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I really feel like within the wake of all of Justin Bieber’s 2010s controversies, individuals at all times neglect this bonkers one which occurred when Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam in 2013. Before leaving, he wrote within the visitor ebook: “Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.”
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Cheating scandals are maybe not an enormous deal in Hollywood, however there are a couple of I’m together with due to some wild particulars. First up — Julia Roberts and cinematographer Danny Moder. The two met whereas filming The Mexican in 2000 — whereas Roberts was in a relationship and Moder was married to a lady named Vera. Moder later separated from Vera and dated Roberts (although Roberts denies being the rationale they broke up). So far, fairly normal for Hollywood, proper?
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Here’s the place it will get unhinged: in early 2002, when Moder’s divorce to Vera was nonetheless not finalized, Roberts was photographed in a DIY T-shirt that stated “A Low Vera” — in apparent reference to her beau’s spouse. She had clearly made the shirt herself, and I nonetheless suppose it is one of many extra bonkers issues a celeb has executed.
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There’s a great likelihood you keep in mind the entire Kristen Stewart dishonest scandal that dominated the information cycle for some time, however I’ll recap it right here: whereas Stewart was capturing Snow White and the Huntsman, she had an affair with 41-year-old director Rupert Sanders. At the time, Stewart was with Twilight costar Robert Pattison, and Sanders was married to mannequin Liberty Ross. After paparazzi photographs uncovered them, each Stewart and Sanders launched apologies.
Once once more, fairly normal for Hollywood, proper? There are two sort of wild elements of the scandal, nevertheless, that I’m prepared to guess you forgot or by no means knew. First of all, Pattinson went to Reese Witherspoon’s home to remain and get better after information broke, which is so random to me (although the 2 had starred collectively in Water For Elephants).
Second of all, future president Donald Trump was WAY too invested in your complete saga, tweeting a number of occasions about it over the course of a number of days.
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Did everybody however me know that Billy Bob Thornton was engaged to Laura Dern again in 1999? That appears utterly random. But that is not even the wild half. The wild half is that, in accordance with Dern, she traveled to shoot a movie, and when she bought again, Thorton was MARRIED TO ANGELINA JOLIE. She stated, “I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend got married, and I’ve never heard from him again.”
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Here’s one other Angelina Jolie-related controversy that I am unable to personally neglect: that point she kissed her brother after successful her first Oscar, then thanked him onstage, saying, “I’m so in love with my brother proper now. He simply held me and stated he beloved me, and I do know he’s so completely satisfied for me. And, um, thanks for that.” I must also word this isn’t the one time they publicly kissed.
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One final dishonest scandal: I really feel like NO ONE talks about the truth that David Letterman was extorted in 2009 over sleeping with feminine workers, then admitted to it on his present fairly than pay up. One day, he discovered a field in his automotive with a letter that stated, “I know you do some terrible things” and that the author was engaged on a screenplay about Letterman. “He’s going to take all this terrible stuff he knows about my life and put it in a movie unless I give him some money,” Letterman stated the letter revealed.
Letterman was truly capable of finding out the identification of the blackmailer with the assistance of the Manhattan district legal professional’s workplace. CBS producer Robert J. “Joe” Halderman was arrested, and that exact same night time, Letterman went on his present and admitted, “Yes, I have had sex with women on my show.” He was married on the time with a five-year-old little one.
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The Dave Matthews Band Chicago River incident nonetheless blows my thoughts. Way again in 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus emptied the contents of their septic tank — 800 kilos of poop — on a sightseeing boat on the Chicago river.
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In the wake of the notorious Robin Thicke/Miley Cyrus VMAs efficiency, it appears like lots of people neglect that one other scandal occurred that night time concerning Thicke. At the afterparty, Thicke took a photograph with fan Lana Scolaro (see picture on the hyperlink). After the picture was uploaded, individuals began to note that you possibly can see Thicke groping Scolaro’s butt within the mirror behind them — which Scolaro then confirmed occurred.
In reality, X (previously Twitter) person Jen Leadley tweeted the picture at Thicke’s spouse, Paula Patton. With neither Thicke nor Patton addressing the picture, the scandal fizzled out, nevertheless it nonetheless goes down in historical past to me. (Thicke and Patton later divorced.)
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Donald Glover as soon as pretended to be an Asian woman named Yuki on Tumblr. (You can try what the weblog seemed like right here). It was apparently to advertise his latest album, Camp.
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In a darker entry for this record, three months after Amy Winehouse died in 2011, Neil Patrick Harris and husband David Burkta threw a Halloween celebration that featured a meat platter assembled to seem like Winehouse’s corpse. It did generate controversy on the time, however largely was forgotten till it resurfaced prior to now few years. Harris didn’t apologize till 2022, calling the dish “regrettable.”
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Michael Jackson’s most remembered scandals are those alleging little one intercourse abuse, however individuals are inclined to gloss over one which was enormous in 2002: when he held his nine-month-old son out a window. He was apparently exhibiting the child to the group (4 tales under), however sparked excessive concern over the one-handed motion. He later apologized, saying, he may “offer no excuses for what happened,” and that “I got caught up in the excitement of the moment. I would never intentionally endanger the lives of my children.”
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We all know Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, however someway this bizarre promotional video he made for Scientology in 2004 — leaked in 2008 — has gotten forgotten over time. He says some wild remarks in it, although the Church of Scientology claimed the video was a pirated and edited model of a three-hour occasion.
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Okay, I lied earlier on this record. Here’s one other dishonest scandal, this one involving a secret love little one and Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2011, Schwarzenegger revealed that he’d fathered a toddler with a lady on his family workers — again in 2001. She was stored on the workers whereas Schwarzenegger reportedly paid for the kid’s care, claiming all of the whereas it was her husband’s little one. Schwarzenegger didn’t reveal the reality to his then-wife, Maria Shriver, till after his time period as governor ended. The two ended up splitting.
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Orlando Bloom and Justin Bieber had a reasonably random feud going within the 2010s, beginning when Bieber claimed he’d as soon as slept with Bloom’s ex-wife, Miranda Kerr. Kerr denied that this had occurred, resulting in tensions between the 2 males that got here to a head once they bumped into one another in Ibiza. Bieber allegedly made a remark about Kerr, inflicting Bloom to allegedly attempt to punch him. There are completely different accounts of what occurred, however TMZ did publish a video the place you’ll be able to see the altercation and listen to Justin shouting “What’s up bitch?”
The better part? Bloom was allegedly eating with Leonardo DiCaprio, who witnessed the entire thing. Diddy, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton had been additionally apparently there. Oh, to be a fly on that wall.
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Zayn Malik made headlines all over the world when he determined to go away the massively profitable boy band One Direction, nevertheless it wasn’t precisely a scandal, and he appeared on good phrases….till some public beef rose up between Malik and Louis Tomlinson, who was nonetheless within the band. Malik started making disparaging feedback in regards to the music he’d recorded with One Direction, and Tomlinson took to Twitter to make enjoyable of Malik. Notably, Zayn replied with the long-lasting tweet: “remember when you had a life and stopped making bitchy comments about mine?”
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Nowadays Alec Baldwin is best identified for his newer controversy, however again in 2007, he made headlines for an additional purpose fully. Basically, his 11-year-old daughter Ireland didn’t present as much as a deliberate assembly (Baldwin was preventing with ex-wife Kim Basinger over custody on the time), and he left an terrible voicemail that bought leaked, calling her a “rude little pig” and saying, “You don’t have the brains or the decency as a human being. I don’t give a damn that you’re 12 years old or 11 years old or that you’re a child or that your mother is a thoughtless pain-in-the-ass who doesn’t care about what you do as far as I’m concerned.” He additionally threatened to return “straighten [her] ass out: “Do you perceive me? I’m gonna actually ensure you get it.”
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And lastly, let’s finish on a “scandal” that is a bit extra lighthearted. The 12 months was 1999, and Matthew McConaughey was celebrating watching his alma mater’s soccer crew win. A noise criticism prompted officers to return to his dwelling, the place they discovered McConaughey, subsequent to a bong, dancing bare with bongo drums. He was arrested and charged with resisting transportation, as he fought again because the police put him of their patrol automotive.
The story made waves when it first occurred, however McConaughey’s 2020 retelling of the story makes it even wilder and funnier. After over a day of partying, McConaughey determined to “wind down” and bought bare, opening the window to entry the odor of jasmine from his backyard. He started smoking weed and placed on “the attractive African melodic beats of Henri Dikongué,” playing along with the music on bongo drums. “What I didn’t know was that while I was banging away in my bliss, two Austin policemen also thought it was time to barge into my house unannounced, wrestle me to the ground with nightsticks, handcuff me and pin me to the floor,” he wrote.
He stated one officer tried to wrap a blanket round his waist, however he resisted, saying, “I’m not putting shit on! My naked ass is proof I was mindin’ my own business!” He then determined as he was led out, “nonetheless bare and reluctant to undergo the inevitably of my predicament,” to do a bit of parkour by running up a wall and backflip over one of the cops. “My thinking was that in mid-flight, while upside down in the air, I would assume a pike position and then slide my cuffed wrists under my butt and up and over my legs, and then stick the landing … with my fettered hands in front of me.” McConaughey said he believed that by “pulling off such an extraordinary Houdini-like stunt, the officers would be so impressed they would abrogate the arrest and set me free.”
The stunt, predictably, didn’t come to fruititon, and McConaughey was introduced in. He declined one thing to cowl up his physique twice, saying it was proof of his innocence, however lastly relented and placed on pants when a “6-foot, 6-inch jailbird built like a brick shithouse” stated, “Trust me, you do wanna put these on.” The costs ended up being rapidly dropped, apart from a $50 tremendous McConaughey needed to pay for the noise. He determined to exit out the entrance door to ready reporters fairly than sneak out, telling them, “I don’t want to rent a place there, but it was a nice stay for a night.”
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