A San Diego Charger former NFL rookie of the year was arrested early Sunday for allegedly choking and pushing Tila Tequila, the MTV star whose real name is Tila Nguyen.
Tequila, 27, signed a citizen’s arrest warrant, charging the Chargers’ linebacker Shawne Merriman, 25, with battery and false imprisonment, the AP here quotes a San Diego County sheriff deputy.
The day before, on Friday, Tequila was at the Chargers exhibition game watching Merriman play against San Francisco. She was gushing about her boyfriend. The AP quoted one of her Twitters:
“Im the Head Cheerleader Prom Queen and (at)shawnemerriman is the Prom King! hahaha! LETS GOOO! LIGHTS OUT! SAN DIEGO I WILL SEE U TOMORROW!”
(“Lights Out” is Merriman’s nickname.)
On Saturday night, Tequila and Merriman were at the Stingaree nightclub in San Diego. TMZ reports here that the two were taken to a roped off area where “Tila was seen giving Shawne lap dances all night long.” The photo above is from TMZ. Click here for more.
The party apparently then moved to Merriman’s apartment, and next thing anybody knew, Tequila called the cops and they hauled Merriman away at around 3:45 a.m.
According to the AP, deputies were responding to a call from a woman who said “she was choked by the player and thrown to the ground when she tried to leave.”
Merriman was later released on $58,000 bail. Tequila was taken to a hospital then released.
According to TMZ, a lawyer for Merriman denied all charges and says Tila was 
“extremely inebriated” and that Merriman tried to stop her from leaving the home because he didn’t feel it was safe for her to do so.
Born in Singapore of Vietnamese boat-people parents, Tequila is probably the most famous Vietnamese TV star in the world.
She formerly hosted the reality dating competition show A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila on MTV, which ended after its second season last year.
Tila was named the hottest artist on Myspace in 2006.
In 2008, Tila Tequila starred in an ad calling attention to human-rights abuses in Burma. Read here. The ad was directed by Timothy Linh Bui (Green Dragon) and was one in a series produced by the Human Rights Action Center.
Merriman was a first-round draft pick out of the University of Maryland in 2005. He did not start until week 7 of his rookie season, but then within the first 4 starts he recorded 6 sacks.
At the end of that season, Merriman was voted into the Pro Bowl as an outside linebacker, one of a very few rookie to ever make the Pro Bowl. He was selected for the Pro Bowl three years running.
The story goes that Merriman got his nickname “Lights Out” from high school where his blocking knocked out 4 people in the first half of one game.
This chick is really a good role model for the Viet kids….
Wat’s a Ho?
Tila wants to follow foot steps of famous Hollywood stars……. A REHAP CENTER and lonlely DEATH!
And you are following her in a lonely death by the keyboard.
I wonder if there is a bloggaholic rehab for the pathetic souls such as you?
Big Mouth, are you asking for a death by suffocation… from foreign object? You need to stay clean.
I need a new lawyer.
Anybody has Van’s number?
Tilala….who’s saying you are innocent?
Contact Andrew Do. He has a good license stuffed under the 50lb. flour bags at his Lee’s Sandwich shop .
Tilala;
I can help you. Give me a call, I am always there when you need help, especially a sexy viet girl like you, just ask amanda.
Tiala is already hooking up with Andrew Do next week.
A one dirty lap dancing exchanged for one free fraud legal consultation at Lee’s Sandwich shop….. what a fair deal!
Tiala will run for office soon………….get your votes ready
I’ll vote for her ! I’m sure she’d be a lot better than my Dizzy. Tila babe, please call me !
A_ Q Says – we have a lot of people will cast vote for her because they know at least she will not drink and drive and knock out electricty of more than 300 household. Definately do a better job than AQ.
Tila babe, just leave all the drinking to me and go for Dizzy’s seat, you’re sure alot younger, hotter & smarter! For sure people would like to have your picture posters all over Bolsa Ave instead of Dizzy’s …. without photo shop of course …
Tiala can seat on Andrew’s flat face…and fart! Andrew, you owe me for this one.
Tila Manager;
Let her drink and drive, if Andy Quach can do it, any body can do it. It will be just a slap on the wrist, so do not worry your little head Tila girl friend.
By the way, if you clip a car and knock out a transformer, it is OK too.
The law will show you leniency, just call Van Tran, the horrible, oops, I mean the honorable assembly man Van Tran to the site…well, may be not.
Jung Kim honey, I can seat on your round face …and fart too and you don’t even owe me anything.
When I heard the news that a NFL player had “choked” a woman in his apartment, I probably had the same thought as many other men did: You lucky bastard!
Ah, yes, the “Head Cheerleader” – it’s the cheer and dance, more than the sex, that motivates the Head – who could just walk away from all that?
Naturally, NFL players could wetten panties from great distances. In fact, the ease in bedding so many women is the reason that men enter professional sports to garner the fame and wealth for which women are the natural reward.
How come this woman did not impress with your studly prowess?
When you start out a relationship as idol, there’s nowhere for the idol to go but down. When you reach down and embrace a whore …(no scratch that) … an easy accessible woman, by that very act, you are no longer unapproachable, so your very celebrity is diminished by your availing yourself of its reward.
So, did you attract flaky chicks, or did chicks go flaky after being with you for a while?
Or maybe you know the answer to the corollary: Does reality show attract sluts, or do girls become sluts from being in reality show?
Lemme tell ya, when a woman says …no, he really hurts me – not with the sex – she’s not considered it a good foreplay. Whether she’s a contender or a pretender, you get the woman you deserve.
And Tila, baby – you’re not an original cunt, I can tell. You are short, sexy girl with big brown eyes, built-for-blow-jobs mouth, and disproportionate tits that are in inverse proportion to your IQ – exactly the kind of girl many men masturbate to. You work Hard for the money and many men fascinate with your juicy name, and for good reason: it tastes great when they suck the juice. You are probably the most famous Viet woman in the world and I just hope people hear about Tila Tequila, not Tila Nguyen. The point is maybe people don’t know you are Viet.
I think I just put my foot in it. Well, better my foot.
Another great post from XYZ.
Only if yung Kim can be 1/10th of this guy thinking capacity.
XYZ, why so vulgar language? Joe mama should whip you 10 times for dirty mouth.
Melissa the drag queen, go live like a XYZ!
At least he is a whole man!
Tila baby your rear is stuck to the Andy’s flat face as though it’s been crazy glued.
Are you trying to numb Andrew with your fart/methane gas?
Jung Kim —> terrible little Christian
When Jung Kim is not praising the lord, Jung Kim is personally attacking other people on the internet.
xu -> wonderful little girl in a pink dress.
Here is the compliment for you. Be happy.
Tialia Tequila – New Westminter Council woman.
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