'30 Rock' star Alec Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight last week after refusing to stop playing 'Words with Friends' - a scrabble-like game - on his iPad. Depending on who you believe, either Baldwin was extremely rude to AA staff, AA staff were extremely rude to Baldwin, or a combination of both, which results on Baldwin being booted from the plane (it was still sitting on the tarmac at the airport when the incident occurred).
Last week, Baldwin issued an apology to his fellow passengers for delaying them, but no apology was made to the airline.
Fast forward to this week, and now Baldwin has taken the mickey out of the situation on TV comedy show 'Saturday Night Live', pretending to be Captain Steve Rogers - the 'pilot' of his ill-fated plane journey.
Alec Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight last week after a run in with the airline staff. Credit: Getty Images
Appearing on the Weekend Update segment of SNL with Seth Meyers, Baldwin, as Cpt. Rogers, told Meyers that the incident was "awful" and that he was on SNL to "issue an apology to Mr. Baldwin".
Pushing the apology envelope even further, 'Cpt. Rogers' also noted that Baldwin is "an American treasure, and I am ashamed at the way he was treated!"
After the AA incident last week - in which Baldwin kept all his Twitter followers updated on the unfolding events - Baldwin deleted his Twitter account. He is yet to start another account.
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Just another celeb thinking he is no \\\t subject to the rules we have to live by. Extreme extension of this type of thinking - Lindsay Lohan and even OJ Simpson.
ReplyThat was funny, whatever actually happened. At least he apologised to the passengers. My default position is now to assume airline staff are in the wrong when we hear these things, because they are so often rude and unhelpful little power mongers.
ReplyI'm so glad Yahoo7 let's me comment on this rubbish, but not on things that actually matter.
ReplyAgain A/Airlines making headlines for kicking people of the aircraft,due to pathetic decisions made by the crew,usual tactics if cant they handle an issue There are ways to handle people like Mr Baldwin.
ReplyA classic and very funny
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