Today should be listed as the day all the celebrities went to jail, or at least got warrants issued for their arrest.
To start our little pity party off, we have Brit actor Hugh Grant who was arrested on assault charges after he pelted a photographer with a container of baked beans. No really. Baked beans. Grant also allegedly kicked the guy 3 times after coating him in the sticky mess. To add insult to bean induced injury, Grant then allegedly asked the pap if he had kids. When he said that indeed he did, good old Hugh responded with, "I hope they die of f**king cancer."
Next on our newly infamous list is Richard Gere, who offended the entire country of India by planting a kiss on Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty's cheek. An arrest warrant has been issued by Indian courts, and ultimately it could mean three months in jail for Gere.
Judge Dinesh Gupta issued the warrants in Jaipur, according to the Press Trust of India, saying that Gere and actress Shilpa Shetty "transgressed all limits of vulgarity" during their appearance at an HIV/AIDS event, captured on tape. Judge Gupta also called the TV footage "highly sexually erotic," and slammed Shetty for not resisting Gere's "advances."
This follows the recent debacle of Elizabeth Hurley's and Arun Nayar's wedding in India, where arrest warrants were issued for Hurley as well for breaching Hindu custom. As a matter of fact, the wedding photos which Hurley sold to Hello! magazine may ultimately be used as evidence against her in an Indian court of law.
Among the allegations are that Hurley refused to take off her shoes when they arrived at the marriage mandap (marriage place) and that she drank alcohol.
Pictures of the pair kissing in Hello! will be used to show that they failed to "behave soberly'', while it was noted that kissing is also against Hindu culture.
If found guilty of a "deliberate and malicious act" against the religion, both Hurley and her husband Arun face a three-year jail sentence.
Moving right along, next on the detainee list is rapper/actress, Eve. It seems Eve crashed her gold Maserati into a center divider on Hollywood Boulevard, and cops took her in on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. She was released this morning on $30,000 bail.
And of course there is our perennial jailbird Joe Francis, who is probably regretting bending over for a bar of soap this morning. His cell mate is awaiting a sentence of death for killing a police officer, and he probably feels he doesn't have much to lose at this point in his life. What's a little lovin' between friends, right? Okay, I conjecture about the bending over for the soap part. Anywhoo, Francis is still in jail, and more legal woes just keep coming his way. This time he's been charged with one count of misdemeanor sexual battery against an 18 year old girl. If convicted of these new charges, he could face an additional 6 months in jail, on top of whatever he gets for the federal time for tax evasion, et al.
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