The screen shots from the websites do not mean these sites were the culprits of the fanatical fans, just that they are sites where Gerry lovers can go, and not every fan that visited Philly was over the top, on the contrary some really did look at it as a vacation with friends with the added bonus of seeing Gerry. I really don’t think anyone got too out of hand, but I did want to put in writing of the extremes people will go to see the object of their desire, and frankly it’s not too far off the mark from the guy who made news by “stalking” Jamie Foxx. (For those of you who sent me an email, if you want me to remove it I will)
http://gerrylicious.proboards.com/
This blog entry is a journey of the places, stories I heard and some of the snippets of the fan letters I received while Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler were in Philly during the filming of Law Abiding Citizen; I also want to say that I was really impressed by Gerard’s fan following as I received over a hundred emails from his fans asking me to give him a messages from him. Hopefully this blog will answer the questions I have been getting over the past few months “Where did Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx hang out while they were in Philadelphia?”
Law Abiding Citizen has wrapped and is in the post-production stage before it premieres in March 2010. Rumor has it that the producers would like it to premiere in Philadelphia, which goes to show that they truly appreciated the hospitality they received here.
Jamie Foxx slipped into town on Jan 1, after attending the Wired 96.5 LudiChristmas (Ludacris) Concert at Electric Factory, he went to dinner at Miss Tootsies on South Street for some good old fashion Soul Food. I attended Sabrina Tamburino’s 29th Birthday party at Table 31; it was there that several guests told me that Jamie Foxx would be going to G Lounge after dinner. Sabrina’s after party was also going to be held at the G Lounge. They said I could get that “First” shot that I always strive for of each celebrity that comes through our City.
I was a wuss and went home to bed instead, it was 1AM and well I screwed up.
But as karma would have it I got a shot of Jamie the next day as he left Parc restaurant on Rittenhouse Square.
Dan Gross’ PhillyGossip.com Column
Jamie Foxx is lunching now on mussels at Stephen Starr‘s Parc on Rittenhouse Square where he also ate this weekend. The Oscar-winning actor is in town getting ready to start shooting “Law Abiding Citizen,” in which he plays a district attorney. His lunch companion is the film’s director F. Gary Gray. 12:41PM”
At first I thought I’d have company, but then I remembered I was in Philly, and it was just me standing there across the street. I saw Jamie and a group come out of the restaurant, and anticipated them going in the opposite direction that they did. I hurried across the street, placed myself about 20 feet infront of him and began asking for a photo. No response, but he gently pushed his assistant to the right side of him and I got a clear shot, taking about 5 shots. Then I walked off in the other direction. 
A few days later someone tipped me off that Gerard Butler was eating at Del Frisco’s. I had no idea who he was so I looked him up online. One of the articles stated that in December he beat up a photographer that took a photo of him leaving a bar. Since it was a late Thursday night, raining lightly, and Gerard seems to have a temper, I passed.
Other friends, Arthur Kade and G-N Kang were there that night too and got this shot and put it on their facebook page. Never saw him before. Although I shoot movie premieres in NYC, I rarely see the movies. (Darn he looks like a nice guy)
Over the next few days I was able to get a few photos of the filming, and by the end of the week I attended a press conference at City Hall to welcome the cast to Philadelphia. It was there that I saw the two stars of the movie: Jamie Foxx & Gerard Butler. I immediately was taken by Gerard as he said that the Liberty Bell was his Oscar until he got an Oscar. Plus he had all the City Hall employees swooning, but it would turned out not to be workers. In fact Dan Gross mentions in his column how he drove the ladies crazy at the press conference.
At the time I took this shot I didn’t realize how ironic it was to have King Leonidas standing next to the beautiful Honduran wood statue with abs in the Mayor’s Reception Room. I now know why Butler has that look on his face as I would learn that a bunch of his fans crashed the press conference and were sitting in the front row and were rather vocal (kinda embarrassing for him as he was getting cat calls in the middle of the press conference).
I didn’t have a clue, at that time, to where he was staying, but there was no way I would ever give that info out even if I did know, but I suggested she send the item to one of the 5 luxury hotels and perhaps to the film office. She didn’t want to and instead told me she would travel from Ohio over the course of the filming to deliver the item. Of course it made me nervous, but with the territory of celebrity unfortunately comes this adoration, and most celebrities have security in place, and in 90% of the cases fans do not cross the line. (I was a little surprised that Gerard wore a dirty shirt to the press conference)
The fan sites took notice, and I started getting a lot of hits, and who doesn’t like people reading your stuff daily, by the thousands (Someone wrote me…Although touted as “officially unofficial,” Gerry’s manager and partner, Alan Siegel, communicates with Gerry’s fanbase almost exclusively through .Net. Of course, this “annoys” most GALS simply because they’d hoped Gerry’s personal appearance at the 06 Convention would give them some “cred” with his “people.” The translates into hard core “Tarts” having an certain air about them — that is to say that if it doesn’t come from .Net, it’s not valid. Whereas GALS is more “We’re Gerry fans, but don’t believe they’re the only ones.” )
Especially in other countries. Now I know how my name is spelled in Japanese. So I found my niche, I would try my best to find out what was happening in Gerry’s life daily. He likes to be called Gerry I later found out from my friend Aly, who became friends with both Gerry and Tim, Gerry’s body and stunt double.
That Saturday Gerard Butler went to G Lounge. He was denied entry, the doorman didn’t know who the heck he was. My friend Aly was there and is always on the list. She told the bouncers who he was, and then said he was her guest. She brought him in. After that he didn’t have anymore problems at the door.
There are no photos of Gerard as I would later learn he didn’t like his photo taken while he was in his “element”, so I never bothered going to G Lounge to see them, but I did collect the stories. After a few weekends, he and Jamie went their separate ways. Gerry hung out at G Lounge and Jamie made the rounds, mostly going to Denim, Miss Tootsie’s or Pearl Nightclub. Around this time I started receiving emails from fans who would come into town from around the states, Kentucky, Maine, Vermont, asking me what they should wear when they went to G Lounge or how much it would cost for them to eat at Del Frisco’s. Now I was not advising any of these folks to come into town, but they did and all in the search of Gerry. I was both impressed by their mobilization, and surprised by their motivation. 
A Gerard fan wrote: I freely admit that Gerry is simply eye-candy for me. (This is through no fault of his own. He’s simply the product of genetic lightning. He flips my visual trigger — plain and simple. He’s got the best on-screen kiss that I’ve ever had the pleasure of using to get my motor running. His Scottish accent (which has been horribly diluted by all the dialogue coaches) provides a good ear-fecking, too.) Unlike most Tarts, I’m not up to dissecting the “beauty of his poor, tormented soul.” I don’t want to date him. I don’t want to marry him. I don’t fastasize about meeting him one day and having him suddenly realize I’m his soul mate… blah, blah, blah. One particular weekend I did hear that Lance Bass and a few folks from Dancing with the Stars would be in town, so I stopped by and got this shot with him and Cheryl Burke. I had hoped to see Gerry, but it turned out that he was out of town.
LAC took a 2 week break for the Oscar. I went to NYC to cover Fashion Week. I was able to get a few questions in to Gerard as none of the celebrity photographers recognized him at first, although his fan girls screamed with delight. None of the questions were earth shattering, just if he like Philly or not. I forgot to ask my regular questions as the fan girls were trying to interject themselves into the conversation.
After the Justin Timberlake fashion show, Gerry left with this nice lady. (Who he was just photographed over the 4/11 weekend with in NYC) I had no idea who Gerry was or that he had a huge reputation as a ladies man, but here in Philly I did hear that he was “dating” a lot of women. He’s favorite place to go with these women was Del Frisco’s. My friends went to Del Frisco’s too. One night (3/17/09) I was tipped off that he was at the Waterworks restaurant, which is right across the street from me. I went over, but it was very dark. I thought to myself, how would I feel coming out into the parking lot and having someone snap my pictures. I decided that it wouldn’t be polite. I think if it was downtown I would feel differently. He later called one of my friends for a good place to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. She told him he should just stick to Rouge or Parc as it was late and the crowds would be rowdy. Now that I would have been able to shoot more easily.
He usually went out clubbing alone, but rarely left alone: I saw Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx inside the Vault at G on Saturday night. they stayed open late back there. i talked to Gerard and mentioned you and you two spoke in NYC! He doesn’t recall you from last week, but remembered my friend Hope Co***, they were on a boat together some time ago in Capri, Italy. (A few weeks later this same friend was at Rouge, which was Gerry’s hangout on Sunday’s. Gerry stopped by her table and they talked. She told him Hope said hi. He wanted to call her, but she said that hope was away that weekend and unreachable) When Gerry went to Rouge he often sat in the window unbothered. Although one time a girl did get up, greet him and break into song. Gerry was very nice about it, but my friend Renee turned around and told the girl this was not a Karaoke bar and to take it outside. Gerry told the girl that her singing was very nice and gladly accepted her business card.
Rouge is on lovely Rittenhouse Square, the tony section of Philadelphia. Many of the A – list people hang out the restaurants along 18th Street and enjoy the view of the park. On the other side of the park are the luxury hotels and apartment and condo buildings. Recently someone told me of a woman that was walking home from the local grocery store. She lived in one of the more expensive buildings with a doorman and car service. As she was reaching nearing her building her grocery bag broke. A man came up behind her and asked if she needed help. He assisted her the rest of the way to where the doorman was able to grab the bags for her. As she turned to thank the man she mentioned to him that he looked familiar. He said his name and that he was filming a movie in town with Jamie Foxx. He invited himself up (maybe longing for a home cooked meal), and she turned him down saying the nanny was upstairs with her baby and she needed to tend to her. The friend who told me the story also mentioned the woman stated she was married. (The person who told me was a prominent attorney in Philly, so I am going to have to believe this story happened)
A few days later the woman was sitting outside of a coffee house Rittenhouse Square, when a black SUV pulled up. The window rolled down and Gerry said hello. He invited himself to join them, she turned him down. (She wasn’t even his type, she was blond)
Once I heard about Gerry going into the coffee shop, with one of my friends, and many of the patrons took out their cell phones and took photos of him. Sometimes they would ask Gerry to pose with them, and he did, but after awhile he just asked them if they would respect his privacy. (I guess this is why he went to Rouge, Parc and some of the other more expensive places to hide from his celebrities. That’s why I like to wait outside an establishment to get my photos. I remember a couple times friends tipped me off to him being at a couple of those places telling me I should come inside and get a photo, but I just wouldn’t feel right doing that)
It was around this time that the emails from Gerry’s fans increased. It was like Whoppi Goldberg in Ghost, the spirits were coming out of the woodwork. They were always very nice, but I know they weren’t just writing for pleasantries, they wanted info, any shred of info, and sometimes with those little emails it did jog my memory of something. One girl wrote me every single day, until I wrote about that Strongbox appearance. Then she stopped. Then for me to find out later that he had a randy reputation irritated me that I was attacked over what I wrote. It was like the time I called Clay Aiken gay, and his followers went into a bee sting frenzy.
Well this was the night that I met the majority of the Gerry Gals. When I went over to City Hall to see the filming I met about a dozen fans, mostly women. Some traveled as far as South America. They were all linked together through the fan pages. The funniest thing was each was swore they were just a minor fan and not a crazy one. One even took issue with me as I had written a piece on my blog about a Nightline episode where they listed the levels of fans before they became stalkers. Some of them definitely were a bunch of friends getting together for an outing, others well they were seriously there to snag a Gerry hug.
Although most of the fan letters were harmless sometimes I worried about the state of their reality.
She did ask me if they were filming all week at City Hall, and I felt mercy for her and told her yes, especially since many of the fans I had talked to said the info was on the various message boards.
(Someone told me about this definition: Gerard Addicted Lust Syndrome or “GALS.”) I guess I am just taken aback a little by the fever these women have for Gerry. I do recall I was in love with Madonna in a big way, but never went to these lengths to get a glimpse of her, until this year when the opportunity arose and I photographed her for the first time. I was excited, but didn’t go out of my way to photograph her again since that day.
Another email: Three years ago, I had a wonderful and very unexpected thing happen to me. I met Gerard Butler. He’s truly what they say…a kind and, may I add, very
handsome man. I was in Vancouver with about 30 other ‘Tarts’ (a term given
Gerry lovers) to support a little known movie he filmed just before Phantom
was released. It was Beowulf & Grendel and it was very good. It was opening
in Canada on March 10th. Along with 2 other ladies, we drove looooong hours
to get there. We had to see the later showing that night. Actually, I had
seen the movie the previous October at the Vancouver Film Festival.
The next day, we had planned a get-together with the other Tarts to have
lunch and a raffle of ‘Gerry Items’ which included posters, homemade
pillows with pics of Phantom and Beowulf on them. There were drawings to
give away too. I did one of Gerry.
(Do you see the spoiler in this photo from the filming?)
(A friend wrote me this about Gerry)
Honestly I am not dating him… I met him a month ago and we had a blast hanging out. He tried coming home with me but I told him that I’m that girl but that he would always have a friend in Philly. So that is why he probably feels comfortable with me. These girls that jump into bed with them are one and done!
Trust me I was tempted but I would rather be friends with them then a one night stand.
http://www.gerryscorner.it/
At some point Gerry_Butler contacted me. He said that he was a she and knew I would run into Gerry at the party I was hinting that I was going to attend. She wanted me to offer the site to Gerry as she was receiving many, many emails from his fans. She felt terrible about it and realized it got out of hand. I asked about Demi Moore contacting her, what happened with that. She said she never answered Demi and then Demi unfriended her. She said if it was a negative or if she didn’t hear from me she would close the site in a weeks time. I think the power of Gerry went to her head and after a brief period of being dormant she came back in full force.
Yesterday she was finally shut down, but it looks like she came back as “FakeGerryButler” and the same girls that worked to shut her down, have embraced her. Maybe they missed “Gerry_Butler”, at least that created a central figure to represent Gerry and create a dialog.
I don’t think it was someone on IMDB, I think it is a fan, and it’s not someone that normally talks to DonnaKat as more than once the person wrote to say that DonnaKat was hot on her trail to expose her.
2009/3/25 Gerard Butler via Twitter to me
Hi, I was out of town for a week. So he was a jerk? Wow. May I ask what he said to you? I’ll shut down of course. I don’t want to get sued.
Gerard Butler / Gerry_Butler–
follow me at http://twitter.com/Gerry_Butler
reply on the web at http://twitter.com/direct_messages/create/Gerry_Butler
At Strongbox: I asked Tim about Twitter, he said Gerry doesn’t have time to go online. I asked about the fans and what Gerry thought of them. He said Gerry appreciates their dedication, but wishes they didn’t go to such lengths to see him and wouldn’t show up at the film set. At one point the 2 crew workers who were there, turned on me when I told them about my blog, and showed them a few of the letters I had received (on my BB) from the fans. Well they were none too happy thinking I was the one giving all these gals the info. I tried to explain the elaborate websites and networking these women participate in. It’s impressive and scary, but there was no convincing this crew and my time in the VIP room was cut short as they further stated how the gals slowed down the production. Even though I told them they were 5 days ahead of schedule. They went on to say that an actor is in character and if there are screaming, women within 50 feet waving signs and flashing photos, that could ruin his concentration. And right after that is when Gerard Butler came in and told me about his “element” and I respected that, but as a blogger it’s my right to write about what I observed ie see the Strongbox Opening entry. It was not Kristi with him at Strongbox. It was someone that he knew for a longer basis than just that night, but he wasn’t with her that night, they are friends. I saw what I saw, but as far as that incidence goes it was an observation and speculation. I still am irritated that the fanbots got so personal with me, when all anyone, including me, needs to do is do a search on “Gerard Butler and girlfriends” to find out that he is a randy guy. It wasn’t something I made up. But it did give you all, especially the IMDB folks hours to obsess about – LOL
In February I did find out where Gerard & Jamie were staying. I had interviewed a young actor from a play that had a run in Philly. The kid told me he was so excited because Jamie Foxx was staying down the hall from him. I was like where are you staying? I never photographed them at their hotel, because as time went on I must have received more than a dozen requests from fan girls to the location of the hotel. Most of them just said we want to drop something off.
This is the 6th floor room that Gerard stayed in. (I took these photos last year while I was on a tour at the AKA Hotel) Over the course of the 3 months, I had over 5 women want to give GB their screenplays. 2 of them sent them to me, and I found myself getting caught up in the Gerry stalking just so I could make these fans happy, and maybe to improve their lives or something. Although I didn’t go too overboard. It was kinda weird for me to break the 4th wall and try and talk to him on their behalf. As soon as I wrote the details of the Strongbox incident, most of them dropped me, I guess they like living in their cocoon of fantasy. It was a rude awakening, so I don’t see the harm in revealing to my readers who don’t read the fansites, some of the emails I recieved. But to really get a flavor read the fan sites.)
With this view of Rittenhouse Square Park. On the last day Gerry was in town, he spent a part of it with my friend Aly. She told me that Gerry enjoyed Philadelphia and was going to London on Saturday for an awards show. He took out his phone and also showed her a few of the photos that he had taken on set. Unfortunately I now know the end of the movie, which I won’t be sharing with you. The other photo was of Gerry nude with just a sock on. It wasn’t shocking to Aly that he would show her this as she knows many of his war stories, Gerry is a ladies man, and he considered Aly his friend, although it still is odd he would show her those photos.
Many of you may be aware of the Jamie Foxx incident that occured there. Steven Taliver, 49, pretended to be one of Beyonce‘s producers to get in to see Jamie. After the actor realized he didn’t know the man, Jamie pushed him out of his Philadelphia hotel room and slammed the door. The man was arrested earlier this week when Jamie’s security team noticed the creep lurking near the set of Jamie’s new movie, Law Abiding Citizen, and called the police.My Theory is: The man was homeless and probably lived on the corner. No doubt Jamie gave him a nice chunk of change, as I heard he was very generous. The man probably wanted a few bucks again and created his new ID and presented it to the desk clerk, who called up to Jamie. Jamie probably ok’d the visitor and as soon as he opened the door recognized the homeless guy and pushed him out. Thankfully the man was dumb enough to return to the scene and Jamie’s security guys collared him. Jamie seemed none to worried and the story didn’t even come out til his last day in the City, as he gave a shout out to the Mayor and the citizen for their hospitality. It was interesting to how TMZ broke the story, how did they get it?
I do think it’s fine and fun to travel to the premiere’s, conventions and to the Cities where your celebrity filmed his last movie, maybe even visiting the set once, but don’t get confused with a celebrities politeness and turn it into something else. He’s not your friend, and he probably is a little scared of you too, but what is he going to do yell at you so you could go back to the boards and report it. Remember Rebecca Shaeffer, John Lennon, Selena who was killed by the president of her fan club. You might not see yourself going over the line, but I’m sure someone in your life is telling you you are.
On the last day Gerry was here, he ran to Boyd’s to buy a few parting gifts for the crew, and for his friends back home he said. (My blog was featured on Jossip because of the comments I recieved from Gerry’s gals)
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These girls make the Claymate\’s look like girl scouts.
Well I appreciate you telling it as you see it Hugh but it does show alot of fans in a bad light and most Gerry fans are not like that – its the crazies that give most decent fans a bad name. There was a big debate on both Dot Net and Gals close to filming finishing about the constant fan attendance and while most did not agree as it was Gerry\’s place of work alot did feel that the fan stories being told made out the crew seemed to be very accomodating and actually encouraged it so if they actually were not happy most of the time and felt they were a distraction then they should have done something at the time and not complain about it afterwards!!!.
It seems you had your eyes well and truly opened during LAC film shoot and the good and bad side of fandom.
good luck with your blog
Can I just ask most of the fans you met where they .net followers or Gals?
Most fans tend to belong to both major sites.
The problem is no matter how many times the fansites try and say to fans about not showing up on location or if they go, happen to see Gerry just be grateful and then leave well alone they will not listen – its a sad fact – and we all rely on the crew to properly manage the situation on Set. It was becoming like a contest for alot of the fans who could meet him the most. All had great stories of how great Gerry was and how he did not seem to mind the constant attention – so do we now take it Hugh he was too much a nice guy to say enough is enough have you not seen me enough already ???????
The saddest thing is the majority of people Hugh was referring to probably met him at City Hall, got their moment and should have just left Gerry for the rest of the shoot but they couldn\’t!.
I appreciate not everyone can afford to travel to premieres/ public events in other cities or countries that Gerry is slated to attend where fan participation is expected and very much encouraged and if you lived in a town he was filming in you would want to go and hopefully catch a glimpse or better still meet him but there is a line that should not be crossed and it appears according to you Hugh some have very much crossed it and they were not necessarily locals!!.
I think it was great if any fan happened to bump into him out and about in Philly but it appears according to you now Hugh certain \”run\” ins were no coincidence??? yet they were reported as such by the fan you refer to – its not difficult to know who you are talking about if you read the fan reports LOL.
I have to say – call me two faced if you want – but I am one of these people who sees nothing wrong if you have the cash to travel to premieres or PAs regardless of where in the world – good luck to you – but I just find it wrong to travel to a film location with no guarantee of getting a glimpse and then resort to looking all over the city and contacting a blogger for info on the guy – that is when your fandom has hit another level.
What about about the poor girl at the grocery store that he was repeatedly stalking like a pest (he\’s learning from his fans)? Is she all right? I bet Gerry would aggressively invite himself onto a dead person, he\’s that sleazy and desperate for sex. Eventually, as a last resort and to curb the constant rejection, he\’ll probably start breaking into hospital morgues and funeral homes to get it, I work for a Coroners Office everyday so I know a gurning, prospective corpse-fûcker when I see one and let me tell you from experience, Gerard Butler screams it.
Thanks Hughe for keeping the rest of us Gerry Gals informed. Not all of us feel it\’s necessary to stalk him, we know he is just playing a character on the screen, it\’s all just a fantasy and no one should be crossing the line into something it isn\’t.
Hi Hughe,
Now that the full story has come out, I must say that I\’m a bit disturbed by the lengths the fans went to to get to Gerry. I\’m also sorry that many of them used you for information.
I would wish to clarify something, however. You used a screenshot of my forum (The Butlers Pantry), and while I appreciate the recognition, I also want to make it clear that (to the best of my knowledge) none of the fan behavior you have reported came from anyone registered on my site. As a site and as a forum we don\’t condone stalking. As a matter of fact, I founded that site for those of us who never quite \”fit in\” on what we like to call the \”motherships\” and the typical Gerard Butler fansites. Our members are quite grounded and real in that respect (not that members at the other sites aren\’t, but I wanted to make it clear this did not come from my members).
As far as the fake Twitter account goes, you give me far too much credit. 😉 Alan Siegel had already confirmed through gerardbutler.net that the account was a fake, way back in February. The reason so many were falling for it was because of the length of time it took for Twitter to remove it. Not only that, but every time it seemed like the account would die, either a press article would link to it or a valid celebrity would fall for the deception as well.
As much as I find the obsessive behavior in Philly disturbing, what I find EVEN MORE DISTURBING is that a \”fan\” of Gerard Butler – a female one, at that – would go to such lengths to impersonate him. That in my book is dangerous, irrational, and stalkerish behavior. She\’s lucky Gerry\’s a nice guy and probably won\’t pursue legal action.
And finally I want to say, thanks for all of your info, Hughe. Maybe Gerry\’s fans will read this and take the information to heart. As devoted as a fanbase can be, when members cross the line and interfere with an actor\’s work, there\’s the possibility that they\’re reducing his/her chances to land future roles. I\’m not advocating 100% \”Gerry abstination\”…just keep things in perspective. He can\’t accommodate each and every fan he has all of the time, and some of you have gotten more than that one time with him. Think about his feelings and the people he works with. They have a job to do.
Although I understand your desire to \”get back\” at some of those who \”attacked\” you after some of your blogs regarding Mr. Butler, but possibly it would have been more professional of you to have taken the higher road and not smeared his reputation in the name of \”news\”.
His business and private time is his own, whether you, I or anyone else approves of how he chooses to spend it.
Great blog,
But I feel some of these fat housewives will continue to make fools of themselves.
This sad sack stalker crap has been going on for years.
Be thankful they didn\’t bring their Gerry dolls to play with!!!
I think Gerry smears his own name without some blogger\’s help, don\’t you think? Why is it ok for us to read only the good news this guy writes, and not the ugly side?
please post these crazy fans\’ email addresses so we can mock them directly and without mercy.
These fat plumpers will never lay eyes on my cock..i mean..his cock…
Nice wrap-up, Hugh. \”Thanks for the memories.\”
Hugh!
You are full of crap! Plain and simple. I doubt you know all these people who just happen to all know Gerry. Gerry who probably never visited Philly until the LAC shoot. But he knows all these girls who randomly show you pics of him naked wearing only a sock. OMG! You are such a fraud. I hope you enjoyed your last few months of pretending to be in the know. Go away you are slime!
ah hugh!!! as usual……you gave me something interesting to read with my morning coffee!!! good on ya, mate!!
Your reading comprehension is failing, get your glasses grandma hughie didn\’t see the photo, the friend did.
Anonymous (11:03a)
In Hugh\’s defense…I have to ask this question?…do you even live here in Philly? IF you did …you would know that its not that big..and if a person is savvy enough to get in the know…you can be in the right places at the right times…Rittenhouse Square isnt that big..but if you have the right look an attitude (yes I said it…you cant be a slobbery fat ass middle aged fan who has no life..sorry hun you\’d stick out like a sore spot dead on) youd be surprised on who you can meet and hang with..how do I know?…because it happened to me..yes I met them..all of them..Gerry, Jamie..Alan…ect..it wasnt hard….Rouge…Strongbox..Parc…G..Warwick Hotel…Del F\’s…this isn\’t LA nor NYC..and again..if you know where to hang..its easy to meet folks who happen to be celebrity.
geesh….carry on Hugh..carry on.
I do want to say that Gerry has carried on and is in NYC now. This will be the last time I write about him regarding his stay here. I know this could have been a better wrap up, but I built it up that I was going to write a wrap up, then was running out of time to write it, and then well it could have been better. Gerry has a legion of fans, and only a handful seemed to obsess about him too much. But no harm no foul, except please don\’t stalk him or any celebrity. I guess I have no room to talk either as I am a paparazzi. Hmm and people hate me for it.
This takes care of the around town stuff, but what about the girlfriend(s) traveling in from out of state? Did you forget about them, or just afraid to write about it?
I think I stated that the girl at Strongbox was not Kristi. It turned out it was a local women, who had also met him in another city. I removed her comment from Strongbox, as it linked her directly to her myspace page. I don\’t want to be responsible for attacks on her. She basically called me a liar and said no of the things I reported happened at Strongbox, but I understand she wants to protect the guy, she probably has no idea he was stepping out on her all over town either. I asked my friends about her, and they did see them together a couple times, but not the whole time.
Thank you for responding.
Well Hugh, no matter what you write about Gerard Butler unless it\’s glowing his fans are not going to like it. You can\’t please everyone. These women who follow him ( I personally think this is very strange behavior), are only going to want to hear he is an alter boy. Which he is not and they know it. It really doesn\’t matter, they are never going to be with him, in the way they want. They can say otherwise but, come on that\’s what they want.Who do they think they are kidding. Hopefully he will get married soon and dash all their hopes. He seems like a good guy. It must be hard to live under such a microscope. I have seen some of his movies, some good Rock n Rolla, some bad Phantom of the Opera, Dracula. But then I put them back in the mail and go on with my life.
I can barely pay the rent, where do these women get the time and money to follow him. And why? What are they getting out of this? Do they have families? If he did say to one of them sure let\’s hop in bed, would they? Would thay go home and be all excited and tell their families, My dreams came true. I really don\’t understand the whole stalking following him around thing. My friend\’s husband in from northern Ireland and sounds just like this guy. I know Butler is Scottish. I have been to both countries. Well he is every bit as handsome. Should I be stalking him?
Fascinating . . .every last bit of it. Thanks!
I am popping over to IMDB, it gives me food for thought. Thanks.
I have a stalker too and here\’s his VISITOR ANALYSIS
Referring Link http://us.mc335.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.rand=fiv1dvul9fiui
Host Name 119.sub-97-157-93.myvzw.com
IP Address 97.157.93.119 Stalker [Edit Label]
Country United States
Region New Jersey
City Livingston
ISP Cellco Partnership Dba Verizon Wireless
Returning Visits 15
Visit Length 4 hours 32 mins 37 secs
VISITOR SYSTEM SPECS
Browser Firefox 3.0.8
Operating System Windows XP
Resolution 1280×1024
Javascript Enabled
You\’re not seeing this stalker\’s comments as I keep deleting them.
After being stalked last year I had to step up my game. If they keep it up I will send Verizon after this person too. It\’s not nice to stalk people, it\’s scary because you don\’t know if there is a line they won\’t cross to get to you.
i stalk you HughE… you are the best! great wrap-up. it was fun to be included and read it today. thanks XO
\”It\’s not nice to stalk people, it\’s scary because you don\’t know if there is a line they won\’t cross to get to you,\”
The hypocrisy is blinding. You said you were a paparazzi photog, didn\’t you? Oh, the irony!
Didi, we use long lenses, we don\’t give gifts, nor do we fawn over them. In fact we provide photos to the glossies and to your websites. Did you think they just got there with fairy dust?
He loves living under a microscope because he is so self centered. He loves all the attention he gets.
LOL. Long lenses. Yeah okay. What do the facts show? We see paps descend on celebs like locusts, they pester them, they make derogatory remarks and try provoke a reaction on the street, they invade personal space – all witnessed on TMZ and other filth-peddling websites. We know celebrities are prize arsewipes and famewhores, however, let\’s not pretend the paparazzi are anything but a skid-mark on the gusset of society, we all know the real score. Paparazzos are only a cut above Richard Fuld and his ilk, in the likeability stakes.
You crying about stalkers is what\’s amusing, that\’s all. Carry on.;)
Didi, taking pictures from a distance is not the same as stalking. You seem to like the celebrity scene or else you wouldn\’t be writingon here. Hugh did a great job while the film crew was here. He didn\’t give away info that could hurt these people. It\’s a fine line, and some people will cross it. Who knows what these people\’s intentions are. Have you read about Gerard Butler\’s fans. They go to long lengths to get near him. So don\’t bash HughE, he does a great job. He does not harass these people like other photogs, he is very polite, and gracious. Hugh reports on other great things going on in Phila. And I appreciate that.
Okey dokey, HughE\’s Mum. Message received, I\’ll leave him alone.
I don\’t feel comfortable naming people in the comments as to who may be linked to GB. I don\’t want to subject anyone to ridicule, especially since I can\’t confirm the persons name. So please don\’t speculate in the comments. Thanks.
Hey Didi, it was not Hugh mom just a Philly girl from Fairmount, who loves my home town and the people who report on the great things this town has to offer. And although the filming of the movie was great for the city all this bullshit about Gerard Butler is just silly. Pat K.
Oh, Didi I forgot okey dokey.
Pat K.
I realize I had a lot of grammatical errors in this blog. I wish I were perfect, but I often write this entries right before I go to bed and am half awake. Thank god it\’s all free and I am my own boss.
I think a few people here should get their facts straight.
I am a fan of Gerard Butler, I do not follow him around and I do not give a s*** what he gets upto in his private life. I am not a fat arsed housewife, I am slim, married mother of four. I have a busy life personal and professional, if there was a premiere for one of his films held in my city or another city near me I would go and support him, I follwo his career as personally I think he is a talented actor. I am not a stalker and a lot of his fans are not so please dont put all his fans into the same pot, yes there may be some who are over obsessed with him and could be called stalkers, but NOT ALL OF US ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, no one was talking about the normal fans. We are all normal fans of the actors and actresses we like to see in movies. Anyone who travels to other parts of the world to get a glimpse of someone is not normal. People who go to conventions for an actor who isn\’t even there, that\’s not normal. Would you take off your job and leave your kids behind to try and see Gerard Butler? If you said yes to that question, then you are not normal. I like some of his movies, so that makes me a fan. Not a STALKER!!!! I did that last part for you since you seemed so mad. Pat K.
Watch out for the IMDb girls, HughE. LOL. They are brilliant, hysterical and, for the most part, don\’t give a damn about Gerard Butler. Tread with caution. 🙂
HughE says – (Someone wrote me…Although touted as \”officially unofficial,\” Gerry\’s manager and partner, Alan Siegel, communicates with Gerry\’s fanbase almost exclusively through .Net. Of course, this \”annoys\” most GALS simply because they\’d hoped Gerry\’s personal appearance at the 06 Convention would give them some \”cred\” with his \”people.\” The translates into hard core \”Tarts\” having an certain air about them — that is to say that if it doesn\’t come from .Net, it\’s not valid. Whereas GALS is more \”We\’re Gerry fans, but don\’t believe they\’re the only ones.\” )I can\’t tell if you are being tongue-in-cheek with this one since Siegel talks to whoever he needs to to get his job done. dotNUT is a sinking ship and has been for a couple of years. Not that GBGALS is much better with their antics and claims of superiority.
You\’ve got an quickly aging (who really believes this dude is 39 years old), yet still moderately handsome, mediocre actor who appears to be more interested in being famous and getting laid than working his job since his best acting role was years ago, with nothing remotely close since. Add hundreds of middle to senior-aged, obsessed fans who think he\’s the most incredible male on the planet to the equation and you\’ve got a thesis just ready to write itself.
Some advice Mr. Butler: take some acting lessons, stay out of bars and quit horndogging on chicks half your age. You can be a respected actor or you can be a Paris, Lindsay or a K-Fed. Your choice, but a clue, my man. Option number two doesn\’t pay the bills for very long and is hell on the reputation.
On the other-hand, if all of this hooplah is created to hide the fact you are gay as another entire contingent claims, carry on. As Hancock would say \”GOOD JOB\”.
Hello Jared/IMDB commentators. Just want to say that the reason I changed my stories or even \”Backpedaled\” was I am completely a guilt ridden Catholic. After writing it, then sleeping on it, then seeing the comments of the first entry, I felt I probably hurt too many people so I soften it. I did notice that there were less comments this time. I think it was the dog that bites the hand that feeds it thing. Literally the fans were writing me daily because they wanted info, but then when I wrote about him kissing the two girls, whoa that was crazy. Originally the wrap up was going to be about the places he visited, but Gerry\’s Philly friends started telling me stories and wanted them out there. They were even willing to allow me to use their names, but I didn\’t want to. What was funny was Gerry showing Aly the nude photos of himself. Aly was never interested in sleeping with Gerry, she was more friendly with Tim the body double. I thought it was kinda like, see what you are missing Aly, for him to show her those photos. This entry was probably too harsh too, and a few of the fans did write me, I offered to take them off but neither of the women made me do it. I sent them some nice photos of Gerry. And then there was the one fan who was constantly trying to prove to me she wasn\’t a stalker, but on the otherhand would taunt me when she got to talk to Gerry and I didn\’t, then accused me of ignoring her. I do feel bad that she chases this guy all around the USA, and I wonder why her children encourage her to do it. Aren\’t they worried that their mom would come into the City til 2AM? Or travel to LA 3x\’s? I told her she would do more good in the world to volunteer for the less needy, and she would still get the same joy. She told me that wasn\’t the joy she was looking for. Oh well. I guess I should be less judgmental.
Hugh,
I find your posting on Gerard Butler to be more then a little disingenuous, the fact of the matter is you are more then culpable. You willfully stirred the pot by feeding Butler’s fans with these sexy little tidbits then lectured some of the fans on their extreme behavior. The fact that a single male with no interest in marriage has an active sex life with consenting females is hardly surprising. It’s sort of a dog bites man story. What I find disturbing here is your role in all this Hugh. You’re a bit like a sniggering teenage boy living vicariously through Butler’s exploits. And then you turn into Andy Hardy uncovering the dastardly Gerard Butler Twitter impersonator. Oh my! This is all pretty silly and the silliness all started with you. May I suggest following your own advice and getting a little perceptive? You could have chosen not to write about him at all. But you kept on doing it anyway. You played a part in all this too.
Do all movie stars have fans that are this loyal? Do other good looking actors, like George Clooney or Patrick Dempsey etc. get this kind of reaction? Do women follow them or have conventions for them? I am asking because I don\’t know. I never heard of this before. I know there are extreme fans, but this just seems down right crazy. Why are these women like this? If he is sleeping with all these women(not the fans) like people say, I don\’t have a problem with that. He\’s not the first or the last actor to get all the women he wants. Or actress for that matter. Fsmous people will always have groupies, like rock bands. How many women has Robert Plant or guys like that slept with. Is it less shocking because they are rock stars? If I were Gerard Butler, I would be afraid to walk out the door with thses nut bags following me. I mean traveling from city to city, that\’s just not normal. I don\’t think he is gay, why does that come up?If he was that would be fine, but is there some reason people say that? Are they just jealous women who can\’t get with him or men who are mad that he get\’s all these women. This whole thing is very interesting to me. Why so much fuss about him? Where does this guy have to go just to breathe? Pat K.
I agree, he is single and has an active sex life. So what. So do many other people. He\’s hot right now and that is how it goes in Hollywood. Some day it will die down. It does for all of them. Enjoy it while you can. Look at George Clooney people talked about him not being married for a long time, he\’s still not married. Being married is not for everyone. It must be hard to know who is genuine. Jamie Foxx was in town at the same time, he\’s single and likes the women too. Why didn\’t people get crazy over him? It\’s his life to live way he wants.
I didn\’t get the same response from Jamie\’s fanbase. I enjoyed stirring your pot, thanks for stopping by.
I dunno, showing that picture of him in the sock just sounds like his brand of humor not trying to come on to her. did she say that was his intention?
I dunno, showing that picture of him in the sock just sounds like his brand of humor not trying to come on to her. did she say that was his intention?
She didn\’t say he was coming on to him, they were \”Philly Friends\”, I\’m sure it was just fun humor.
Maybe it was a picture of Tim naked.