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What comes first? The gay kid or the boy-band? The buzz is that Jonathan Knight from New Kids On The Block is openly gay to friends and family is about to publicly come out.
“Jonathan has a [non-famous] boyfriend and they’re very happy. They’re not trying to hide it.”
I know this is shocking news, guys in boy band rarely turn out to be gay. Wouldn’t it be sweet if he hooked up Lance Bass?
In response to Vanity Fair's earlier item about the play by an old friend of novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, about how novelist Jonathan Safran Foer suddenly got very rich and famous while his old friend did not, Foer says, "his play is hilarious and great. I hope it's bigger than The Lion King." [VF, Earlier]
Adding another trophy to his collection, Jonathan Rhys Meyers was dubbed “Best Actor” in Dublin on Sunday night as part of the Irish Film and Television Awards.
The actor won the acclaim for his work on the Showtime series The Tudors, which is about the young King Henry VIII.
A pattern! Julia Allison is following the example of fellow narcissist, publicist Jonathan Cheban: specify desired gifts ahead of one's birthday. Says the Star magazine talking bosom: "Because I am a giver, I will share this list with you." One of Allison's wishes: a tampon case, in pink.
Damn, he's got some freaky peepers. I'm waiting for death rays to flash out and incinerate us all. Or him to hypnotize all of us into going Jonestown or something. Christ, I do not need this fear this early in the AM. Jonathan Rhys Meyers cleaned up at the Irish Film and Television Awards with his Showtime series "The Tudors". Rhys Meyers won the award for best actor, and several of his co-stars picked up elaborate, unattractive trophies as well. The awards ceremony was held at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre (sounds like my apartment) and "The Tudors" was the most successful nominee in the event's five year history. After the show, everyone present was sucked into Rhys Meyers eyes and sent to Hell. Yay, awards shows!
Photos: WENN
More photos from the Irish Film and TV awards featuring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Mel Gibson are after the jump.
Irish actor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, looks like he could use some eye drops as he leaves the Villa nightclub in Los Angeles. The star of "Tudors" has recently claimed to have sworn off drinking so that he could become a "really successful actor," and also because he sees himself as a "role model." Hmm, I hope his eyes are bloodshot from staying up late, reading scripts.
In a recent interview, he had some interesting reactions to the questions posed to him. First off, he said, "Any actor who tells you they're not vain is bullsh*tting," which he followed with, "Any actor who believes that their physicality is not an intrinsic part of why they land a role is fooling themselves."
He also said that all actors are insecure and followed it with, "And if they tell you they're not, they're lying." I'm starting to get the gist that Jonathan would like you to know that most actors are liars. Color me not shocked.
Photos: PacificCoastNewsOnline.com
More photos of Jonathan Rhys Meyers leaving Villa after the jump.
Charges were dropped against Jonathan Rhys Meyers on Wednesday.
A sympathetic judge took pity on the actor, who was arrested for being drunk and abusive last month at the airport in Dublin.
Rhys Meyers’ lawyer said his client’s behaviour at the airport was “unacceptable and out of character.” He said Rhys Meyers “unreservedly apologizes” to airport security guards, police and staff at the British airline BMI, and planned to make a donation to an unspecified charity as a way to acknowledge his wrongdoing.
That’s all it takes these days? To apologize?
Such a lucky break!
[Photo via Getty Images.]
Jonathan "Krazee-Eyez Killa" Rhys Meyers has apologized a recent incident that had him going on a public drunken bender. He was arrested last month when he was refused entrance on a flight to London at the airport in Dublin, and launched into a drunken tirade on airport employees. The breach of the peace charge and two public drunkenness charges have been dropped, after Meyers delivered an apology to the objects of his rage at the airport through his attorney, further adding that his client's mother died days after the incident, after contracting a "sudden illness," reports Us Weekly. And all I can think about is that this is the second celebrity whose mom recently passed away suddenly and mysteriously that I've written about in a while and it's making me want to give my own mother a call...
Photos: WENN
….but Scarlett doesn’t
Jonathan Rhys Meyers was arrested on November 18th for being a silly drunk in Ireland. However, the Dublin court dropped all the charges. No shock celebrities get away with murder. Meyers’s lawyer had this to say in court:
he accepts his behavior was unacceptable and out of character.
Meyers would also be making a donation to charity. Meyers and I are cut from the same clothe. One night when I got arrested for disorderly conduct, I was giving money to a homeless man while shouting obscenities. That was out of character for me as well because generally I just break a dollar from their change cup and get drunk during the day. The lesson to learn from this? Meyers was crappy in Mission Impossible III.
Rhys’s Peaces
Call it the luck of the Irish if you will but Dublin state prosecutors have dropped charges against Jonathan Rhys Meyers, related to his arrest in an airport on November 18.
Meyers was arrested at the Dublin airport for drunken, threatening and abusive behavior and released on $590 bail. Rhys-Meyers was due to appear in court today, but a prosecutor informed the court that the charges were being withdrawn. Rhys Meyers, however, was given a legal caution, a probationary action under which he could face harsher penalties if he behaves that way in public in Ireland again.
In a statement to the court through his solicitor, he said his behaviour was unacceptable, though out of character, and he apologised to the staff of British Midland and airport security.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
In this day and age, who still files business cards in a Rolodex? Old people, it turns out, and people who want to employ a device that "displays the size of one's business network for the world to see." These include Farrar, Straus & Giroux president Jonathan Galassi, who flipped through his for a Wall Street Journal reporter. Two of the three cards he plucked randomly from his five Rolodexes turned out to contain contact information for people who are currently not alive. [WSJ]
On Monday we reported that Jonathan Rhys Meyers was arrested after drunkenly yelling at an airline employee at Dublin Airport. Meyers has a long history of alcohol abuse and has been in rehab twice in the last few years. However it seems Meyers may have been drinking for a reason and perhaps we should cut him a little slack – his mother passed away yesterday morning. The cause of death of Geraldine Meyers O’Keeffe, 50, hasn’t been disclosed; only that she died after a “short illness.”
Jonathan Rhys Meyers was photographed drinking a can of hard cider at 10 in the morning yesterday – just a few hours after his mother died.
Pictures of the 30-year-old drinking in North London were taken hours after the death of his mother at a hospital in Cork. Geri Meyers O’Keeffe, 50, who was known to have been in poor health, died at 7am at the Mercy Hospital soon after being admitted. She leaves three other sons, Jamie, Alan and Paul. The cause of death was not known last night.
Last night, members of his family at Mrs Meyers O’Keeffe’s neat bungalow in the Cork suburb of Glanmire were too distressed to talk. She had celebrated her 50th birthday last January when friends in her local pub The Riverstown Inn threw a surprise party for her. Last night regulars in the bar were stunned by the suddenness of her death. One said: “I saw her last week and she was in great form. “I know she was ill in February but she pulled through that. We just cannot believe she is gone. She was a lovely woman.
“She was extremely proud of Jonathan. She used to tell us she knew from the time he was born that he was destined for great things.” Last night Meridith O’Sullivan, Jonathan’s LA based publicist confirmed that his mother had died. She stated “I can confirm she passed away, but there are no more details tonight.”
[From the Daily Mail]
Geri Meyers-O’Keeffe was a former charity worker. She’s expected to be buried near her home in Cork on Friday. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is on “The View” right now as I’m writing this. TV Guide has it listed as new, but it must be pre-taped. Our thoughts are with him and his family.
Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Jonathan and Reena Hammer at MTV’s TRL on November 12, 2007. Image thanks to PR Photos. Header image of Jonathan drinking in London yesterday. Image thanks to the Daily Mail.
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TMZ.com: Jonathan Rhys Meyers said last year he would never drink again. Twice in the last three days does not constitute "never."Sporting a pair of unfortunate mUggs (man-Uggs), Meyers was seen at 10:00 AM today in London, holding a can of Strongbow Super --... Read more
Jonathan Rhys Meyers was arrested yesterday afternoon at Dublin Airport after a drunkenly yelling at a female worker. She told him he couldn’t get on the flight as he was clearly too inebriated, which angered him and resulted in his shouting, “I will get on this flight no matter what” over and over again. Rhys Meyers has been to rehab twice in the last few years – this last time in April – which he left after only two weeks. Rehab is boring after all, I’m sure it’s fine to leave because you want your freedom and to be able to go out and have lunch with your friends. How could sobriety possibly compare to that?
Match Point actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been arrested after an alleged drunken row with airline staff. The Irish actor reportedly launched an angry tirade of abuse at one female worker when she told him he was “unfit to travel” at Ireland’s Dublin Airport at around 2.30pm on Sunday.
The 30-year-old star - who was trying to board a British Midland flight to London after appearing on Irish TV show Tubridy Tonight on Saturday - repeatedly told staff: “I will get on this flight no matter what.” One source said: “After being told he couldn’t fly he flew into a temper and started screaming at this woman. She seemed to be very upset by the whole ordeal.” Police arrested the star at the airport and took him to the nearby Whitehall Garda station where he was charged under the Public Order Act with being drunk and disorderly and a breach of the peace.
Speaking outside the station after being released on bail, a disheveled Rhys Meyers said: “I said the wrong thing to the wrong woman at the wrong time.”
[From News.com.au]
It occurs to me that the problem isn’t that he said those things to the wrong woman, the problem is that he said the wrong things at all. It’s not like there’s a right person Rhys Meyers could have screamed at. He’s one of those actors who’s very face has always annoyed me. He just has this “I think I’m the greatest thing ever” air about him, and it makes me want to smack the cockiness right off his face.
Rhys Meyers is on the cover of this month’s Details. There’s a very bizarre interview with him in which he mentions his alcoholism (and how he never touches the stuff anymore) along with screaming out “PUSSY! I want pussy!” through the streets of Dublin for no apparent reason, and then burning the fake hair off his jacket sleeves with a lighter in a café during the interview. His reasoning being that it’s something to do. Alright, totally normal.
Rhys Meyers himself no longer goes to those sorts of mobbed, cacophonous venues. A notorious partier, he’s recently sworn off alcohol. “I didn’t drink until I was 25, and I never drank every day, but when I did, it was bad. It would be a couple of days that just wouldn’t work out for me, waking up with a hangover. Drink doesn’t fit into the groove of where my life is going.”
Rhys Meyers, now 30, has been in rehab twice. “I want to do really good things with my life,” he says. “And drinking is not synonymous with that. The [Richard] Burton days, the [Peter] O’Toole days, they are gone.”
[From Details]
I guess not so much. Sometimes you can just tell when people are “functional” alcoholics who will probably remain that way for life because they don’t suffer any severe consequences for it (though everyone around them often does). Rhys Meyers strikes me as one of those guys.
We’ve all heard the stereotype that the Irish like to drink… but Jonathan Rhys Meyers took the joke a little too far while visiting Dublin, Ireland yesterday during a press tour for his new movie “August Rush.”
It seems the 30-year-old actor enjoyed a few too many libations before attempting to board a plane at the Dublin airport, on his way to England.
Those are some coke-frozen eyeballs he's got there. Wired! Jonathan Rhy Meyers was busted at the airport in Dublin for drunk and disorderly. He was trying to board a plane to England, but was refused admittance due to "erratic, abusive behavior". Meyers refused to cool his jets, so the Irish cops were called in and he was arrested for public drunkeness and breach of peace. Isn't public drunkenness kind of the thing to do in Ireland? Isn't it the only thing to? He's due in court on Dec. 5. Meyers just got out of rehab in May, so apparently he should have spent more than two weeks there to feel the full effect.
Photos: Bauer-Griffin Online
More photos of Jonathan Rhys Meyers and his girlfriend Reena Hammer are after the jump.
What is up with the eyes?
Seriously, is he on drugs? Or was he born that way?????
Jonathan Rhys Myers and his beard looked deliciously uncomfortable together at the New York premiere of August Rush on Sunday night.
There is a medical condition that could cause that eye thing. Right?
[Image via Buzz Foto.]
Here's Jonathan Rhy Meyer's pics from his new spread in "Details". "Velvet Goldmine" is one of my favorite movies of all time, so John Boy could punch a nun and I'd be like "well, she was walking too slow!". In the accompanying interview, he talks about why his drunk ass (he's been to rehab twice) likes to avoid the paparazzi and press.
"You know why I stay out of the limelight?" he says. "I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do. I think they will figure out I'm crap. Doesn't everybody have that feeling?"
I know what you're thinking and no, stunning actors Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Stuart Townsend aren't wearing t-shirts in support of protecting Tara Reid from the fate of a washed-up party-girl--I mean really, isn't it a bit late in the game for that? What they're both hoping to do is use their celebrity toward the cause of protecting Ireland's ancient Hill of Tara from having a motorway built through it. Plans to expand the M3 motorway have angered many Irish, who believe that the sacred ground should be left untouched and have decided to form a human harp across the countryside in protest. And, of course, even though Townsend was in Ireland for this very specific reason, he had no problem fielding questions about his lady-love, actress Charlize Theron, who did not happen to be on hand for the protest.
"We didn't get married," he said. "Every week someone says we are or that we're splitting up."We're married in our hearts and have been together for seven years and have dogs, live in a house, and plan to have children. We don't need the Church or the state."
(WENN)
More photos of Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Stuart Townsend showing their support for Tara are after the jump.
Times deputy managing editor Jonathan Landman, in one of his weekly memos to the staff about "Innovation," lays this deepness on you (emphasis ours): "Times have changed. Our online storytelling skills have evolved to the point where you really can get the whole story without reading a newspaper article. It's a remarkably rich experience that goes well beyond using video or maps or pictures to tell a story—something we (and others) have done well many times. The innovation lies in putting them together in a way that tells the story with all the nuance, comprehensiveness, authority and depth that define The New York Times. (It's hard to imagine online storytelling at this level coming from a non-integrated newsroom. Neither 'newspaper people' nor 'web people' could have done it alone.)"
