Jason Bateman Apologizes for Cheesing His Way Past iPhone Line
I always thought Jason Bateman in real life was like his stalwart character Michael Bluth, but last week, the Arrested Development star proved himself to be a lot more like Michael’s dirtbag brother Gob.
No, Jason didn’t sink a ship as part of a wacked-out magic show. Nor did he accidentally bury himself in his own not-actually-dead father’s grave.
Such antics, however ridiculous, would’ve at least been funny in their misbegotten grandiosity. What Jason did was something much more sniveling and low-rent.
Honestly Jason Bateman…skipping a 2000-person iPhone 4 line? Really?
Actually, skipping the line was only the beginning of Jason’s mistake. As further proof that the cover-up is always worse than the crime, the thing that really got Jason in hot water was the half-assed denial – undertaken in spite of the thousands of witnesses, many of whom reportedly booed the actor roundly.
“There wasn’t one boo,” Jason insisted on Twitter. “Not one hiss. The Apple guy brought me in away from the paparazzi. Period. I was content in line. I wish I’d stayed.”
Unfortunately for Jason, numerous people who were there that day – also waiting in line to buy a piece of crap they didn’t need – testified that he was indeed jeered, and claimed there were no paparazzi around for him to be rescued from.
The outcry finally forced Jason to tweet a clarification and an apology. “Correction – If there were boos, I didn’t hear them. If some were mad, I didn’t see them. I wish I had. If you’re out there, I’m sorry.”
Oh well, okay Jason. I guess, since you’re so sincerely sorry about your assholishness, we can forgo the public flogging. But let this be a lesson to you, Mr. Smarty Celebrity Man.
Now shut up and give me my frozen banana.
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