How Sandra Bullock found happiness with her 'great guy' Bryan Randall http://t.co/WGBVNddcCN pic.twitter.com/YuCM7h1Du8

— People magazine (@people) September 1, 2015

Yesterday we heard that Sandra Bullock’s new boyfriend, photographer Bryan Randall, was the subject of a temporary restraining order after going HAM on his neighbor for letting his dog poop on his lawn. Randall reportedly smeared the dog poo near his neighbor’s door. Some of you, including me, defended Randall. It’s so frustrating to deal with people who refuse to clean up after their dogs and some anger is understandable. Others said that this behavior was worrying and scary, particularly because of Bullock’s tendency to go for guys who are a-holes. I did not find one angry outburst at a terrible neighbor to be concerning, but I wish I could go off on some of the people who regularly let their dogs poop on my lawn.

It turns out the Randall has an arrest record and that he’s been busted for DUI, or failure to appeal and for driving on a suspended license – back in 1988, when he was 22 years old. Then in 1990, when he was 25, he went on a tear and pulled a Johnny Depp in a hotel room. Star Magazine has this news [via Radar]

In April 1988, Randall was charged with DUI in Portland. He eventually pled guilty — but not before racking up multiple warrants for missing court dates and driving with a suspended license during the five years the case wound through the court system.

In the summer of 1990, Randall went on a four-day bender in L.A. and destroyed his hotel room. He allegedly ripped his ceiling fan down, tore up curtains and piled all the room’s furniture up in a heap, winding up in a hospital.
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After Randall’s 1993 DUI guilty plea, which included a four-day stint in jail and two years of probation, he was supposed to attend an “alcohol evaluation and treatment program” — but Multnomah County, Oregon, District Court papers show the treatment was terminated in July 1995 after Randall didn’t bother to contact his court-appointed monitor for a year.

[Star Magazine via Radar]

So the last time Randall had issues, according to this report, was around 1995 when he was 29 years old. If he got sober-ish (I don’t think people have to be abstinent to turn it around from hellraiser to decent citizen but I like my cocktails) but more importantly if he didn’t run into any further issues with the law, then I don’t necessarily see the problem. I hope for Sandra’s sake that this Randall is a better person now. Her PR people are certainly trying to convince us that he is. His last girlfriend was 23 years old, his neighbor took out a restraining order against him in 2012, and he failed to fulfill his DUI requirements in his late 20s after several years of chances. The strikes are adding up.

People Magazine has a new story about a double date that Bullock and Randall had with Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux in Austin, Texas at Bullock’s soon-to-be-shuttered restaurant, Bess Bistro. The restaurant is closing on September 20th. Two named eyewitnesses tells People all about the evening, including how Randal “was rubbing [Bullock’s] back with his hand and [putting] his arm around her.” The eyewitness also reports that the couples “seemed to know each other very well, and seemed quite close.” It sounds like well orchestrated PR, but at least they went with real people to give the positive, glowing quotes and not unnamed sources. Randal is described as a “tall, gorgeous, silver fox” and there’s a moment where Sandra and Jennifer walk out arm in arm, looking like they’re “having this cool, girl to girl talk with each other.” Cut scene. Note that Jennifer is spending time with Justin in Texas, where he’s filming The Leftovers Season 2. We previously heard that they would be apart for three months.

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