He apparently beat the crap out of a TMZ photographer.

You can see the incident here.

Well, this will stir up some publicity for the show, but really not in a good way.

Wow--I can't get the video to play but the pictures and accompanying article are not so flattering.

Well I did not listen to the audio since I am at work but the camera did not seem to show anything but feet.

The accompanying article is just TMZ's slanted version no matter what happened I doubt it is exactly as they say.

ETA: TMZ is the only one seeming to report this, google did not come up with any other sources.

There's at least one other source now. It might just have not been picked up by other places yet: CSI Star Beats Up Cameraman

It's now the lead story on the blogs Socialitelife and Perezhilton.

Apparently when the paps are yelling "Gary, Gary" at him, that's the point where he started slamming the cameraman's head into the ground (allegedly of course).

Socialite's coverage includes a youtube clip of earlier work of his that is extremely NSFW, by the way (although you have to click on the link to get to the clip).

He didn't seem to be the type.

While I don't doubt something happened these sources are the same crappy celebrity gossip type sites.

NSFW?

NSFW = Not Safe For Work

Like what exactly?

Soft Core Porn is what the site says it is.

Given that the sites say that the pap is filing a police report, expect it to be reported in the mainstream media by tomorrow by latest (if true that the report is being filed). Usually they wait for those documents to be filed before publishing the report.

Oh I get it now, sorry.

Ausiello reports on a question being asked about Gary Dourdan at CBS' part in the press tour:



(Careful if you click on the link to Ausiello's page because he might give out spoilerish things for various shows that you might not want to know about.)

ETA: Now TMZ says that another paparrazo found GD later and asked him about what happened. I don't want to watch the video at work, but somebody else could and maybe summarize what GD says: link

If this is true, then what a shame. I've always had a soft spot for Gary, because I like Warrick so much. And because he's so cute. I'm hoping that most of this is shameless hype on the part of TMZ. Blegh.

There is a second part up now but since I don't watch this stuff at work I can't tell you what it says but supposedly a second reported asked what happened and it is video of that.

Zap2it has this, it's basically a rehas of what TMZ has to say about it:


I've yet to read anything about the police getting involved or arrests.

Wow, things sound a whole lot different when entire quotes are used rather than sound bites pulled out to make a point. I hadn't really come to a conclusion on what I thought about all this yet, but I'm feeling a little better about the situation after reading this: CSI Star: Photog Attack "Exaggerated"

For instance, one full quote is:


That sounds better in its entirety than what had been reported before which was just the first sentence.

I'll still wait until I hear more officially from authorities or whatnot, but I'm glad to see a bigger part of the picture coming out now.

Big fat shrug. If your job is to walk up and invade someone's privacy, you're going to get a punch now and then. At least it wasn't Hugh Grant's dreaded baked beans of victory!

I can't really agree with this. Until the law says otherwise, the paparazzi will keep doing this, and it's up to the celeb to be the bigger person. I'm not a paparazzi defender, but in this case, they were just bothering him. It's not like they were bothering his kids or putting him in danger (both scenarios where paparazzi absolutely cross the line). It sucks, but that's part of being a celeb.

Except that Gary Dourdan was kind of made to look foolish a few months ago by a TMZ cameraman when they had footage of him being rejected from a club. So he had been embarassed by the website before, and then he repeatedly asked this guy to switch off the camera, and as you can see from the live feed, the guy doesn't. An actor's going to know when a camera is on, genuis.

But in any event, the request was made half a dozen times, and I think at that point while it did sound like GD had had something to drink, the camera guy really should have known better. He was actively trying to heckle and annoy GD. No, that's not as bad as, like, stalking Reese Witherspoon when she and her daughter and son were at Disneyland, but it's still frustrating. I believe he even said they could take pictures if they want, the only request he made was that they turn off the camera and not film him.

I don't think it was an unreasonable one, and honestly, no big offence to Gary here, but he's not exactly a star. So before he hit them, what story, exactly, were they hoping to get?

CSI Star Goes to Club? CSI Star Rides Motorcycle?

I think they purposefully agitated him to get a more interesting story, and so if the cameraman is going to play games like that with somebody that your company has insulted in the past and who (again, just my impression) seems to have been drinking, and isn't the kind of star where the video is going to be worth a fortune, you're an idiot for persuing it as hard as he was.

Again, I'm not saying he deserved to get hit, but he was being a tool and he knew it. I have no sympathy for someone who signs up for that job when they know a lot of celebrities are striking back lately.

TMZ is making a huge deal out of their camera man being pushed down, while he shouldn't have done that I am more upset that he may have been drinking while driving, especially a motorcycle (with a hideous helmet) very dangerous.

The TMZ video and their own "articles" are misleading and highly slanted in their favor, so far there is really no proof anything other than some swearing some camera tuggin happened.

They're actually trying to claim that GD pushed him down, and then slammed his head into the concrete while people screamed his name.

Uh... isn't it kind of hard to make that allegation when the tape was running the whole time? All that seemed to happen was the pushing.



Another photographer took some pictures of Dourdan pushing the guy, and it looks like GD fell over in the process, making it look like he was beating him up, but they don't show any actual punching or kicking, so I'm willing to bet that TMZ is just milking this.

If they had gone to the police for sure, we would have heard about it by now. I think they just were fishing for a good story.

Yeah, it is up to the actor to be the bigger person - the first time they filmed him, GD shrugged off being rejected from a club and handled it well. Then he asked this guy to just switch off the camera about half-a-dozen times. He'd been the bigger person several times.

Gary's spokesperson responds.

Take that, grey's Anatomy!!!

That is what I meant, basically what probably happened is GD pushed him away, they both fell and that became smashing his head in the ground.




I read in a couple of places that the reporter only went to the police about vandalism to the camera.

My opinion, for what it's worth, is that if Gary went to Hyde, he had to know that the paparazzi were going to be hanging about. So if you want to go there that badly, then accept the fact that your picture might get taken. And if you don't want it taken? Don't go to Hyde. Find some other club to hang out at. It's not like he's a big enough star to have a gang of paps following his every move. And it's never a good idea to push people just because they're doing something legal that you don't like. I gave up that kind of behavior in elementary school.

Yeah, and drinking (or drugging) and driving is NOT a good idea. I hope he wasn't. I still want to like him.

I think Ocean Chick says it well above. So WHAT if he was embarassed by TMZ before? They weren't breaking the law. Saying he was justified in 'attacking them' because they annoyed him and embarrassed him is a slippery slope. I don't doubt TMZ is exaggerating what happened, but they were baiting him, and he foolishly book the bait. Plenty of much more famous celebs are hounded by the papz even more and don't attack them.

Anyway, not trying to drag out this debate, just putting in my 2 cents, since I feel kind of strongly about it.

As much as I agree with the not taking the bait argument, it is easy to say not to do, I am constantly get in trouble or feel foolish after taking "the bait," sometimes it is hard not to act.

I wonder if TR Knight made him do it?



Totally. It's like being pissed that there are golfers at a golf course or children at Disneyland. The two things go hand in hand together. If you want to have a private night, go somewhere that isn't celeb central.

I think the very fact that he asked the guy to turn off the camera several times, and the guy said, "Sure" and then didn't made him stupid. Even if he is a rookie. He was hoping to bait GD. As others have said, GD isn't a big enough star for him just walking into a night club to be big news. So why is this rookie focusing so much energy on him?

The guy could easily have just said, "No, I'm working" and GD could have chosen to walk away.

Ultimately, they're both jackasses, but I just have less sympathy for the paparazzi in general.

Gary needs to star buttoning his shirts up, every picture I run into has him with his chest hanging out. I don't think it is very attractive, it reminds me of the 70's or something, maybe disco.

I think there are plenty of people who disagree with your opinion. If Cath's boobs are going to be hanging out all the time, I say let's have ALL the guys walk around unbuttoned, i'd rather look at that!

I'm all for Catherine putting her boobs away, she's almost 50 for goodness sake, but really who walks around with their shirt so far unbuttoned these days, it is a look outside of the northeast? because I don't see it around here.

Sounds like a plan. A little shirtless crime solving by Nick, 'Rick and Greg would be just fine by me.

That's what i'm saying! For now, I have my 'Nick and 'Rick go undercover as lifeguards' fanfic to keep me occupied, but who doesn't miss the good ole days when one of the boys had to dive into a pool for evidence??

Nick and 'Rick are not looking as buff as they once were.

'Rick stopped being buff around Fight Night, when it was notable that he refused to take off his shirt and did the boxing in the wife-beater. My cat no longer loves him.

(and watch out with Shirtless! requests. Last time it was Brass in the wife-beater getting a tattoo!)

I don't need perfection, they're still buff enough for me.

(And what's so wrong with Wifebeater!Brass? He's looking pretty decent for a man his age! Poor Brass, never getting his respect!)

Here, here! I'd take Brass with or without the wifebeater any day!

OT: Nothing's wrong with Brass, but if you're looking for GD or GE and you get PG, it's a moment of 'Oh!' (says the still hopeful Brass/Sara shipper ;) )

Poor GD, though. Nothing's really come up about this alleged reporter beating, has it?

Not that i know of, how long can you wait before pressing charges?

What's a wifebeater? what are the love handles? and why do they call them wifebeater and love handles?

A wifebeater is the sleeveless t-shirt that men wear, so-called because the stereotypical guy who beats his wife (ie: slovenly drunken brute) wears them.

Love handles are those fatty bits around a waist, so named because it gives you something to hang onto when you're making love.

Making headlines again. Please excuse the wording and the source (Perezhilton). There's a picture of the incident on his site too.

"Douchebag and CSI actor Gary Dourdan performed an illegal U-turn while leaving Hyde in West Hollywood on Tuesday night.

After being pulled over by police, he was let go with just a warning - even though it was all caught on tape."

Wow. Illegal U-turn. Let's throw him in jail.

*eyeroll* The media is going to be unkind to him because he attacked "one of their own". The fabulous irony being that if they're going for the same story, that other journalist is an asshole who should go away.

Whatever. I didn't see a huge problem with Dourdan's original dispute, and this is just silly.

He does seem to love Hyde though. I guess I know where to go if I'm ever in Hollywood and hoping to run into GD.

Well, i still think he's hot, and i have since i was 7 years old. If I'm in LA anytime soon, I'm stopping at Hyde.

*cough* pool shots *cough* - wlk68, I like that plan! *g*

Close up the girls Cat, there's nothing to see there!

They're after Gary again.

SERIOUSLY. Even if this was Brad Pitt, no one would care about half the crap they're posting.

Now Gary's big crime is that he's - OH MY GOD - talking to a reporter in a nice tone of voice and being laughing and talkative!!!!

WHAT AN ASS!!!

Christ they need a new whipping boy.

I love how they're editing out the questions that they're clearly asking him to make it sound as though he's just randomly babbling.

TMZ is known for that kind of editing.

And the titled ""CSI" Star Beats the Living Crap Out of TMZ Photog" is too lame for words. They are so busy dogging Britney they may not have any time to bother with Gary.

I just saw an ad on TLC that GD will be on one of those car rehab/trick-em-out shows on Thursday. The show is called 'Street Customs: Turbo' and I found a little blurb at tlc.com

I was thinking about GD the other day, I was wondering if his summer adventures with TMZ may be a reason Warrick is getting in trouble this season. I wonder if they may not try to hard to get him back for next season.

I don't know what TMZ has against Gary but this year they seem to have something against him.

Ouch, that picture on the right is...somewhat disturbing.