When it comes to a club as historic, successful and huge as Celtic you expect their celebrity fans to be of a high calibre, a stellar list of stellar names. Unsurprisingly, they don’t disappoint.
Pop and rock royalty are dyed-in-the-wool supporters of the Bhoys as well as legendary comedians. There is a four-time world snooker champion among the ranks too. Even Professor X from X-Men takes in games at Parkhead, bedecked in green and white.
Sir Rod Stewart
The octogenarian crooner is known almost as much for his love of Celtic as he is for belting out timeless classics such as Maggie Mae and Sailing.
A lifelong football obsessive, Rod has a full-size pitch adjoining his Essex mansion and there he hosts celebrity matches, living out his fantasy of being one of the Lisbon Lions, his heroes.
Last summer, the Knight of the Realm was handed the legends slot at Glastonbury, his backing singers wearing Celtic kits for the closing numbers.
Sir Billy Connolly
Big Yin’s love of ‘fitba’ goes right back to childhood, growing up in the tenements of Partick, close to Glasgow’s dockyards.
He attended his first game at Parkhead in the mid-fifties, during a rare period of struggle for the Hoops, made worse by arch-rivals Rangers so often being the hot favourites in the football betting.
Not to worry though. The much-loved comedian has seen his side claim the Scottish title 35 times since.
In 2007, Billy was appointed patron of the Celtic Foundation, that raises money for local causes.
James McAvoy
In September 2024, Celtic’s social media posted a video of Professor X from X-Men rooting for the Hoops ahead of a crucial Champions League tie. Or at least, the actor who plays the Marvel character did.
The acclaimed Scottish actor has appeared several times in a Celtic strip in charity games, fulfilling a lifelong ambition in 2015 when he ran out at Parkhead.
“The Celtic fans were going crazy. It felt like a dream,” he revealed later.
Growing up in Drumchapel, Glasgow, explains his long-held passion for all things green and white.
Conor McGregor
So strong is McGregoir’s affiliation he has previously mooted the idea of buying shares in the club while the UFC superstar is often seen in Celtic gear when training.
With Tyson Fury also a rumoured fan, Celtic could certainly hold their own if it all kicked off in the VIP boxes.
Snoop Dogg
The laidback rapper is as much a fan of Celtic’s boisterous fans as he is of the club, admiring their passion, colour and noise when watching soccer on a presumably massive TV.
Describing them as ‘special’ he has jokingly claimed that he one day intends to set up a burger van outside the ground on matchday, personally serving up good quality meat ‘mixed with some secret spices’.
It cannot be overstated how much we want this to happen.
Susan Boyle
From Snoop Lion dropping it like it’s hot to SuBo, who dreamed a dream on Britain’s Got Talent and saw it manifest a hundred times over.
The global success that followed her memorable television debut has seen Boyle fill out stadia and sing at the Vatican but no performance was closer to her heart than warbling out the club’s famed anthem You’ll Never Walk Alone ahead of a European clash.
The rest of Celtic Park joined in to make it a spine-tingling introduction for the players.
Jim Kerr
The Simple Minds singer tried to buy his boyhood club in 1998, as part of a consortium that also included Kenny Dalglish. When that failed he moved to Sicily, semi-retired from being a rock god, and began to financially back a tiny amateur club that played locally called Taormina FC.
When he discovered they wore blue his first act was to change their shirt to green and white hoops.
Before he penned stadium staples such as Alive and Kicking, Kerr worked in a butchers alongside Rangers fans. If Celtic scored he would be thrown into the fridges, squashed among the dead carcasses.
John Higgins
Even at the seasoned age of 50, Higgins is still routinely among the favourites in the sports betting when the big snooker tournaments roll round.
Currently ranked number six in the world, the Wizard of Wishaw has racked up well over a thousand centuries in competitions and won the biggest prize of them all on four occasions.
His longevity at the top is comparable to that of Celtic’s, a club he has long supported from afar, when on tour, and many times over at close quarters, attending Celtic Park on matchdays.
The snooker ace also professes to supporting Everton.
Kevin Bridges
In many ways, Bridges is Billy Connolly’s natural successor. Both hail from Glasgow. Both offer up observations on life that are side-splittingly funny. And both are Hoops obsessed.
Though he is often papped wearing Celtic apparel, the comic has admitted he tries to play down his allegiance, for fear of his Scottish gigs becoming tribal.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
The actress is not alone in following the Hoops from faraway Hollywood. Jon Hamm and Robert Downey Jr are also said to be fans, though of a fair weather variety.
For Love Hewitt though, her affections run deeper, fully taking up their cause when engaged to Scottish actor Ross McCall in the 2000s.
Their relationship didn’t last but the I Know What You Did Last Summer star remains a proud Bhoy to this day.
Lewis Capaldi
There are clues everywhere to Capaldi’s club leaning even if his constant wearing of Celtic tops didn’t give the game away.
For concerts he uses guitar picks emblazoned with the four leaf clover. At a recent gig in Italy he obliquely declared his love for the Hoops in between hits. In the video for Bruises, five Celtic players – past and present – can be seen miming to the lyrics.
Other notable singers who share his allegiance include Paulo Nutini, Nicky Byrne from Westlife, and Texas songstress Sharleen Spiteri.
