Sir Anthony Hopkins surprises Welsh locals in chippy during hometown visit

Sir Anthony Hopkins made a astonishment quality astatine a spot store successful Port Talbot, Wales – overmuch to the delight of locals.

Sir Anthony 87, returned to his birthplace Port Talbot and was snapped visiting his favourite spot shop, Steve’s Fish Bar successful Taibach.

The Silence of the Lambs histrion was seen posing with the unit and chatting with radical successful the store arsenic they enactment successful their orders.

Sharing snaps of the prima connected Facebook, the chippy’s proprietor wrote: ‘He’s backmost again for his food and chips!’

Another shared a drawback of the histrion with the caption: ‘The Man the Myth the Legend! Sir Anthony Hopkins. In his hometown of Port Talbot, this week for his food & spot supper at Steve’s chippy, the thoroughfare I was calved in.

‘He is ne'er bothered erstwhile helium visits home, we emotion him & helium loves us!’

The Oscar-winning histrion dressed down successful a level achromatic baker chapeau and layered achromatic look including a overgarment and a fleece.

Sir Anthony’s quality successful Wales comes conscionable weeks aft it was revealed that his location was 1 of the many personage homes destroyed successful the LA Wildfires.

The histrion bought the four-bedroom, five-bathroom location successful the Pacific Palisades country for $6 cardinal (£4.9m) successful 2021.

The location was devastated with conscionable the foundations of the spot remaining aft the fire. Bizarrely, this isn’t the archetypal location occurrence the histrion has faced.

In November 2018, his erstwhile location narrowly escaped the Woolsey fire, and successful 2000 helium mislaid his location successful Kensington, London to a fire.

After it was announced that his location had been destroyed successful the fires, the histrion took to societal media to stock a connection astir love.

The station read: ‘The lone happening we instrumentality with america is the emotion we give.

‘As we each conflict to heal from the devastation of these fires, it’s important we retrieve that the lone happening we instrumentality with america is the emotion we give.’

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