Visiting Harrison Ford at his home would make most people awestruck - but not student Jon Monk.

The 23-year-old from Brighton has not only been spending time at the Hollywood star's ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, - he has also been telling him what to do.

Jon, who is studying marketing at Tulane University in New Orleans, has been giving tennis lessons to the actor, renowned for his role as Han Solo in Star Wars and as the star of the three Indiana Jones movies.

He has given Ford two 90-minute tennis lessons while working as a coach at a country club close to the star's home for the summer.

Jon said: "One of the other coaches normally goes out to Harrison Ford's house to give lessons and a couple of weeks ago he asked me if I wanted to go instead.

"I was very excited. ButI could not be awestruck because I am there to tell him what to do. That was a weird feeling.

"He is a fit guy for his age and about average at playing tennis.

"His house is unbelievable."

Jon, who used to go to Cardinal Newman School in Hove and, at 15, was the youngest player to win the Sussex Senior Tennis Championships, is in the United States on a tennis scholarship. He has one more year of his degree remaining but hopes to stay over there to do a master's degree.

While at Ford's home, he got to meet the star's new girlfriend, Ally McBeal actress Callista Flockhart, and her new baby.

Jon said: "I think I was almost more struck by meeting her than him. But Harrison Ford is also a legend to me. Both of them were really nice and very chilled and not at all like typical movie stars.

"We talked about what he is up to at the moment and how he moves between Wyoming, New York and Los Angeles. He asked me about my tennis, where I played in England and things like that.

"He has a lot of Star Wars memorabilia in his house. He had a blister on his finger and he got out an old Star Wars plaster to put on it. It came off straight away. That was quite funny."

The lessons have been put on hold for the time being, while Harrison is in Los Angeles promoting his new movie, K-19: The Widowmaker, but Jon is hopeful he will get the opportunity to coach him again.

He said: "It was a lot of fun. Next year I am hoping to be his private coach. He took my telephone number so you never know."