Reese Witherspoon Without a Clue
The next Mel Gibson? Perhaps not. But Reese Witherspoon’s embarrassing incident with Atlanta police this week will still do her credibility no favours.
Sitting in the passenger seat while her inebriated husband weaved through the southern American city, it wasn’t long before local police spotted the erratic driving and pulled them over. Reese, who had also been drinking, soon pulled her “Celebrity Card” out of her bag.
As the officers pulled her husband out of the car, Reese asked “Do you know my name?” to which she was told that her name wasn’t necessary – yet.
But she continued, “You’re about to find out who I am… You are going to be on national news”.
Well, she was right, sort of.
News of the incident soon flooded the internet – as did the police mug shots of the pair looking suitably sober, just in time for her agent to issue a statement.
“I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said,” it read.
“I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. The words I used that night definitely do not reflect who I am. I have nothing but respect for the police and am very sorry for my behaviour.”
As sorry as she may be, it won’t matter to the courts, which have set her hearing date for May 22.
Negotiating Skills Chechen Style
Chechnya’s Moscow-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov took to the Internet this week to boast of his prowess around the negotiating table. Except of course, in true strongman style, it wasn’t around the negotiating table. It was in a boxing ring.
After noticing that the Sports Ministry building in the capital of Grozny was in need of repair, Kadyrov decided (perhaps jokingly, who really knows?) that he had to teach his Minister a lesson. A boxing lesson.
Kadyrov, who heads the Chechen Boxing Federation is no stranger to the canvas and promptly posted a series of photographs of the pair of them, gloves donned (and face protection for Minister Salambek Ismailov), on Instagram.
Kadyrov wrote that “in the course of this dialogue – or rather sparring,” he “gently and unobtrusively” explained “with the help of the right and then the left hook” that Ismailov start “using his head”.
A spokesman for the controversial leader later told the press that the show was clearly a joke “for people with a healthy sense of humour.”