Shrewsbury Town shirt for Hollywood star
Thursday 8th September 2011, 11:20AM BST.
Shrewsbury Town Football Club has recruited a new fan – in the shape of Hollywood A-lister Jason Bateman.
The Horrible Bosses star was presented with a Town shirt when he made an appearance on ITV1 breakfast show Daybreak.
And club officials today said Mr Bateman, who has also appeared in Juno and The Switch, was welcome at Greenhous Meadow any time.
Mr Bateman was on Daybreak to promote his latest comedy The Change Up, in which he co-stars with Ryan Reynolds.
He was handed the Salop shirt by presenter Adrian Chiles after revealing his links to Shrewsbury, where his mother was born.
Bateman said: “I have some English blood, my mother’s British and was born in Shrewsbury. I don’t think I’ve ever been to there. If I have it was before I started remembering things.”
After being presented with the shirt, which had his name on the back, the Hollywood star said he was planning to give it to his mother as a reminder of her roots.
“My mother is going to be so happy. She might not fit in this but I will try. Thank you very, very much.”
Mr Bateman, who appeared as a child in Little House on the Prairie and made his name in cult television series Arrested Development, has previously said that his mother’s British sense of humour rubbed off on him and influenced his style of comedy.
Ian Bebbington, operations manager at Shrewsbury Town, said: “It was excellent, just getting Shrewsbury mentioned on national television is always good.
“To be linked with a Hollywood actor like that, I’m sure will get people talking.”
He said Mr Bateman would be made very welcome if he ever wanted to watch a game at the Greenhous Meadow.
“I’m sure we could find him a nice seat to watch a game of soccer, as they say in America,” he said.
Mr Bebbington said Daybreak producers had bought a shirt from the club a few days ago.
Presenters Christine Bleakley and Adrian Chiles hand over the Shrewsbury Town shirt
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Glory hunter!!
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James Bateman????
Who is he, never heard of him….
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Of course you haven’t Darren, he’s an A-lister. the A in this case, standing for “anononymous”.
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As opposed to the “A” that you are?
And no the “A” is not for admirable, articulate, ‘andsome, astute, athletic, aristocratic, etc….
And, anyway, I’m not sure what anononymous means – maybe it means something in your world.
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Filmography:
Teen Wolf Too
Starsky & Hutch
Dodgeball
The Beak Up
Smokin Aces
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Hancock
The Switch
Horrible Bosses
To name a few……
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Don’t forget the awesome ‘Arrested Development’. He’s a great comedy actor.
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WOW, not exactly oscar winning stuff though is it?
Cheap video rental fodder.
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Colin D.
This is the same actor with a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild… You need to brush up a bit more ;-)
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I’ve always been a fan of the “you must be THIS famous to ride” attitude. It’s incredibly cool.
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Arrested Development is one of the greatest comedy shows of recent times.
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Eclipsed by the STFC shirt worn by Derek Smalls in the legendary This Is Spinal Tap. Smalls was played by Harry Shearer, best known for various roles in The Simpsons, most notably Montgomery Burns.
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had mr bateman waited 50 years he might have got a shirt with a traditional badge of 3 loggerheads and a floreat salopia
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOlNa_uruZo
3:34 onwards
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Who remembers the South Park interview with the two creators in the hot tub? “The only town in England we went through was this really wierd place called….Shrews Bury”. Yep, they know about us in LA. I can also remember an American girl drinking in the Nags Head in the early 80′s for a while who claimed to be a scriptwriter on Spinal Tap.
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One of the charactors in Spinal Tap wears a Shrewsbury town shirt. . .
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Er… see post #4!
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