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Stephen Baldwin injured in bull-riding fall

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-06-02 09:12


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Stephen Baldwin, nursing a broken shoulder
and rib from a reality-TV rodeo accident, said on Friday the bull that
threw him to the ground in four seconds was more fierce than he had
expected.

The 41-year-old performer, youngest of the acting brothers that include
William, Daniel and Alec Baldwin, injured himself on Thursday while
working on cable network CMT's upcoming series "Ty Murray's Celebrity
Bull Riding Challenge."

"I held on for about four jumps, and then I just ate a bunch of dirt,"
Baldwin told Reuters in a telephone interview, adding the whole bumpy
ride was over in four seconds.

He and fellow celebrity contestants, including rapper-musician Vanilla
Ice and actor Leif Garrett, had just started training on live bulls when
he got thrown.

"We were supposed to be on these kind of dainty versions of (bulls) that
weren't supposed to get too excited," he recalled. "But you never can
tell what a bull's gonna do. So this particular one that I had kind of
rose to the occasion.

"I don't know if he knew it because he had a Baldwin on his back," the
actor joked. "He did a whole lot more bucking than anyone could have
anticipated."

Baldwin said he was wearing a safety helmet but "landed hard" and "got
stepped on a little bit, too."

He ended up with a broken left scapula and a broken rib, and was
outfitted with a special brace and sling he has to wear for the next four
to six weeks.

He was supposed to travel to Russia next week for a movie shoot, but his
doctor told him, "I have to give the whole performance with my thumb in
my pocket."

As for the TV show, featuring rodeo superstar Ty Murray teaching nine
celebrities the finer points of bull riding, Baldwin will sit out the
rest of the production.

Despite his accident, Baldwin is no rodeo neophyte. He performed his own
stunts in the 1994 movie "8 Seconds," about the legendary bull-riding
champion Lane Frost, co-starring as his friend and fellow rodeo star Tuff
Hedeman.












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