In the mid-1980s a rumour began about actor Richard Gere, claiming that he had to have a gerbil removed from his anus at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in California. Snopes writes,
The rumor's spread was aided by an anonymous prankster who, not long after the film Pretty Woman led to a tremendous increase in Gere's popularity, flooded fax machines in Hollywood with a phony "press release" purportedly issued by the Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, claiming that Gere had "abused" a gerbil. But, as a reporter from The National Enquirer found when he attempted to track down the gerbil story, there were no facts to be had.
2006-06-08 19:53:47
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answered by SurfinOnDryLand 5
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Goes with squirrels trying to take over the world (which they are www.allsquirrelsmustdie.com), satanic trees, Britney Spears' magnetic breast implants being part of a plan by Dan P. Quayle to raise an army in Cambodia and take over the world, and of course Derek Jeter!
2006-06-08 19:55:43
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answered by k9ofstrikex 2
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You need to check a hospitial in SFV mission hills . Lets just say I would not watch a Gere movie to this day.
2006-06-08 19:58:16
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answered by dianehaggart 5
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I heard that he alternates between gerbil and whatever female co-star he's working with at the time........
2006-06-08 19:58:01
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answered by Anonymous
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that rumor is about 20 years old and it was just a rumor
2006-06-08 20:27:47
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answered by Anonymous
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there is no definitive proof, but the gerbils in question were covered in poo that traced back to his DNA
2006-06-08 19:57:02
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answered by rdsmithcma2003 1
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Yep! It is just a vicious rumour, started by u ********
2006-06-08 19:59:29
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answered by Anonymous
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He is part gerbil
2006-06-08 19:55:07
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answered by Judas Rabbi 7
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I don't know- ask the gerbils!
2006-06-08 19:52:50
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answered by ? 3
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I think it;s probably a rumor.....umhum
2006-06-08 19:52:47
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answered by lefty 4
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