Despite His Hollywood Fame, Josh Duhamel Was Kicked Off A Flight For Not Abiding By The Rules
Running into a celeb at the airport is very common, especially among those that take flights out of LAX. Celebs have different mindsets when entering the airport setting. Keanu Reeves is a class act, and he doesn't have any security with him. On the flip side, actors like Johnny Galecki keep a low profile and down say much at airports. Heck, then there's John Travolta who has an airport runway in his own home...
In the following, we're going to take a look back at what took place with Josh Duhamel and why he was kicked off a flight. The actor admitted that he handled the situation poorly and said all the right things after the fact. We're going to take a look at what took place while also putting the spotlight on other celebs that got kicked off of flights.
Josh Duhamel Faced Several Failures During His Hollywood Journey
It took years, but Josh Duhamel turned into a major player in Hollywood. 2007 was a major turning point for the actor taking on a role as Captain Lennox in Transformers. The hits kept coming from the actor and most recently he made a fortune cast along Jennifer Lopez in the Netflix film, Shotgun Wedding.
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However, despite all the success, it was a long road for Duhamel and like everyone else, he faced career struggles at one point in time. Among the struggles includes modeling work prior to entering Hollywood. According to Duhamel, his experience wasn't a successful one. He tells Bazaar, "The truth is I only did that for about a year and a half, and I was really unsuccessful at it. I never felt comfortable posing in front of a camera."
The actor continues, "I always felt like I'd have more fun if I had something to do, if I got to act rather than pose. That was the reason I kept hammering my agency to send me on commercial auditions. I'd been taking classes, and they were like, "No, no, no—those auditions are for actors," and I'd be like, "Oh, I'm gonna show you."
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Duhamel would learn other lessons along the way and one of them was to keep his phone closed during a flight...
Josh Duhamel Got Kicked Off A Flight After He Was Repeatedly Told To Turn Off His Phone
A flight headed towards Kentucky, Josh Duhamel never made it to his destination back in 2010... According to the report, Duhamel was insistent on not turning off his BlackBerry during the flight. This was viewed as problematic by the crew given the amount of warnings the actor was given. According to Today,he was ultimately kicked off the flight. Duhamel had a humble response to it all stating that he learned a valuable lesson from the moment.
"Duhamel was reportedly asked multiple times to turn off his phone before his plane took off from New York's LaGuardia Airport. When he continued to text, the plane was returned to the gate and Duhamel was escorted off," Today writes.
Duhamel acknowledges that it wasn't his best moment, though he was completely fine after everything was done with. In truth, looking at the evidence, he is far from the only celeb to get kicked off a flight and in fact, or situations were much worse.
Josh Duhamel Is Far From The Only Actor To Get Kicked Off A Flight
The list of others celebs to get kicked off flights is enormous. Among them includes David Hasselhoff who apparently had way too much to drink prior to taking on his 7 AM flight... Naomi Campbell also makes the list after she lost it over the fact that her bags didn't make it onto the flight. Next thing you know, Campbell was with her bags once again off the flight... Honorable emotions for others that got kicked of flights includes Alec Baldwin, Amanda Bynes and so many more celebs.
In more recent terms Marlon Wayans was given a citation for disturbing the peace. Wayans was live posting on IG about his problematic experience with United Airlines.
“Bro claimed I had too many bags, so I complied and consolidated them he was like, ‘Oh, now you have to check that bag.’ Bye. I’m in seat 2A come holla. He continues, “Most agents are always love, but every now and then, you come across BAD PEOPLE. This was one of them. @united this type of employee should never work at your company."
Wayans went on to add that he never experienced such a situation and that the employee also claimed that Wayans assaulted him, which the actor stated was not true at all. Without a doubt, we'll be seeing more celebs on the airport naughty list in the future.
