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Shatner upset over Takei 'snub' | Shatner upset over Takei 'snub' |
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Actor William Shatner has said he feels "nothing but pity" for his Star Trek co-star George Takei after failing to be invited to his wedding last month. | Actor William Shatner has said he feels "nothing but pity" for his Star Trek co-star George Takei after failing to be invited to his wedding last month. |
In a video posted on his website, Shatner said he had no idea why Takei held the grudge that kept him from being invited to the ceremony. | In a video posted on his website, Shatner said he had no idea why Takei held the grudge that kept him from being invited to the ceremony. |
"It's sad. I feel nothing but pity for him," he said. | "It's sad. I feel nothing but pity for him," he said. |
Takei married his long-term partner Brad Alman on 15 September in front of a number of his Star Trek co-stars. | Takei married his long-term partner Brad Alman on 15 September in front of a number of his Star Trek co-stars. |
"The whole thing makes me feel badly," Shatner said in the video. | "The whole thing makes me feel badly," Shatner said in the video. |
"Poor man, it's so patently obvious that there is a psychosis there. I don't know what his original thing about me was, I have no idea." | "Poor man, it's so patently obvious that there is a psychosis there. I don't know what his original thing about me was, I have no idea." |
The 77-year-old said he felt he never knew Takei when they worked together on the original TV series and later in the Star Trek films. | The 77-year-old said he felt he never knew Takei when they worked together on the original TV series and later in the Star Trek films. |
'Silliness' | |
"I literally don't know him - I didn't know him very well on the series, but he's continued to speak badly of me all these years," he said. | "I literally don't know him - I didn't know him very well on the series, but he's continued to speak badly of me all these years," he said. |
"You'd think there would be an epiphany at some point where he'd say - as he and I don't have many years left in this world - 'I wish him well', but instead what he does is makes a big deal about not inviting me to his wedding." | "You'd think there would be an epiphany at some point where he'd say - as he and I don't have many years left in this world - 'I wish him well', but instead what he does is makes a big deal about not inviting me to his wedding." |
Takei and Altman had previously said that Shatner was invited to their wedding, but he did not RSVP. | Takei and Altman had previously said that Shatner was invited to their wedding, but he did not RSVP. |
The couple were joined by Takei's Star Trek co-stars at the wedding."It is unfortunate that Bill was unable to join us for our wedding as he indeed was invited to attend," Takei said on his website. | |
Speaking on US show Entertainment Tonight, Takei branded Shatner's rant as "silliness" and described the actor as having "a big, shining, demanding ego". | |
He denied the allegation the pair were strangers saying: "We've done six movies together, three seasons of television and been doing Star Trek conventions together for the last 40-plus years - yes I guess he doesn't know us." | |
"By my sending an invitation to him was burying the hatchet - we keep reaching out and he takes it and twists it and turns it into something that's ugly," he said. | |
The 71-year-old said he would continue to extend olive branches to Shatner and invited him to join him in is fight to defeat Proposition 8 which seeks to deny same-sex couples from marrying in the state of California. | |
"Bill used the word psychotic against me, but I think his stability is quite questionable," he added. | |
Star Trek actors Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nichols, who played Chekhov and Uhura, were the best man and matron-of-honour at Takei's ceremony at the Japanese American National Museum. | Star Trek actors Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nichols, who played Chekhov and Uhura, were the best man and matron-of-honour at Takei's ceremony at the Japanese American National Museum. |