Asked by Buckley whether he was a \u201cBelieber\u201d, Sudeikis replied: \u201c100%.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brendan Hunt (right) came up with the “Beliebe” sign for Bieber during their Fifa 2026 halftime performance. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cYeah, man, I love that kid. I got to meet him, ages ago, when he hosted and was a musical guest at SNL.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did some sketches. I bump into him every couple times a year, one thing or another.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the world of him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sudeikis said introducing Bieber before tens of thousands of supporters at the World Cup final was a memorable experience, but added one of his favourite moments came during rehearsals.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWhen we did the first run through, [I] just gave him one little acting note.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I was just like, \u2018Just come in. Don\u2019t even look at me. Just come in like the way the men and women do when they\u2019re coming in. And they\u2019re just focused and just stay. Get eye of the tiger, you got work to do\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sudeikis added: \u201cI mean, the kid took the note just like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery coachable young man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before Bieber\u2019s performance, Sudeikis and Hunt appeared back-to-back in character while Hunt held up a sign reading \u201cBeliebe\u201d, with \u201cJB\u201d written beneath it.<\/p>\n
Sudeikis revealed on the podcast the idea for the sign came from Hunt.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201c[Hunt] texted [the idea] to me, he goes, \u2018What if we do the believe sign that says Believe?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cIt made me laugh. It\u2019s such a pure idea that it made me emotional when I received that. I was like, \u2018Dude, that is killer\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sudeikis joked: \u201cMy only regret is that I didn\u2019t snake that sign and get Justin to sign it and hang it up in the house.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fourth season of Ted Lasso premieres globally on August 5, with new episodes released weekly through October 7.<\/p>\n
The official synopsis says Ted returns to Richmond \u201ctaking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women\u2019s football team\u201d.<\/p>\n
It adds: \u201cThroughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alongside Sudeikis and Hunt, the series also stars Brett Goldstein, Hannah Waddingham and Juno Temple, who all return for the new season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked by Buckley whether he was a \u201cBelieber\u201d, Sudeikis replied: \u201c100%.\u201d Brendan Hunt (right) came up with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2246,5813,9218,25725,430,10542,156,36862,5904,6637,51238,36446,29116,17468,111,139,69,6777,12860,1305,43655,232892,28468,6382,377],"class_list":["post-558546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-2246","tag-acting","tag-before","tag-bieber","tag-celebrities","tag-cup","tag-entertainment","tag-fifa","tag-final","tag-gave","tag-halftime","tag-headline","tag-jason","tag-justin","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-performance","tag-revealed","tag-show","tag-singers","tag-sudeikis","tag-tip","tag-took","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}