Manchester United are preparing for an important and action-packed Christmas period.
02.12.2023 - 08:15 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts has revealed how she is "possessed" by Manchester United. She says her whole family huge are now huge superfans of the team.
The Pretty Woman star has been regularly spotted at Old Trafford in recent years, and even famously took her shoes off to walk the hallowed turf back in 2016.
Speaking on the BBC's Graham Norton show on Friday night, the Oscar winning star has now revealed how she came to be such a passionate Red. Julia is based in California and lives with husband, cinematographer Danny Moder, and their three children.
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But she said she tries to get to matches at Old Trafford as often as she can. She also caught them on their US tour back in July when she also got to meet the team in New York.
Talk show host Graham asked her how she came to be a Man United fan. She said: "I have three children and when they were really little and watched it on TV we all just got so into it. And somehow Man United became our team, the Moder family team, and we became possessed."
Pictures were flashed on the screens in the studio of Julia meeting United striker Marcus Rashford (as seen here below). As well as a photo of her being presented with a "Julia" shirt by manager Erik Ten Hag.
Julia was on the talk show couch alongside US superstars Cher, Tom Hanks and Timothee Chalamet. And fellow Oscar winner Tom also revealed on the BBC show how he came to be a fan of Aston Villa.
It turns out it was because when he was reading football results on TV he "liked the name". He has since been a regular at Villa Park when he's in the UK and says he
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hooker with a heart of gold in 1990’s “Pretty Woman,” but she doesn’t believe that her character’s love story would have survived 2023.In the rom-com, the Oscar winner, 56, played stripper Vivian Ward, who falls in love with businessman Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) after he hires her for a week.The “Erin Brockovich” actress chatted with “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday, where she was asked where Edward and Vivian’s romance would be today. “I think he passed away peacefully in his sleep from a heart attack, smiling,” Roberts told host Gayle King.
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showed off her quick-witted comedic timing Monday on “The View” during the talk show’s recurring “View Your Deal” segment. Fellow co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines recruited guest Julia Roberts to help model consumer products to viewers when the “Pretty Woman” star declared Serge Normant’s dry conditioner as “a little wow in a can.”This sent Goldberg running from backstage onto the set where she playfully took the can from Roberts before going back into hiding.
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Julia Roberts was “crushed” when the original version of her hit 1990 rom-com “Pretty Woman” was initially scrapped.“It was going to be a much darker film called ‘$3,000,’ ” Roberts, 56, said, referring to the amount it cost Edward (played by Richard Gere) to spend the night with Vivian Ward. “Vivian was a drug addict and the movie ended with him leaving her in a side street, throwing the money at her, and driving away,” Roberts said during an appearance on “The Graham Norton Show” Friday, while promoting her Netflix film “Leave the World Behind.” “I got that part in that movie and felt really proud, but when the production company folded and the film disappeared I was crushed,” the “Eat, Pray, Love” star added.