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Article: Austin Healey; The ex-England rugby ace has been having a ball since he wowed us in Strictly. Now he wants us all to join in.(Features)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2009
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Byline: Interview BENJI WILSON
Balls, says Austin Healey, are important. We've parked up at Rosslyn Park rugby club in South London for photos, and Healey is chipping a rugby ball over the cab as driver Dom, from Kingston, winces. Austin's helping to promote Mars's campaign to give out 200,000 balls - rugby, cricket, football, tennis - and he's explaining how he hopes that just having a ball will encourage people to start playing together.
'Now that you can go on Twitter or Facebook, you can talk to your next-door neighbour without actually seeing their eyes. I can't understand it. So anything that gets you out, playing with real people - I think that's ...