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Tom Hardy grants fan in hospice care’s final wish with video call: ‘He put me on a pedestal for a day’-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro
Super-fan Jo-Anne Shaw was helped by staff at her hospice in Warwick to make the appeal on social media.
The Hollywood actor took the time to chat with fan Jo-Anne (Picture: Getty)
Tom Hardy has granted the wish of a fan receiving hospice care by video calling her.
Jo-Anne Shaw told staff at Warwick Myton Hospice that she wanted to ‘fulfil her final wish’ to meet the star, and the careers helped organise a social media appeal to contact the Peaky Blinders actor.
Taking to Instagram, the hospice shared a photo of Jo-Anne, 58, holding a sign expressing her desire and encouraging people to like and share the post to spread the message.
It didn’t take long for the appeal to reach Tom, who responded on the post with: ‘Be my pleasure.’
The mum-of-two, who has cancer, revealed that she spoke to the actor on Friday, first when he gave her a phone call and then via FaceTime.
‘He has made my day,’ Jo-Anne gushed, who was sent a life-size cardboard cut-out of the Venom and Dunkirk star by a friend rather than flowers.
Tom responded to the social media appeal and Jo-Anne said he ‘made her day’ (Picture: Getty)
‘He put me on a pedestal for a day and that’s all I can ask for,’ the grandmother-of-three told BBC Coventry and Warwickshire.
She added: ‘I’m so excited, he spoke to me as if he’s a friend. I’m such a big fan of his, I’ve watched all his movies and boxsets especially during lockdown.’
Jo-Anne added that she ‘loved him to bits’, while Tom reportedly returned the favour by telling her she was a ‘very popular lady’.
The hospice posted on Facebook after the fact, confirming that Jo-Anne had spoken to her hero, writing: ‘We’ve been blown away by Tom’s kindness and support too.
‘Jo-Anne and her family cannot thank you enough for making this happen.’
Tom is also very keen on Jiu-Jitsu and shocked Milton Keynes locals earlier this year by rocking up to a local school to take part in the 2022 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open Championship, where he nabbed a gold medal.
Sean Rosborough, who sponsored the event, said the organisers knew Tom would be attending a couple of weeks before, but kept the appearance ‘to themselves’ to stop masses of people ‘distracting’ him from taking part in the competition.
Sean, 37, praised the popular Tom as ‘brilliant’ with fans who approached him for photographs while adding that the mums in the audience were ‘all over him’.
He had shocked fans at a Milton Keynes school when he took part in a championship under his real name back in September (Picture: Sean Rosborough/SWNS)
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He told SWNS: ‘A lot of people were asking for photos, and coming up to him, and he had no problem with that all. The mums were all over him. It didn’t bother him.
‘And when he was fighting, he was focused on what he was doing. He’s amazing at Jiu-Jitsu.’
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