OlderJude Law: Hands On Kind Of Guy
Jude Law signs some autographs as he leaves the Wyndham Theatre after performing in Hamlet in London, England.
The 36-year-old British actor reportedly lashed out against a female paparazzo outside the Automat restaurant in Mayfair, according to The London Paper. The 28-year-old photographer, Harsha Gopal, claimed that the attack was unprovoked. She said, “He hit me full on the face, it was a real stinger, it was very sore.”
“I was the first one to take his picture when he turned up. After I’d taken a few I was starting to move away when I felt his hand come across my face, and then there was a push,” Harsha said.“It was really loud – there was a massive thud and my face is still stinging today.”
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Good.
I don’t blame him.
These super stars are treated like crap by the paps.
Jude denies purposefully hitting the pap. He says he was raising his hand to shield his eyes from the flash bulbs (his expression indicates he’s being blinded with flash) , and evidently didn’t see her because of it. In a series of photos I saw of the incident, it looks like he did turn back and apologize, like someone who accidentally bumped into someone would do. A big deal will be made of it, though. It’s unfortunate.
I tend to believe it was an accident, based on the pics. And like when it happened to “common people” if apology had already spoken, straight away, IMO, there’s nothing to talk about it. Accident happened. Don’t make a drama out of it.
I have seen the photos. it was just accident.
He just raised his hand.
the paps were being overdramatic as usual.
still hitting people in the face dont give you merit. I dnt care if he is a star or not. They need to know that come with the territory.
she probably deserved it.
these paps are the lowest of the low. jude is so patient with the hundreds of people who wait outside the stage door each night. he signs autographs. he poses for pictures. then when he wants to eat and go to a resturant they are all over him and in his face. there should be restraining orders to keep these scum at least ten, twenty feet away from the actors. she blinded him with the flashbulb. he raised his hand to protect himself and inadvertently bumped into her. she asked for it. jude is a sweet gentleman. this is not his style. it’s just a shame that he has to contend with this all the time. what about a little privacy. we couldn’t live this way. we’d snap.
uh marissa - actually that comes with the territory of being a paparrazi. I was once walking down the road in London when Robbie Williams was coming the other way and you would not believe the kind of things the paparrazzi say to famous people just to get a reaction. But thats never mentioned - somehow its always the paparrazi that get the sympathy. Yes ok, celebrities are in the public eye and they have it very easy in general and should learn to accept all the few disadvantages that come with it, but sometimes it is actually outrageous what they have to go through and they are still humans and they can have bad days too - its just they’re never forgiven for it. I totally believe this was just an accident - what would you do if you came outside of a building and met with blinding camera flashes? Raise your hand to your face of course - and if the woman was so close to him that she got hit by his hand going up to shield his face - if she was that unbelievably close to him with a camera in his face, then sorry but she kind of deserved it.
@marissa:
I don’t see any photos of him hitting her in the face? I think he’s story is believable. He hit her, then because he was blinded by her flash and because she was right in his face. Then he apologized. I think this was an accident but it could have been avoided had the paps not been right in his face. That comes with the territory too - and they know it.
Agree. I looked at all the pictures and there was no picture of him hitting her in the face like she alleges. Her back was to him and it looked like he raised his arm and accidentally hit her on the head.
And please, paps are scum. And they have always targeted Jude screaming obscenities at him just to get a reaction. I read one time an interview with a pap and he told how the paps hate Jude and would bait him while he is on the red carpet or just going around on his business and they laughed about it. Scums!
if he did hit her, wouldn’t the OTHER paps around them have snapped tons of photos and plastered it all over the internet? this doesn’t even need speculation and analysis. same goes for other similar pap-celeb clashes.
OH come on,
Jude Law deal with hundreds of people every night and he has not hit not one of them. Now according to the paps he just come out and start to give them a beat down.
Give me a break.
Love you Jude ,stay strong
here is the pic of jude law “accidentally” hitting her
http://dlisted.com/node/33081/images/spl114882_004.jpg
that dont look accidental to me but whatever.
Team Jude
God, people should leave him alone. He’s back with a great performance and the first thing the media come up with is this crap.
The woman needs to shut up or change her job. You can’t sack the money for following people and taking their pictures and then whine when the tumult gets a bit rough. She probably just saw her opportunity to cash in. People are so DULL.
Marissa, come on, he didn’t hit her. It completely looks like he raised his hand trying to shield his eyes from the blinding flashbulbs and didn’t see her, and when he realized he had done it, he looked back, which was probably when he apologized, just like if you bump into someone accidentally. This does not look at all like a confrontation.
It’s easy and fun to assume the worst about celebrities, though, instead of giving them the benefit of the doubt.
@sheryl:
yep it sure is :)
@marissa: Your picture only shows that it was a mistake. For an evening shot, the area around Jude is lite up like high noon. The guy was blinded, and it looks like an accident.
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Team Jude.
totally team Jude. B*tch, get the f*cking flash out of his face.
Should have hit her hard.
Celebrities should all team up and hire some paparazzi who then hunt down the worst and rudest paparazzi and take pictures of them in all kinds of emarrassing situations, like scratching a*ses or molesting the neighbor and then start their own magazine with these pictures.
I’d buy them just to see these fu** faces getting blasted!
Team Jude
Jude hooooney, you have to protect yourself from less than honorable individuals such as some papz, so try to wear some shades in the future. It may help with all that flashing crazyness, or so say some famous and infamous celebs. No matter what, it was admirable from you to apologize to the female papz, she was a woman so, that speaks volumes about your character and good will! Take care Jude! Thanks JJ!
GODBLESS & GODSPEED
well I wasn’t there so I don’t know EXACTLY what happened. I DO know that Jude, like other celebs, is always being harrassed by these papz. It can’t be easy or fun to deal with that sort of stuff in your face all the time when you are just trying to mind your own business. The man is gracious enough to do autographs and photographs after mostly all of his performances and he is VERY GOOD to his fans. That is a fact. So, I tend to doubt that he purposely hit her, but in the same vein I am sure he was NOT happy to begin with and he is only human.
On the above picture alone it shows that he seemed so startled by the flashes that greeted him when he went out the door. Can you imagine how the flashes from the paps’ cameras would feel when he got out that door of the restaurant.
People are saying like if you decided you are an actor, you should be used to having your privacy invaded. I think that is wrong. They are entitled to their privacy when they are not on the red carpet of promoting a picture.
In this instant he is just going to a dinner in a restaurant having been invited by Chris Nolan. Should he have declined because it was in a restaurant frequented by paps? It could also be a business dinner for all you know. He has already given his time tending to his fans and the paps when he got out of the theater early on.
Anyway, I really don’t think it was done on purpose. He even looked shocked when he turned and realized he hit somebody. I still think paps are scum and nothing worst than London paps.
The last altercation Jude had with a pap outside his home turned out to be a setup so the charges were dismissed.
NO doubt that it was an incident. You can see CLEARLY that Jude was just trying to deviate from the flashs (wich were blinding him) when this came out. Seriously, Jared and Co., get your facts STRAIGHT. There was no intention, just an accident, that ended with all this drama coming up.
Such photos can easily be misleading
look at his eyes he was blinded by light..it was an accident!!!
Thanks jared!!!
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