GLAAD isn't buyin' Chris Jericho's apology for using anti-gay and racist slurs at a recent event -- in fact, the gay rights group is going after the wrestler for being "insincere and worn."
Jarrett Barrios -- president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation -- tells TMZ:
"Just three months ago Chris Jericho's boss and WWE Chairman Vince McMahon acknowledged to GLAAD that words matter.
There is no time, context or occasion in which it is acceptable to utter racist and anti-gay slurs. Jericho's hollow apology 'if (he) offended anyone' is a template used by many and is insincere and worn."
WWE star Chris Jericho is wrestling with a pretty serious controversy -- after he made a slew of offensive slurs against Middle Easterners and gays.
Jericho was at the Sacramento Horror Film Festival two weeks ago ... for a screening of a movie in which he appears. During a Q&A session, Jericho referred to the moderator several times as "Hadji" -- a term sometimes used as a racial slur against Middle Easterners.
After the first wave of slurs -- and a random shot at Paris Hilton -- the host jokingly takes Jericho's drink to sniff it for booze, when Chris chimes back, "it's apple juice ... fag."
Jericho tells TMZ, "After seeing the video I realize some inappropriate comments were made and I apologize if I offended anybody." Jericho continues, "Just know that everyone on stage was having a blast and we all shared a drink and a laugh after! The good news is I got my wish of being posted on TMZ."
Everyday is like Thanksgiving to former WCW/WWE wrestler Bill Goldberg -- because according to him, dude eats a 1/2 pound of turkey bacon ... every single day!
Chickens don't get a free pass either, he also downs 10 egg whites with his breakfast.
Goldberg is outspoken about his Jewish lineage -- hope all that meat's kosher.
Stone Cold Steve Austin is the new man of steel ... inflicted injuries.
The wrestler-turned-action star showed off some serious head damage outside of Gold's Gym yesterday -- saying he got it by running right into a steel beam during a movie stunt!
And while we learned about his injury, Austin learned something even more valuable: A slightly different definition of the word "Bear."
Apparently wrestling fans aren't too keen on fighting ignorance and illiteracy, because as soon as Rev. Al Sharpton stepped into the ring at Monday Night Raw to promote his education reform tour ... all he heard was "Boooooooo!"
On a positive note, maybe they were all just chanting "Booooooks."
Reverend Al Sharpton is set to lay the smack down tonight on WWE Raw -- just don't expect to see him bodyslamming John Cena in the ring.
Yesterday in D.C., the preacher man with the best bouffant in the biz told us the only things he'll be fighting are "illiteracy" and "ignorance" as part of a national tour on education. No word on how "ignorance" looks in spandex.
We're told Sharpton was given a "nominal fee" for travel expenses -- but donated that moolah to the tour.
Former Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle dodged a bullet after his ex GF said he violated a court order by following her to a Starbucks and staring her down.
Angle -- who appeared in a Pittsburgh court yesterday -- was also cleared on charges of possessing human growth hormone ... which cops say they found in his car when they arrested him outside the Starbucks last month.
Angle convinced the judge he had a prescription for HGH to treat neck injuries -- he broke his neck back in '96.
Kurt still faces assault charges for allegedly beating the crap out of the ex-GF -- fellow wrestler Rhaka Khan. Rhaka had obtained a protective order against Angle nearly two hours before the Starbucks incident.
Jeff Hardy -- one half of the WWE tag team duo The Hardy Boyz -- was busted today after cops found a boatload of pills and steroids inside his home.
The Moore County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant at Hardy's home in Cameron, NC today -- where they found 262 Vicodin pills, 180 Soma pills, 555 milliliters of anabolic steroids and a residual amount of powder cocaine. Cops say the estimated street value of the drugs: $2,500.
Hardy was arrested on charges of "trafficking in controlled prescription pills" and possession of anabolic steroids.
Chief Deputy Neil Godfrey told us Jeff's brother posted bail, which was set at $125,000.
Disgustingly ripped WWE superstar Batista exited Bardot this weekend shirtless -- and after getting one look at that ridiculously beefed up body, we're guessing club security didn't feel compelled to remind him about their dress code.
WWE superstar Big Show is about 7' tall and weighs 485 lbs., so why did he feel the need to cheat -- or "improvise to win" -- at a thumb wrestling match with our 5'5" 125 lb. photog?
WWE superstar Triple H turned 40 last night -- and his post-Monday NightRAW birthday celebration quickly erupted into a no-holds-barred cake smashing massacre!!!
Almost everyone at WWE, including John Cena, Big Show, Vince McMahon and Batista, joined the dessert firing squad -- and, for once, it didn't look like they were entirely faking it.
Mega-huge wrestler The Big Show lied when he said he was leaving wrestling for boxing, according to a new lawsuit.
The suit claims the 7' tall, 500 pound behemoth cut a deal with SoBe Entertainment in 2007 to become a boxer. SoBe claims they paid Mr. Show $84,000 a month and fronted him an extra $1 mil for a house.
But SoBe was horrified when B.S. suddenly jettisoned his fighting plan and rejoined the WWE in 2008. To add insult to injury, Show's WWE comeback match was against a boxer -- Mr. Floyd Mayweather.
SoBe alleges Big Show conspired with the WWE to ace them out of its deal.
By the way, the Mayweather/Big Show match grossed the WWE $31,000,000, according to the suit.
The Denver Nuggets won the battle -- but the WWE isn't finished with their war.
After Vince McMahon raised hell when the team's owner screwed up and double booked the Pepsi Center for a WWE event on the same night as an NBA playoff game between the Nugs and the Lakers, the wrestlers have finally agreed to take their show on the road.
But in what seems to be a premeditated twist of fate, Vince is bringing the show to the Staples Center in L.A. -- home of the Lakers.
The Pepsi Center is now stuck having to refund thousands of tickets.
The women on "The View" might wanna rethink starting any more catfights with Sherri Shepherd -- because the daytime diva just got schooled on how to throw down like a WWE diva.
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