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Footy followers baffled by bizarre crossover of Liverpool icon and TikTookay’s Addison Rae

Christmas is a time for surprises however soccer followers had been staggered to see Ian Rush and Addison Rae cosying up on social media.

A snap of the Liverpool legend hugging the American TikTookay star did the rounds on-line following the Reds’ 1-1 draw with Arsenal on Saturday, leaving bemused supporters scratching their heads. It appeared on a brief clip Rush uploaded to TikTookay (that is proper, he has a TikTookay account) on the day of the sport.

The former Wales footballer captioned the publish: “Welcome to Liverpool @AddisonRae, suggesting the photo was taken inside Anfield somewhere. Nevertheless, fans were absolutely baffled by what one person described as “essentially the most unlikely crossover in 2023”.

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“I can not consider a single purpose as to why both of them would know the opposite,” one X user wrote. A second said: “Wonder who requested who for an image,” while a third joked: “Rush nonetheless bagging I see.”

A fourth commented: “Wtf is that this crossover?” Another said: “This has received to be, by some margin, the oddest celeb pairing ever seen at Anfield.”

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Rae has practically 90million followers on TikTookay alone



Ian Rush is one among Liverpool’s best ever gamers

Rae, 23, was raised within the metropolis of Lafayette, Louisiana within the US, so the possibilities of her being a die arduous Kopite are pretty slim. She was additionally born in 2000, 4 years after Rush left Liverpool and some months after he retired, additional suggesting she’d have had little concept who was Rush was earlier than assembly him.

Rae has over 88million followers on TikTookay, making her the fourth-most adopted particular person on the platform. She rose to fame in 2019 when her dancing movies took off on-line, and she or he later branched out into singing, appearing and podcasting.

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Rush, in the meantime, is broadly thought-about one among Liverpool’s, and English soccer’s, best ever gamers. He performed 660 occasions for the Merseyside membership throughout two spells, scoring 346 objectives. He additionally performed for Juventus, Leeds, Newcastle and Wrexham.