Rupert Grint says NHS midwife is ‘truly inspiring’ as he and Miriam Margolyes surprise the Harry Potter fan during UK’s One World: Together At Home
He’s best known for playing Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter movies and has won a legion of fans, thanks to the franchise, since the first movie was released in 2001.
And Rupert Grint surprised one ‘massive’ Harry Potter fan, who is also an NHS midwife working on the frontline in Birmingham during the coronavirus pandemic, via video link during the UK’s broadcast of One Word: Together At Home on Sunday night.
The actor, 31, told midwife Sam that he believes she is ‘truly inspiring’ and behaving like a Gryffindor, as still working in the hospital has meant she’s had to self-isolate away from her family.
Surprise: Rupert Grint told one NHS midwife she is ‘truly inspiring’ as he surprised her via video call during the UK broadcast of One World: Together At Home
Sam explained that she has been spending lockdown in a hotel, when she’s not working for the NHS, away from her husband Phoenix and her nine-year-old daughter.
She explained that her husband suffers from a severe kidney illness and if he were to contract COVID-19, he would ‘most likely’ die as a result.
Wanting to not put her husband at risk, Sam has chosen to self-isolate on her own, away from her family.
Surprising her via video link, Rupert told Sam: ‘Hearing your story is just insane. the sacrifices that you’ve made it’s truly inspiring, it’s really just true Gryffindor behaviour.’
Fan favourite: He was joined by Miriam Margolyes who surprised Call The Midwife fan Sam and invited her down to set to meet the cast
Shock: Sam, an NHS midwife working in Birmingham, was moved to tears by the gesture
He was joined by his former Harry Potter co-star Miriam Margolyes, who played Professor Sprout in the movies, who joked on the call to Rupert: ‘You were just a little boy when i saw you, you’ve turned out to be a very handsome young man.’
Of Sam, who is also a fan of Miriam’s show Call The Midwife, Miriam said: ‘What a family you are, my goodness. We think you’re one of the heroes of the world Sam, we really do.’
Inviting her down to the Call The Midwife set, Miriam said: ‘We want you to come to the set and meet all of us. It’s a glorious pleasure to do something.’
‘You’re one of the world’s heroes’: Miriam said it was a ‘glorious pleasure’ to surprise Sam
Sunday night’s show included virtual performances from the likes of Little Mix, who kicked off the show with an acoustic version of their hit Touch.
Other performances included Rag’n’Bone Man, Jess Glynne and Sir Paul McCartney.
The show, hosted by Dermot O’Leary, Claudia Winkleman and Clara Amfo, also showed highlights from the US broadcast of One World: Together At Home, including performances from The Rolling Stones, Lizzo, Jennifer Lopez and Stevie Wonder.
Star-studded: The UK’s edition of One World: Together At Home included performances from Little Mix, Rag’n’Bone Man and Sir Paul McCartney