Eric Mabius gets World Cup fever!

Ugly Betty star Eric Mabius has admitted he's suddenly caught World Cup fever.

Currently filming BBC sci-fi drama Outcasts near Cape Town, the actor who played Daniel Meade in Ugly Betty said he felt a bit outnumbered among the mainly British cast when England took on the USA last Saturday.

Eric said he's glad that particular contest is over and will now support England in their other matches.

Although more of a baseball fan, he's pleased that living near Cape town at the moment with his wife and two young sons has meant that his eldest boy - four-year-old Maxfield - has been swept away by World Cup fever too.

Eric said: "I'm not taking him to a World Cup game as he's a bit too young for that, but we did go to a small local soccer match near to where we live and Maxfield thought that was World Cup! They are soccer crazy here.

"They're also a bit Ugly Betty crazy in South Africa, too, so I do get mobbed sometimes."

Eric and British actor Danny Mays, another member of the Outcasts cast, will be joining Ben Shephard on GMTV on Friday morning outside Cape Town's Green Point stadium where England play Algeria that evening.

Can Ben persuade Eric to wave an England flag?