Jeremy Piven is brilliance personified as the award-winning abrasive, slime ball Ari Gold on Entourage.  Art imitated life at this year’s Emmy awards, where he and Perry Reeves (his onscreen wife in the series) were seen boozing it up from a “bottle wrapped in a napkin.” They took “swigs from it throughout the entire show.”

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Later on that night he drunkenly and unsuccessfully hit on 19-year-old Hayden Panettiere. She humored him for a bit and then high-tailed it out of there. She was probably catching a contact buzz from his whiskey breath. A spy says:

“He was trying to be charming and kept saying he ‘wanted to show her around town. But Hayden soon excused herself and escaped.”

Ah, man. That must’ve stung. Jeremy probably that he had that in the bag. But, you know, her loss. Lord knows what kind of “hot spots” a drunk Jeremy Piven would take you on his version of an L.A. tour.

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