2023 Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame - Round 1

Dennis Doyle

TV Show/Movie Appeared: Run, Fatboy, Run (2007)
Actor/Actress: Simon Pegg
Why you should vote:: Running films aren’t usually interesting. This was entertaining at least.
Why you should not vote:: Is this really a sports film? Not really.
Simon Pegg has made a good living in the United Kingdom as the socially unaware, never fulfilled comedic character that you don’t know whether to love or give a backhand to for wrecking his life. In Run, Fatboy, Run, Pegg plays Dennis Doyle a slightly overweight man, who left his fiancé at the altar and has been trying to get her back ever since. When she gets engaged again, it is to an American who will be running the Nike River Run, so Dennis decides even though he is out f shape that he will do the same.

The film is more of a British style RomCom, so we get a few laughs, saw enough of a training montage for a ports film, and he completes the task at the end. Maybe not good enough to make the Hall, but definitely good enough for the ballot!