Okay, not "naked water wrestling," but you know how stuff gets blown out of proportion on the internet, and that's how it'll be portrayed on the slash fiction sites anyway.
At a taping of the Colbert Show last week, special guest Richard Branson dumped a mug of water on Stephen Colbert's head, and Colbert retaliated by pouring water on Sir Richard's head. The sources who alerted BoingBoing believed it to have been an unscripted, contentious moment so distressing for both host and guest that the Colbert Show producers would never, ever, air it.
Wrong! It may have been unscripted, and it may or may not have been unfriendly — but it's gonna be on TV soon enough. We're told by a source that the splashdown will air on August 22. The show will apparently also include Colbert on board one of the Virgin America planes. He was supposed to christen "Air Colbert" (the airbus he named for the VA fleet) last week, but is said to have been stuck in traffic trying to get to the airport for 4 hours, because of a downpour in NYC that day.
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