Every Premier League club has a good smattering of celebrity supporters but let’s be honest, there are levels to this. There are A-listers, famous folk who reduce mere mortals such as us to starstruck giddiness on sight.
And then there are those who don’t shine so bright, the kind you could pass in the street and struggle to recall where you know them from.
Is that the fella off the telly? You know, that police drama. The one we watched, but didn’t finish.
Naturally, with their esteemed history, global glamour, and penchant for winning trophies, Liverpool’s celebrity clique typically require no such double-takes.
They reside in Hollywood, or grace the world’s biggest stadiums, not pop up from time to time on Dave.
Daniel Craig
Growing up in Hoylake, on the Wirral, Craig has been a dyed-in-the-wool Red his entire life.
Aged five he was taken to Anfield by his father and sitting in the main stand he would marvel at Stevie Heighway on the wing and look on mesmerized at the rolling throng of the Kop. Such memories he claims are ‘seared into my brain’.
Stardom has afforded him the pleasure of getting to know club legends such as Jurgen Klopp, Steve Gerrard and Jamie Carragher. Photos taken with Kenny Dalglish and Virgil Van Dijk meanwhile show the usually reserved and earnest star beaming from ear to ear.
Rare defeats on Merseyside are said to leave the actor shaken, not stirred.
Millie Bobby Brown
The Stranger Things actress followed her older brother’s lead in supporting Liverpool and attends games whenever possible.
She was most recently spotted in L4 last April, cheering on her side as they thrashed Spurs to secure a second Premier League title.
They are short-priced in the Premier League betting to make it two in two this season.
Gary Barlow
When tour commitments allow, Barlow likes nothing more than to take in a game, attempting to blend in. Just a fan, supporting his team.
A lifelong Red, the pop star learned the club’s famed anthem at a young age on the piano, even including it in his set when he started out, performing in working men’s clubs across the North-West.
In 2019, Take That held a concert at Anfield, fulfilling a long-held dream for the 54-year-old.
Samuel L. Jackson
The celebrated exterminator of airborne snakes fell in love with the Reds back in 2001 when filming in the city and remains a vocal and passionate supporter of Arne Slot’s side on social media.
“I had never been to a proper football game until I got to Liverpool,” he revealed recently on Radio 1. “I spent a lot of time in the stadium singing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’.”
Damien Lewis
The Homeland and Billions star has been a staunch Red since childhood, watching Liverpool win the lot in the Seventies.
Despite the rest of his family being rugby-orientated, and despite growing up in the capital, Lewis begged to be taken as a kid to nearby Stamford Bridge when Liverpool came to town. Among the home contingent, he sat on his hands throughout, terrified of giving the game away.
Now a highly successful, and very wealthy, star of stage and screen, he presumably now cheers his team on from the safer environs of a VIP box.
Will Arnett
One third of the hugely popular Smartless podcast and an actor known for his comedic chops, Arnett has always been a sports nut but came to football late. Once hooked though he has made up for lost time since.
Chiefly his obsession resides with the Reds, flying over to the UK on numerous occasions to take in a game and hob-nob with former players afterwards.
The Arrested Development star regularly shares his love for the Merseysiders on TikTok and Instagram to his millions of followers.
Angelina Jolie
We should imagine Liverpool’s live betting odds would alter if Angelina Jolie ever visited Anfield, the players inspired to perform in front of one of the great beauties of cinema.
As it is, alas, she has yet to attend a match, instead cheering on her favourite team from across the Atlantic ocean.
Her allegiance began when a fellow actress gifted her son Maddox a Liverpool jersey, he then going on to root for the club from afar. His mother sweetly followed suit.
John Bishop
The comedian was born in Mill Road Hospital, situated less than a mile from Anfield. He grew up in Huyton, a short bus ride away.
Naturally then, it was always going to be either Liverpool or Everton for this football-obsessed Scouser, who could play a bit too. Bishop turned out for Runcorn FC and Northwich Victoria in his youth.
In one of his stand-up routines, the comic relays the best and worst day of his life colliding when he played alongside Liverpool legends at Anfield in a charity game. Regrettably he then went on to miss a crucial penalty.
Dr Dre
It is 1988 and the fantastically controversial N.W.A are in London as part of a promotional tour.
One particular evening the group are sitting around – probably just sipping 7-Up and chatting about the weather – when a football match grabs Dr Dre’s attention on the television.
More pertinently, a player does.
“John Barnes. He kinda reminded me of Magic Johnson,” he later recalled. “I’m from LA and dig the Lakers, especially when Magic was there, and Barnes was like him in that he made the ball talk. The cat was cool.”
The legendary rapper and producer has proclaimed to be a Liverpool fan ever since.
Caroline Wozniacki
The retired former Grand Slam winner initially took an interest in all things Liverpool purely to annoy her older brother, a keen Manchester United fan.
What developed from this was a long-standing love for the team and the city, Wozniacki attending games at Anfield whenever her tennis schedule allowed.
Such is her allegiance that Steven Gerrard posted a video message wishing her luck and good fortune when she hung up her racket in 2020.
