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Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan has been reported by police for getting off the trail in Yellowstone National Park, records show.
A legal notice seen by The Independent and first reported by CNN rebukes the Mamma Mia! Star for “foot travel in a thermal area” on November 1, 2023 in Wyoming.
The Irish actor is also charged with a petty offense of “violating closures and usage restrictions” and ordered to appear in court at the Yellowstone Justice Center on January 23 next year at 11am.
The “thermal areas” refer to Yellowstone’s famous geysers, hot springs, gas seeps, and other dangerous but fascinating phenomena that result from its location on a vast underground reserve of scorching molten rock.
The park, the first ever in the United States, lies in a crater created by the massive Yellowstone supervolcano about 600,000 years ago and includes about half of all known hydrothermal features in the world.
Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Geyser at sunset
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The National Park Service is warning tourists to stay on boardwalks and trails lest they become one of the 20 people who have died from burns after bathing in or falling into one of Yellowstone's hot springs.
“Wooden boardwalks and hiking trails protect you and sensitive thermal formations. Water in hot springs can cause serious or fatal burns, and beneath the thin, fragile crust around hot springs lies mostly boiling water,” the service says on its website.
Mr Brosnan, 70, was born in Drogheda, Ireland, in 1953 and made his acting breakthrough in the 1980s with the British spy series Remington Steele before being cast as James Bond in “Goldeneye” from 1995.
The Independent has contacted Brosnan's representatives for comment.