JACK Grealish megafan ‘Mrs Grealish 69’ is keen to ‘collaborate’ with her Aston Villa idol – but she’s still waiting for him to get in touch.
The saucy and determined blonde – who has gone viral after waving a football shirt with “Mrs Grealish 69” on the back – has been revealed as Darcie Philp, 28.
She popped up on the big screen in front of millions of Euro 2020 viewers during England’s devastating loss on Sunday night at Wembley.
Darcie had been waving her sister’s ‘distasteful’ football top at her Three Lions crush as the ace got ready to play for England in the final against Italy.
Minutes after the big match ended she took her phone off airplane mode, and it “went mental” with Darcie’s suggestive proposition prompting plenty of jokes, she said.
However, the social media sensation was also rudely told that she is “old enough” to be his mum. Grealish is 25 years old.
She confirmed too that, sadly, her favourite star “hasn’t got in touch – I think he is playing hard to get.
“Maybe his girlfriend wouldn’t be best pleased if he did though.”
Everybody wants to be Mrs Grealish.
Darcie Philp
Memes of her holding the naughty jersey while excitedly screaming have even been shared by fashion giant Boohoo – which is modelled by the Aston Villa player’s stunning partner, Sasha Attwood.
Talking to the Manchester Evening News, Darcie jokingly suggested the pair should ‘collaborate’, and joked that she was still waiting for Jack to slide into her DMs.
Handsome Grealish has been pinpointed as a ‘B-list David Beckham” – particularly among legions of fans in America.
He’s also been dubbed the “ultimate no-strings crush” and an “accidental object of lust” by Grazia.
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A breathless Darcie admitted: “Everybody wants to be Mrs Grealish.
“We didn’t bring the shirt to end up on telly. The shirt is actually my sister’s – she was sitting next to me. It comes from a long-running joke.
“My sister claims to be a die-hard [Manchester] United fan and even though she is a United fan she goes on and on about Grealish to wind up her Spurs housemate.
“They just say she’s more interested in Grealish’s calves than she is any United results.
“So when it came to her birthday they chose the Zebra third kit from United to make the most distasteful shirt with the big pattern and requested ‘Mrs Grealish 69’ to be put on the back.”
She added: “When we went to the game I was like we NEED to bring it because I love Grealish, but she didn’t want to touch it.
“I said she should wear it but she said ‘Darcie, it’s a Man-U shirt with Grealish on the back, I will get abused’.”
Darcie said that when she spotted Grealish warming up to go on “I was just so excited – I was like ‘woooo’.
“Some people have commented, saying they don’t get why his name is on the shirt but it was always just a stitch-up.”
Having watched the Germany and Denmark games at Wembley with her best pal Connor Handley-Collins, she said the pair had considered themselves ‘lucky charms’ – until Sunday’s result, of course.
“I’m almost bankrupt but I thought, well if I am the lucky charm and I don’t go to the final then it is on my head,” the diehard fan added.
Since hitting the screens she’s had ‘loads of messages’, including ‘nice ones’ saying she ‘made them laugh through the tears’ and that she is the ‘highlight of the Euros’.
Unsurprisingly, the clip of her showing her love for Grealish was the talk of Twitter.
‘Oli’ wrote that his ‘head had fallen off’ after seeing the excited fan with another adding that she was ‘a hero’.
Luis Paez-Pumar posted that the woman was his ‘new icon’ while Mike Williams wrote that seeing her left him ‘howling’.
England fell to a 3-2 penalty shoot-out loss to Italy as the wait to win a major tournament goes on.
