Young Tom Felton is a runner and a gunner!

Thanks to TomFeltonFans_, we have this news article from Hampstead and Highgate Express covering Tom’s day at the Emirates Stadium with the Arsenal, helping to raise money for the Great Ormond Street hospital Children’s Charity.


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From the article:

Young Tom proves that he’s a runner and a Gunner

Emirates Stadium hosted its second ever fun-run for Arsenal’s Charity of the Season, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. The Be a Gunner Be a Runner event raised over £41,000 for one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals. 10 year old Tom Phillips from Highbury, saw off tough competition from over 50 other children on Saturday to win the kids’ race and completed the two laps of Emirates Stadium in just six minutes.

Harry Potter star Tom Felton who plays Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films together with football trickster Paul ‘Woody’ Wood presented Tom with his trophy.

Tom said: “It was brilliant to run and raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital. I raised £113 and I’m an Arsenal fan so that’s why I ran.”

Harry Potter star Tom Felton said: “Be a Gunner Be a Runner was a fantastic day out and raised an incredible amount of money to help the thousands of very sick young patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital.”

The Be a Gunner Be a Runner event was part of Arsenal’s season-long ‘Be a Gooner. Be a Giver.’ campaign. Through this, the Club aims to raise £500,000 to fund a new Arsenal Lung Function Unit for children who have difficulty breathing or sleeping. These problems can mean that children may not grow properly and the Lung Function Unit is vitally important in their treatment.

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More photos of Tom Felton from Saturday

My daughter Catalina and I (Estrella89San) were in London last weekend, because my niece had with her team a football match in the Champions League against Arsenal LFC.

Therefore we were at the “Be a Gunner. Be a Runner.” charity event for the Great Ormond Street Hospital at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday. We met Tom there and I have taken photos of him.

During that time Tom did an interview, he gave the start signal for both runs and he did hand over the cup. He took photos with the fans and gave a lot of signatures. On the photos of Draco, handed out by Jade, he signed his own name and also Draco’s.

After a little hesitation, my daughter and I also went over to ask for a photo with Tom. Cati didn’t dare to speak to him and so I tried. But all the sudden my really spare knowledge of the English language left me completely and I stuttered a bit. lol But then we managed a conversation with a mix of English and German. 😉

For Cati it was a great experience, because she has now a photo with Tom, an autograph from him and when Tom gave the signal for the start at the adult run, Cati was allowed to press the start button from the stopwatch.

It was really fortunate for me and my daughter that the football match took place at an earlier date.

more photos of this day in our gallery

In new interview, Jason Isaacs calls Tom Felton “unfailingly polite” and “an incredible heartthrob”

Thanks to @snatalia and @HandsOfTime, we now have transcript of the portions (notice I did not say ‘bits’ this time! =) of Jason Isaac’s BBC radio 2 interview where he very sweetly mentions Tom. The full interview was posted to Snitchseeker yesterday and can be heard here.

Dermot (Interviewer) – The young actors, it must be a joy watching them grow up?

Jason – Yeah, they’ve all turned out – I know you would say this, but actually it is true of Daniel, Rupert, Emma and Tom, who plays my son and I’ve had the most contact with. They’ve all turned out to be really fine, grounded, humble young people, which is pretty extraordinary considering they’re the most famous young people on the planet – can’t call them kids any more – and extremely wealthy. I think it’s partly because they have been inside this community; they’ve not been treated special or different…

Dermot – He’s a good footballer as well, Tom. He was at Soccer Aid last year, and I’m doing it…

Jason – Are you? I bottled out!

Dermot – … but he came on last year as right wing. He got this wonderful, kind of chorus of theatrical boos.

Jason – Except you should know, he gets the biggest mailbag from young women. He’s an incredible heartthrob, and deserves it.

Dermot – Yeah, well he just sort of smiled and waved.

Jason – Yes he’s very charming. All of them are unfailingly polite…

Thanks again to Snitchseeker and to @snatalia and @HandsOfTime for their transcription services! =)