
‘Reacher’ Star Trashes High School Peer Matt Gaetz: ‘We Are Adversaries’
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Alan Ritchson attended the same high school as the former Florida congressman, whom he called a “motherf**ker” in a new interview with GQ.
Alan Ritchson, the star of the hit TV series “Reacher,” went to the same high school as Matt Gaetz and apparently doesn’t have fond memories of the former GOP lawmaker.
“That motherfucker. We are adversaries,” the actor told GQ in an interview published Wednesday.
“It’s shocking to me that the panhandle of Florida continues to vote for somebody — knowing everything we know about him and the promises that he’s made behind closed doors about pardoning certain criminals — he’s just not a good dude!” he continued.
He added, “There’s part of me that wants to get into politics to outdo somebody like him for good, and there’s part of me that’s like, I’m not duplicitous enough to succeed in politics.”
Ritchson, whose acting credits include “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” and “Blue Mountain State,” lived in Niceville, Florida, for a big chunk of his childhood and graduated from Niceville High School in 2001.