'I used to prank call Peter Crouch's house – he found out when I interviewed him years later'

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NBC Sports presenter Rebecca Lowe, who besides hosts the 'It's Called Soccer!' podcast, has opened up astir surviving adjacent ex-England striker Peter Crouch erstwhile she was astatine school

Rebecca Lowe

The Overlap US presenter Rebecca Lowe grew up with Peter Crouch successful London

Running into old-school friends tin often beryllium exhilarating, but for Rebecca Lowe, presenter of The Overlap US, it was thing but.

The 44-year-old grew up successful westbound London, a stone's propulsion distant from erstwhile England footballer Peter Crouch's house. The brace utilized to locomotion to schoolhouse together, albeit connected antithetic sides of the roadworthy and with antithetic sets of mates successful tow.

Communication was limited, with flirtatious glances astatine the section saccharine store being the lone existent enactment betwixt the 2 groups. But unbeknownst to Crouch, Lowe and her pals occasionally prank-called his location successful a playful effort to span the gap.

"We utilized to bash truly embarrassing things similar get telephone numbers of the families retired of the aged telephone publication and telephone them up, past enactment the telephone down due to the fact that you were truthful scared," Lowe said, speaking exclusively to Mirror Football. "We were conscionable specified kids."

The groups went their abstracted ways aft graduation, though Peter and Rebecca would extremity up crossing paths conscionable a fewer years later. While Peter was establishing himself arsenic a Premier League footballer, Rebecca was carving retired a vocation arsenic a broadcaster.

She joined the BBC successful 2002, and it wasn't agelong earlier she was featuring regularly connected shows similar Final Score, Football Focus and Match of the Day 2. In 2004, she was sent to Southampton to interrogation 1 of the club's rising stars... Peter Crouch.

"I was like, 'Oh god! This is going to beryllium awkward. Is helium going to retrieve me?' Because I conjecture I was astir 22, truthful it was astir 4 years aft [I'd past seen him]," Lowe recalled. "And helium did retrieve me, but adjacent past astatine 22 it was inactive a spot embarrassing."

Lowe says her and her pals would prank-call Crouch's location erstwhile they were teenagers
Lowe interviewed Crouch for the archetypal clip erstwhile helium was playing for Southampton

He besides remembered being prank-called but had nary thought who the culprits were. When Lowe told him, helium took it - successful emblematic Crouch manner - successful bully spirits.

Although Crouch was a sporting prodigy successful his youth, helium didn't pull arsenic overmuch 'attention' from the girls arsenic his different friends did. In fact, the would-be England striker was consistently rebuffed erstwhile Valentine's Day came around.

"We some grew up a fewer roads distant from each different successful a portion of Ealing and we went to antithetic schools," Lowe explained. "From the property of astir 11 oregon 12 until 18, helium and his 4 lad pals, and maine and my 3 of 4 miss pals would instrumentality the aforesaid way but to 2 antithetic schools.

Rebecca Lowe presents the It's Called Soccer podcast alongside Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher (

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"In the morning, we'd often clip it truthful that 8 of america oregon 9 of america would beryllium successful the saccharine store astatine the aforesaid time, but cipher ever talked to each other. He was truly bully mates with immoderate twins, who helium had arsenic his champion men astatine his wedding. Those twins were the speech of the town, shall we say. The speech of the town! So determination were Valentine's cards that would spell across, whispered conversations, for years, six oregon 7 years.

"But hilariously, nary 1 talked to each different due to the fact that however terrifying is that erstwhile you're 14? So we conscionable looked and whispered and sent cards. Peter, unluckily was not connected the receiving extremity of overmuch of that [laughs]. It was each astir Robert and Edward, the twins."

Crouch, who besides played for the likes of Liverpool, Tottenham, Aston Villa, Portsmouth and Stoke, endeared himself to fans nationwide with his happy-go-luck attitude, down-to-earth nature, and, of course, his creation moves. To this day, helium holds 1 of the champion goals-per-game records of immoderate England guardant - with 22 goals successful 42 matches - and remains 1 of the astir universally beloved footballing figures successful the country.

He and Lowe rubbed shoulders for years, with the second covering his matches for Setanta Sports and ESPN earlier leaving the UK to instrumentality the reins arsenic pb workplace presenter astatine NBC Sports successful 2013. She was pitch-side erstwhile Crouch scored arguably the finest extremity of his career: a stunning 30-yard volley for Stoke against Manchester City successful 2012, and nabbed a memorable interrogation with him afterwards.

Rebecca Lowe was pitch-side erstwhile Peter Crouch scored his iconic extremity against Manchester City successful 2012 (

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Since relocating to the States, the 2 person mislaid touch, but Lowe admits she'd emotion to reconnect - particularly present that Crouch is thriving successful the broadcast world acknowledgment to his punditry enactment and the uber-popular 'That Peter Crouch Podcast', not to notation her occurrence alongside Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher connected The Overlap US amusement 'It's Called Soccer!'.

"Oh my God, wherever bash I sign? That would beryllium amazing," Lowe gushed erstwhile asked if she'd beryllium up for doing a podcast with Crouch. "He's truthful superb astatine what helium does. I'm specified a immense fan. I haven't seen him successful implicit 10 years, but I utilized to interrogation him a lot... One day, possibly I'll effort and get him connected the podcast with Gary and Jamie."

Alongside Gary Neville's media transmission The Overlap, Buzz16 (a Miroma Group Company), co-produces the series, with Wave Sports + Entertainment overseeing income and organisation successful the U.S.

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