TO Italy where director Michael Bay may, or may not, be facing tough questions over the alleged death of a pigeon on one of his movie sets.
Michael Bay, director of such movies as Bad Boys I and II along with Transformers one, two, three, four and five, is reportedly in a flap over a claim that a homing pigeon died during the making of his Netflix film 6 Underground.
The movie stars Ryan Reynolds as a billionaire who fakes his own death and forms a group of vigilantes to fight criminals and terrorists which sounds as plausible as the pigeon-death plot.
According to TheWrap, Michael refuses to pay a fine and get the whole thing over and done with because he maintains his innocence. The outlet reports that his legal team has tried to have the matter dismissed, but no luck.
Pigeons, along with many of their feathered cousins, are protected in Italy and TheWrap says a homing pigeon was allegedly killed by a dolly during filming. While pigeon killing definitely sounds like something M3GAN would be at, in this setting a dolly refers to a trolley on wheels on which a camera is mounted. How and ever, if a billionaire can fake his own death it wouldn’t be unreasonable to suggest he could have faked a pigeon’s. Is the pigeon also now a vigilante? Fighting criminals with a beak and one good foot? If Michael Bay’s films have taught us anything it is that if a car can transform into an alien robot then a pigeon can be a crime fighter.
Michael told TheWrap there is “clear video evidence” that exonerates him and disproves one paparazzi photo which he says “gives a false story”.
The director would also like you to know he’s a “well-known animal lover and major animal activist” and, rest assured, “no animal involved in the production was injured or harmed. Or on any other production I’ve worked on in the past 30 years”.
Really Italy, if you want to pursue anyone for their behaviour on a film set in your beautiful country you should bring the full weight of the law down on Jared Leto who killed his craft with that over-egged performance in House of Gucci.
Sam Ryder saw a UFO
ROLL up, roll up, we’ve another signed-up member of the Celebrity UFO Club. The ever cheerful Sam Ryder, who recently told The Times he’s never been cool and if anything “I’m a cool repellent”, says he has seen a UFO, or at least he might have.
“I love the thought there is more out there, that there isn’t just one little bastion of life. I saw a UFO when I was in Hawaii, but it was 3am and I really wanted to see a UFO, so maybe I was just tired and emotional. It’s more fun to believe than not to believe. There’s nowhere to go with not believing.”
It seems like an entirely appropriate musing from a man who came second in Eurovision 2022 with a song called Space Man.
Harry Styles and Shania Twain are friends
Harry Styles is many things to many people but to Sleb Safari he’s the young man who is friends with everyone’s mum. The man must love a cup of tea and a natter. Simples.
We already knew he and Stevie Nicks were close and now Shania Twain’s talking about how they’ve been buddies for years.
She was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and said she went backstage to see him at one of his first solo concerts in New York.
"And… you know, we became texting friends at that moment. And [he] texted me a few weeks later, 'Would you call my mum and wish her a happy birthday?' I'm like, 'Of course, sure.' He said, 'My mum was a big influence on me and she's why I grew up with your music'."
And Shania and Harry have been friends ever since. Sweet.
