@jason1007: Classic. Almost fried a keyboard with the gulp of coffee.

Tiger_Tanaka

Officer: Might we arrest you now?

Bale: I have a premiere, I'm afraid.

Officer: I see. And after?

Bale: I have a press conference.

Officer: Of course. Certainly. How silly of me. Let's see. I don't have my blackberry on me.. (turns to other officer) Do you have one? No. A bit of a cock up, this.

Bale: How 'bout this? I turn myself in at my leisure.

Officer: Splendid. Yes. That would be brilliant. Cheers. And if you could just bring a signed photo. It's for my sister. You don't have a problem with everyone's sister?

Bale: No, just mine.

Officer: Good. Good.

OldTowneTavern

Somehow, somewhere, Sienna Miller is involved in this.

Little Mintz Sunshine

@jenndavo:

Assuming he did it.

In Britain anyone you even snap at in irritation can charge you with assault. All we know is that he "lashed out" at them. For all we know they were harping on him for hours before he finally just told them to shut the fuck up already and leave him alone and now they're playing the victim card.

Werrick

I have but a few words to say about this situation ... money grubbing family members who were not an intergal part of his life for about a decade. According to Biography his father was his true support when he came to America.

allquckedup

Oh please, a clown and an IT person? Who wouldn't want to slap them around a little?
@Allie Anne: Yowzan Indeed!

TurdBlossom

Do they normally file these types of complaints over there? What happened to the stiff upper lip?

gaynyernbama

As I said yesterday, I don't trust anybody that dresses up like a damn bat.

Tiger_Tanaka

Prepare yourself for the inevitable Tour of Contrition, starring Christian and his stepmother, Gloria "Don't worry, ladies, I'll be kicking his ass over this" Steinem.

jenndavo

Bale was just mad because they ate all the scrimps.

jasonelias

He was trying to get them to tell him where they stashed Rachel and Harvey.

BrandonGK

@Allie Anne: I like, I like. I'm hoping for something along those lines.

ColbertNation

Cops: "Sir, do you assault women, in particular your own mum & sis?"

Bale: "No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night."

Old No.7

Bale's mom's a clown, he pulled her down off her unicycle and slapped the shit out of her.

jasonelias

Oh, Baley. My sweet, sweet Baley.

I was very surprised by this. He doesn't seem like the kind of man who would do something like that. This is more in Josh Brolin territory.

ColbertNation

YOWZA! That is the finest picture of Christian I've EVER seen.

Need to reserve judgement on this one...

He was probably a nervous wreck about the premiere and Mom and Sis started riding his ass about something and he snapped and said something not so nice to them. (An assault charge in England can easily be purely verbal.)

If it WAS something like that, then shame on the fam for going to the cops and tarnishing his (until now) impeccable reputation.

If it was something MORE (I doubt it), then shame on him. (He's still smokin' hot in that pic, though!)

Allie Anne

+ Watch video

NoWireHangers

Maybe he was better suited for Two-Face?

Oxycontinmoron

I actually have an inside source. It started with mum and sis consuming everything in the minibar. When Christian said he wasn't taking either of them down the red carpet because they were bleedin' pissed, mum was like, "I only had a little vodka" and sis was all "Oy, ya think you're too good for us, idn't it?" and well...things got ugly from there.

kookla

POW! BAM! OOF!

jason1007

Let loose the Batman/Bateman jokes! Fly my pretties, fly!

shutupitsmine

Oh come on, who doesn't, um, bat their mother around a little?

WGARefugee

Please Seth, no more with the parsing of the Welsh language. Think of the little 'uns.

Also, BBC are first out of the gate with the '' BAIL FOR BALE '' headline I see. Ahh, the Beeb.

Calraigh

Dammit. Heath's getting all the attention. I know...I'll smack my two bitches up.

thomashenry

"Fighting cops...it's been awhile..."

Juancho

I, personally, find him more than hot enough to physically assault me.

But I am, of course, shocked and very disappointed. I'm hoping there's more to this that excuses his actions - though there's almost no possibility that there's a plausible reason to hit your mother.

Although, while in Atlantic City yesterday, I did see a girl who looked kind of like Sarah Silverman (but wasn't) slap the shit out of her grandmother, but one expects that out of New Jersey, not so much out of dreamy Welsh actors.

Victor Ward

Holy Hotness!! I could be arrested for what I want to do to him after looking at that picture.

EvilMinion

@Juancho:

Well done. In that spirit I would like to add, "In your most private moments, I want you to remember the one man who beat you."

Ernst Stavro Blofeld

@Ernst Stavro Blofeld: thank you for getting it, I knew someone here would.

Juancho

@Werrick: With Gloria S. as his stepmom, I'm hoping that he is (A) too smart for this crap, and innocent of all charges, or (B) about to have his ass handed to him, if the rumors prove true.

jenndavo

VERBAL ABUSE! Basically he called his sister a money grubbing skank and told his mom to piss off.. Not exactly a fistfight!!!

DanLar75

@OldTowneTavern: Thank you. That was fabulous!

TryThisAtHome

@DanLar75: Is that true? Because I suspect something of that nature. They fought, perhaps he grabbed them by their arms and shoved them out the door.

Trixie from Toronto

That picture makes me wish I was the one getting a nice firm spanking.

Caroline Meeber

Somewhere Katherine Heigel is kicking herself screaming, "why didn't I think of beating my own mother!"

CatherineTrammell

His slick, ineffable hotness will let him slide so swiftly past those limey loser-accusers.

I smell a shakedown, and if Mum is not careful, the only circus she'll be unicycling in is Picadilly.

mothrafairy

@roxybebop: although kudos to the "bail for bale" headline.

oh shit, and estelle getty passing away?? worst.day.ever.

roxybebop

this is some effed up shit. sers.

i have met christian bale 5 times (okay, maybe i'm a stalker. so??) and he seriously has been the nicest and an extremely charming guy. i even met his sister louise (not the one who involved in the altercation) and his dad a few years before he passed away, and my god, the nicest family ever.

this is just bad press.

roxybebop

yes, i, who love the batman, didn't think much of the actor in the bat suit. i'm thinking that picture might be changing my mind. yes, let me have another look. a LONG look. if you know what i mean.

LLH

Pie chart for examination:
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Huge Tracts of Land

;)

DrAftershave

i understand that it's not right to beat a family member, but is it wrong to beat your own member? after all, that's also supposed to be a sin.

DrAftershave

@OldTowneTavern:

Awesome.

Also:

It's been reported that Bale was released without charges. Sources to the news agencies agree that it was over nothing, Bale himself stated it was a bogus charge. The guy has no history of this in his twenty year career, and his family IS estranged (have been since he was 13?).

He's got nothing to worry about.

Surprised this wasn't followed up here.

Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention

Defamer, I find it hard to be iffy about this situation when you INSIST on putting up pictures of him looking like prime beefcake.

that is all.

TexasCrude

@Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention: Thank you for the information. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some Bale worship to catch up on.

ColbertNation

@Juancho: Dark Knight Returns reference...wow. Nicely done.

UncannyXMan

@Caroline Meeber: Oh, yeah. Yikes.

bugupit

I didn't know you could file assault charges for verbal assault in the UK. If they did that here, that O'Reilly guy would be up the river.

MissyMiss

I don't think he did it, and the only way I see him doing something like that was if they found out he was Batman.

kylo4

It would take a lot to get me to call the police on anyone.
To call the police because someone was a bit nasty to me... well, I'd say what I thought of that but I don't want to be arrested.

Lapinot