Dustin Lance Black Will Go to Trial Over Allegedly Assaulting a BBC Host & the Incident Is Reportedly Connected to His 'Serious' Head Injury From Last Year
Dustin Lance Black will have to go to trial after being accused of alleged assault.
On Thursday (April 27), the 48-year-old Oscar winning screenwriter pled not guilty to the charge. He was released on bail, and appeared in the UK court via a video appearance as he lives in California. He will go to trial on August 8, 2023.
Details of what allegedly went down were revealed in the courtroom today.
Keep reading to find out more…
Dustin and his husband, Olympian Tom Daley, were reportedly at Freedom Bar in the Soho section of London, England last summer. At some point, Dustin allegedly threw a drink at BBC host Teddy Edwardes, 32. She hosts The Big Proud Party Agency on the BBC3 network.
Teddy says Dustin threw a drink over her head and she reciprocated by giving him “a little tap on the head.”
According to Variety, Teddy actually posted about the incident on social media, allegedly writing, “I went out for a couple of quiet drinks with my friends last night, nothing crazy, and I bumped into Tom Daley and his husband in Soho, who… pretty much unprovoked he threw an entire drink over me in Freedom. I didn’t have a drink to throw back so I did choose violence, it wasn’t that violent, he got a little tap on the back of the head.”
In September 2022, Dustin revealed he had suffered a “serious” head injury and fans believe this is the incident he’s referring to.
Dustin‘s rep responded to all of this, saying, “Mr Black was surprised and saddened to learn that after the other person involved in this unfortunate incident took responsibility and expressed remorse for a punch to the back of Mr Black’s head – which left him with a life altering concussion – a decision was made to now examine the matter of a spilled drink in a court of law. Of course Mr Black will respect the process, and in the meantime will continue to focus on being a loving father and husband.”