--- title: Renée Zellweger Cheerleading Dance on Jimmy Fallon Video description: The 'Bridget Jones' actress whipped out her middle-school cheerleading routine during an appearance on Jimmy Fallon's 'Tonight Show.' canonical: https://time.com/4489254/renee-zellweger-jimmy-fallon-cheer/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-13T14:44:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:28.988Z og:title: Watch Renée Zellweger Show Off Her Cheerleading Skills og:description: The 'Bridget Jones' actress whipped out a flawless middle-school cheer routine. og:url: https://time.com/4489254/renee-zellweger-jimmy-fallon-cheer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Renée Zellweger Show Off Her Cheerleading Skills twitter:description: The 'Bridget Jones' actress whipped out a flawless middle-school cheer routine. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Renée Zellweger Show Off Her Cheerleading Skills on Jimmy Fallon  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 13, 2016 2:44 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 13, 2016 2:44 PM UTC Not many people know that Renée Zellweger, currently making the rounds to promote her [British rom-com vehicle](http://time.com/4385829/bridget-jones-baby-trailer-2/?iid=sr-link2) _Bridget Jones’s Baby,_ is actually originally from Katy, Texas. But on the _Tonight Show_ on Monday, host Jimmy Fallon asked the [actress](http://time.com/4359578/why-renee-zellweger-took-a-break-from-hollywood/?iid=sr-link1) to relive a bit of her small-town youth — and even got an unexpected lesson in cheerleading. “Back in the day we would go get Cokes at the meat processing place, right there on the old Katy road,” Zellweger reminisced about her childhood. That led to the two discussing Friday night football games… and Zellweger’s stint as a cheerleader (although she was sure to mention that she also ran track and played basketball.) Getting up from her seat to give a full performance — choreography included — Zellweger whipped out her seventh-grade routine. “Get ready, get set, the Tiger team is the best yet,” she chanted, even removing her stilettos to show Fallon how to perfect his high kick. (Zellweger’s middle school cheer training must have been good, because her kick was flawless.) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4489254/renee-zellweger-jimmy-fallon-cheer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4489254/renee-zellweger-jimmy-fallon-cheer/"},"headline":"Watch Renée Zellweger Show Off Her Cheerleading Skills on Jimmy Fallon","datePublished":"2016-09-13T14:44:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:28.988Z","description":"Cheer chants stick with you forever","url":"https://time.com/4489254/renee-zellweger-jimmy-fallon-cheer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4489254/renee-zellweger-jimmy-fallon-cheer/","name":"Watch Renée Zellweger Show Off Her Cheerleading Skills on Jimmy Fallon"}}]}] ```