Alec Baldwin, rage monster, attacks NYDN photographer because why not?

Is it any secret that Alec Baldwin is full-on rage-monster full of anger, contempt, volatility, bile and RAAAAAAGE?!? Yeah. I think the cat’s out of the bag on that one, and even though Alec pretends that his yoga-instructor fiancée helps “calm him down,” The Rage Monster still lurks. The Rage Monster waits, patiently, for any opportunity to RAGE!!! And The Rage Monster came out this morning in NYC. Alec and Hilaria Thomas were in NYC getting a wedding license. When they came out of the office, Alec basically lost his mind and started going after a photographer for the New York Daily News. It’s the truth – look at the photos here. Here’s the NYDN report:

An enraged Alec Baldwin punched a Daily News photographer in the chin Tuesday morning for snapping his picture outside the city Marriage License Bureau. The volatile “30 Rock” star popped lensman Marcus Santos once in the face outside the Worth St. office after apparently obtaining a license to wed fiancee Hilaria Thomas.

Santos was standing innocently with two other photographers when Baldwin, 54, approached with an angry glare.

“He was looking mad,” said Santos. “He said, ‘Step back, step back.’ I said, ‘We’re moving back.’”

Baldwin then grabbed a second News photographer, Jefferson Siegel, and Santos told the “Rock of Ages” star to back off.

“I said, ‘Don’t touch him,’” the 42-year-old Santos said. “I knew he was going to attack me. I stepped back, and he kept coming. “He comes after me, starts shoving and punching me — one time, right in the chin. And then he started shoving me, and pushing me. Then he goes the other way.”

Eyewitness Goran Veljic said Baldwin’s face filled with rage as he went after the shooters.

“He was like crazy, you know?” said freelancer Veljic, who takes photos outside the office every day. “There was an eruption of mad. … You’re going to get a marriage license, you should be happy. What happened with this guy?”

Baldwin, whose first marriage to Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger ended in a contentious divorce, had seemingly found serenity with his younger yoga instructor. But his notorious nasty side surfaced on the otherwise happy occasion as Baldwin stormed away without saying a word. Thomas, 28, was not with Baldwin when the punch was thrown.

[From NYDN]

I think this is exactly what happened. Even if the NYDN didn’t have photographic evidence, I would be completely willing to believe that Alec Baldwin lost his sh-t on several photographers for literally no reason. But of course, Alec has a reason! Alec got on his Twitter account to tell his side of the story. Some of his tweets from today:

[Via Alec’s Twitter]

So Alec’s story is that a paparazzo “almost hit him in the face with his camera”. Thus, RAGE MONSTER ATTACK!!! Yeah. Not buying it. Also, I think the “if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over” reference is in extremely poor taste. Alec Baldwin lost his s–t over a paparazzo, as he has done many, many times before. It wasn’t about race, or a slain child, or a community reeling from a devastating loss – it was about Alec being full of rage. Let’s take down the drama.

Here’s one of the NYDN photos:

Photos courtesy of WENN and Jefferson Siegel/NYDN.

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  1. Maguita says:

    Did he also call him a “thoughtless little pig” and punch a whole through the wall behind him?

    Hilaria, please stop being hilarious stupid, and recognized the 24/7 sign above that bully’s head. run for the hills girl. RUN!

    • Huruma says:

      What do you mean run? Do you have any idea what a yoga instructor makes in this economy?

      @ future Mrs Alec “the rage machine” Baldwin: You go get yo money gurl!!!

    • Sassy says:

      Did Kim Bassinger ever accuse him of battery or abuse? I can’t remember that far back.

      • the original bellaluna says:

        I think Kim accused him of “emotional battery” but I’m not sure about the physical abuse. I wouldn’t doubt it though.

      • Maguita says:

        Yes, many times.

        And Alec was often caught publicly screaming at his now ex-wife, way back then. There was public emotional abuse, and she had stated that there was physical behind closed doors, as well.

        That was why she had desperately fought to keep him away from their daughter, Ireland.

      • LadidahBaby says:

        Yeah, I remember a papparazzi shot of Alec on a sidewalk, think it was in NYC, his face purple and contorted with rage, Leaning forward and SCREAMING at Kim Basinger, who was just cowering there. And I recall reading a comment Kim made a few years ago when she and Alec were trying to be more congenial for Ireland’s sake, that he asked Kim to go and look at a house he was thinking of buying, and there was a sheer cliff behind it. In the news item (and if course I can’t confirm it, but she did say it), Kim claimed that Alec kept trying to get her to come closer and closer to the very edge of that sheer drop behind the house (the two of them were alone there), and she refused to do so out of fear that he was going to push her over the cliff and then call it an accident. It seems to me that it takes some pretty scary history for a woman to think that way about the father of her child.

    • corny says:

      all that weight loss and feel good yoga made him a thoughtless little pig, he needs some saturated fat and red meat to caLm his angry self down

    • Crazy Charlize says:

      The douche is at it again.

      http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/alec-baldwin-plays-victim-attack-daily-news-photographer-ignores-questions-anger-management-issues-article-1.1099090

      Photographer-bashing Alec Baldwin found a new target Wednesday, rolling his mountain bike over a television reporter’s foot outside his East Village apartment.

      The Emmy-winning “30 Rock” star then used the bike to knock the “Inside Edition” reporter aside as she asked Baldwin a question about his latest public meltdown — a fight with a Daily News photographer.

      “Ouch, my back,” the 5-foot-2 woman said after her brush with the hot-headed Baldwin. “He shoved me and ran over my foot.”

  2. RocketMerry says:

    I really am tempted to not care a bit. I just LOVE mr Baldwin.
    What is it with the Baldwin boys? They’re just so incredibly attractive, it makes me want to overlook so many of their flaws!

    • Jackie O says:

      sick.

    • Maguita says:

      Aaah, nothing sexier than Stephen Baldwin’s rage-filled “Christian” hateful verbal attacks on colleagues and family members. On camera no less.

      Or that other Baldwin’s divorce because of his drug-induced rages where he beats up his wife.

      Or that other Baldwin’s constant cheating on his wife.

      Or that other Baldwin’s punching through walls during his Broadway run because not everything was up to par with his own demented expectations.

      Sexy as hell those Baldwin brothers.

      Come on RocketMerry, were you truly not aware of the extent of their misogyny-filled shortcomings?

      Shweddy balls is just one funny side of their shitty shenanigans.

    • RocketMerry says:

      Eh, I know, it’s sick. I am always attracted to these kind of men; that’s why I try to stay the hell away from men I like or feel attracted to in real life, I just know that if I like ’em there’s something wrong with ’em.

  3. neelyo says:

    I blame ROCK OF AGES.

  4. marie says:

    SERENITY NOW

  5. Kaboom says:

    Maybe some community service may be in order. I suggest making him supervise Lindsay’s sobriety for two weeks.

  6. Embee says:

    Hilaria, honey, personality disorders like this don’t resolve themselves with diet and exercise.

    Run, girl. Run fast and far.

    • pwal says:

      Why does your post remind me of the Chappelle Show sketch featuring Wayne Brady?

      Run, b!tch! Run for your life! Get some help!

  7. Jackie O says:

    what makes this woman think she won’t be next. i guess they all think that. sure honey, he will never do that to you.

    she makes women look like idiots.

  8. Kosmos says:

    Personally, I think I would have a hard time with being papped all the time, how can you not be bothered? Alec can get angry and all that, but I sympathize with him on this one issue. I would hate it, too, especially when the paps shout out to the celebs constantly to intimidate them into talking. I really think there should be a LAW banning paps from photographing at close range, and also from SPEAKING to celebs. Anyone else here think so?

    • Lisa says:

      Yes! See my comment further down. It’s absolutely not an excuse to beat the crap out of someone, but a lot of these celebs probably feel like that’s the only way to get the message across.

  9. Jayna says:

    How’s that yoga working for ya’, Alex?

  10. Sorella says:

    Makes me LOL about some of these celebs going bonkers and wanting privacy so much yet you just know when their popularity starts to fade (which is inevitable) they will be BEGGING to have attention from the papps,the public, basicaly anybody!! Once they become a “what ever happened to…” and Alec is a actor heading towards 60, after 30 Rock and popping up in the odd movie (notice that he is never the headliner or main star though and his roles are never big..hence not the biggest star), he will fade away and be BEGGING for jobs and attention then.

  11. Veruca says:

    I liked him in Red October.

    Then the Kim thing, his daughter, and the “I’m going to leave America if Bush gets elected” (not that I blame him, but don’t throw threats) …

    add that to the fact that he always looks constipated…

    nope. I don’t see the appeal, and have made it a point to mute all Capital One commercials.

    He’s a pompous ass.

  12. Nev says:

    -they have said the bros have anger management issues.

    -the only way to manage or overcome is to do the counselling and the inner work…long, ardous personal work.

    -not easy, takes time and effort.

  13. another nina says:

    My favorite story about Alec is how he was demonstrating to his daughter how upset he was about her behavior, then he went a little overboard creatively, so Ireland just called 911 on him. Then he had to explain his idiotic behavior to an unsuspected public for about a month.
    But at least he is a gifted performer! I enjoy all his rage in these pictures…

  14. pwal says:

    Gotta laugh, just a little bit, because some on here was working themselves into a little crush due to his appearance on the ROA red carpet.

    His chin is slightly less than double, but that temper is fully intact.

  15. Sabrine says:

    If the pap blocked his way, he deserved a good punch or two. No one who gets in someone’s personal space like that should think they won’t get a fist to the face. I somehow doubt Alec is like that to Hilaria. No money would be worth having to walk on eggshells. He still should get an iron clad prenup though.

    People are still bringing up the voice mail he left his daughter? It was no big deal but some people seem to think it was. Weird.

    • mewmow says:

      @Sabrine, you can’t be serious that you don’t see anything wrong with the voicemail to his daughter! His daughter! He said some horrible things that no Father should say to his child. You must of heard a different voicemail. 🙁

    • Jackie O says:

      wow. so you have no issue with verbal abuse toward a child. interesting.

      • crtb says:

        Hear worse at the supermarket and the playground every week. The REAL child abuse is the person who released those tapes for the whole world to hear. Alec said those things in private. Kim huniliated her daughter in front of the entire world. I think that is so much more abusive.

      • mewmow says:

        @crtb so because you’ve heard worse, that excuses what he did? that is ridiculous. Of course whoever released the tapes are disgusting to, but that doea not give him a pass. What kind of a person says that to their child, in private or public? Just because he meant for her to hear it only absolutely does not make it any better! 🙁

  16. Trish says:

    he really needs to get over himself..a couple of more years no one will care or stalk him with cameras any longer…it’s when they stop taking pictures that you should care. you won’t be relevant much longer so suck it up and don’t be such a childish hothead…!

  17. Cait says:

    Ugh, he is so disgusting to me. How a woman would ever get with that I will never know.

  18. Beth says:

    He’s a total douche.

  19. nancy xl says:

    these photographers are awful. he may not have deserved it this time, but i’m sure he did deserved it at one point and never got it. get over it. love Alec!

  20. Junegorilla says:

    He’s a total psycho

  21. Lisa says:

    I don’t like this guy at all, but I tend to side with celebrities who let paps have it. Launching a physical attack is pushing it (no pun intended), but those guys are ruthless. The way they sidle up to a person and start talking to them in that glib way as if they know them personally and are owned something is slimy.

    • amie says:

      Totally, in particular I have a problem with the ones who stalk celebs with young children and like a pack of pervs hang outside schools, parks, playgrounds, calling out to the children as if they know them. Now that my friends is freaky, creepy and absolutely out of line.

      • Lisa says:

        Ugh, that is the limit. And whether it’s with kids or not, when they get snapped at or ignored, they act surprised. “They were SO MEAAAAAN” Well, you showed up at their kid’s school with a billion cameras. I’d be mean too!

  22. cody says:

    This is a sign and I hope Hilaria has family or close friends that can convince her to get out of this relationship. It is still not to late. She is young and maybe does not have the experience or depth of understanding about a guy like this.

  23. garvels says:

    I give the marriage 2 years max. She will probably want to have a child with him to maximize the divorce settlement. This guy has no business being in a relationship with a warthog let alone an actual human being, due to his rage issues.

  24. Lizzie K says:

    Alec Baldwin is a douche. You can clean him up pretty and shine his shoes and fit him in a nice suit. But he’s still just a douche.

    Always was, always will be.

  25. buell says:

    Why can’t an angry bird take out this pig?

  26. Str8Shooter says:

    Someone needs to smack the living shit of this douchebag. Publicly. Then I will personally open a Twatter account and post nothing but smiley faces :))))

  27. Loulou says:

    It’s either he has generational alcoholic issues where they inherit some kind of chemical imbalance or he’s just a sh*thead.

  28. jc126 says:

    I never fault any celeb for decking a photographer. they almost invariably deserve it.

  29. Prim says:

    I’m so sick of his rages and him being forgiven for it. He shoves his fiance down everyone’s throats. He showed her on Letterman. Had her give interviews to entertainment shows when she has no movies to promote. She teaches yoga. If Alec wanted privacy, he could get it. He made Kim look like the psycho one when he has major issues too. Kim just doesn’t run to the press to make excuses like he does.

  30. Skinnybetch says:

    The paparazzi are like a sub species. . Anyone who stalks people and their children for a living deserves to get punched. And why are all paparazzi greasy looking foreigners?

  31. Nanz says:

    I wonder who called the pap in the first place. I mean, what a coincidence that the pap just happened to be there the day they go get their license.

  32. the original bellaluna says:

    To me, he’s always given off the vibe of barely contained rage. It’s like he’s got the…”veneer” of civilization, if you will. But push him (literally or figuratively) and he becomes the bear he truly is.

    Yeah, I’ve known a few.

  33. anti-icon says:

    Alec seems to be spiraling out of control again lately. Hasn’t he been fairly meek and mild until this engagement (she’s quite pretty, btw.) And the stalker, who turned out to be a former publicist on one of his films who he slept with. He is a BIG RED FLAG of anger. I do like him as an actor, but I think Hilaria should go find a nice guy her own age who has a more…mellow…orientation to life.

    • Liberty says:

      My guess is that “mellow” is not the m-word she is looking for.

      She seems quite capable.

  34. Jellybean says:

    He’s a crazy loose cannon.

  35. Sugar says:

    as I was reading this post on my radio was Pat Benatar singing hit me with your best shot…fire away Alex

  36. Kel says:

    Most women like to think they can “fix” a man. Heck, I’m guilty of it. I’m sure Hilaria thought “all he needs is some exercise and a few ohms and some good lovin’ from ME!” Ahh, youthful naivety. Hope someone helps her to SEE.

  37. Anon says:

    If Alec wants to win at this game he has to borrow some pointers from Jim Carrey. If one is out and about living one’s life and there are the bottom feeders stalking; go over to them and physically hug them until they slink away. It is passive aggressive and necessary.

  38. erika says:

    eeewwwww…

    If you look close up to his forehead/spiked up ‘bangs’ you can see the residue of his hairspray (gel? looks like hairspray mist) mixed in with lil dandruff (dead skin flakes?)? looks all crunchy and sticky!!!

  39. RHONYC says:

    that yoga instructor wife of his did some kinda voodoo on him. he looks amazing!
    i never that we’d see ‘slim’ Alec again. *wee-woo*
    😉

  40. Holy shit, she looks like fried bacon. (or should I say 1/2 fat fried bacon)Report this comment as spam or abuse

  41. Ann says:

    A lot of people made a lot of very good points about him on here. As for the excuse-making about paparazzi having it coming, etc., it doesn’t wash, in his case — consider his attitude, behavior, etc. in other circumstances. His family, the “friends” he and others are always quoting, and others just “enable” him. I know him to be a bully and a creep, I’m not well impressed by Ridicula, and the two of them deserve each other. How nice it would be if both of them, and the whole Baldwin clan, would just disappear.