Kim may have avoided the big cat, but Elisha Cuthbert did not, and got bit! The only place I could find this was the March 18 IMDB Celebrity News section, but I didn’t look very hard elsewhere.
It is a very short article, so I’m not sure what I can cut/paste without copyright problems. Basically the trainer said she should meet the cat before filming, she did, and the cat bit her. She bled quite a bit and got a tetanus shot.
I don’t even remember the two of them being in the same shot. Wonder why they felt like they needed to get to know each other. Editting was all they needed.
This one almost makes me break my “dubious” smiley cherry.
The IMDB seems to have removed this story from their site.
Googling around, it’s all over the fan sites, but I can’t find any reputable news/entertainment sites that support it.
I found a few dead links, like this one at NewsDay, which used to have this story associated with them, but have since been expunged.
Here’s a salvaged remnant which was reposted at a fan site:
I would speculate that it was made up out of whole cloth by a press agent, and later retracted due to pressure from the animal-handling contracter. Something about it just doesn’t ring true.