RAPPER ArrDee has described the moment he was left “starstruck” when he met Chelsea footballer Mason Mount.
The Brighton-born musician said he was in a bar in London when the squad walked in after beating Italian club Juventus in the Champions League.
He said “I don’t like to go up to people and be like ‘it’s you’ because, having it happen to me, it can get a lot.
“But I was at a rooftop bar in London and Mason Mount and the Chelsea team walked in.
“They’d all come out to celebrate and I just had to go over. I went up to Mason Mount and said ‘bruv, it’s mental that you’re here’.
“There’s loads of musicians that I’ve met, and I thought I’d feel starstruck but it’s all just felt natural. It’s the footballers that get me."
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In an exclusive interview the Argus, Arrdee, real name Riley Davis, said he became a Chelsea fan after watching them play with a friend from Hove Park school.
But, despite not being an Albion fan, Riley said the Seagulls have been “smashing it” under manager Graham Potter.
He said: “I wasn’t massively into football growing up. My old man’s a United fan so I grew up supporting them, but I never really watched them play.
“Then a close friend of mine was a Chelsea fan, so they were the only games I used to watch really.
“But obviously, the Brighton squad they’re killing it at the moment.”
Riley said the first football match he saw in person was England’s 2-0 victory over Germany in Euro 2020 at Wembley Stadium in June last year.
Since then, he has gone on to exchange social media messages with some of footballs biggest names.
He said: “I had an ultimate team on Fifa, and I had Ian Wright playing centre-mid and obviously he’s not a midfielder. I posted it on Instagram, and he direct messaged me to say, ‘for you I’ll play midfield’.
“I had Beckham on the wing and Gary Lineker upfront and then Rio Ferdinand direct messaged me and asked why he didn’t make the cut. And I just thought ‘what is going on? This is mental’.”
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