to Ryan McHenry who found fame online for posting videos of the star looking like he was refusing to eat cereal.

In his own clip, the Hollywood actor is shown pouring cornflakes into a bowl, adding milk and then raising his spoon before he tucks in.

Since 2013 McHenry, who died aged 27 at the weekend, had used his Vine videos of the celebrity to highlight his own struggle with cancer.

Hundreds of thousands of people have watched dozens of his clips.

Gosling had no involvement in the series but when he heard McHenry had lost his battle with osteosarcoma (a type of bone cancer), the actor paid tribute with a Vine.

Gosling also said on Twitter his "heart goes out" to his family and friends, adding: "Feel very lucky to have been a part of his life in some small way."

McHenry, from Glasgow, got the idea while eating cereal and watching Gosling in the hit film Drive.

And he realised that by holding his spoon in front of the screen he could make it appear that the US star was refusing to eat.

McHenry's friend Naysun Alae-Carew, 29, said of the latest clip: "It's the most fitting send-off any of his friends or family could have hoped for. It was something he had always talked about.

"A few weeks ago Ryan Gosling acknowledged the vines for the first time and Ryan McHenry was really happy about it.

"To have this is just amazing and for us and particularly his family it just really validates how much Ryan gave.

"They are just vines to make people laugh but to have Ryan Gosling respond just shows the effect that Ryan McHenry had on the world."

A group of the film-maker's friends have set up a page for donations to a cancer charity in his memory.

They said 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".