Royal wedding: Daniel Radcliffe won't be going or watching

Daniel Radcliffe, sort of an honorary British mascot thanks to the "Harry Potter" franchise, is doing something against the grain: He won't be tuning in to see Prince William and Kate Middleton's royal wedding in real-time Friday.

"I won't be getting up at 4 a.m. to watch the wedding," Radcliffe told Celebuzz. "I'll catch the highlights on CNN because they'll be running something 24/7."

Notice how he said CNN, not BBC. The reason? The diminutive actor is starring in the Broadway musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." That pesky time change is the root  of his treachery, though he says he isn't the only Brit who won't be glued to the telly or finding a dodgy way to sneak into the nuptials.

"Back home apparently everyone is most excited for the four-day weekend, not the wedding," he said. "I am very happy for them. I wish them all the happiness in the world."

Radcliffe wasn't too surprised that his star status and British blood didn't get him an invite along with his compatriots Elton John, David and Victoria Beckham, Rowan Atkinson and Guy Richie.

"Why would they invite me? I might be English, but they don't know me. Why do all Americans think that?"

Oh, pish posh, D-Rad. We wouldn't be American if we didn't think "Harry Potter" was the best English export since black tea ... or Colin Firth.

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-- Nardine Saad
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Photo: Daniel Radcliffe performs in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" on the "Today" show. Credit: Peter Kramer / NBC

Comments

[Nyunt Shwe]

I don't watch the ceremony on telly, but followed it a bit on the net, just for few minutes to collect their photos and watched one clip of video. I, too, wish them a very happy one-man-one-woman marriage life. We Asian do not like any person whether he/she is royal or ordinary who is disloyal to his/her partner and there is no justification for trespassing by one side or both side. I heard from someone or read in the tabloid news that Prince William's father did not sleep with his wedded wife, Princess Diana on the wedding night, but with another man's wife (well with the present wife). So, Prince Charles was the worst person of infidelity and I even don't want to blame Diana who later trespassed her wedding bows. I cried for many hours when I learned Princess Diana's fateful accident and I even angered the God when she died. I give my blessing to her son and daughter in law and that unfortunate People Princess gives them her protection for not to fall the same hellish black hole like them.