Teen stars visit Forks, watch flick at SilverCity

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Justin Bieber and his lady love, Selena Gomez, didn’t need to stand in line at the ticket booth when they wanted to watch a movie in Winnipeg Thursday night.

They rented an entire theatre for themselves.

The famous couple snuck into SilverCity Polo Park Cinemas, 817 St. James St., early Thursday evening to enjoy a private screening in Theatre #1, according to theatre staff who asked not to be named.

They had pizza (cheese only) delivered to their theatre while they watched Real Steel, which is billed as “a gritty white-knuckle action ride set in the near future, where the sport of boxing has gone hi-tech.”

Patrons in other theatres at the multi-screen facility seemed unaware the famous couple was in a neighbouring theatre, and the mood inside the lobby was as routinely quiet as any weekday evening. A black Lincoln SUV with a female driver waited outside SilverCity on the north side.

“I had a great day here in Winnipeg. I can’t wait to see y’all tomorrow!!” Gomez tweeted about 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

“Feels good to be back in #Canada — missed home,” Bieber had tweeted a couple of hours earlier.

Gomez is in Winnipeg for a concert tonight at the MTS Centre.

Gomez is expected to be treated to more than just a movie and pizza while in the city.

A source said Thursday Bieber hopes to take Gomez skating and then to an NHL hockey game. The pair is lining up tickets to the Saturday night Jets game versus the Carolina Hurricanes, the source said.

Earlier on Thursday at The Forks, visitors were surprised when Bieber and Gomez showed up for a stroll. The pair pulled up in a limo around 1:30 p.m., according to observers, and spent a short time walking outside. They were later spotted noshing at a downtown restaurant.

“There was certainly a buzz going around,” said Forks COO Paul Jordan, though he heard for the most part, visitors respected the pair’s privacy.

Though there was no obvious sign of them at The Forks by 3 p.m., Gomez and Bieber left a few packs of tweens scouring the site for a glimpse of the megastars.

Bieber, by the way, has a bona fide Winnipeg connection: His father Jeremy lived here, and Bieber and his father were once spotted at a Manitoba Moose game.

 

— with files from Melissa Martin, staff