Elvis shot Robert Goulet

[snopes]

Comment: I thought I'd check it to verify the
rumors I've heard of Elvis Presley shooting his TV's when Robert Goulet
would appear. I'd checked google and other search engines and came up with
a great deal of conflicting evidence.

I heard it was every time Streets of San Francisco came on. Did Robert Goulet sing the theme for that?

[ChrisQ]

Robert Goulet is annoying, but I don't think anyone would shoot at him when he came on TV.

Anyone but The King, of course.

According to this site:

http://www.elvisinfonet.com/elvisgoulet.html

Elvis sometimes shot his TV for little or no reason, not due to any ill feeling about Goulet.

The truth of this is in I'll Be Right Back (Simon and Schuster, 1999), the biography of talk show host Mike Douglas. According to Douglas, Elvis was irritated that Goulet had dated a singer from Elvis' group. When Goulet was a guest on The Mike Douglas Show, Elvis shot the TV set. Because this happened in a hotel, the incident surfaced in the press. Elvis was concerned about the reaction of Mike Douglas to the news story and phoned him to apologize. Douglas saw this as an opportunity to get Elvis on his show. Elvis: "I'm sorry, Mr. Douglas. Mike. I can't. Honest to God. I just can't." Douglas: "Elvis, why not? You don't even have to sing if you don't want to." Douglas tried several angles during the phone call, but Elvis refused. The TV set is on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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