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One outdated controversy that I really feel like no one is aware of entails Katy Perry’s twenty fifth birthday celebration, which simply appeared like a large number throughout. Initially, Perry employed individuals with dwarfism to play Oompa Loompas. Taylor Swift was in attendance, and the 2 posed with them. Then later, after everybody coated one another in paint, Taylor posed with a man who had a large swastika painted on his shirt (Taylor’s group later mentioned she’d taken photographs with 100 people who night time, did not know the person, and hadn’t seen his shirt).
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I really feel like I’ve actually by no means heard anybody else speak concerning the time George Takei jerked off a person on Howard Stern’s radio present. Stern has had Takei on his present plenty of instances over time, and in 2008, there was an episode titled “George Takei’s Homosexual Bachelor Celebration.” Within the episode, Jonah Falcon, who claims to have the longest penis on this planet, appeared. Takei proceeded to offer him a handjob onscreen, as a result of that is completely regular, I assume.
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There’s in all probability an excessive amount of drama surrounding Azealia Banks for something to essentially stand out, however a minimum of for me, I all the time take into consideration the story of how she was “trapped” at Elon Musk and Grimes’s home. In response to Banks, after Grimes invited her over to work on music, Banks was left alone in Musk and Grimes’s home “for days.” She later claimed Grimes had been “begging” her to return for “weeks and weeks,” and had advised her that Musk thought she was enticing, main Banks to conclude she could have been invited for sexual causes. She additionally in contrast her time there to the movie Get Out.
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Oh, and one other factor about Grimes and Musk — the existence of their secret second little one was found by a Vainness Truthful journalist interviewing Grimes, who seen a child repeatedly crying upstairs. Asking Grimes if she’d had one other little one, Grimes replied, “I’m not at liberty to talk on these items.” Nevertheless, when the journalist requested Grimes if she actually thought they would not be capable to hear the infant, Grimes laughed and replied, “I don’t know what I used to be considering.”
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Jameela Jamil is not any stranger to controversy, and one really wild one is about her medical historical past because it pertains to working from bees. Sure, you learn that proper. It began when journalist Tracie Egan Morrissey identified inconsistencies in Jamil’s tales about previous well being points. In a single story, Jamil mentioned she had a spinal twine damage after working into visitors to keep away from bees at age 17. She has additionally mentioned she was hit by a automotive whereas fleeing bees in 2016, in a separate incident. After which in 2015, Jamil claims she and Mark Ronson had been swarmed by 500 killer bees (Ronson later mentioned it was solely “one or two” bees). Her Wikipedia even used to have a complete part on “bees.”
After Morrissey instructed the primary two incidents had been the identical, Jamil defended herself on Twitter and reaffirmed that the 2 incidents had been separate. Piers Morgan then stepped in and accused Jamil of getting Munchausen syndrome. Jamil additional clarified her feedback on her well being, and all appeared to take a look at besides the discrepancy between her and Ronson’s tales (although Ronson did tweet “Spoke to my good friend Jameela. We’re good. additionally bees suck.”). Nonetheless, I am unable to consider there was ever such an argument surrounding Jamil and bees.
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You would possibly know concerning the Dominic West/Lily James dishonest scandal, the place West was photographed dishonest on his spouse with James, however I nonetheless suppose this could’ve been a manner greater story contemplating how West and his spouse Catherine FitzGerald dealt with it. As an alternative of avoiding paparazzi, they weirdly walked exterior to fulfill them, posing and kissing for them.
In a reasonably unprecedented film for celebs, the couple then handed paparazzi a be aware that mentioned, “Our marriage is powerful and we’re very a lot nonetheless collectively. Thanks.” This was a reasonably large shift from their earlier paparazzi technique, which concerned West hiding in some bushes to flee photographers in one of many funniest pap photographs I’ve ever seen.
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Twitter consumer @biz_socks claimed in 2022 that Dakota Johnson had as soon as locked him and his mom in a Blue Bottle Espresso “as a result of the barista advised her she couldn’t make the espresso herself.” He then posted a photograph of her on the doorways, writing, “She closed the door on all of us who had been nonetheless inside, pulled a rope out of her bag, tied the doorways shut, and walked away. We needed to have a passerby untie the rope so we may get out.”
A workers member later appeared to corroborate the story, claiming, “One time she got here into my espresso store at milk studios at like 11am, walked behind the counter and began pretending that she was making drinks whereas her individuals tied the entrance doorways shut from the skin and began filming her … Prospects had been trapped inside.” It seems the incident could have had one thing to do along with her January 2017 Vogue cowl story, which was filmed close by and featured Johnson in the identical outfit. The primary Twitter consumer additionally mentioned she had individuals along with her with a lint curler and digital camera, and one other worker reportedly reached out to the consumer to inform him that Dakota’s crew “wished her to do one thing the place she can be making espresso or one thing, and the barista mentioned no as a result of it wasn’t accredited by Blue Bottle company and [they] didn’t need to all get in hassle for having her behind the bar.”
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Paula Abdul has made a number of remarks about being in a airplane crash within the ’90s, struggling accidents that led to her retreating from the highlight for a while. There’s only one drawback: There isn’t any file of the crash ever occurring. Abdul’s description would not match any crashes on the time, although it’s potential it was not reported and the wreckage was not discovered. Nonetheless, this is able to imply Abdul and the opposite passengers simply left the burned-out airplane in a discipline and by no means reported it.
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One among my favourite Hollywood city legends is the Iong-standing rumor that Richard Gere as soon as ended up within the ER after sticking a gerbil up his butt. It is haunted Gere for 4 many years now, and but nobody can determine the way it began (there’s clearly no proof of it ever occurring). Apparently, although, based on Gere’s longtime rival Sylvester Stallone, Gere believes Stallone began it. Stallone denies this, however truthfully, I may see it.
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One other considerably ~classic~ memorable Hollywood second has to do with actor, mannequin, and romance cowl star Fabio…and a goose. Again in 1999, Fabio was serving to promote a brand new curler coaster at Busch Gardens. By the point the trip was completed, his face was coated in blood — and based on Fabio, it was goose blood.
“So the curler coaster goes down at 80 miles an hour…over a pond and again up, after which the wrong way up,” Fabio mentioned in describing what occurred. “So what occurred is, over the pond there was a bunch of geese there. I am speaking about lots of. And one obtained sucked in. I noticed this very up shut. The geese hit the video digital camera.” Fabio mentioned the video digital camera shattered and metallic minimize the bridge of his nostril. When the curler coaster turned upside city, the blood obtained throughout his face, which was evident when the trip was over. Folks thought it was a hoax on the time, as the following day, when headlines got here out, was April Idiot’s day. One of many strangest elements? The footage from the digital camera was by no means discovered. “My supervisor at the moment, he mentioned, ‘Oh, let’s examine the video footage.’ Nicely the digital camera is rarely to be discovered. The tape disappeared.”
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Older male stars courting girls who’ve barely entered their 20s is nothing new, however Bradley Cooper nonetheless made waves when he started courting then-21-year-old Suki Waterhouse whereas he was in his late 30s, particularly contemplating he’d not too long ago slammed experiences he was courting then-22-year-old Jenifer Lawrence by saying, “I may actually be her father.” However the weird, scandalous half that earned this instance a spot on this checklist? The paparazzi photographs of Suki and Cooper studying Lolita whereas cuddling in a park, which it’s a must to admit are a little bit on the nostril.
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I really feel like Miguel’s 2013 stage dive has been forgotten, so let me remind you what occurred — after skyrocketing to fame within the early 2010s, Miguel carried out on the Billboard Music Awards in 2013. Throughout his set, he tried to stage dive and landed on two followers. It is nonetheless one of many wildest award present moments to me, and ended with a lawsuit from one of many girls, who claimed she was injured (the opposite lady additionally alleged an damage however didn’t sue).
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Kanye has partaken in numerous weird conduct over the previous couple of years, however one comparatively innocent instance all the time stands proud to me as notably weird: when he posted a video of him peeing on his Grammy award. The submit got here amid Ye criticizing the music business and its exploitation of artists, however nonetheless…I really feel like this level may’ve been made by way of alternate means.
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One other celeb constantly within the media for his or her generally erratic conduct is Lindsay Lohan. In one of the vital weird tales involving Logan, she posted an Instagram Stay video in 2018 of her approaching two kids and adults that she mentioned had been Syrian refugees. Within the video, Lohan supplied for one of many youngsters to remain at a lodge, then criticized the kids’s mom for not permitting her to take the kids, together with accusing her of kid trafficking and telling them “You’re ruining Arabic tradition. … Don’t fuck with Pakistan.” She then tried to seize one of many boys, and it appears as if the mom hits her, resulting in Lohan crying.
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And at last, I am unable to end this submit with out mentioning two extra well-known controversies which have since light from public reminiscence…however reside rent-free in my thoughts. First up: the salad dressing incident. Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis’s former nanny claimed that Sudeikis came upon Wilde was having an affair with Harry Types after seeing messages between them on Wilde’s Apple Watch. She additionally mentioned Sudeikis as soon as threw himself below Wilde’s automotive to forestall her from bringing her “particular salad dressing” to Types.
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Second, we should focus on the Hilaria Baldwin Spanish controversy. In late 2020, Twitter consumer @lenibriscoe accused Baldwin of faking her Spanish heritage and accent (followers additionally dug up a video the place Baldwin would not know the English phrase for “cucumber”). Proof appeared to counsel Baldwin was truly from Massachusetts. Hilaria later admitted she was born in Boston however grew up touring between the US and Spain, talking each English and Spanish, explaining her mixing up the languages and accents.
Nicely, that is all I’ve for you right now, of us. What wild superstar tales reside rent-free in your thoughts? Tell us within the feedback!