Die Hard star surprises German family

[KiwiCoromandel]

Hollywood star Bruce Willis appeared unannounced on the doorstep of a German family asking to see the house where he was born 50 years ago.

Accompanied by his father and youngest brother, both named David, Willis rang the doorbell of the home in the southwestern town of Idar-Oberstein, the daily Nahe Zeitung reported.

"We were sitting in the garden and didn't even hear that someone was there. My mother still had her curlers in her hair," said Doris Busch, who lives in the house with her husband.

Busch said that Willis had explained in shaky German that he wanted to see the house, in particular a basement bedroom where he spent the first two years of his life.

The action star (Die Hard) took a few pictures but declined to be photographed himself, the newspaper said.

Willis, who was named a "special ambassador" for Idar-Oberstein on his 50th birthday on March 19, then visited the nearby Strassburg army barracks, where his father was stationed.

Source: AAP

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