Lance Bass was just trying to enjoy himself at Bridgehampton Polo when a security guard dumped his drink on him. Oh, you mean Lance refused to leave the boozefest?
For the uninitiated, polo matches in the Hamptons are where women with big hats and stylish gays go to mingle, sip citrus-infused cocktails, and ignore a sport that involves grown men swinging sticks at a tiny ball from atop beautiful stallions. And that’s where Lance found himself Saturday. Except after the game ended, and reportedly an hour after the VIP lounge offered last call, he was still there and wasn’t taking the hint to leave.
Lance took his frustration to Twitter. The event’s organizers took to the Post. And producer gay Adam Shankman and Christina Applegate got involved.
menlo
Some folks just don’t know when to say bye bye bye.
Hmm
Ah, but did we see this comment at The Post?
Lenore
08/16/2010 10:52 AM
Funny. I actually saw this happen. Cool! The security was wrong to him. They pushed him so hard his drink flew over the guards and himself. (it was red) He was looking for his friends who took him there, and they were not listening to what he was saying. You could tell they were on a mission. I think he had already exited and they thought he was sneaking into the match. From what I saw, they really mistreated him
Brazan3
i own a bar and people never leave after last call they nurse their drink for a hour before you have to heard them out like cattle. i would never treat a customer like that though, this seems very excessive.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Gee, I wonder if security would have pulled the same crap with a straight person?
L.
@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS: Maybe new glasses would help you not see homophobia everywhere.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
@L.: Maybe you might want to consider a new pair of eyeballs because it seems that every venue bends over backwards for any D- list celebrity it can corral into their premisis. It is quite rare you see security doing anything but kissing and polishing the butts of straight celebrities, much less tossing a drink into their face……….
Michael
I’m confused as to why Lance was still there. Is he not permitted to have liquor at home?
L.
@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS: You weren’t there, and I wasn’t, so going by Bass’s own account may be biased somewhat.
Apparently, no-one threw anything at him – the drink ‘flew’ when they tried to remove him from the premisEs.
Over the years, countless celebrities from A to Z-list, gay or straight, have been thrown out of places because they acted like jerks.
Staying after hours and refusing to leave is acting like a jerk, so if that’s what happened, they just did what they thought they had to do (but it goes without saying that there should be much better ways to ago about it than to get physical.)
But maybe you’re right and it was homophobia – you know, I bet the staff was Muslim, and since all of those are out to kill everyone of us, that must be what happened.
Tylertime
Is Bass so desperate for attention that he has to take to his twitter about it? i wouldn’t be surprised if he was hanging on looking for trouble and attention
TonyD
@Hmm: I call “shenanigans” on you being there and what you think you saw, because I happen to know two people that were there(both female Manhattan Jewish goddesses lol) and they have a different story on the drunk rude Mr. Bass; perhaps there’s a truth between what you both saw, but he does get self entitled and that doesn’t make him look that attractive after a while.
Hmm
I didn’t see anything…I copied and pasted a comment at the NYP. Hence me stating “Ah, but did we see this comment at The Post?”
LOL
TonyD
@Hmm: My bad. =) From what I was told, he was drunk, refused to leave w/o his friends, accidentally or intentionally dropped his drink on a female security guard. Seconds later, 3 dragged him out…no dramatic music/screaming/etc.
Hmm
Would have been so much better with dramatic music! Seriously though, it definitely sounds like there were misunderstandings and poor judgment calls on both sides, to be honest. A person probably shouldn’t refuse to leave when told to do so by security…but others probably shouldn’t rough that person up either. Neither party ends up looking good in the end.