Mel Gibson loses cool with TV interviewer
Mel Gibson loses cool with TV interviewer
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Wednesday, 03, Feb 2010 02:11
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Hollywood star Mel Gibson has been caught calling a reporter an asshole at the end of a TV interview.
The star of Braveheart and Lethal Weapon, who was promoting his latest film Edge of Darkness, made the comments at the end of an interview via satellite with Dean Richards, an entertainment reporter for Chicago's WGN-TV.
Richards had asked Gibson a series of leading questions referring to previous controversies which have surrounded the star including his well publicised drink driving and anti-Semitic outburst in 2006.
Although the interview had ended when Gibson made the comment he was still on screen in the TV studio and it was picked up on his microphone.
Richards asked Gibson: "Do you think the public will perceive you any differently after all that's been in the news about you?"
Gibson replied: "That's almost four years ago, dude, I've done all the necessary mea culpas. Let's move on."
Gibson's return to the spotlight with Edge of Darkness, a film based on the 1985 British TV series of the same name, has not been as smooth as perhaps hoped.
He was also on the receiving end of Golden Globe's host Ricky Gervais' wit at the ceremony. The Office star introduced Gibson with the line: "I like a drink as much as the next man.. unless the next man is Mel Gibson."