Gossip: Emma Watson
Emma Watson was reportedly mobbed by a group of students while attending a football game between Harvard and Brown University.
Emma Watson had some nervous moments this week when Harvard University students, prodded to “stalk” the young actress by a popular campus blog, reportedly mobbed her in the stands of a football game between Harvard and rival Brown University, which Watson attends. Watson was “quite shaken” by the incident and had to be protected by security guards, says the New York Post. The editor of student magazine The Harvard Voice, which operates the blog, denied that Watson had been mobbed.
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