Sam Worthington's Payless Shoes Sold Out

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Avatar star Sam Worthington wore a $20 pair of Payless shoes to the Academy Awards—and the retailer is reporting that the style has since sold out! "That's kind of cool. Now I'm the Payless poster boy," he said. "All the tinsel of Tinseltown doesn't really bother me. In regards to my shoes, the ones they gave me made me look like a hob goblin. If J.Lo stood in them, she would've fallen off the stage and ripped her dress. It would've been ridiculous. I went with what was comfortable and that was the closest store." [Contact Music]