Tag Archives: Billy Bob Thornton
After Being Booed, Billy Bob & The Boxmasters Cancel Tour
Posted on 13. Apr, 2009 by CSS.
Billy Bob Thornton and The Boxmasters have scrapped the remainder of their North American dates as Willie Nelson’s tour opening act- after fans booed them onstage at a show in Toronto on Thursday night.
The Oscar winner upset Canadian fans during his controversial radio interview on CBC radio last week. He became upset when jock Jian Ghomeshi mentioned his acting career during the show’s opening introductions. Billy insisted his “mashed potatoes with no gravy” comment was not anti-Canadian, adding, “Boo all you want, but I want to say something – we’re really happy to be here.”
Following the disastrous gig, Billy Bob and his country-pop band, The Boxmasters, pulled the plug on the rest of their tour.
“At this time, no reasons have been announced but the remainder of the tour will continue as scheduled without ‘The Boxmasters,’” according to a post on Willie Nelson’s Official Websiteon Friday.
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Billy Bob Thornton BOOED By Toronto Concert Crowd
Posted on 10. Apr, 2009 by CSS.
Billy Bob Thornton gave an incredibly arrogant and bizarre interview earlier in the week to CBC radio’s Jian Ghomeshi in an appearance with his band, The Boxmasters. Apparently, Thornton told producers ahead of time not to mention his acting career at all and to focus on the music. Ghomeshi covered Billy Bob Thornton’s acting background as an introduction to the band, but his questions focused on their music and unique genre, which is described as a mix of rockabilly and 60s British mod music. That was enough for Thornton, though, who gave dismissive and inappropriate answers to questions and then criticized Ghomeshi for not treating him like Tom Petty.
Thornton and The Boxmasters performed at Massey Hall in Toronto last night. Instead of acknowledging that he was in the wrong and apologizing for disparaging Canadians, Thornton proceeded to call Ghomeshi an assh*le and to claim that the potatoes without gravy comment was directed at Ghomeshi, not Canadians in general. Over a million people have viewed his arrogant interview on YouTube and there’s no question that Thornton was the assh*le and that he was referring to Canadians as boring, not the interviewer:
Referring to Jian Ghomeshi, the host of CBC Radio’s Q, as an “a–hole,” the Oscar-winning actor turned musician interrupted his band’s set three songs in to give his side of the story.
After commenting on the beautiful theatre and the legendary performer they were opening for (Willie Nelson), Thornton said, “It seems as if when I say something it’s in the news.”
When that drew boos, Thornton continued: “Boo all you want, but I want to say something…. We’re really happy to be here, but I need to say something. I talked to this a–hole yesterday.
“I sat down and talked with this guy. He and his producers say, `We promise you we won’t say that’ (meaning references to Thornton’s acting career). The very first thing they said was that.“I don’t really like sensationalism,” he added. “If you look someone in the eyes and promise them something, and you don’t do it, you don’t get the interview. That’s the way it goes.”
The explanation was met by further boos and catcalls of, “Here comes the gravy,” a reference to Thornton’s description of Canadian audiences as “mashed potatoes with no gravy” during his interview with Ghomeshi.Before the show, Thornton told a Star reporter that he “loves Canada.” When asked what he meant by the mashed potatoes comment, Thornton, wearing a thick layer of skin-tone facial makeup and sucking on a cigarette, said: “I was talking about the guy who was interviewing me.”…
Ghomeshi could not be reached for comment last night. Earlier yesterday, he said it was one of the most difficult interviews he’s ever done and he was taken aback at Thornton’s strange responses (sample: when Ghomeshi asked when the Boxmasters were formed, Thornton answered, “I’m not sure what that means”).Ghomeshi also said it would have been irresponsible to his audience not to mention Thornton’s acting past during his introduction (he did not ask any questions about acting during the interview).
“Our policy is that we don’t allow anybody to tell us what we can and cannot say,” said Ghomeshi. “Beyond that, it was this notion and the language that he used during the interview that I thought was unfortunate, that we were `instructed’ to say this and that. And I think that does raise interesting questions about ideas around how much journalism is to be controlled, especially when it comes to arts and entertainment and culture, and I think that that’s a concern.
“The reality is, and I tried to explain this in the interview, these guys have only been together for two years. You just don’t get the kind of national press they are getting without the incentive being something like his career past…. And I think if he could graciously accept that and say, `Hey, I want to focus on the music, but I get that the reason we’re here is because I’m a movie star that’s won an Oscar.’ There’s not a lot of people who can say that.”
Ghomeshi felt like he was “in the middle of a tsunami” yesterday. He was being interviewed by media around the world. “The nice thing is the reaction that I’m getting from journalists around the world that is really kind of sweet, but it is all very odd … and a lot of people, especially in this country, seemed to support the way I did things,” he said. “Maybe it was a little Canadian to be polite, but I can live with that.”
-From The Toronto Star
Pretty soon Billy Bob’s going to be directing his non-apologies at 1/2 empty clubs.
Watch the full interview with Billy Bob & Jian Ghomeshi Here!
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Billy Bob Thornton Interview Meltdown With Jian Ghomeshi CBC Video
Posted on 08. Apr, 2009 by CSS.
Billy Bob Thornton released Holy Hell on Canadian Q TV/CBC interviewer Jian Ghomeshi on Wednesday after Jin had the unmitigated gaul to make reference to the Oscar-winner’s acting career in the introduction to a segment about his pop-country band, The Boxmasters.
You could cut the tension with a knife. How uncomfortable. Billy Bob should be thanking Jian for reminding us that he’s still alive!
The interview is awkward from the get go. I have to say watching the actual video in full I thought that Billy Bob was acting or joking around but the true lash out begins around the 7 minute mark.
Read Story About Toronto Concert Goers Booing Billy Bob Following This Interview With Jian Ghomeshi
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Angelina Jolie Had Billy Bob Thornton Vaginal Tattoo
Posted on 07. Nov, 2008 by CSS.
Angelina Jolie had her ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton’s name tattooed on her “private” area.
Tattoo artist Friday Jones told beauty site Shecky’s that she branding Angelina’s snatch after the star demanded to have Billy Bob’s name tatted on her naughty place.
“I did the secret Billy Bob tattoo that you will never see,” Friday says. “She would come to the house all of the time, because my roommate was her best friend.”
“She was always like ‘Tattoo me! I’m jonesing for another one,’ or ‘I want Billy Bob’s name on me!’ So I put his name down there.” [Note from Shecky's: Yes, that “down there.”]
-From Shecky’s
Yikes! Surely by now it no longer says his name…. I’m sure we can all guess what it does say…
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David Duchovny & The Tennis Instructor???
Posted on 19. Oct, 2008 by CSS.
David Duchovny’s Tennis Instructor has given a few statements which lead you to believe there was some affair going on between the two, 28-year-old Edit Pakay met David last year when she gave him tennis lessons at the Malibu Racquet Club. She said lessons led to them becoming close friends:
“We have a very, very close friendship. I don’t want to be the third person in the marriage but I
know it can be seen that way. David and I are very close friends and we still play tennis together. He’s an excellent player. He likes physically strong, fit women. He is in great shape. He is a wonderful man. He’s a very intelligent, very kind and good man.”
When asked if they were physical,“I don’t want to say anything that might hurt David. I am not going to deny it. I don’t know what our relationship means to him.“
-From Daily Mail
Well how bout that… First Billy Bob now the tennis instructor….Who know’s what was going on- however the lady tennis instructor could just be looking for her 15 minutes of fame…
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Billy Bob To Blame For David Duchovny Divorce from Tea Leoni?!
Posted on 16. Oct, 2008 by CSS.
First Guy and Madonna, and now another Hollywood divorce casualty: Former “X-Files” star David Duchovny and his wife of 11 years, actress Tea Leoni, have confirmed their separation. In a statement released by Duchovny’s rep, the pair revealed that they have been living separate lives for quite some time – even before David’s recent stint in rehab for sexual addiction. New reports coming in are speculating that David’s sexual addiction may not be the only factor in the split.
David Duchovny, who recently left rehab for sex addiction, and wife Téa Leoni released a statement Wednesday saying they have been separated for some time.
“In light of continuous speculation over the lives and marriage of Tea Leoni and David Duchovny, the couple has confirmed that they have in fact been separated for several months,” the statement says. “The couple had hoped to keep this separation private for the sake of their children.”
Duchovny, 48, has been married to actress Leoni since 1997. They have two children, daughter Madelaine West, 9, and son Kyd, 6.
The actor voluntarily entered rehab last summer “for the treatment of sex addiction,” he said in a statement issued in August.
Earlier this month, Duchnovny had “successfully completed the rehab program,” his lawyer said. Duchovny was then spotted with Leoni at the Czech Street Festival in Manhattan.
-From People
Meanwhile, The Daily Mail is reporting that David was the one who called it quits after finding explicit text messages on Tea Leoni’s cell phone- from none other than Angelina Jolie’s ex, Billy Bob Thornton. Huh?
X Files star David Duchovny and his actress wife Téa Leoni have split up after he discovered explicit text messages on her mobile phone sent by actor Billy Bob Thornton.
Just two months after Téa, 42, encouraged her ’sex addict’ husband to check himself into a rehabilitation clinic the couple are separating after 11 years and two children.
Through text messages on his wife’s mobile phone Duchovny discovered she had begun a relationship with Oscar-winning actor Billy Bob Thornton, 53, who was formerly married to Angelina Jolie.
Five-times married Billy Bob met Téa when they made a comedy film together earlier this year called Manure.
Thornton, a musician with his own band, has been seen with Téa at his gigs. ‘She even helps him load and unload his truck,’ says a friend of the couple.
Thornton, who starred as the U.S. president in Love Actually, has three children by his various wives, plus a four-year-old daughter by his current girlfriend, Connie Angland.
But he is reported as saying that he won’t wed again because marriage ‘doesn’t work’ for him.
It was Téa who persuaded her husband to receive treatment for ’sexual compulsion proclivity’ at the Meadows clinic in Arizona, followed by further treatment at the Keystone centre in Pennsylvania.
‘Yes, they have separated,’ says Téa’s spokeswoman. ‘She is living on her own with the children in New York, but we did not want to announce it for the sake of the children until after David had received treatment for his problems.’
-From Daily Mail
