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Anne Hathaway is a secret Arsenal fan and now her reinvention is complete

Does the actor’s recent excited outburst in support of Arsenal FC reveal a deep love of the game – or a cynical bit of media massaging by a lukewarm star?

This in turn caused Hathaway to clutch the arms of her chair, lean forward as if to vomit, briefly regain her composure, double-pump her fists, close her eyes and yell “WOOAR, LOVE YOU!” like Gregg Wallace slipping around in a big trifle. “Sorry, we’re both fans of the same team, and there’s a match going on right now, and during our last interview they scored,” she said, before adding that Arsenal plays “English Premier League soccer”, and that “we’ve had a rough week.” The match they were following was Arsenal’s 2-0 victory over Wolves, although sadly there is no video footage of Hathaway making similarly guttural noises for each of the five goals that they scored against Chelsea last night. Indeed, there has only been one mention of Anne Hathaway and football in general this millennium, during a New York Times interview from 2001, in which she declared that, during high school “I did normal things.

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