All-round hard man and actor behind the campest action movie villain of ALL TIME, Tom Hardy, is an unlikely fan of little-known lad band The Wanted…

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… Or so says their blue-eyed, rough-around-the-edges heart throb, Max George.


We caught up with the boys as they promoted their new album, Word Of Mouth, in London last week.

Meandering away from the, "Who's the buffest member of the band?" line of questioning sparked by one journalist, the attention was quickly turned to Hardy, who, Max told us, was far smaller than he expected him to be when he spotted him in the capital the day before.

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"Oh, I met Tom Hardy the other day, yeah," Max said. "He's one of my favourite actors. And this guy plays Bane and I thought Bane was gonna be huge, and this little guy just came past me like that, and I could hear him on his phone. And I said, 'Tom, I'm a massive fan, man!' And he said, 'Oh yeah, me too, bruv, me too.'"


Instantly, the image of Hardy - who is soon set to play Elton John in a biopic - singing Chasing The Sun into a hairbrush and diving into a nearby news agent to pick up the latest copy of Top Of The Pops magazine flashed across our minds. But could he really, REALLY have said that? We pressed further:

"Yeah! I think he said that. It might have just been in my head, though," George admitted, sheepishly.

Sidling into the conversation stage left was Tom Parker, who'd also witnessed Hardy in Wanted-loving action.

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"He's just been, erm, doing a new film, and he's just been out in Afghanistan," he chimed in. "Because he had on all these army clothes. He's just been getting into character, like… And a backpack."

And lo, we were left with an even finer image than the one before. Tom Hardy, dressed as a squaddie, complete with giant rucksack, indulging in a spot of method acting as he trudged along the streets of London, only looking up momentarily to reciprocate a compliment from Max George.

Brilliant.


The Wanted's Word Of Mouth is out now. The band's third studio album shot into the UK Album Charts at No.9 this week.

We also spoke to Nathan Sykes, who gushed endlessly about his new romance with US singer Ariana Grande. Read what he had to say on writing songs about her, introducing her to his parents and what he got her for Christmas. Read that here.