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Speaker 2: spottings of celebrities in the shops. You know, this is amazing.
Speaker 2: Over the weekend, Tom Hanks made a surprise visit to
Speaker 2: the Greg Chapel Cricket Center in North Sydney with his
Speaker 2: son Truman Hanks.
Speaker 1: To buy cricket gear. What on earth he's done? He's
Speaker 1: done quite a few movies here, hasn't he? Do you
Speaker 1: remember me?
Speaker 2: Were starting during lockdown Queens. I think he was doing
Speaker 2: the basloment the Elvis movie.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, on the Gold Coast. But is he not
Speaker 5: just watching cricket now he's he's playing cricket.
Speaker 1: Americans are playing on my.
Speaker 5: Now playing in the World Cup.
Speaker 1: But it still still very surprised at Tom Hanks and
Speaker 1: they chat to with stuff about cricket.
Speaker 2: But we're unaware that the T twenty World Cup was
Speaker 2: on the way, same as the team Australia. We're out
Speaker 2: there despite the you're out a while ago praying that
Speaker 2: island beat?
Speaker 1: Who is fit Zimbabwe?
Speaker 6: Now we're playing Oman in a dead rubber right, yay?
Speaker 2: They got a beach cricket step, a couple of caps
Speaker 2: wicket keeping gloves.
Speaker 1: Is he paying street street cricket? I just kind of
Speaker 1: love this. We need to know more.
Speaker 5: I hope it's the start of a movie. Maybe he
Speaker 5: can play Don Bradman or something.
Speaker 1: I want to know more about this.
Speaker 2: If anyone sees sitting in listens, if anyone sees Tom
Speaker 2: Hanks out about it, He's obviously there at the moment
Speaker 2: doing something. I didn't know he'd be a cricket fan.
Speaker 2: Most Americans aren't. No, I think he would be.
Speaker 5: I see him as like an opening batsman, very serious,
Speaker 5: very disciplined, just sort of setting up innings more English.
Speaker 2: Yes, in his starlar play, Tom Hanks does not look American,
Speaker 2: does he?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: You're right?
Speaker 1: Do you know what? It's certain Like George Claney looks
Speaker 1: and Brad.
Speaker 2: Pitt they look that old school kind of Hollywood actor
Speaker 2: from like the sixties or seventeen. Tom Hanks looks more malnourished.
Speaker 2: He doesn't look American, all right. Stars in the stores,
Speaker 2: you're spottings on celebrities in the stores, pats, Who have
Speaker 2: you've seen?
Speaker 7: I saw Melissa George once in the cosmetic section of
Speaker 7: sas Fifth Avenue, Home and away. I'll hulland drive addim.
Speaker 7: I can't say a maneuvol amateurville, thank you horror. And
Speaker 7: I thought about approaching her, but she gave me the
Speaker 7: side eye, and I.
Speaker 1: Thought just to say Stanley distance.
Speaker 7: Well, but which I get. You know, she probably thought,
Speaker 7: I'm not Melissa George the actor today. I am just
Speaker 7: wow getting my gift with.
Speaker 1: Purchase you like anyway? Caresse? Why are you approaching us?
Speaker 7: So I did it, but I said.
Speaker 1: Someone did that, I would made even more of an
Speaker 1: effort to go and annoy them.
Speaker 2: Oh my godness, a famous person here, guys.
Speaker 1: But she was walking.
Speaker 7: Your body language wasn't greater, arms were crossed, head was down,
Speaker 7: and she gave me the side eye. So I thought, nope,
Speaker 7: not today. But I did see her.
Speaker 1: Cain has bounced up and down. Who have you seen?
Speaker 1: Stars in the stores?
Speaker 8: So I worked at Bunnings when I was sixteen, and
Speaker 8: I served tests from Mcloud's daughters.
Speaker 1: What a show, What a show it was?
Speaker 2: It was the Estrange sisters, the dad had died and
Speaker 2: they'd inherited the cattle.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, pation.
Speaker 8: So many other dads died along the way. They all
Speaker 8: had different dads.
Speaker 2: I don't know how if you were a dad in
Speaker 2: that show where they live, how you got life insurance?
Speaker 1: Wait? What what is that? A postcode? Was? You know what? McCloud.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you simply cannot ensure it. You won't
Speaker 1: make the end of this phone call. I reckon that
Speaker 1: was a secret murder bumping them off.
Speaker 2: That is a classic to It must have been early
Speaker 2: two thousands, yeah, yes.
Speaker 8: From two thousands is when it started. But it went
Speaker 8: for like ten years. I think it was very long.
Speaker 8: But oh my, I couldn't believe myself, Like I couldn't
Speaker 8: believe it. She was in my line and I just said,
Speaker 8: I love the show.
Speaker 1: So much, So I bet she was really cool about it.
Speaker 8: She was really, really nice.
Speaker 1: Now tell me this, Can you remember what's in for?
Speaker 8: I can't remember what she bought. Actually, I was just
Speaker 8: so starstruck that I just was chatting to her and
Speaker 8: just buzzing her stuff through.
Speaker 2: But I don't remember what she got.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: I'd love to hear we but a signed thing today
Speaker 2: of stars in Bunnings as well. Anyone seeing Chris Hemmersworth
Speaker 2: in Bunnings, I bet it, guys.
Speaker 1: I had Tilda Swinton and George Miller come up to me.
Speaker 1: Worry me. Why now, why did Tilda come up to you?
Speaker 2: And it looks a lot like Conan O'Brien, Yeah.
Speaker 1: The ones.
Speaker 2: Conan was interviewing her and he said, sometimes I get
Speaker 2: mistaken for you.
Speaker 1: She was not impressed. ConA thought it was hilarious. She's
Speaker 1: a lovely she is. She's a proper actress.
Speaker 6: I was playing with the twins in Sydney Park getting
Speaker 6: a coffee and she just literally walks up and just
Speaker 6: starts chatting to me about my twin children because she's
Speaker 6: got twins as well. And she's like, oh, you got twins, lovely,
Speaker 6: and I'm like, oh my god, this is Julia Swinton.
Speaker 6: And then she's got next to her George Miller, Mad
Speaker 6: Max director, George Miller, and he chimes in and goes, oh,
Speaker 6: I'm a twin as well.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, that show started a twin podcast, a
Speaker 2: twin cast.
Speaker 9: It was amazing and we just chatted like normal parents
Speaker 9: in the playground. It was one of the weirdest experiences
Speaker 9: of my life because they were filming. They were shooting
Speaker 9: a film just nearby, so they just sort of wandered
Speaker 9: over to get a coffee and there we were chatting.
Speaker 1: Real what celebrices have you seen in the stores?
Speaker 5: Murray the original Red Wiggle at Sultan's Table in Sydney
Speaker 5: getting a late night greasy kebab at about one am, All.
Speaker 2: Down the kebab, sauce, the chitty sped all down that
Speaker 2: red shirt. Oh no, yummy, yummy in my tummy.
Speaker 5: It was the end of a very long pub crawl
Speaker 5: from me.
Speaker 2: Meant they get on it once you've done a whole
Speaker 2: day of screaming kids.
Speaker 1: You want to get on it, Donny and smash a
Speaker 1: few frothies. Yeah enough.
Speaker 5: He must have been up to something because it was very,
Speaker 5: very late and he was getting a very thick greasy kebab.
Speaker 1: All right, stars in the source, Who have you seen
Speaker 1: and Where?
Speaker 4: Christian O'Connell Show one podcast.
Speaker 2: Christian I saw a golf course in Perth. Gabrielle Batistuta
Speaker 2: one of the best Argentinian footballers of all times, that
Speaker 2: one of the best players of all time, one of
Speaker 2: the greatest strikers ever, Oh, incredible legend of football.
Speaker 1: Christian. I also saw Melissa George. Oh everywhere.
Speaker 2: Lissa Antonio saw Melissa George Pat's late nineties wards. I
Speaker 2: actually got a smile, not a side ee. Well yeah
Speaker 2: about the vibe as we give off, isn't it If
Speaker 2: you met Pats you'd side eye. Not like that, by
Speaker 2: the way, Sorry I sort of make that clear, but
Speaker 2: more like danger stranger kidnap. I probably got a panel
Speaker 2: van at the back waiting for you with curtains, one
Speaker 2: of those.
Speaker 1: Christian I used to work.
Speaker 2: I used to work at Willie's rex Hunt, a regular
Speaker 2: customer kissing the fish.
Speaker 1: What's he? Uh? Chas it here? I met Elton John
Speaker 1: when I was thirteen. Wow, where we're all is? Christian?
Speaker 2: Eddiezard came up to me, Am I makeup counter. He
Speaker 2: told me he loved my eyelashes back when I had extensions.
Speaker 2: We then went on to chat about the European referendum.
Speaker 2: He had his nails painted with the EU flag. We
Speaker 2: had such a lovely chat. Christian, my mum and I
Speaker 2: ran into Guy Bits at Spotlight. That's one of my
Speaker 2: favorites so far.
Speaker 1: What is he doing in Priscilla.
Speaker 2: I walked in awe and my mum continued chatting to
Speaker 2: him about it soon to be new curtains and renovations.
Speaker 1: He was the loveliest guy. That doesn't surprise me, Christian.
Speaker 2: Once I was in Woodies in Sydney and I reached
Speaker 2: for an avocado and someone else was reaching for the
Speaker 2: same avocado.
Speaker 10: It was Hugh Jackman, after you, after you, and he'd
Speaker 10: know how to pick a good ay wordy wordy wordy?
Speaker 1: Would would would you be doing the squeeze test? And
Speaker 1: then what are you putting them back? The ones? He's
Speaker 1: pretty squeezed. He's got to be careful this big clause.
Speaker 2: He's making guacamole right there, right, all right. So the
Speaker 2: reason why we're doing this is incredible story over the
Speaker 2: weekend of Hollywood star Tom Hanks and his son buying
Speaker 2: Australian cricket gret gear and one of you was actually there, Andre,
Speaker 2: who's on the line now, Andre, Good morning, Welcome to
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Christian, I'm good so you you were there.
Speaker 11: I was literally in the shop. I'd gone in to
Speaker 11: get a new grip on my cricket bat and it
Speaker 11: didn't occur to me that it was Tom Hanks standing
Speaker 11: in greg Chapel cricket store in North Sydney on a
Speaker 11: Friday morning.
Speaker 2: I get it, but why would you think, oh, there's
Speaker 2: bound to be some Hollywood stars there.
Speaker 11: Well, that's right. I had a finite amount of time
Speaker 11: or for a turn week old baby. I had five
Speaker 11: minutes to get a new grip on my cricket bat
Speaker 11: and get back home. And Truman was talking to the
Speaker 11: shop assistant. Evidently Tom was in there, and it did
Speaker 11: not occur to me. My wife was at home watching
Speaker 11: You've Got Mail, which he watches.
Speaker 4: Probably every week, and.
Speaker 3: Send me the news article two.
Speaker 11: Days later, and I said, oh, yeah, I was in
Speaker 11: the store at the time, and she's not really spoken
Speaker 11: to me very much since.
Speaker 1: So that is incredible. I love that.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, you needed that grip. The ten team needed
Speaker 2: you really urgently in the World Cup.
Speaker 11: Yeah, let's not go there.
Speaker 2: Christ Andre, thank you very much you calling, and I
Speaker 2: hope it's all going well with the ten year old
Speaker 2: Town week Old as well.
Speaker 11: Thank you very much. Have a good time.
Speaker 4: O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: So Big Store of the weekend, Hollywood A is to
Speaker 2: Tom Hanks and his son spotted in Sydney mine cricket gear.
Speaker 1: This is is it research street backyard cricket?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 5: And he sounds like thirty yeah five, isn't he?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I know it's just odd. You know it's odd if
Speaker 1: it was for his grandkid or I totally understand, but
Speaker 1: an actual grown up kids.
Speaker 5: Your thirty year old two thirty year old American men
Speaker 5: pa cricket.
Speaker 2: Is paying backyard cricket or is this research for a role?
Speaker 5: I hope it's research for a role.
Speaker 2: We have questions and when he answers right now that
Speaker 2: we're looking for your sightings of stars in the stores,
Speaker 2: we've had some great ones and they keep coming in
Speaker 2: as well. Christian Richard, Dean Anderson mcgiver oh in the
Speaker 2: Perth Apple Store.
Speaker 1: Crafty screen.
Speaker 2: Christian Chris Hemsworth went wild on the Gold Coast.
Speaker 1: So was he wet and wild? He's just out in
Speaker 1: the wet and world. What are we talking about?
Speaker 2: I've had to say my wife melted when he spoke
Speaker 2: to her about her kids are in similar ages, especially
Speaker 2: because he's going to be in trance shirtless. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: not doing the damn thing of hiding the Dan Bob
Speaker 2: with a.
Speaker 1: T shirts he hasn't got a Christian.
Speaker 2: Years ago, I used to work at Channel seven in
Speaker 2: the green room when Steve Aizard had his big chat
Speaker 2: show on Denzil Washington was a guest on the show
Speaker 2: chat to myself and mcconey for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Was a really nice guy. These are brilliant keithing coming.
Speaker 2: Michael Hutchins Oh padding to markets in Sydney back in
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety two. He was with his then girlfriend Helenia Christiansen. Wow,
Speaker 2: now this is called stars in the stores. Would you
Speaker 2: say the Vatican is a store?
Speaker 1: Not necessarily?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Are they selling merch there? You know, Tatholic merch.
Speaker 5: I do have a hot Italian priests calendar that my
Speaker 5: friend bought for me just outside the Vatican.
Speaker 1: So just outside the gates, oh you.
Speaker 2: Know, like just outside the mcg made in sporting ground
Speaker 2: they have those people setting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the footy records. Yeah, is it like that the Vatican?
Speaker 1: It must be yeah, well, uh.
Speaker 2: Tania sat ving Rams he's a great actor in pulp
Speaker 2: fiction and all the Mission Impossible movies. The Vatican two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight he was filming Mission Impossible. Christian I
Speaker 2: met Peter Brook Westfield's Paramatta he was going for his
Speaker 2: tenth win.
Speaker 1: I wish him good luck. He signed my receipt. That's
Speaker 1: all we could find. Yeah, that's Bogan. That's so Vogan.
Speaker 1: Don't do it? Know the fuel voucher Pete going to
Speaker 1: claim is his expense as legend.
Speaker 2: Christian I basically had dinner someone's flatsing here. Christian, I
Speaker 2: basically had dinner with Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 6: Wow, wow, what is that it?
Speaker 1: That's it? I need to know more of it.
Speaker 2: I'm more interested in Peter Brock and Hugh Jackman going
Speaker 2: for the same avocado as you can. You can take
Speaker 2: it with your Kim Kardashian Cool Carl and Jackie O
Speaker 2: were Kardashian Free radio show.
Speaker 1: We've got Matt on the line now, Matt, good.
Speaker 12: Morning, Good day, Christian.
Speaker 1: How are I I'm good?
Speaker 2: Now, We've got to get you on this is we're
Speaker 2: talking about all these celebrities in everyday stores because of
Speaker 2: the Mighty Tom Hanks buying cricket gear. So your colleague
Speaker 2: served him or worked at the store Saturday morning.
Speaker 12: I'm not sure if he served him, but he was
Speaker 12: definitely there. He worked there on the weekends. He worked
Speaker 12: for us during the week and there on the weekend,
Speaker 12: and yeah, he was just so starst hanging on about
Speaker 12: it all all day when I was with him on Monday.
Speaker 1: And can you tell me what did he buy?
Speaker 12: Bats and gloves and just all sorts of things.
Speaker 1: Did you see what it was for? Didn want to
Speaker 1: ask him, like what's this for?
Speaker 12: I'm not sure that's what I've been trying to get
Speaker 12: onto my mate, trying answer. He's got a day off,
Speaker 12: so he's probably sleeping so quite annoying, to be honest,
Speaker 12: I'd rather wake him up. And he's just ignoring my call.
Speaker 2: Well, let us know when you raise him, because we
Speaker 2: have and I think, like everyone listen morning, so many
Speaker 2: questions about why was Tom Hanks buying all that.
Speaker 1: Ossie cricket gear. It's just a lot for him and
Speaker 1: his grown up son.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, sure it is.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 12: I was like, you sure it was Tom Hanks And
Speaker 12: he's like, wait, you don't miss Tom Hanks. That's pretty bare.
Speaker 1: All right, Matt, thank you very much, and give us
Speaker 1: a call when you were. Mate wakes up.
Speaker 12: Okay, yeah, too easy.
Speaker 2: Michelle's on the line now. Good morning, Michelle, Good morning,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Michelle. All right, stars in the stores.
Speaker 3: Who have you seen Russell Crowe and Tom Cruise?
Speaker 1: Huge? What were they doing together?
Speaker 3: They were together? There are Tom Cruise's birthday party. It
Speaker 3: was about twenty twenty five years ago. I worked at
Speaker 3: Eastern Creek go cart Center and they had actually hide
Speaker 3: out the entire go cart center his hosts and hold
Speaker 3: Tom Cruise's birthday party.
Speaker 2: There's so much happening right now. You've got ethan hunt
Speaker 2: taken on Gladiator. Who wins?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: Tom Cruiser's bodyguard told me that they all were told
Speaker 3: to let Tom win.
Speaker 2: In my mind though Maximus, Gladiator, Russ and Crowe wins.
Speaker 1: He's at the top of the opodium. Are we not
Speaker 1: entertain always wins?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah we did on that night, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: That's for sure. And his son was there as well,
Speaker 3: and his son was dressed as Tigger from Winnie the Two.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so cute. And tell me this, Michelle, So
Speaker 2: were you working there? What a thing to be to witness?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: The funny thing was my sister was working there full
Speaker 3: time and has coordinated the event, and she wouldn't tell
Speaker 3: me who was coming, only that I had to wear
Speaker 3: makeup and make sure my hair looked really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get those roots as well, says, you know, you
Speaker 2: might be you might be leaving with Tom or Russell
Speaker 2: or both.
Speaker 3: She just said, if you don't have lipstick on the.
Speaker 1: Star quite a long go Cup place.
Speaker 3: They're very cold for a really long time. They were
Speaker 3: there for like a couple of hours. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just doing like laps racing each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a full on go Cup center and
Speaker 3: they actually were racing, and there would have been twenty
Speaker 3: people there. They all turned up in black oudies and
Speaker 3: black you know, rangrovers and it was all tinted windows
Speaker 3: and all very excited. Realized, Oh it was a pinched
Speaker 3: me moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what a great story, and tell me this.
Speaker 3: I wanted to get like a photo with them, and
Speaker 3: they said like, yeah, I did get a photo. But
Speaker 3: then I also a couple of weeks later got a
Speaker 3: signed photo of Tom Cruise in the mail. Because back
Speaker 3: in those days that's how you got autographed.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: It would have been before selfies and sort of iPhones
Speaker 2: and all that.
Speaker 3: We did. We did get a photo that I remember.
Speaker 3: We did get a photo. I don't have a copy
Speaker 3: of the photo. Someone else took a camera and we
Speaker 3: were able to get well, able to get a photo with.
Speaker 2: Them, different time. What a great story. Oh, thank you
Speaker 2: so much. Recording in Michelle, thanks.
Speaker 3: For yeah, welcome aboard and yeah good luck.
Speaker 2: Great to be on board, Michelle. Thank you very much
Speaker 2: your story mate. That's a kider one for one of
Speaker 2: the best ones of the show so far this year.
Speaker 2: Great story, Thank you. Thanks title today's show is Tom
Speaker 2: Always Wins.
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