Claire Sweeney slams "rude" Richard Gere

Claire Sweeney has said that Richard Gere was "really rude" when she interviewed him.

The former Brookside actress and Celebrity Big Brother contestant told Metro that she responded in kind when Gere was unpleasant to her.

Sweeney explained: "I interviewed him for a TV show when I was in Chicago and the film of Chicago he was in had just come out. He tried to put me down and was just really rude.

"At the end I asked about his courtroom scene, which was his big scene, and said, 'So in the courtroom scene were you advised to sound like Dick Van Dyke or was that a character choice?'.

"He just looked at his publicist and said, 'This interview is terminated'. I thought, 'Stick it up your arse'."

Fern Britton recently revealed that she would love to interview Gere on her new daytime Channel 4 talkshow.

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