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19 June 2009 @ 07:20 am
*headdesk*  
"Twilight" star Pattinson hit by taxi as flees fans

Thu Jun 18, 11:47 PM

NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson was hit by a taxi in New York as he tried to run away from a crowd of hysterical teenage fans, but he was not seriously injured, U.S. media reported.

Pattinson, 23, who stars in the hit teenage vampire movies, was clipped on the hip in front a bookstore in Manhattan where he was shooting scenes on Thursday for his new film, "Remember Me," a drama about two young lovers dealing with family tragedies.

Flanked by five security guards, the British actor tried to run past a group of teenage girls who had gathered outside the bookstore and cross the street to his trailer when the accident happened.

He was not seriously injured, but his bodyguards reportedly were furious, according to RadarOnline.com which claimed to have witnessed the accident. One of the bodyguards yelled at the girls: "You see what you did, you almost killed him!"

Pattinson's manager did not comment on the accident.

Pattinson has become one of the hottest properties in Hollywood since appearing in "Twilight" as brooding vampire Edward Cullen.

This week he was voted the world's most handsome man by online readers of Vanity Fair.
 
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Carole[info]summ3r_daze on June 19th, 2009 12:28 pm (UTC)
I feel so sorry for RPatt. Somebody once called him a "garbage-y boy" meaning, just a regular garbage-y kind of guy, and he is. He's (from what I hear) just a regular, fairly nice guy, suddenly put into this pretty intolerable situation and now he's trying to deal with the b.s. all around him the best way he can.
Poor guy.

Patti[info]whitesangria on June 19th, 2009 01:05 pm (UTC)
I read about this and a string of language I wasn't sure I knew came out of my mouth.
barwitch[info]barwitch on June 22nd, 2009 12:45 pm (UTC)
teenage girls are pack animals and evil ones at that. I wasnt a fan of teenage girls when I was one. If you put two of them in a room together, they will band together and be best friends. If you add a third one, two will band together against the third... and so on. There is always and alpha female and someone they pick on. Someone decided, Hey, I want to get close to this poor guy just trying to do his job and regardless of the obvious detriment to his safety everyone else went....duuuuhhh .. okay... the alpha has spoken... and next thing you know the poor kid is getting smucked by a car.


irk, i say.

at least when you hang out with guys, theres less jockying for position. 12 guys would have seen him and said, "whos that? meh... I got him beat...." and had a beer.