Aston Villa's Famous Fan

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Right, it's late, I'm tired, so here goes:

Tom Hanks is an Aston Villa fan.

This was hot goss in all the free papers today, with Hanks donning a Villa scarf for the premiere of Charlie Wilson's War in Leicester Square. Hanks claims he supports the Midlands club because he 'likes the team', which is really just another way of saying he supports them. This quote, from 2005, expounds a little bit more on Hanks' clearly deep and immovable love for the Villa, while also putting a rather hefty damp flannel over claims that he came out as a fan last night. When pressed on who his favourite player was, he cited Gabriel Agbonlahor, because 'he's my favourite'.

Not really; the only other Hanks soundbite comes courtesy of thelondonpaper, which I picked up on thenorthernline; when talking about the nude scenes in his new film, Hanks explained that he took his female co-stars out to dinner, so that 'by the time we had to strip down and get in the hot tub, it was just another day in the office' which is frankly downright creepy. Tom Hanks (who incidentally is my girlfriend's all-time worst actor, and with good cause) is not the only American celeb to foolishly get involved in the world of soccerball; last year we had Sly Stallone sitting nonplussed in the stands at Everton, and who could forget the great Michael Jackson debacle at Exeter a few years ago. Hanks takes the biscuit I think, for the manner he whipped the scarf out in an attempt to appeal to English audiences; he must have had it lined up in the limo with a bowler hat, a cup of tea and the picture of the Queen, trying to decide what was hot right now in this weird little country.