John Stamos finally went on record attributing his hilarious 2007 train wreck appearance on an Australian talk show to alcohol, US weekly reports.
“I was on sleeping pills and I was jet-lagged, but I was also just plastered. And I never said I wasn’t, but that whole Warner Bros. publicity machine got involved and said, ‘Just say he was jet-lagged,’” said Stamos.
Stamos slurred his words, made innappopriate jokes and even made a lewd gesture to the host with a glass head. He finished off the interview reading the host’s lines off the teleprompter while squeezing her beside him.
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David Hasselhoff is at the centre of yet another 911 scandal, according to TMZ.
And it’s the same story as last time: he wasn’t drunk, he was sick. Hasselhoff’s people released a statement saying yesterday’s incident was because of an ear infection which he was treating with Antivert.
This medication clashed poorly with Antabuse, another tactlessly-named medication the Hoff is taking to keep him from drinking. The cocktail resulted in a loss of equilibrium, so when the paramedics arrived, Hasselhoff opted to go to the hospital for help.
His teenage daughter Hayley Hasselhoff alerted her mother Pamela Bach last night saying her dad was drunk. One of Bach’s friends dialed 911, who answered the call shortly after to escort Hasselhoff to hospital.
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In a weird twist of celebrity co-mingling, reality TV star Tila Tequila’s NFL boyfriend Shawn Merriman was arrested yesterday, according to TMZ.
Police were called to the home of San Diego Charger’s Merriman early this morning where Tila claimed he had choked her and restrained her from leaving the apartment. Tila was taken to hospital but no injuries reported.
Merriman was taken into custody with a bail set at $58,000.
His lawyer released a statement this morning saying Tila was extremely inebriated following a birthday party at Stingareer Nightclub in San Diego and Merriman did not want her to leave the house because he felt it was unsafe.
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Chad Kroeger, lead singer of Nickleback, was found guilty of drunk driving in British Columbia yesterday, cbc.ca reports.
The charges stem from an event in June 2006, where Kroeger was found driving with a blood alcohol level nearly twice the legal limit.
His lawyer tried to get the breathalyzer test Kroeger took ruled as inadmissible because it violated Kroeger’s rights, but the judge overruled.
“The judge found that his Charter of Rights were breached. However, he declined to exclude the breathalyzer results,” his lawyer said.
Sentencing will occur on May 1, Kroeger could face a fine or a driving ban. His lawyer says he plans to appeal the conviction.
Orlando Bloom tried to walk away from a car crash last week, leaving his bleeding female friend, until paparazzi warned him the incident would be deemed a hit and run if he left.
Police claimed that Bloom did not appear drunk on the night of October 11, so he did not have to take a Breathalyzer test. However, paparazzi video from earlier in the evening show him acting strangely while leaving a club. He jumped into the car of a stranger and began yelling at the driver. A female then got in the back of the car and tried to separate them. Allegedly, the driver is the woman’s boyfriend, and Bloom had grabbed her inappropriately in the club.
Bloom then got into his own car with his two female friends. One woman started off as the driver, and according to reports, was so drunk that she repeatedly tried to start the car even though it was already running. Bloom later took over, and then ran into a parked car.
The injured woman was Cher Coulter, a celebrity stylist. She walked around the car holding her head before laying down on the pavement. At hospital it was revealed that the impact had fractured her neck vertebrae.
Bloom’s rep released a statement claiming Bloom called emergency services immediately after the crash.
