Phillip Salvador in shouting match with foreigner

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/sites/default/files/a_images/access/entertainment/Phillip%20Salvador%202.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/sites/default/files/a_images/access/entertainment/Phillip%20Salvador%202.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> Actor Phillip Salvador had a heated confrontation with a Norwegian national at a mall restaurant on Monday, after the foreigner reportedly humiliated a waitress by calling her "stupid."</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> The incident took place at the SM Megamall branch of Italian restaurant Sbarro at around 1 p.m., according to a report published on entertainment news site PEP on Tuesday.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> Salvador confirmed a source's account of the confrontation, claiming that the foreigner called the Filipino staff of Sbarro "stupid" and a "bunch of idiots."</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> The actor said he was with his wife, Emma Ledesma, when he heard the Norwegian national complaining about the spaghetti he had ordered. Salvador described the man as 6-foot-3 and in his mid-40s.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> According to Salvador, he could not not help but confront the foreigner when he kept shouting at the waitress, who was already crying.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> "Who the f*ck are you?" Salvador, in his interview with PEP, quoted the Norwegian as saying. He replied: "I'm the f*cker who's going to beat your ass if you don't apologize to them."</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> When the foreigner threatened to call the police, Salvador said, "Hurry up! Please tell them to be here in five minutes, and I will tell them to throw you out of this place!"</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> "You don't insult the Filipinos. Let's get out of this place, I'm going to fight you. You only know how to scream at girls!"</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> Salvador said he does not mind if a video of the confrontation is uploaded online, when told of the source's account that a bystander recorded the shouting match on his cellphone.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> The actor added that even if the staff had committed a mistake, this does not give the Norwegian a right to insult and berate them.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> The management of Sbarro has yet to issue a statement on the incident.</div>

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