Film-star Crowe wants Bunnies

Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe has made a multimillion-dollar bid to buy the South Sydney rugby league club.

Crowe and his friend, businessman Peter Holmes a Court, have been negotiating to buy the club either partially or outright.

Souths chairman Nick Pappas said the club was honoured to be in talks with the pair.

"They are looking at this together and we have been speaking to them together and we're very excited and very honoured, I should say, that Peter and Russell are talking to us about proposals that would entrench the club as a Sydney club forever," Pappas said.

Crowe, the highest-profile supporter of the embattled club, has long expressed an interest in owning Souths.

"I'd like to buy the club... you're actually talking about rugby league fantasy stuff, yeah I'd like to be able to have a situation like they do in America, they have individual owners," he has said.

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