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Jeremy Piven can't stay away from drama at sushi restaurants.

He dropped his phone into the toilet at Sunda restaurant in Chicago Saturday night, the New York Post reports. He summoned the staff to fish the phone out for him and pack it in rice to dry it out.

Jeremy reportedly stuck to veggie rolls on Saturday, but he reintroduced fish into his diet last year after mercury poisoning took him off Broadway and nearly gave him a heart attack.

He recently said he made a mistake by failing to defend himself against the disbelievers.

"I didn't retaliate," he told the LA Times. "I decided to take the high road. Now I think I did the wrong thing in doing that."

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Comments

[drsoos]

I bet he gets TIME's Person of the Year award. Maybe even a Nobel Prize. This is news? Even for the entertainment page? I hope to see the following if possible: "Jeremy Piven breaks wind in his living room," or "Jeremy Piven coughs."

[CubanVoice]

Came here to ask someone to please explain to me what makes this a story?

[TheBaffler]

Is this the longest HP has gone without a story about Piven? I knew it was too good to last.

[ArtsyJane]

Here's some substantial, world-changing news for all of us.

[Lovableloser]

Jeremy, Jeremy. You called the STAFF to fish out your phone for you? I truly hope they handed him some gloves and said: "You're on your own, pal."

P.S. Jeremy: A bit of reality orientation here: Entourage is just fiction. Ari Gold does not exist.

Stars. They're just like us.

[ohiotechie]

Now assuming that after drying the phone it would still be functional, who in the world would want to put that thing up to their head after it had been in a toilet? I accidentally dropped my favorite travel mug into a trash can today and guess what, it's still there. I sure ain't going to drink out of it again. The only thing I'd retrieve and keep from a toilet might be my wedding ring and even then I'd be totally skeeved by it.

[magnetplanner]

I guess he figured since it was the restroom at a sushi restaurant it was okay. No one's eating triple baconators there.

[ohiotechie]

Well, they certainly could have had a triple baconator for lunch or dinner the night before, right? I mean it doesn't come out right away (at least in my case). That would be most inconvenient at dinner parties if everyone all had to relieve themselves the moment they ate.

Besides, p@@p is still p@@p regardless of what it was before it was eaten. It should never, under any circumstances, be next to a person's face.

[zombywulf]

How long did he swim around after he dove in after it?

[Gebbeth]

Is it me, or is this guy just a jerk. It was probably always there, but TV fame seems to have blown-up his mind.

[seattles bestkeptsecret]

He needs a new manager if this is the best press he can get.

[Beka13]

My 14 year old daughter dropped her phone into a toilet at school....

[TheBestLackAllConviction]

Why would a person expect someone else to fish out a cell phone he/she dropped into a toliet?

Arrogant smuck!

[seattles bestkeptsecret]

They could get some gloves on?

[gtx281]

No kidding. It's just toilet water, not raw sewage. Go wash your hands real quick afterwards. Geez, what a poosay.

[Mattcat25]

I once witnessed a person in a restaurant rest room accidentally drop a $5.00 bill into the commode. The person immediately reached into their pocket book and produced a $50.00 Dollar Bill that they then through into the commode. I curiously asked why’d you do that?

They answered, “I wasn’t going in there for only $5 dollars!”

[gtx281]

lol, what a nut

[pissdoffinohio]

OHHHHHH SNAP!
now WHO wd just say, no what? i'll get a new one. Ew factor of 9.8

[floater]

There is something fishy about Piven.

[Chad Sexington III]

Other than his toupee?

[trebledamages]

Lesson be learned -- it takes a S C H M U C K to publish an article about a S C H M U C K.