Celebrities, they are like us! And many of them, like us, love the Green Bay Packers.

Whether it's rapper Lil Wayne or pop star Harry Styles, or Justin Timberlake and James Van Der Beek who play together at Lambeau Field, the Packers have many famous fans. bleed green and gold. Here are 17 of them.

Justin Timberlake

Timberlake told the NFL Network in 2015 that Brett Favre was the reason he became a fan of the Packers. "Growing up in Memphis, we had no team and Brett was sort of the South," Timberlake said of the Mississippi's Favre. "He was like a superhero."

Timberlake took part in games at Lambeau Field and is friends with Aaron Rodgers – they've been vacationing together, and Timberlake has termed him "best quarterback in the league … he's just a surgeon with the ball". And when Timberlake was asked whether he was looking to recruit the Philadelphia Eagles or the New England Patriots in this year's Super Bowl, Timberlake responded: "Go Pack Go".

Jodie Foster

The Academy Award-winning actress and director said on "Conan" in 2016 that she watched football every weekend and that her hometown of Los Angeles had not teamed up since about two decades ago, she headed for Green Bay. "I like outfits." My friend Karen has a lot of cheeses and cheese souvenirs, and I have a cheese beer rack, I have all cheese. " Foster even sported a cheese head during the interview. But Foster admitted that she's not the most loyal fan. "I'm a bit capricious, I go from team to team, and if it's really bad, I leave them and go to someone else."

Lil Wayne

After Wiz Khalifa's "Black and Yellow" became the rallying cry of his home team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, when they were in the Super Bowl in 2011, Lil Wayne gave up his own with a remix "Green and Yellow "to support his favorite team. Steelers in the big game. "I'm a Cheesehead, you're (explosive) a Cheez-Whiz," Wayne says on the track. "The Pittsburgh Steelers, it's nothing / This Super Bowl ring, it's stunted." (Packers, of course, won, 31-25.)

So how did the people of New Orleans start encouraging Green Bay? When the Packers played the Super Bowl in New Orleans in 1997, "my pops went to the Super Bowl and when he got home, he had a bunch of Green Bay: towels, cups and all that kind of Sanders' things on the NFL network last year. "When you come from the neighborhood type, we do not just hang those towels and put those cups in. I had to use that cup every day and use that towel every other day, so I became a Packer fan like that."

Harry Styles

In a livestream interview in 2012, Styles showed his Green Bay Packers logo on his left biceps, explaining that he had gotten it as part of a bet with an American friend and Packers fan. . But Styles has become one of the most passionate celebrity fans of the Packers, tweeting with past and present players like Rodgers, Clay Matthews and Donald Driver, and spotted with Gearers gear on social networks (including included a shirt that he wore inside Soldier). Field). Three years ago, One Direction performed for the first time in Milwaukee, where Styles waved a Packers flag, put on a cheese head, offered a moment of silence to Jordy Nelson, then wounded, and allowed the crowd to boo Bears. . fan in the audience. "I can not tell you how good it is to be around people who understand what a good football team is," Styles said.

James Van Der Beek

The actor James Van Der Beek is from New England, but in an interview with Rich Eisen in 2017, he "displeased that they tried to regroup us in a Boston team." fan base in all sports "(Van Der Beek's words, not ours). He loves Favre so much that he asked to change his uniform number in the 1999 film "Varsity Blues" from 13 to 4.

Greta Van Susteran

Greta Van Susteran is from Appleton, and although she lives in Washington, she is a loyal fan of Packers. She even owns one part of the team. She tweeted about the Packers-Bears game last weekend, calling Favre to retreat when Rodgers fell in the first quarter. In 2011, she shared it 10 favorite Packers memories with the Sentinel Journal.

Chris Farley

Chris Farley was born in Madison and graduated from Marquette University. And although he played Bears' superfamous Bill Swerski in "Saturday Night Live," he was a fan of the Packers. After the Packers won the Super Bowl in 1997, he starred on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" as Mayor Cheddar McFarley of Stitzer, Wis. Farley died in 1997, but you can still buy a Chris Farley Chive T-shirt.

Liberace

Wladziu Valentino Liberace was born in West Allis in 1919. The famous artist died in 1987. We do not know for sure if he wore green and gold, but according to some rumors, Liberace would have a relationship with a gambler. Packers in the late 1930s. The relationship is referenced in a biography and in the 2013 HBO movie "Behind the Candelabra".

Larry the cable guy

Larry the Cable Guy (aka Dan Whitney) certainly suits the population – a simple camouflage that did his share of tailoring at Lambeau Field. Native of Nebraska, the popular comedian has a lot of Wisconsin connections. His wife, Cara, is from the north of the state and has spent several summers in Wisconsin with his family – he calls the state his "second home."

Ryan Reynolds

The Canadian star of "Deadpool" attended a game in 2008 thanks to Rodgers tickets, and he calls Favre one of his heroes of all time.

Joan Jett

The punk rock icon loved rock'n'roll. roll and the Packers, dating from the 60s.

"I'm sure it was a Sports Illustrated cover of what was then the Mud Bowl (January 2, 1966 at Lambeau Field), and if you know football, you should know something about the Mud Bowl" said Jett. the Green Bay Press-Gazette in 2014, before giving a concert as part of the festivities around the opening game of the Packers. "It was before the Super Bowl except it was the championship game, I think the Packers played in Cleveland."

Ellen Degeneres

The talk show icon and the native of New Orleans also affirmed her love for the saints of her hometown, but she became a great cheesehead before the Packers' Super Bowl victory in 2011, with regular visits to his Rodgers and Matthews show.

A video that she posted after the Super Bowl XLV shows her deep love for green and gold.

David Ortiz

"Big Papi" was one of the main actors in three Red Sox World titles, but when it comes to football, he is not a player on the East Coast. Ortiz's wife, Tiffany, is from Wisconsin (they met while he was playing for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in the Mariners organization at the time). Sports Illustrated recounted his pilgrimage to Lambeau Field.

David Ortiz (34), director of the world team, talks with Torrii Hunter, head of the American team, before the baseball game of All-Star Futures, Sunday, July 15, 2018, at Nationals Park, Washington. The 89th All-Star Game will be played on Tuesday. (AP Photo / Alex Brandon) ORG XMIT: DCMS114 (Photo: Associated Press)

Brad Paisley

OK, so he encourages the Cleveland Browns, but does it really matter? The West Virginia country singer grew up in a family of Steelers fans, changed his allegiance to the Browns as a kid and eventually conquered the Packers. "Even though I'll be a Browns fan for life, the game I do not miss on Sunday is the Packers game," he told the team. Green Bay Press-Gazette in 2014. "I wear more Packers paraphernalia than Brown paraphernalia." He took his sons to Lambeau, and he is friends with Rodgers. Paisley made a surprise appearance for the Packers quarterback during his 2011 Green Bay concert, and four years later, Nelson came out on stage as a "guitar tech".

Tony Shalhoub

He was born and raised in Green Bay, so he must be a fan of the Packers, right? You bet. The award-winning actor by Emmy, known for television series such as "Monk" and "The Marvelous Mrs." Maisel ", is a holder of a Packers subscription that is still trying to come back for a match or two per season. He talked about growing up – in a house with nine brothers and sisters – at the time of Lombardi. "We were so involved that we were crying if the Packers were losing," he said in a 2008 interview with Gannett News Service. In 2010, he promoted his film "Feed the Fish", shot in Door County, at Lambeau Field and presented "Roll Out the Barrel".

Chuck Todd

The Packers helmet, sometimes spotted on the set of "Meet the Press," should be a clue that the moderator of the longest-running show in TV history is a Packers fan for life. In a Sports Illustrated column in 2017, he acknowledged that his late father had passed on his love for the team. Elder Todd grew up in Waterloo, Iowa, and was drawn to the values ​​of Green Bay and his football team in small Midwestern cities. Todd grew up in Miami in the '70s and' 80s cheering on Lynn Dickey, James Lofton and David Whitehurst. But he still has not been to Lambeau Field – his schedule being a bit busy on Sunday.

Steve Miller

The Milwaukee-born rocker, who played in front of a huge crowd outside Lambeau Field on the eve of the Packers-Bears season opener on September 8, has been a fan since the 1960s , then a student at the University of Wisconsin. Madison. In an interview given in 2018 to the Green Bay Press Gazette, Miller said he had not missed any matches from 1961 to 1965. "I was a big fan of Paul Hornung, Jim Taylor, Max McGee , Ron Kramer, Jerry Kramer and Ray Nitschke. , Adderley Herb. It was amazing to see a team driven by Vince Lombardi. I've been totally absorbed by this period of history for the Packers, and I've always been a fan of the Packers. "

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