Star power: Scottish icon Sam Heughan joins the Glasgow 2026 team
Award-winning actor Sam Heughan is set to bring star power to the Commonwealth Games as Glasgow 2026’s first celebrity ambassador. The Outlander actor has officially joined his latest clan and features in a new TV advert for Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.
As anticipation for next year’s biggest sporting event in the UK is building, with tens of thousands of fans snapping up tickets when they were released last month, Sam kicks off his own obsession with Glasgow 2026 in an advert that captures the power of major sporting events to turn a nation into superfans.
How heavy is a gold medal? How steep is a velodrome? What is a ‘clean and jerk’? The search is on for fans to become experts before 3,000 athletes from 74 nations and territories come to Glasgow to compete in world-class sport...