Jonah Hill Jumps Into Controversy Just As His Career Gets Serious

June 03, 2014
Jonah Hill Jumps Into Controversy Just As His Career Gets Serious
By Jenelle Riley For someone who has achieved a high degree of fame in his 20s, Jonah Hill managed to stay out of the tabloids and gossip columns—until now. This past weekend he unleashed a homophobic slur at a paparazzo while he was walking with a friend in the Larchmont Village area of Los Angeles. Losing his cool, the 30-year-old star lashed out at a photographer who was teasing him about his flowered shorts. "Suck my d—k, you f----t," Hill told the ma... Full Story on Variety.com→
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