Famous Everton Fans – Sylvester Stallone & Judi Dench Join the Crowds to Cheer on the Toffees

Life can be quite difficult for Everton Football Club. Although few involved with the Toffees would like to admit it, they exist in the shadow of their more successful neighbours and constantly have to put up with watching Liverpool win Champions Leagues, Premier Leagues and countless other cups and trophies. When 2025 ticked around, meanwhile, it represented 30 years since the Blues had won any silverware of note. That problem also extends to fans, given the fact that only those with some sort of complex would actively choose to support them of their own free will.

A good number of Evertonians support the club because their parents or other family members did. As a result, most of the people who call themselves fans of Everton have a tie to the city in some way or another. That obviously limits the number of well-known people who would be quick to identify as Blues, but it doesn’t mean that there aren’t any to speak of at all. Even if we ignore the fact that Liverpool as a city has produced countless famous faces over the years, there’s also the fact that people from further afield like the English top-flight and often pick a club to follow almost at random.

This list is far from exhaustive, so one or two of the names that you might think of as big Evertonians might not be on it. Even so, it should give you a sense of the kinds of people who would be quick to call themselves Blues whilst also being well-known names:

Jodie Comer

Born in Liverpool in 1993, Jodie Comer was always likely to support one of the two teams that play their football in the city. The fact that her father, James Comer, was a physiotherapist for Everton meant that it was locked in stone that she would be a Blue from an early age. When the club left Goodison Park, Comer recorded a message about the Grand Old Lady that was played to supporters in the ground. One of the best actresses of her generation, Comer has appeared in films, TV shows and acclaimed plays, yet her best acting might come when trying to pretend she’s not annoyed by an Everton defeat.

Sylvester Stallone

An unlikely sporting hero that fights against the odds in order to try to win, only to miss out at the final hurdle. Is that a description of the first Rocky film or Everton’s time in the Premier League? Sylvester Stallone was taken to a match at Goodison Park by a business partner, developing a love for the club from that moment on. When the film Creed came out, Adonis Creed’s final boxing match came against the next person on our list, real-life boxer Tony Bellew. The fight was filmed at the Everton home ground, all thanks to Stallone’s influence.

Tony Bellew

Athony Lewis Bellew was born in Liverpool on the 30th of November 1982, growing up in Toxteth before moving to Smithdown Road. His professional boxing debut came in the October of 2007, making his way from light-heavyweight to heavyweight in a career that saw him take on the likes of David Haye and Oleksandr Usyk. If he could’ve swapped his boxing career for a footballing one, however, he’d almost certainly have done so; provided it was Everton he got to play for. The closest he came was winning the WBC cruiserweight title in a fight at Goodison Park in 2016.

Amanda Holden

In some ways, a media personality born in Portsmouth in 1971 doesn’t strike many as an obvious Evertonian. The fact that she was married to Les Dennis for a time suggests she knows Liverpool well, however, and she has been to both home and away games in support of the Blues. Opposition fans might be tempted to suggest that she should start her own show called Everton’s Got Talent in the search for some decent players, but it’s clear the club means a lot to her and in 2016 she became an honorary patron of Everton in the Community.

Judi Dench

Speaking of honorary patrons of Everton in the Community, another person that took on that moniker back in 2013 was Judi Dench. You might think that if someone from a spy franchise was going to support the Blues then it would be someone from Mission: Impossible, but Dench would be just as keen to have been issuing orders to Seamus Coleman as James Bond. Her husband Michael Williams was a big Bluenose, which led Dame Judi to say, “I was truly honoured to be offered the chance to become involved in such a special charity at my football club.”

Tommy Fleetwood

When Tommy Fleetwood was part of the Ryder Cup-winning team in 2018, it meant he had won a trophy more recently than his beloved Everton FC. The Southport-born golfer turned professional in 2010, going on to win events on the European and Challenge Tours. There was another Tommy Fleetwood, who played for the Blues at the start of the 20th century and might well have influenced his namesake’s career choice. When David Moyes was brought in to replace Sean Dyche as manager, Fleetwood was quick to sing the praises of the Scot and talk about his love of the club.

Mary Berry

Dame Mary Rosa Alleyne Hunning, known professionally as Mary Berry, was born in 1935 in Bath and studied catering at Bath College of Domestic Science. This led to a career as a baker, eventually appearing on our screens in shows such as The Great British Bake Off. It was whilst recording an episode of The Great Sport Relief Bake Off that her then fellow judge, Paul Hollywood, revealed she was an Evertonian. Speaking about a pie he was enjoying, he said it ‘reminded him of Anfield’, before saying, “I know you support Everton, Mary”, which she confirmed.

John Parrott

Given the aversion to all things Red that some Evertonians suffer from, it must have really rankled John Parrott just how many red balls there are on a snooker table. The one-time World Snooker Championship winner was taken to Goodison Park for the first time when he was around six-years-old, getting serious about supporting the Blues about four or five years later. He later got a season ticket in the Gwladys Street End of the ground, declaring himself to be a ‘blue until I die’. In spite of this, he eschews the ‘bitter’ tag attached to many Evertonians and said he’s happy to see Liverpool doing well too.

Jennifer Ellison

Born in Liverpool in 1983, Jennifer Ellison studied dance and danced professionally before turning to acting. That was thanks to a role on the Liverpool-based show Brookside at the end of the 1990s into the 2000s. Having also appeared in glamour magazines as well as films, Ellison married Robbie Tickle in 2009. As is so often the case on Merseyside, they live in a house that has both Reds and Blues, bringing up their children to support one team each; just like their parents. She grew up an Everton supporter, in spite of the fact that she once dated Liverpool player Steven Gerrard.

Andy Burnham

There aren’t many Evertonians, or politicians for that matter, who Liverpool supporters have got a lot of time for. Whilst Andy Burnham certainly didn’t do himself any favours when he became the Mayor of Manchester and regularly espoused the needs of both Manchester United and Manchester City, he was a major part of the driving force that resulted in there being some semblance of justice for the Hillsborough families. As a result, he is, in many ways, the perfect representation of the city of Liverpool, where club loyalties end when the serious topics are brought up.