{"id":465737,"date":"2025-10-01T12:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/465737\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:24:17","slug":"prince-william-reveals-why-tom-hanks-supports-aston-villa-as-he-talks-football-with-eugene-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/465737\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William reveals why Tom Hanks supports Aston Villa as he talks football with Eugene Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William<\/a> revealed why Hollywood star Tom Hanks is an unlikely Aston Villa fan as he talked football fandom with Eugene Levy ahead of a new documentary featuring a personal interview between the pair.<\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales praised the side but risked offending Birmingham<\/a> residents as he joked the city\u00a0‘isn’t that sunshiney’ – and revealed Hanks picked the side because of its name.<\/p>\n

Speaking in a candid interview with the American Pie and Schitt’s Creek star, William didn’t hesitate to plug his favourite team when the conversation turned to football.<\/p>\n

‘I’m a football fan,’ he told Levy.<\/p>\n

When asked which team he backs, the Prince of Wales said: ‘I support Aston Villa, you heard of them? Tom Hanks<\/a> is a big fan.’<\/p>\n

‘Oh, maybe that’s where I’ve heard it,’ Levy responded. <\/p>\n

The remarks come in a candid conversation with actor Levy, which will be broadcast as part of a new travel documentary later this week.<\/p>\n

In the clip released ahead of the show, The Reluctant Traveller With Eugene Levy, Prince William continued: ‘You might have heard of Aston Villa from there. <\/p>\n

\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=1CjnCT_15FUFQq600\"Prince William celebrates with son George, 12, at an Aston Villa game in the quarter final of the Champions League against Paris Saint-Germain in April\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=44tiKc_15FUFQq600\"US actor Tom Hanks is also an Aston Villa fan, and was pictured at last year’s final game of the season<\/p>\n

‘And I love the story that Tom tells about why he suddenly supported Aston Villa because when he was looking for a team to support, he saw the words Aston Villa, and thought that sounded quite like a sunshine nice villa place to go. <\/p>\n

‘When actually, if he turns up to Birmingham, it’s not that sunshiney.’<\/p>\n

Oscar winner Tom Hanks has long been a fan of Aston Villa and even attended their final game of the season last year, which ended with a 3-3 draw against Liverpool. <\/p>\n

‘Good news on the horizon, lets hope so. Up the Villa! Forever Villa,’ he said before kick-off. <\/p>\n

He previously told how he decided which football team to support based off of the name alone.<\/p>\n

Hanks said he thought Aston Villa sounded\u00a0‘like a place you’d go on holiday in the summertime’.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Prince William frequently attends Villa matches and more recently has even brought his eldest son George along too.<\/p>\n

The Reluctant Traveller With Eugene Levy sees the actor take a trip to the UK where he is invited on a private tour of Windsor Castle with the Prince of Wales.<\/p>\n

\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=3NQqh1_15FUFQq600\"The Reluctant Traveller With Eugene Levy sees the actor take a trip to the UK where he is invited on a private tour of Windsor Castle with the Prince of Wales\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=0CHCJ5_15FUFQq600\"Discussing his beloved Aston Villa, Prince William (pictured at a Villa match earlier this year) quipped that Birmingham ‘isn’t that sunshiney’\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=2BViX3_15FUFQq600\"The conversation came as Prince William offered Levy a private tour of Windsor Castle, the royal home which was especially loved by the late Queen Elizabeth II<\/p>\n

The full episode can be seen on Apple TV+ in the UK from Friday.<\/p>\n

The conversation came as Prince William offered Levy a private tour of Windsor Castle, the royal home which was especially loved by the late Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere during the interview, William told how he still feels his grandmother’s presence when in the castle. <\/p>\n

‘I do miss my grandmother, and my grandfather,’ he says.<\/p>\n

‘It’s been quite a bit of change, so you do sort of, you think about them not being here anymore, and particularly being in Windsor, for me Windsor is her. <\/p>\n

‘She loved it here, she spent most of her time here. Showing you around today is very much a case of trying to make sure I’m doing it in the way she’d want you to see it.<\/p>\n

‘She had her horses here as well, as you can imagine that was a big deal for her so that’s why she loved it here.’<\/p>\n

Canadian Levy described meeting the Prince of Wales as ‘one of the most thrilling days of my life’.<\/p>\n

‘Prince William was an exceptionally gracious host and I was so impressed with how at ease he made me feel. A smart young man with a great sense of humour,’ he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William revealed why Hollywood star Tom Hanks is an unlikely Aston Villa fan as he talked football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1500,7709,7714,7713,35068,533,3611,30707,2832,532,155469,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-465737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-catherine","11":"tag-catherine-middleton","12":"tag-daily-mail","13":"tag-kate-middleton","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-newsbreak","16":"tag-prince-of-wales","17":"tag-prince-william","18":"tag-prince-william-reveals-why-tom-hanks-supports-aston-villa-as-he-talks-football-with-eugene-levy","19":"tag-princess-of-wales","20":"tag-royal-families","21":"tag-royal-family","22":"tag-uk-royal-family","23":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115298899209753487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}