When it comes to Hollywood ‘A’ listers and famous fans, Celtic has a gluttony of them.
Off the top of my head we have Rod Stewart, Lewis Capaldi, Coolio, Martin Compston and even the LA legend Robert Duvall is a huge Celtic fan.
Although, I think Duvall was most taken by the late, great Jimmy Johnstone who he considered the Celtic legend as a personal friend of his after befriending him many years ago.
The point is, the club is global and has many famous fans.
One of the most famous fans is Billy Connolly.
The ‘Big Yin’ used to frequent Celtic Park in his heyday but old age and illness has meant that the Glaswegian comedy legend doesn’t get along to Celtic Park as often these days.
But it seems that he may not have always been a Hoops fan. At least according to Sun journalist, Alan Nixon.
Answering a fans question on which club he supported, Nixon let slip that the famous ‘Partick Thistle-nil’ joke was Connolly’s in this reveal:
To be honest, I had never heard this before.
I always assumed that Billy was always a Celtic fan but at least the Big Yin saw the light and has now seen many trophy presentations since he switched allegiances.
At least it wasn’t the other Glasgow club he switched from because that would have been unthinkable.
I wonder how Queens Park are getting on?
Edit: Thanks to Declan from ACSOM for passing this video on:
Billy Connolly turns 80 years old today. Here’s ‘The Big Yin’ speaking about going along to Celtic Park in the early days 🍀 pic.twitter.com/XL0qFT0FaY
— Declan McConville (@DeclanRMcC) November 24, 2022
Rubbish article- read Pam Stevenson biographies and see he has always been a Tim
Well it’s hardly a rubbish article when I all I am doing is presenting what someone has said. Behave yourself
As I remember it Billy said he was a Thistle fan when he was relatively new and didn’t want to alienate the ‘other’ half of Glasgow but when he was able to attract a wider UK and international audience he declared his true colours.
Partick thistle was most people second club in glasgiw to get on in showbiz or tv or any top job been a Celtic_fc_1888 supporter meant you were rc and that hindered you chances big time glasgow and the west of Scotland has a history it is called scotlands shame that likely the reason for his partick thistle I’d say bbc are still the same
Billy Connolly was always a Celtic fan but back then most minor celebs from Glasgow, before they became really famous, tended to say they were Partick fans so that they wouldn’t lose the green or blue pound
Alan Nixon’s full of crap
I think at the beginning of his career he said it as you know what it was like back then it was ok for lex McLean etc but not someone like connoly
Not true it was actually better for him to say he didn’t support Celtic, due to the usual establishment bigotry stuff
Billy has always been a Celtic man,I grew up in Partick he was in White St and I was round the corner in Hyndland St.the person who said he was a partick thistle supporter
was Jonny Beattie who also came from Partick
Afraid yer wrong about Robert Duvalle. Aye he did say wee jinky’s the best character he’s ever met, tho he’s always actually favored rangers. He was also a hampden guest at one of the derby cup finals when Martin o’neill was our manager and was sayin he wanted rangers tae win that day.