{"id":1959999,"date":"2025-08-14T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1959999"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:16:12","slug":"jeremy-piven-entourage-star-labels-perth-meth-capital-of-australia-following-recent-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jeremy-piven-entourage-star-labels-perth-meth-capital-of-australia-following-recent-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Piven: Entourage star labels Perth \u2018meth capital of Australia\u2019 following recent visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Best known for his work as no-filter Hollywood agent Ari Gold in HBO\u2019s Entourage, TV<\/a> star Jeremy Piven has proven he hasn\u2019t quite shaken the character after labelling Perth<\/a> the \u201cmeth capital of Australia\u201d.<\/p>\n

Attending the premiere of his latest film Primitive War in Sydney on Monday night, Piven was pushed to name his \u201cfavourite place\u201d Down Under after an extended period touring his stand-up show.<\/p>\n

But the comic\u2019s initial remarks were far from complimentary, at least towards the west coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the middle of my tour, we headed over to Perth, which is the meth capital of Australia<\/a>… I don\u2019t know if you know that,\u201d he told celebrity.land<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so in the spirit of Donald Trump, I want to rename Perth, \u2018Merth\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 60-year-old performed at Mt Lawley\u2019s Astor Theatre on August 6, following an East Coast jaunt that featured stops in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, and later Adelaide.<\/p>\n

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Camera Icon<\/title><\/svg>Jeremy Piven has been performing in Australia in recent weeks.<\/span> Credit: Jeremy Piven\/<\/span>Instagram<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, after laughing off the comments, the star changed his tune and dropped his favourite local hang out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is, I went to a cigar bar called The Social Club there and it was one of the best cigar lounges I\u2019ve ever been to in my life,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n

The two-time Emmy winner may have been referring to Cigar Social, a private, members-only cigar lounge in West Perth.<\/p>\n

PerthNow reached out to Cigar Social, with the venue choosing not to confirm nor deny Piven\u2019s attendance.<\/p>\n

Speaking more broadly about his stand-up tour, the actor reflected on the warm reception he\u2019d received across the nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery stop that I had, whether it was the Enmore Theatre here in Sydney or going to Melbourne and playing Hamer Hall, they were some of the best times I\u2019ve ever had in my life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSold out houses… It was just incredible. I loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camera Icon<\/title><\/svg>Jeremy Piven stars in Numbered Lives.<\/span> Credit: Jeremy Piven\/<\/span>Instagram<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The actor stars alongside Australia\u2019s Ryan Kwanten and Canadian Tricia Helfer in Primitive War, a horror film set amid the Vietnam War that was filmed in the Gold Coast\u2019s jungle.<\/p>\n

It follows Piven\u2019s other Aussie production Numbered Lives, a thriller shot in South Australia last year that was released nationally earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.perthnow.com.au \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Best known for his work as no-filter Hollywood agent Ari Gold in HBO\u2019s Entourage, TV star Jeremy Piven has proven he hasn\u2019t quite shaken the character after labelling Perth the \u201cmeth capital of Australia\u201d. Attending the premiere of his latest film Primitive War in Sydney on Monday night, Piven was pushed to name his \u201cfavourite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1960000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[21741,21912,33462,21913,344802],"class_list":["post-1959999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-perth","tag-tv","tag-wa-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Jeremy-Piven-Entourage-star-labels-Perth-\u2018meth-capital-of-Australia.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}