HIFF co-chairman Alec Baldwin speaks onstage during the Conversation with Emilio Estevez at Bay Street Theater during Hamptons International Film Festival 2018 - Day Three on October 6, 2018, in Sag Harbor, New York.Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Hamptons International Film Festival
The Irish American actor may not have mellowed as much as previously believed.
Alec Baldwin has just shown once again what a nasty temper he has after he punched out a fellow driver who beat him to a Manhattan parking spot on Friday afternoon.
Alec Baldwin also told me "I hope you choke to death" when I was on assignment, staking out his house https://t.co/JAgMkGGwDM
— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) November 2, 2018
Police arrested him and it is expected he will be charged with assault.
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Baldwin was the first person I ever experienced being blocked by on Twitter, after he used his account with hundreds of thousands of followers to berate me for...writing about a fundraiser he’d hosted in a way he didn’t find satisfactory. https://t.co/EPwYYF8iPB
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 2, 2018
The actor is known for his hot temper, but has allegedly mellowed over the last few years as he assumed the role of President Trump on “Saturday Night Live.” He is also the host of his own ABC talk series “The Alec Baldwin Show.”
Alec Baldwin in police custody for punching man over parking spot https://t.co/z4GaxGoi2m pic.twitter.com/RqVMu9BmwH
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) November 2, 2018
Previously, in 2008 he called his daughter Ireland a “pig” when she did not return or pick up his call and in 2013 called a photographer a homophobic slur after he accused him of harassing him.
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