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Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan held after allegedly assaulting airline crewmember
Insisting on a sport of Word With Friends, Alec Baldwin was kicked off a flight for refusing to show off cellular machine
Gerard Depardieu was escorted off airplane for urinating on airplane flooring
Director Kevin Smith was booted off Southwest Airlines as a consequence of a “safety concern” relating to his weight
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Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan was arrested in November 2014 after allegedly assaulting a member of airline workers on a transatlantic flight and headbutting a police officer who tried to arrest her.
O’Riordan, 43, was removed from the plane by officers at Shannon Airport in mid-West Ireland following the alleged incident on board an Aer Lingus flight from New York to Shannon Airport.
Police stated the singer was taken to a neighborhood hospital however later discharged and launched from custody.
It’s not the primary time, and likely gained’t be the final, a celeb has been accused of an in-air disturbance.
Indeed, today some would possibly say you’re no one till you’ve been kicked off a airplane.
Whether by dressing inappropriately, taking over an excessive amount of house or just being themselves, loads of irritable celebs have made flying somewhat extra fascinating for the remainder of us.
Alec Baldwin versus American Airlines: let’s face it, the one winner right here was Words With Friends.
The Scrabble-like on-line sport elevated its every day lively consumer rely by 100,000 inside at some point after Baldwin’s December 2011 drama, from 5.4 million gamers to five.5 million gamers, in response to AppData.
The 30 Rock star touched off the sport’s explosion with an explosion of his personal – leaving an American Airlines airplane in a huff after a run-in with flight crew over powering down his digital machine.
In an e-mail to NCS, Baldwin spokesman Matthew Hiltzik stated, “He loves WWF so much that he was willing to leave a plane for it.”
Zynga reacted by launching the #letAlecPlay Twitter marketing campaign.
“That was the most brilliant PR move I’ve seen this year,” stated John Vlautin, who runs SpinLab in Los Angeles to the Los Angeles Times.
Per week earlier, Josh Duhamel was booted off a flight from New York to Kentucky when he refused to show off his BlackBerry, however within the wake of the Mt. Alec eruption, everybody just about forgot about that.
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Hell hath no fury like a plus-sized celeb scorned.
On February 13, 2010, famous director Kevin Smith boarded a Southwest Airlines flight in Oakland certain for Burbank when he was requested to get off the airplane as a result of his weight and measurement have been a “safety concern.”
Bad transfer. Smith went on a Twitter tirade.
“I’m way fat … But I’m not THERE just yet. But if I am, why wait til my bag is up, and I’m seated WITH ARM RESTS DOWN. In front of a packed plane with a bunch of folks who’d already I.d.ed me as ‘Silent Bob.’”
Southwest later apologized to Smith and provided him a US$100 voucher, which Smith promptly scoffed at on Twitter whereas vowing to put up anti-Southwest Twitter messages every day.
He additionally devoted a complete episode of SModcast to a play-by-play of the incident and launched 24 video statements about it on YouTube.
We’d like to notice {that a} 12 months later, Smith lost 65 pounds by consuming much less and exercising.
Passenger suitability seems instantly proportional to pant sag when flying on, once more, Southwest Airlines.
Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong was kicked off a plane in 2011 for carrying pants that hung too low on his hips.
Armstrong tweeted on September 1, “Just got kicked off a southwest flight because my pants sagged too low!”
The musician was on a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Burbank – is that this the identical flight that Silent Bob was kicked off of?
Southwest apologized to Armstrong, who actually ought to be grateful he wasn’t arrested.
University of New Mexico soccer participant Deshon Marman was cuffed on June 15 after failing to tug up his sagging pants on a US Airways flight out of San Francisco.
The school pupil confronted fees of trespassing and resisting arrest after he refused to obey a pilot and feminine flight crew member, who claims she noticed the define of what was beneath his uncovered boxer shorts.
We’d look, too.
Grope your girlfriend on Southwest Airlines and also you would possibly get booted off, as “The L Word” actress Leisha Hailey came upon in September 2011.
Hailey stated she and her girlfriend shared “one, modest kiss.”
But a purported eyewitness and TMZ comment leaver later stated, “There was major breast groping going on.”
The couple deny the gropage accusation. In a statement aimed at clarifying the incident, they stated, “We were not making out or creating any kind of spectacle of ourselves … We are responsible adult women who walk through the world with dignity.”
Hailey has since referred to as for a boycott of Southwest by homosexual individuals. GLAAD are trying into the incident.
Celebrity survival check: You’re on a airplane. The seat belt signal is on. You really feel an urge to pee. What do you do on this determined scenario?
According to Gerard Depardieu – France’s largest actor, each figuratively and actually – the one logical and mature factor to do is pee right into a trusty plastic bottle.
In August 2011, the Frenchman was caught on a delayed flight from Paris to Dublin when nature referred to as … or somewhat started screaming with terrifying insistence.
Unsympathetic flight attendants wouldn’t enable the actor to make use of the bogs, which have been locked till takeoff.
Fellow actor Edouard Baer provided Depardieu an empty bottle to pee into.
The bladder-challenged 62-year-old went forward and did what he needed to do.
Depardieu in all probability would have gotten away with it if his purpose was higher. But some urine acquired onto the ground.
Depardieu provided to wash it up himself. The crew provided to escort him off the airplane.
One of the passengers stated Depardieu had clearly been consuming. Depardieu’s nameless buddy stated the actor claimed he was completely not drunk.
Depardieu was as soon as identified to drink five or six bottles of wine a day.
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Liam Gallagher: Most epic and completely cheap in-flight meltdown
A lesson in true rock star conduct: in 1998, Cathay Pacific banned Oasis croaker Liam Gallagher for all times from the airline, after the hard-to-please entrance man allegedly kicked up a fuss over a scone.
During a flight from Hong Kong to Perth, Gallagher started his scone rage.
Some reviews stated it was the form of the scone that upset the testy Oasis vocalist. Others claimed that the snarly Nineteen Nineties icon and Q Magazine obsession turned anti-social after he was refused a flaky deal with.
Many reviews had him threatening the pilot together with his baked good, possibly after he buttered it.
Passengers complained that Oasis band members refused to give up smoking, threw objects at individuals and swore at flight attendants.
The captain thought of diverting the flight and forcing the band and their 30-member entourage to get off the airplane.
After the ban, the sad snarler stated that he’d somewhat stroll to Australia than fly on Cathay Pacific.