“That’s where we’re from, I’m very proud of that.”
“That’s where we’re from, I’m very proud of that.”
John Bishop said he “couldn’t believe” American actress Halle Berry’s Liverpool admission while they were backstage at BBC One’s Graham Norton Show. The pair joined Graham on his sofa as guests alongside actors Chris Hemsworth and Rachael McAdams on last night’s (Friday, January 30) episode of the show.
Graham began the introductions by informing 59-year-old Oscar-winning Halle that she would get along with the scouse comedian due to her “Liverpudlian routes”.
Graham said: “Halle Berry, I’m sure you’re going to bond with John because you have Liverpudlian routes. You have family from Liverpool.” To which Halle revealed she had already spoken to John about it backstage before the show.
She said: “Yes, I just told him that backstage, though that was not the conversation I thought we would be having.”
John, 59, responded: “No could you believe that? I said to her that we could in some way be related. I said to her, it’s good because at least somebody on the couch can understand me tonight.”
Halle Berry has direct roots in Liverpool through her mum, Judith-Ann Hawkins, who was a psychiatric nurse from the city. Judith and her American husband, Jerome Berry, headed across the Atlantic around the time of Halle’s birth.
When asked if her mum sounded like John Bishop or if she had ever visited Liverpool by host Graham Halle responded: “No. My family left a little too early, but that is the origin of my routes.”
John responded: “It’s not really working this is it? When she said that to me and said, ‘My mum’s from Liverpool’, I thought, ‘Oh my god, we’ll find a connection’, and I said, ‘What part of Liverpool?’, and she went, ‘Dunno’.”
Halle said: “That’s where we’re from, I’m very proud of that.”
John said: “It’s a lovely thing and we’re proud to have you.
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