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Marlon Wayans has 1,500 sneakers with one pair being worth more than $70,000

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Updated 15:46 4 Apr 2023 GMT+1Published 20:17 30 Mar 2023 GMT+1

Marlon Wayans has 1,500 sneakers with one pair being worth more than $70,000

The Air star may have had humble beginnings but he's managed to amass a pretty impressive sneaker collection

Katherine Sidnell

Katherine Sidnell

Marlon Wayans has revealed he is a massive sneakerhead, with his favourite pair being worth a cool $70,000 (£57.1K).

The White Chicks star also revealed that his passion began in childhood while growing up in the poverty-stricken projects of New York.

However, Wayans has since come full circle, as he now stars alongside Matt Damon in a biopic about Nike.

Air follows Sonny Vaccaro (played by Damon) as he tries to salvage the struggling sneaker brand, in the early eighties.

Having spotted a promising basketball player called Michael Jordan, Vaccaro believes that this young man will help Nike outpace the competition as the new face of the brand.

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As other companies also try to court Jordan, Nike must enlist the help of his former coach George Raveling (played by Wayans).

With Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman and Viola Davis also starring, the film is a must-see for all sneaker-heads as it tells the story of how Air Jordans became a Nike icon now worth over $4 billion (£3.2b).

Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Jason Bateman all star in the upcoming film.
Lifestyle pictures / Alamy Stock Photo

Such a sum would have seemed a dream for Wayans as a child, who grew up in the projects alongside his nine siblings and very religious parents.

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Despite having nothing to his name, the comedian developed a love for sneakers from an early age and even took a job in Footlocker just to be around them.

He explained this to UNILAD, saying: “Well, I've been a sneakerhead since I can't remember. I grew up in the projects and I couldn't afford sneakers, so I used to work in sneaker stores, just to be around sneakers, US athletics, and Athlete's Foot, Footlocker.”

Having yet to make it big in Hollywood, Wayans made a promise to himself that he would one day have his own sneaker store.

And it definitely looks like he's achieved that dream.

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Wayans has joked about his sneaker addiction on social media.
Instagram/ @marlonwayans

While you can’t buy anything from Wayans’ collection, it is certainly shop-front worthy as he has 1,500 pairs - all of which are individually boxed and lovingly labelled.

"I said to myself, when I get money, I'm going to have my own sneaker store and that's what I do. In one of my bedrooms in my house, I have 1,500 pairs of sneakers together with pictures on the outside,” he revealed.

Adding: “I've always been a sneaker-head and some people get money and they want to buy jewellery or buy cars. I just wanted to buy sneakers."

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And it was this passion for trainers that made it a no-brainer when he was asked to star in Air with Affleck and Damon.

Wayans said: “When I got the call to be in Air knowing that Matt and Ben was in the movie, I was like I'm in Let's go.”

However, the 50-year-old did admit that there was one pair that stood out among the rest.

“[If the house was on fire] I gotta grab my Air Jordan Ones, but I'm gonna go with the Virgil Abloh off-white collabs - my Chicago's. Those were at 50, now they are worth $70,000. So I'm gonna grab those, and I'm out,” he said.

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Air hits cinemas in the UK and Ireland on April 5.

Featured Image Credit: Alamy/AFF/Instagram/@marlonwayans

Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV

Katherine Sidnell
Katherine Sidnell

Katherine is an entertainment journalist with a love of all things nerdy. Starting out writing Doctor Who fan fiction as a kid, she has gone on to interview the likes of Matt Damon, James May and Dua Lipa to name a few. Published in The Sun, The Daily Mail and Evening Standard - she now joins Ladbible as resident nerd in chief.

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