Arrow star Stephen Amell surfaces in LA in first sighting since he was ‘removed from flight’

Arrow star Stephen Amell was spotted surfacing in Los Angeles late this week.

Amelll, 40, cut a California casual figure in a summery pair of print shorts and flip flops as well as a casual full-sleeved top.

The outing marks his first public sighting since he responded to reports that he was taken off a flight for allegedly shouting at his wife Cassandra Jean.

An article on TMZ characterized him as having been ‘forcibly removed’ from the aircraft on account of the alleged altercation on Monday.

In a statement he posted to Twitter he insisted that he was not ‘forcibly removed’ but left the plane voluntarily when ‘asked’ to do so.

‘My wife and I got into an argument Monday afternoon on a Delta flight from Austin to LA. I was asked to lower my voice and I did,’ he wrote.

‘Approximately 10 minutes later I was asked to leave the flight. And I did so immediately. I was not forcibly removed,’ Amell added.

In a follow-up tweet the actor wrote: ‘I rebooked myself on a Southwest flight 2 hours later and traveled home without any further issue. I let my emotions get the better of me, end of story. Must be a slow news cycle.’ 

Earlier it had been reported on TMZ that Amell declined to speak more quietly even after a flight attendant asked him to do so more than once.

The website claimed that Amell seemed to be under the influence at the time and was taken off the plane by three flight attendants and an air marshal around 3pm.

Meanwhile Jean, 35, was purportedly so humiliated by the turn of events that she eventually put her face in her hands.

She and her husband have been married since 2012 and share a seven-year-old daughter called Maxwell Alexandra.

Jean and Amell were in Austin for the ATX festival where they were promoting their independent short film Speech And Debate which he starred in and she directed.

This past weekend Jean posted an Instagram snap of her and Amell looking in bright spirits while plugging the film at a festival event that included Aisha Tyler.

While at the event she ribbed Stephen about the process of making the short film together, according to Us Weekly.

‘Stephen displayed some diva-like behavior because he was used to being on a much bigger production,’ she said.

During the same conversation he confessed that while he was left unemployed during the coronavirus lockdowns he behaved like a ‘turd.’

Before he was involved with Jean he married his first wife Carolyn Lawrence in 2007 but the marriage ended in divorce in 2010.