He’s the latest star of video upload site YouTube but his identity has remained a mystery known only to friends and family until now.
The Courier can reveal that Tartan Farmer Boy is in fact 15-year-old Joseph Hollas.
Joseph was roped into helping the S3 pupils at Perth High School with their business enterprise project, which is aiming to raise money for cancer charity Maggie’s.
The S4 pupil revealed that his costume was a kilt made to fit a six-year-old girl and that he was “freezing” while filming the two-minute video.
He said: “I do drama at school and I’m quite outgoing. One of the teachers at my school, Ian White, takes the enterprise class in the year below and they wanted to make a video.
“They had all the ideas but they just needed someone to do it (be in the film) because no one in the class was willing do it.
“So they asked drama if they knew of anyone and they said me. It was good fun doing the video the teachers there found it hilarious.
“Getting the costume was a bit hard because I didn’t have a kilt, so Ian came up with one he already had it was a six-year-old girl’s kilt.”
He said one of his least favourite moments when filming was having a bucket of mud thrown over his head.
“I’d been told about it before and was quite excited, but on the actual day you realise how cold it is and how muddy it is I dropped my head afterwards and didn’t want to talk,” he said.
He added that the success of the video had surpassed his expectations.
He said: “A lot of my friends said it would only get around 20 views, but it’s done a lot better than I thought and they are all surprised that I’ve proved them wrong.
“They now call me farmer boy a lot it’s my new nickname.”
“It’s nice but I haven’t had any recognition yet because it’s quite hard to see me under the beard and make-up.”
George McFadzean’s Woodhead of Mailer Farm was used as the backdrop to the video, which sees Joseph cavort around with buckets, a chainsaw and turnips.
George’s son Duncan, 14, a fellow pupil at Perth High, said: “Our goal is to target 100,000 hits and raise money for charity.
“Our school has a link to Maggie’s we do lots of fundraising.”