You know Alec Baldwin right? No. That’s Stephen Baldwin who appeared on Celebrity Big Brother, punching Jesus down people’s throats and generally being a sinisterly odd article. No. Alec is the funny one. The nice one. The one who gets thrown off planes for playing word games.
What?
That’s right! Alec Baldwin’s addiction to a wordy? smartphone game got him in trouble on an American Airlines plane. He just really wanted to play the word ‘UNITED’ apparently.
A spokesman for Baldwin, who goes by the name of Matthew Hiltzik, said:
“He loves WWF so much that he was willing to leave a plane for it, but he has already boarded another AA flight”
Sadly, WWF means Words With Friends as opposed to his love of animals or ’90s wrestling. We kinda wish it was the latter. Getting thrown off a flight for a thorough Papa Shango impression or Macho Man Randy Savage elbow splash would have been a superior story to tell.
Either way, he was playing his little game and had to get off the plane. It isn’t clear whether Baldwin was told to leave because he had refused to turn off a device.
Of course, Baldwin went straight to twitter to tell everyone about it.
One tweet took aim at the crew, saying he would never again fly on American Airlines…
“where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950’s find jobs as flight attendants.”
In a statement, American Airlines decided to be conceptual about the whole thing, saying that they are not in the business of making comments on…
“something that might or might not have happened.”
Baldwin also tweeted:
“Flight attendant on American reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving.”
And when a CNN anchor asked Baldwin about “Words with Friends,” the actor replied:
“It’s…well….addicting.”
So there. It’s not helped his knowledge of words grow has it? Now, if you don’t mind, we’re going back to daydreaming about Alec Baldwin dressed up as Ultimate Warrior.