Moment Sean Bean, 65, pushes bouncer who ‘told him off for vaping’ before actor is ‘wrestled to the floor and dragged out’ of bar during night off from filming new BBC drama
This is the moment Sean Bean struggles with a bouncer before being wrestled to the ground and dragged out of a bar in Liverpool after reportedly being reprimanded for vaping.
The Game of Thrones star was assaulted by security, one of whom had a hand around the actor’s throat, at the Tom Thumb pub last Friday during a night off from filming a new BBC drama in the city.
In the footage, the Sharpe actor can be heard being told to ‘calm down’ before a member of staff tells him to leave the pub.
The 65-year-old is then dragged from the cabin he had been in, while a witness claimed he had to be taken to the ground and forcibly removed.
Bean has been involved in several incidents in bars and pubs throughout his career, and on one occasion was even stabbed during a blazing row over a glamor model.
The actor was seen with his hand around his throat as he struggled with security at the Tom Thumb pub in Liverpool on Friday, May 31.
Staff could hear the Game of Thrones star telling him to “calm down” as he stood in a booth
The Lord of the Rings actor is then dragged out of the booth by security, with witnesses claiming he had to be taken to the ground before being removed.
A witness told MailOnline the latest happened after the Sheffield-born thespian ignored bar staff’s requests to stop vaping indoors.
The eyewitness said: ‘I was really surprised and happy when I first looked up and saw him sitting there.
‘When the bouncer went up to him I thought it was for a photo but actually he asked Sean to stop vaping in the bar.
“Sean kept saying he could do whatever he wanted. To be honest, he was a real jerk.
“The bouncers were just doing what they do for everyone else, which is fair enough.
“When he came back he just started vaping again.
‘They asked him to leave, but he didn’t want to. He just clung to his chair.
‘I was so shocked by the fight that I couldn’t move; my jaw just hit the ground.
‘I was really saddened by his smugness. He really seemed to feel like he could do whatever he wanted.”
Bean is filming new gangland drama This City Is Ours in Liverpool.
Bean, pictured here as Ned Stark in Game of Thrones, is said to have refused to stop vaping before the incident
The actor, pictured here in the Disney+ series Shardlake, has been involved in several incidents in pubs and bars in the past
Sean Bean depicted in Troy, the 2004 epic in which he played the mythical character Odysseus
He plays a gang leader named Ronnie Phelan, a mentor to lead character Michael – played by Scouse actor James Nelson-Joyce – who is tipped to take over the veteran’s drug empire after he retires.
The eight-part series will be filmed in the city over fourteen weeks and is part-funded by the Liverpool Film Office through the Liverpool City Region (LCR) Production Fund.
Bean is no stranger to controversy during his career, which has spanned four decades, and has been involved in bar fights before.
He was stabbed in a London pub in 2011 after getting into an argument over glamor model April Summers.
Bean was attacked outside the Hill Bar and Brasserie in Camden, North West London, and suffered a cut to his arm and a bruised face.
According to witnesses at the time, he refused to go to hospital and instead walked back into the bar and, after staff offered him help from a first aid kit, ordered another drink.
The Sheffield-born star is one of Britain’s best-known actors and has also starred in the James Bond film Goldeneye, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, BBC1 prison drama Time and HBO fantasy blockbuster Game of Thrones.
He became a sex symbol in the early 1990s thanks to his role in the steamy drama Lady Chatterley and then for his portrayal of Richard Sharpe, the maverick gunman from the Napoleonic Wars in the ITV series Sharpe.
Bean is also known for his reputation as a womanizer, as he has been married five times.
He lives with his current wife, American actress Ashley Moore, in Somerset, and has three children and four grandchildren.
Sean Bean pictured with his fifth wife Ashley Moore at a BBC First party in Warsaw, Poland, in 2018
Sean Bean depicted in the 2023 fantasy film Knights of the Zodiac
The actor pictured on ITV’s This Morning on April 14 this year
His first marriage was to high school sweetheart Debra James in 1981, but they separated seven years later.
He then married fellow actor Melanie Hill, mother of his daughters Lorna, 36, and Molly, 32, in 1990 before divorcing in 1997, the same year he tied the knot for a third time with his Sharpe co- star Abigail Cruttenden. . They separated in 2000 and share a 25-year-old daughter, Evie.
Bean married his fourth wife, Georgina Sutcliffe, in February 2008, after the couple originally canceled their January wedding the day before for “personal reasons.” They divorced two years later, in 2010.
Speaking about his fifth marriage to Moore in 2017, Bean told the Daily Mail: ‘I had no intention of getting married again.
“But then again, I wasn’t planning on meeting someone as amazing as Ashley. I can’t wait to spend the rest of our lives together.’
MailOnline has contacted the BBC and attempted to contact Sean Bean’s representatives for comment.