Catherine Zeta-Jones Loves Playing Bingo
Many lovely people play
online bingo and land-based bingo. But it is doubtful that there is any bingo player as lovely — or as talented — as Catherine Zeta-Jones. Yes, the gorgeous Academy Award winning actress is a confirmed bingo lover.
A Bingo-Playing Childhood
Catherine Zeta-Jones was born in working-class neighborhood in Swansea, Wales. As a child, Catherine loved organizing family bingo parties. She would do everything: make the numbered bingo balls and the bingo cards, organize the prizes, and get her parents and brothers involved in the
bingo games. It's a childhood memory that she still cherishes.
Moving On Up with a Bingo Jackpot
When Catherine was in her early teens, her father won £100,000 playing bingo. Of course, a
bingo jackpot like that would make a big change in any family's life. The Jones family used its bingo winnings to buy a new house in Mayals, a more upscale neighborhood in Swansea. (Swansea, by the way, was also the home of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.) A few years later, Catherine left school in Swansea to attend the Arts Educational School in Chiswick, where she majored in Musical Theatre and prepared for her future career on stage and screen.
She's Still Throwing Bingo Parties
A lot has changed in the life of Catherine Zeta-Jones since her early days in Swansea. She is now an internationally recognized actress and sex symbol, the recipient of an Academy Award, the wife of the actor Michael Douglas, and the mother of two children. But some things never change, and one of them is Catherine's love of the game of bingo. Every Christmas, she organizes a
bingo party for her family and her closest friends, just as she did way back when. Friends of the family have said that Michael was skeptical at first — he thought bingo was a silly game — but that he has lately become an enthusiastic bingo player himself.
She Does Charity Bingo, Too
Catherine Zeta-Jones likes to put her fame to good use by helping others, and one of the ways she does it is by appearing as a celebrity bingo caller at charity bingo fund-raising events. These events are not your typical 10-pence bingo games at the local bingo hall. Entrance to the event together with one bingo card typically costs about £50, and each
bingo card after that can cost £25 . But the money is all for a good cause, such as a hospital or an amateur theater group. So to help a good cause — and to play bingo with Catherine Zeta-Jones — it is certainly worth the money.
Now, when you think of the game of bingo, think of Catherine Zeta-Jones: beautiful, talented, successful, and generous to those in need. Catherine Zeta-Jones is a fine representative of the great game of bingo.
