Monday 23 October 2006

Hollywood star puts city in picture


One of Hollywood's biggest stars put two Northern Ireland politicians in front of the camera on a whistle-stop visit to Belfast.
Vince Vaughn came face to face with Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams and loyalist politician David Ervine during a visit to the city at the weekend.

The star of Swingers, Wedding Crashers and Old School interviewed Mr Adams in west Belfast and Progressive Unionist Party leader David Ervine in the east for a documentary on Belfast's murals.
Local people were surprised to see Mr Vaughn and two cameramen in Andersonstown interviewing Mr Adams in front of a mural of the IRA hunger striker Kieran Doherty at Slemish Way.
One of them said: "Vince Vaughn was really friendly, really open. He talked to the locals, signed autographs and had a bit of craic with them.
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I received an email from my daughter complaining about the BBC coverage of the above story - she said:

"I found this article and was interested in which murals they were looking at, but look - they put a picture of Jennifer Aniston instead, tenuously connecting her and her bust to the story because of who she is dating."

Frankly I'm glad they put in a pic of Ms Aniston - otherwise I wouldn't have had a clue who Vince Vaughn is (did I mention - he's dating Jennifer Aniston?).

I must disagree with their heading though - Belfast was 'in the picture' long before Vince Vaughn (minor celebrity) ever was.

Who is this Vince Vaughn anyway??