REALITY pop duo Jedward had some hair-raising adventures on the Jurassic Coast while filming their new television show.

The duo attracted screaming fans in Dorchester when they called into the Dorset County Museum to view the pliosaur skull.

Jedward – John and Edward Grimes, 19 – then moved on to Portland, where they inspected rocks and fossils at Chesil Cove.

“It’s been totally awesome coming here,” they said.

“We’ve been inspecting rocks looking for fossils and we saw dinosaur footprints – which are so cool.”

The Celebrity Big Brother and X Factor stars were filming Jedward’s Big Adventure – a new children’s TV series which will see the twins visiting world heritage sites where they must learn as many facts as possible about the location.

The pair then faced the challenge of becoming guides for groups of visitors in each destination.

The previous day Jedward were seen in Lyme Regis making sandcastles.

They were joined on Portland by former Crimewatch presenter Rav Wilding and two members of girl band Parade.

Rav Wilding said: “Weymouth is lovely, I used to come here often when I was a kid as my grandparents lived here.”

Singers Sian Charlesworth and Jessica Agombar of the group Parade joined Jedward at Chesil Cove.

Sian said: “We’d never met Jedward until today but we watched them on Celebrity Big Brother and thought they were great.”

Jessica, from East London, said: “It’s very exciting because we’re as mad as Jedward are.”

Earth science manager Richard Edmonds of the Jurassic Coast Team gave the singers a lesson on the pliosaur.

He said: “They are a fun, nice couple of guys. They were quite taken with how big the skull is.

“It’s great that they came here because it’s a world heritage site – it does what it says on the tin and it’s fantastic for education purposes that the Jurassic Coast will be on their TV show.”

The CBBC series Jedward’s Big Adventure will be shown in December.

Katie Durkin and Charley Atkins managed to get the pair’s autograph Katie, 17, daughter of former Premier League referee Paul, said: “I didn’t know they were coming but heard they had been to a quarry and when they got here I literally saw the hair.

The pop duo also spoke to Alex Wood, 15.

She said: “They asked if I live here and how the sea is in the summer and winter.”