Post by thestranglefreak on Oct 3, 2007 22:33:33 GMT -5
Danny Bonaduce is a felony suspect.
Last night, at the FOX Reality Channel Really Awards, Bonaduce jumped on stage, picked up "Survivor" star Jonny Fairplay and slammed him on his face, causing him to lose a few teeth.
Fairplay was taken to a nearby hospital, where police were called. TMZ cameras were rolling as the bloody reality star was loaded into an ambulance. Some jerk can be heard taunting the injured Fairplay, yelling "Team Bonaduce" as he got into the ride.
Bonaduce is named as the suspect in a felony battery report.
On The Adam Carolla radio show today, Bonaduce said he's had a thing against Fairplay ever since he pulled the famous grandmother stunt on Survivor, lying that she had died in order to get sympathy on the show.
Danny said he thought the show was over and he was leaving, and Fairplay was on the stage, asking the audience was booing him. Danny says, as he walked by, he said "They're booing him because they hate him."
Someone then asked Danny to go on stage and tell him that, which he says he did. Danny says he was off the first step of the stage when Fairplay lunged at him and wrapped his legs around him.
Danny says he didn't know if Fairplay was joking. He then says he grabbed the butt of Fairplay's jeans and threw him over his head, not realizing how light he was. Danny says Fairplay face planted into one of the seats behind him.
(source link: www.tmz.com/2007/10/03/bonadu...ttery-charges/
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Bonaduce: Turnabout for Fairplay?
by Gina Serpe
An otherwise forgettable reality-TV affair resulted in turnabout—and then some—for Johnny Fairplay.
The former Survivor contestant, occasional wrestler and self-proclaimed Most Hated Man in Reality Television was hospitalized following Tuesday's Fox Reality Channel's Really Awards, when an onstage scuffle with Danny Bonaduce apparently escalated.
Fairplay, who infamously faked his grandmother's death to win an immunity challenge on the Pearl Islands installment of the CBS show, filed a report with the Los Angeles Police Department at 1:45 a.m. Wednesday, after officers were dispatched to his room at the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.
According to the report, Fairplay, whose real name is Jon Dalton, alleged that he was presenting an award onstage when fellow reality show has-been Bonaduce walked unannounced and unexpectedly onstage. Fairplay said he attempted to hug the VH1 star, only to have an unprovoked Bonaduce grab Fairplay and flip him face first onto the stage.
Per his complaint, Fairplay's spill resulted in a couple of broken teeth and assorted bruises and cuts.
"Johnny was definitely injured," manager Marc Marcuse, who rode alongside Fairplay in the ambulance from the ceremony to the hospital, told E! News. "I was there at the event and there were gasps from the audience and it was very surprising. Nobody thought Danny would do that. It was scary.
"Johnny is recovering right now and that's pretty much where we are at this point."
Investigators are still trying to sort out what exactly went down. No charges have been filed against Bonaduce. (Decide for yourself, watch video of the showdown.)
For his part, the former Partridge Family player, who also cohosts of Adam Carolla's syndicated morning radio program, has already pleaded innocence.
On Wednesday's show, Bonaduce said he was waiting in the wings watching the show wrap up when he saw Fairplay take the stage.
"I can't tell if he's supposed to be there or not," he said. "He starts going, 'Why are you booing me?' over and over again."
To the people around him, Bonaduce muttered that it was because the audience hated Fairplay. Bonaduce said a woman in a headset then encouraged him to go onstage and tell Fairplay—a request Bonaduce readily obliged.
"I said, 'Buddy, they're booing because people hate you.' That's it. I turned and walked away and I am off the first step of the stage. I heard him yell, I turn around, literally 10 feet away, and he's running at me at full speed.
"He leaps into the air and straddles me—his legs are above my waist. He's now got me in the death grip, jerking me back and forth trying to know me to the ground...I just grabbed the butt of his jeans and pushed straight up into the air. And apparently he landed behind me on his teeth.
"I didn't know he'd be so light."
Bonaduce said that while he'd ordinarily be "terrified" to be a suspect in a pending assault investigation, he's confident that once police view footage of the incident, he'll be in the clear.
"This is Johnny Fairplay, who'll do anything to get his name in the paper," Bonaduce said. "I'm sure he'll try and sue me, but he'll lose rather badly."
Bonaduce's version of events was essentially seconded by America's Next Top Model winner Adrianne Curry, who has posted a blog entry on her Website claiming that the "lady in a headset" who urged Bonaduce onstage was in fact her.
Unfortunately, along with taking credit for the injury, she also paints the incident in a less accidental light.
"Danny Bonaduce whispers in my ear 'Do you think I should go up there and tell him what a douche he is?' Naturally I say YES! Then he tells me 'Do you want me to tackle him?' Silly me, I said 'DO IT DANNY!!!'
"I HELPED THIS HAPPEN!...Yep, you heard it here ladies and gentlemen...Danny Bonaduce went up onstage because of ME...I feel TERRIBLE!"
Though, it seems, the feeling passed rather quickly.
"Is it bad that secretly, I though it was a little awesome?"
(source link: www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=39ec2393-e2c1-432c-9e12-3b219f007c87&sid=fd-news)