Phonethrower Crowe: 'I was lonely'

A chagrined Russell Crowe apologised for throwing a telephone at a hotel concierge this week, saying he reacted poorly to being a lonely family man away from home.

“This is possibly the most shameful situation I’ve ever gotten myself in in my life, and I’ve done some pretty dumb things in my life,” the Australian actor told David Letterman. “So to actually make a new number one is spectacularly stupid.”