Bad Celebrity Behavior Thread

[CatsbyAZ]

There must be something psychologically deep-rooted about having your sense of self-worship validated by fame, namely the ludicrous admiration from the public (fleeting as it is, Vanilla Ice), that risks blinding the celebrity to the worst of their own terrible natures, even as their harmful actions have become tangibly more consequential since the advent of #MeToo.

“I will literally disappear from public life.”

A wise move more celebs should follow.

Instead, addicted to their fame and fame’s potent validation of self-worship, we watch too many celebs obliviously turning their irrelevance into the sad spectacle of a public has-been.

[UAEebs86]

Promises, promises. Take that Goop crap and go away.

I actually liked her in Shallow Hal.

[Merkin]

Guess we can always smell her vay-jay candle.

[dovecanyoncat]

So, she's threatening me with a good time. K

[Merkin]

I guess all those years of trading blowjobs for cocaine caught up to her.

[azgreg]

[CatsbyAZ]

A guy whose temper could give him a continual presence throughout this thread - Alec Baldwin loses his cool with protestors the other night.

Walking to volunteer as an instructor at an acting class, Baldwin wandered on into a crowd of anti-Israel protestors shouting "ceasefire!" Recognizing him, they belittled his tanking career. The NYPD stepped in and escorted Baldwin into the theater he was scheduled to teach in.

No truth to the rumors that Baldwin was guest teaching on the subject of prop gun safety.

[UAEebs86]

Panther's owner David Tepper:

[Merkin]

[UAEebs86]

^^^^^

[CatsbyAZ]

Was reading up on Masterson's conviction yesterday and, though I knew he was a Scientologist, I had no idea his church was so aggressively involved in protecting Masterson against the consequences of the clear and obvious harm he caused unfortunate women.

Lot of backchannel chatter on this. YouTubers who closely followed Masterson's trial and now imprisonment are saying that even though Masterson was pre-scheduled to be transferred due to mounting safety reasons, three prison gang members attacked Masterson as guards were removing him from his cell. In the weeks leading up to Masterson's weekend transfer, numerous guards were required to escort him to his meals to not only protect him from the known hits out on him but to ensure he was being fed after Masterson refused to leave his cell week after week. It's a point of pride and bragging rights amongst inmates to be the one who pulls off a beatdown on a higher profile inmate.

[Merkin]

Former USC player. Had several concussions there, so CTE may be an issue, but not an excuse.

[CatsbyAZ]

So this former child actor is publishing a tell-all this week. Her upbringing in Hollywood sounds miserable. Exploited by her mother (hence the title of her memoir) and sexually harassed as a minor by producers on the set of her Nickelodeon shows. In her book she doesn't shy away from raging against the fame she came into:

A new documentary, Quiet On Set, is cataloguing long-term abuses faced by child stars on Nickelodeon's live action shows.

Much of it centers around Nickelodeon's lead producer at the time, Dan Schneider. Not only his psychological abuses but his looking the other when predators assaulted the child actors of his shows, such voice coach Brian Peck's abuse of Drake Bell. Brian Peck is now a sex offender currently serving prison time after pleading guilty in 2004 to sexually assaulted two separate minors.

From the Hollywood Reporter—
"According to several actors and others who spoke in Quiet on Set and who worked during his lengthy time with Nickelodeon, Schneider’s major temper issues could lead him to explode on sets “like a tornado.” He was also allegedly inappropriate to young females who worked for him, leaving pornography on his computer screen and according to one account, telling a writer under the guise of a joke that he’d put one of her sketches in the show in return for a massage."

[Merkin]

Started watching it since my kids grew up on All That and The Amanda Show. But in truth, I thought it was going to be worse that it was. Dude was a total asshole for sure though.

Lots of sexual innuendoes too which were mentioned, but was hoping to hear more from the stars such as Bynes, Keenan and Kel. Just minor characters on the first episode.

[Chicat]

I had no idea.

[Merkin]

[Chicat]

He got let off easy from his Maui charity bullshit. I’ll happily look for that to become a talking point again.

[UAEebs86]

^^^ Can't offend the majority of his wrestling fans. It's all about the Benjamins.

"Republicans buy sneakers, too".
-Michael Jordan

[pc in NM]

^^^ Can't offend the majority of his wrestling fans. It's all about the Benjamins.

"Republicans buy sneakers, too".
-Michael Jordan

No reason to expect a highly skilled, even a top performing athlete or entertainer to have the courage of their convictions...

... they can't all be Taylor Swift, can they!

[Merkin]

[84Cat]

Oh shit, Diddy is done!

[Merkin]

Holy shit that's bad. LAPD should arrest him for assault and kidnapping.

[wyo-cat]

I think it was in Vegas.

[Merkin]

According to the video, in the lawsuit it says: InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles.

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[Merkin]

[azcat49]

Giant POS

[Merkin]

[CatsbyAZ]

Haha, Richard Dreyfuss publicly losing his mind is why this thread exists. So unexpected. Has he had bizarre meltdowns like this before?

[wyo-cat]

Haha, Richard Dreyfuss publicly losing his mind is why this thread exists. So unexpected. Has he had bizarre meltdowns like this before?

From what I understand. Yes.

[RichardCranium]

Heh, I used to be chuffed when people would think I looked like Dreyfus.

I may have even 'got lucky' once or twice by pretending to be his brother when first 'recognised'.

Not so sure its a good thing anymore.

[CatsbyAZ]

Haha, Richard Dreyfuss publicly losing his mind is why this thread exists. So unexpected. Has he had bizarre meltdowns like this before?

From what I understand. Yes.

More details from a Deadline article:

“Dreyfuss apparently made similar comments at a Friday night Jaws screening at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. “I live in Mass, but the Cabot showing was all booked so I saw him in NH on May 24,” a Facebook commenter wrote. “He made anti-gay remarks that night too.”

Dreyfus’s came across as so stately and composed in his most famous roles; never pegged him as the type of Hollywood creation bent on crashing and burning his reputation for sport.

[CatsbyAZ]

Is it a surprise Brad Pitt turns out to be enemy #1 amongst his own family, to the point his adult children won’t speak to him? Pitt’s carefully curated public image sure went a long way in granting him the benefit of the doubt against years of rumors that are now confirmed.

...to the point his grown children are legally filing to drop Pitt's last name? "Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter Shiloh reportedly paid for her own lawyer when she filed to drop her father’s last name. The talented dancer, who filed the request on her 18th birthday late last month, is seeking to change her name from “Shiloh Jolie-Pitt” to “Shiloh Jolie.”

"Brad and Angelina’s 19-year-old daughter, Zahara, also dropped her father’s surname — introducing herself as “Zahara Marley Jolie” — at her Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority induction at Spelman College in November 2023. In 2021, Us Weekly reported that the “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” stars’ son Maddox, 22, also “doesn’t use Pitt as his last name on documents that aren’t legal and instead uses Jolie.”

Brad Pitt is set up to be about the coolest Dad a kid could have. Whatever happened in that family runs deep. Pitt reportedly blames his Ex for turning their six kids against him as payback for losing several longstanding legal battles resulting from their 2016 divorce.

[Merkin]

Why should anyone get a DWI, especially when you are rich enough to have a chauffeur.

[CatsbyAZ]

It doesn't help that Timberlake's career is in decline, but ever since Brittany Spears' memoir released a year or two ago accusing him of forcing an abortion on her when she was 19, Timberlake's abuse of alcohol has notably spiked.

[Chicat]

I was invited to his concert tomorrow night but I’m not into his music and I’ll be at a Wrigley rooftop for the Cubs game during the day and I’m way too old to do both.

But now I wish I had said yes to going to see him. Might be interesting.

[dovecanyoncat]

I was invited to his concert tomorrow night but I’m not into his music and I’ll be at a Wrigley rooftop for the Cubs game during the day and I’m way too old to do both.

But now I wish I had said yes to going to see him. Might be interesting.

You're too old to have such a cool job.

[Merkin]

[azcat49]

Talks about being emasculated in front of the world. Not sure which would be worse, those comments after the fact or taking her back knowing she F’ed a teammate.

[Chicat]

I was invited to his concert tomorrow night but I’m not into his music and I’ll be at a Wrigley rooftop for the Cubs game during the day and I’m way too old to do both.

But now I wish I had said yes to going to see him. Might be interesting.

You're too old to have such a cool job.

Truer words have never been spoken.

[Merkin]

Grohl's legacy is already cemented in rock and roll history. Not sure why he even cares.

I couldn't name one Taylor Swift song, but you do 152 shows on tour and see if you don't need a little help on backing after doing all that dancing.

Every TV show that had music was lip synced. Every Super Bowl half time show is lip synced.

I remember a few years ago Roger Waters lost his voice, and accidentally left his mic on when singing that song along with the prerecorded version.

[pc in NM]

Grohl's legacy is already cemented in rock and roll history. Not sure why he even cares.

I couldn't name one Taylor Swift song, but you do 152 shows on tour and see if you don't need a little help on backing after doing all that dancing.

Every TV show that had music was lip synced. Every Super Bowl half time show is lip synced.

I remember a few years ago Roger Waters lost his voice, and accidentally left his mic on when singing that song along with the prerecorded version.

The Beatles never lip synced unless it was one of their videos they made lots of videos. They weren't thought of as "videos" back in the '60s ...

One thing you should know is that Ed Sullivan ran a live show. He had a great Orchestra and Orchestra conductor. It didn't matter if you were from a Broadway show, an opera singer, a legitimate popular singer like Barbra Streisand or a rock and roll group like the Dave Clark Five:

Everybody sang with the orchestra or with a group. Performances were live there was no lip-synching on The Ed Sullivan Show; it was a class Prime Time show.

Shows like Dick Clark's American Bandstand which were not primetime more often liked lip-syncing. Variety shows that were on Primetime had a choice, but the upscale ones had live performances.

Ed Sullivan demanded that everyone do a run-through live and if their song was too long the orchestra or the individual musicians had to cut it.

It is well known that he would ask questionable rock groups to change their lyrics Just for his show because it was a family show.

The Stones changed their lyrics but the Doors agreed to do it and didn't. So Jim Morrison and The Doors were banned from the show.

Sullivan didn't invite performers to his Live program who could not produce a live performance.

But he would allow performers to videotape a live performance from another country or venue when they couldn't come to the show in person. The Beatles and the Dave Clark Five did that a number of times.

[Merkin]

I stand corrected. I forgot about Ed Sullivan, and especially the Doors.

Was thinking more about shows like Top of the Pops, where they didn't even pretend to look like they were playing live by plugging in their guitars.

[wyo-cat]

IIRC, a guy in C & C Music Factory loss consciousness on stage and his vocal track kept rolling while he was out on the deck.

[Merkin]

Reminds of this event.

[RichardCranium]

...
One thing you should know is that Ed Sullivan ran a live show. He had a great Orchestra and Orchestra conductor. It didn't matter if you were from a Broadway show, an opera singer, a legitimate popular singer like Barbra Streisand or a rock and roll group like the Dave Clark Five:

Everybody sang with the orchestra or with a group. Performances were live there was no lip-synching on The Ed Sullivan Show; it was a class Prime Time show.

Yes. Except some acts were pre-recorded.

Shows like Dick Clark's American Bandstand which were not primetime more often liked lip-syncing. Variety shows that were on Primetime had a choice, but the upscale ones had live performances.

Also yes. Bandstand was a RADIO SHOW on TV - they played records even when the artist was in the studio. They were selling records and the recorded performance was being advertised. There are probably exceptions to the rule, but they are few and far between.

[CatsbyAZ]

Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial begins this week in New Mexico:

[Chicat]

The judge dismissed the case against Alec Baldwin.

[pc in NM]

The judge dismissed the case against Alec Baldwin.

Here's the judges actual explanation of the "dismissal with prejudice", with reactions from principals...

[Chicat]

People are like, “I can’t believe the prosecutors and police could mess up THIS ONE TIME.”

Like there aren’t thousands of poor people in jail right now where they couldn’t afford competent counsel who could uncover misconduct and instead got the slob who basically talks them into pleading down because they really don’t want to have to go through a trial.

[Merkin]

Like has been said for eons, prosecutors and cops only want a conviction. They don't care about justice.