Celebrity-media smackdowns
By Aaron Williams
Alec Baldwin made headlines when he and a New York Daily News photographer got in a scuffle while the actor and fiancee Hilaria Thomas were obtaining a marriage license in New York on Tuesday morning. The photographer said he was punched, but Baldwin’s camp said no punches were thrown and any contact made was in self-defense.
Of course, this isn’t the first dust-up involving a celebrity and the media. Click through for more. (Evan Agostini / Associated Press)
By Aaron Williams
Police have been investigating claims by a photographer that singer Justin Bieber struck him after he snapped photographs of the singer and girlfriend Selena Gomez at the Commons at Calabasas Shopping Center in May. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty Images)
Chris Brown allegedly stormed off stage last year and shattered a window in his dressing room after a “Good Morning America” interview with Robin Roberts, who continued to question the singer about the criminal case involving his ex-girlfriend Rihanna. (Chris O’Meara / AP)
Singer Adam Lambert was accused of battery in 2010 after he attempted to grab the camera of a paparazzo outside a South Beach hotel. Lambert wrote via Twitter, “I attempted to grab a camera, no punches were thrown and no one was on the ground.” (George Pimentel / Getty Images)
During an interview with the BBC in 2010, journalist Mark Lawson noted that Russell Crowe sounded a bit Irish in his new film about the legendary English hero Robin Hood. Crowe disagreed with Lawson and stormed off the interview set. (Katie Falkenberg / For The Times)
