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" Claire Sweeney has said that Richard Gere was &amp;quot;really rude&amp;quot; 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: &amp;quot;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. &amp;quot;At the end I asked about his courtroom scene, which was his big scene, and said, &amp;#039;So in the courtroom scene were you advised to sound like Dick Van Dyke or was that a character choice?&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;He just looked at his publicist and said, &amp;#039;This interview is terminated&amp;#039;. I thought, &amp;#039;Stick it up your arse&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Fern Britton recently revealed that she would love to interview Gere on her new daytime Channel 4 talkshow. &amp;amp;gt; Claire Sweeney to be GMTV reporter "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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