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 Drunk Fan Arrested for Getting Grabby with Cher
A drunken fan was arrested early Wednesday morning after getting a bit too grabby with gay icon and diva extraordinaire Cher. Police took 36-year-old Calvin Hougland into custody after he tried to get too ‘friendly’ with Cher at The World Famous Tootsies Orchid Lounge in Nashville. Houghland was thrown out of the lounge for harassing the singer, but repeatedly attempted to return, resulting in his arrest and incarceration.
Drunk Fan Arrested for Getting Grabby with Cher
Written By Ann Turner
Location: Nashville, TN
Category: | Daily News |
A drunken fan was arrested early Wednesday morning after getting a bit too grabby with gay icon and diva extraordinaire Cher. Police took 36-year-old Calvin Hougland into custody after he tried to get too ‘friendly’ with Cher at The World Famous Tootsies Orchid Lounge in Nashville. Houghland was thrown out of the lounge for harassing the singer, but repeatedly attempted to return, resulting in his arrest and incarceration.
According to a report from gossip site TMZ.com, Cher was apparently was enjoying a late night out at The World Famous Tootsies Orchard Lounge in downtown Nashville. The Lounge, a landmark honky tonk establishment in Nashville, is known as a legendary hangout for performers from the Grand Ole Opry back in the day. Country music icons such as Patsy Cline, Tom T. Hall, Waylon Jennings and Mel Tillis were known to frequent Tootsies, along with a bevy of other famous and not-yet-famous luminaries.
Why Cher chose to hang out at Tootsies in the wee hour of the morning is unknown, but apparently the outing turned into anything but a pleasant walk down the memory lane of country music. While Cher was chilling out in the Lounge, she was reportedly accosted by a drunken man out to get her attention, hell or high water. The man, identified by TMZ.com as Calvin Houghland, began harassing Cher and even had the audacity to try to lay hands on the diva. According to the Associated Press, Houghland actually managed to grab Cher by the waist before being tackled by security.
Houghland was thrown out of Tootsies for his behavior, but apparently was not ready to give up on his stalking. After repeated attempts to get back into the Lounge, authorities finally had to arrest him and haul him off to jail around 1:00 a.m. Police charged Houghland with public intoxication and disorderly conduct and left him to dry out until he can raise enough to post his $3,000 bail.
Most amusingly, Houghland actually called the police himself during the incident to say he was being assaulted by the security people attempting to keep him away from Cher. Keeping her cool, Cher declined to press charges for assault against the drunken fan.
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