Actor Josh Duhamel was kicked off a flight headed from New York to Kentucky yesterday after he refused to turn his BlackBerry off in preparation for takeoff. Maybe the pilot didn’t get the memo that he was more important than everybody else on board. Yahoo News says:

A passenger on the flight said that Duhamel was “very rude” and “taunting” a male flight attendant’s repeated requests to turn off his device.

Upon the attendant’s third request, Duhamel reportedly laughed. At that point, the still-grounded plane left the runway and headed back to the gate — further delaying the flight and reportedly angering other passengers.

Two officers later boarded the plane, and escorted the Transformers actor off the vessel.

A rep for the actor [claimed] that Duhamel was simply texting about his flight being delayed. “He’s sorry,” the rep added.

No telling how many people were on board that flight, but you know they were pissed. Josh Duhamel isn’t even a real celebrity. In an independent survey of people in my house, 67% of the occupants could only identify him as “The Guy from That One Show That I’m Pretty Sure Got Canceled.” 31% referred to him as “Mr. Tinkle Britches,” and the remaining 2% vomited up the last of the Virginia Gentleman she’d been chugging upon inquiry. Unfortunately, I was unable to chart that response on my bar graph. Mostly because it seems I had barfed on the bar graph. I guess that’s where that +/- 2 percent error comes into play.

Speaking of non-celebrities, Kelly Bensimon in a bikini:

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