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Alec Baldwin Gets Thrown Off Plane

Actor says he was just trying to play a game.

Alec Baldwin just really likes his word games. 

Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight on Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles for playing a game on his cellphone even though the flight attendant told him to shut it down, The New York Post reports.

The "30 Rock" actor broke the news himself, on his Twitter account: "Flight attendant on American [Airlines] reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving."

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Words with Friends is similar to Scrabble.

However, another passenger told The Post Baldwin had really been talking on his cellphone and stormed off to the bathroom when the flight attendant confronted him.

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The plane was grounded for an hour, while Baldwin was booted off the plane. His representative told The Post, Baldwin was on another plane soon after.

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