Ryan Gosling was arrested for a DUI back in 2005, Star magazine is exclusively reporting.

The hunky Canadian was arrested by officers from the central Los Angeles station of the California Highway Patrol on March 17, 2005 according to L.A. County Superior Court.

He later pleaded “no contest” to a misdemeanor change of “exhibiting speed,” even though he was originally charged with “driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs” and “driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.08 or greater.”

Ryan Gosling is back on the big screen as a brooding loner in the upcoming adrenaline film Drive and RadarOnline.com has an exclusive sneak peek of him on set filming the action flick.

Starring with the lovely Carey Mulligan, Gosling gets dragged into a dangerous criminal underworld where he shows off his driving skills while battling the deadly elements of the dark world he’s entered.

He has said that this is his super hero movie.  “This is the one. I wanted to make this one. I didn't always know I was gonna get to make it, but I did,” Gosling told Rotten Tomatoes.

Ryan Gosling is working with PETA to try and ban a bizarre method of putting down sick chickens and turkeys.

The Notebook star, a well-known animal lover, wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture on behalf of PETA, taking on slaughterhouses who use an approved method of euthanizing diseased chickens and turkeys.

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The USDA now allows an excruciatingly slow and painful method -- submerging the birds in foam to suffocate them!

"If dogs and cats were killed in this way, the person committing these acts would be charged with cruelty to animals," Gosling wrote to the USDA. "Won't you please ban the foam-based suffocation practice immediately?"

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Gosling is not a newbie at tackling animal rights issues. Last year he wrote to the CEO of Kentucky Fried Chicken, asking that the restaurant chain impose humane farming practices on the suppliers of its chickens.

His latest action pic, Drive, opens September 16.

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