It's not every day a Hollywood heart-throb pitches up in your classroom. But these Greenwich schoolgoers left the rest of Britain’s children - if not parents - green with envy when they had a surprise visit from Johnny Depp yesterday.
The star is currently in south-east London filming the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie On Stranger Tides and arrived at the Meridian Primary School dressed in full character as Captain Jack Sparrow.
He made the one-off trip after nine-year-old pupil Beatrice Delap wrote to the star asking for help staging a ‘mutiny’ against the teachers, as he was filming at the nearby 18th century Old Naval College.
An onlooker said she heard the most ‘incredible screams of joy’ as the actor, in full make-up, then entered the school.
Depp made a secret visit to Great Ormond Street Hospital in January 2008 to donate £1million to say thank you for saving his daughter’s life, just months after making a clandestine visit to the wards to tell bedtime stories to sick children on the wards dressed as Captain Sparrow.
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I don't agree with 99.95% of his political views, but this was
seriously cool. Nicely played, Mr. Depp.
