… and also play for some football team

Swedish underwear peddler Freddie Ljungberg has landed back on his feet after West Ham tore up his contract - he will now be playing with brand spanking new MLS outfit the Seattle Sounders. As the team’s ‘designated player’ (the person they can pay far more than everyone else), Fredrik will earn a tidy $2.5m over a two year contract.

According to today’s Sun, Ljungberg chose to join Kasey Keller at the Washington club because no one else would have him their owners “vowed to make him a film star”. The main shareholder in the club is Joe Roth, a film producer and director, who has been chairman at 20th Century Fox and Disney. Another owner is actor and comedian Drew Carey, whose strange spectacles can be seen on The Drew Carey Show, Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the US version of The Price Is Right.

A ’source’ at The Sun says:

“Freddie’s keen to break into movies. Joe is extremely influential in that scene.”

Will Freddie become the new Vinnie Jones in Hollywood (which is approximately 1,200 miles from Seattle)? Or could it be that the ’source’ at the red top newspaper is simply putting two and two together to come up with five and a few extra column inches? Only time will tell…

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In order to escape horrible England in the 1990s, Morrissey ran away to California and hid in a mansion formerly owned by Clark Gable. Although he has now moved on to Rome, where they have a lively hooligan problem much more to his taste, Mozza still snacked on football in LA by venturing out to the Home Depot Center to whirl his rattle at Club Deportivo Chivas. And he’s not the only celebrity to have glommed on to this weird commercial experiment by feigning support…

He may love to hang out with Becks, but Snoop Dogg sides with Morrissey on the LA Galaxy/ CD Chivas divide.