Pinkies up!
It’s tea time thanks to an unlikely source: Elton John! The Tiny Dancer artist is pouring a piping hot cup of vintage tea in an excerpt from his upcoming memoir Me, published in Daily Mail, involving a very unlikely trio!
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Apparently, Richard Gere and Sylvester Stallone came close to duking it out over Princess Diana at a 1994 dinner party in London. At the time, Di was separated from Prince Charles and the Pretty Woman actor had recently called it quits with Cindy Crawford.
The 72-year-old wrote:
“Straight away, Richard Gere and Diana seemed very taken with each other. As the rest of us chatted, I couldn’t help notice a strange atmosphere in the room. Judging by the kind of looks he kept shooting them, Diana and Richard Gere’s newly blossoming friendship was not going down well with Sylvester Stallone at all. think he may have turned up to the party with the express intention of picking Diana up, only to find his plans for the evening ruined.”
When it came time to be seated for dinner, the musician and now-husband David Furnish noticed the leading men were absent from the table, only to be discovered that the two were “squaring up to each other, apparently about to settle their differences over Diana by having a fist-fight.”
Though Furnish broke things up between Gere and Stallone, Lady Di’s friend noted you could cut the tension in the room with a knife:
“After dinner, Diana and Richard Gere resumed their position together in front of the fire, and Sylvester stormed off home.
Yikes!! The Bennie & The Jets artist added the Rocky actor yelled out before leaving:
“‘I never would have come,’ he snapped, as David and I showed him to the door, ‘if I’d known Prince f***in’ Charming was gonna be here.’ Then he added: ‘If I’d wanted her, I would’ve taken her!'”
Oof!!
He concluded, writing:
“We managed to wait until his car was out of sight before we started laughing. Back in our living room, Diana and Richard Gere were still gazing raptly at each other. She seemed completely unruffled.”
It’s not a huge surprise things nearly came to blows between Richard and Sylvester, Diana was gorgeous and one of the most desired women in the world. Thanks for spilling the tea, Elton!!
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