‘A Christmas Story’ House Owner Curses Out Actor Yano Anaya at Iconic Home
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“A Christmas Story” actor Yano Anaya is not welcome on the iconic house from the film … the home-owner made that greater than clear on this video of an expletive-laden tirade.
Yano, who performed Grover Dill within the 1983 movie, was taking pictures with followers on the Cleveland-area house’s entrance steps on November 15 when rapidly … proprietor, Brian Jones, comes out of nowhere and begins screaming at him to get off his property and by no means return.
Within the video, obtained by TMZ, Brian and Yano get face-to-face … with the home-owner accusing the actor of being a scammer, loser and “piece of s**t” and claiming Yano has someway screwed him over.
As we first reported … the long-lasting house from the film lately hit the market and Yano informed us he and different ‘Christmas Story’ solid members had been fascinated about getting cash collectively to purchase the well-known property.
Yano’s enterprise accomplice Emmanuel Soba tells us they do not know why the home-owner was so upset. He claims the actor spoke to Brian on the telephone the day earlier than the incident and says that they had an amazing dialog.
Additionally they declare Brian informed them he can be prepared to promote the house to their group, they usually had been taken off guard by Brian’s outburst. Yano didn’t need to remark.
Brian has a special story although, telling us, “I apologize for the best way I expressed myself; nonetheless, it was out of concern that followers could possibly be misled into contributing to a GoFundMe marketing campaign that won’t end result within the buy of the home.”
Brian went on to say, “I’ve no affiliation with any GoFundMe marketing campaign. I’m not promoting the home by way of Go Fund Me, so followers mustn’t contribute to that fund underneath false pretenses, pondering their cash goes towards shopping for the home. I’m entertaining provides solely from certified consumers by way of my actual property dealer.”
For background — there’s at present a GoFundMe that is been began to purchase the home on-line. Emmanuel tells us {that a} volunteer member of their group did make a GoFundMe, nevertheless it was by no means lively and does not perceive why this induced him to lash out. He claims they already had an inventory of traders that might have bought the house with out it.
