Was Sylvester Stallone the source of that bizarre urban myth involving Richard Gere and a gerbil placed strategically up his...
Anyway. According to Sly, Gere thinks he did start the hilarious, yet also disturbing "felching" tale that dogs Richard to this day.
As Stallone tells it, the bad blood between the two all started when he and Gere had a falling-out on the set of the 1974 flick The Lords of Flatbush.
Stallone said that Gere was supposed to have the role played by Perry King, but he and Gere "never hit it off" and the man known best as Rocky Balboa got so mad at Gere that he once elbowed him in the head... over some chicken.
"[Gere] would strut around in his oversized motorcycle jacket like he was the baddest knight at the round table," Stallone said.
He also says that one time during a fight scene, things got a little too real. At another point, things got physical during a lunch when Stallone went into a Toyota to eat lunch.
"I was eating a hot dog and he climbs in with a half a chicken covered in mustard with grease nearly dripping out of the aluminum wrapper," Stallone recounted.
"I said, âThat thing is going to drip all over the place.' He said, âDon't worry about it.' I said, âIf it gets on my pants you're gonna know about it.' He proceeds to bite into the chicken and a small, greasy river of mustard lands on my thigh. I elbowed him in the side of the head and basically pushed him out of the car. The director had to make a choice: one of us had to go, one of us had to stay."
THG NOTE: Whatever started the feud between Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton is unknown, but we guarantee it wasn't as funny as this - and did not involve food (obviously).
Richard Gere's spokesman wasn't available for comment, possibly due to being preoccupied with small rodents (zing!) but according to Stallone:
"Richard was given his walking papers, and to this day, seriously dislikes me. He even thinks I'm the individual responsible for the gerbil rumor. Not true, but that's the rumor."
If nothing else, we'd like to thank Sly for putting the Gere story back in the news. We haven't heard that rumor in about 10 years... and it's certainly just as funny (if not even more disturbing) as the Dustin Diamond sex tape.
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January 4th, 2007 6:04 AM
There is no truth to the rumor that Sly Stallone propigated the Richard Gere gerbil/hospital story. What actually happened is that Sly was verbally harassed at a luncheon by Gere - where Gere ( In the last few weeks of a failing mariage to super model Sindy Crawford ) went nuts and publicly accused stallone of fu#@ing his wife. Sly tried to minimize this embarassing scene by taking Richard aside, but Gere kept on pushing. Stallone mopped the floor with him! ( i.e. Kicked his ass ) and then offered Gere his hankerchief ( did I spell it right?) Just like Andy Garcia did in Internal Affairs!
The real rumor shouls be - Was Sly nailing Crawford?
However the Gerbil thing was Gere - NOT John Bon Jovi - CONFIRMED. I know a lady that specializes in auditing hospitals ( re-arranges / hires & fires). AND she told me that when she was working in the Hospital where this happened, the nurses confirmed it too her. The lady is a professional women and doesn't come off as a BSer, so I would say it is almost a sure thing that the Richard Gere/Gerbil thing is TRUE!
January 5th, 2007 6:07 PM
wow that made the richard gere stock skyrocket
January 10th, 2007 10:52 AM
Felching has nothing to do with Gerbil jammin' ! Felching is the act of sucking semen out of a persons anus. If you can't even get THAT right how do we know the accuracy of the story?!?!?!
May 31st, 2007 2:25 PM
THANK YOU, "some guy"... this is NOT felching... i came here hoping to see pictures of stallone crapping semen into gere's mouth... and got this lame story... and secondly.. i know gere was involved with a gerbil for a time because i sold him the gerbil and the toilet paper roll... and i rammed the poor little creature up his ass in the back of the pet store.. it was HOT