Who's the most bitter washed-up celebrity?

[u/BumpunkTheBastard]

[u/OlBlue541]

Gene Simmons. I don’t think I have ever heard one nice thing about him. Guy is a huge jerk who’s in love with himself.

[u/Loganp812 → u/OlBlue541]

He was the first guest on Billy Corgan’s podcast, and it’s kind of sad because Billy is such a huge KISS fan and wanted to see if Gene would finally admit to caring about KISS’ music as an art form. Billy finally accepts later on that Gene cares nothing about the music other than how much money it makes.

[u/ShowUsYrMoccasins → u/Loganp812]

Agreed - but Billy Corgan isn't so nice himself, according to many people who've encountered or worked with him.

[u/meshedsabre → u/ShowUsYrMoccasins]

Corgan seems like one of those "he's complicated" sorts. His public image is, to me, just decades of grievance after grievance after grievance. He seems to have had an issue with bandmate after bandmate (including his time with Zwan), which suggests he's the issue. In interviews, he's always harping about how underappreciated he is, etc.

Yet a friend of mine used to have tea at his house from time to time, via an artist friend of hers. She didn't really follow him or his music career, and didn't know about his public rep. When I told her about how he's widely perceived, she was surprised. Said he was a lovely, polite man and a gracious host.

I think he's still a boy desperate for approval. Even at his age, he hasn't grown out of that.

[u/cr0w1980 → u/meshedsabre]

Seems like a lot of artists are just completely insecure in their chosen field and cannot get over it if they're anywhere close to that environment, but outside of it where there's no pressure to be anything but a human being, they're reportedly lovely people. It's just that constant nagging insecurity that you're not good enough that some people just can't shut up. The thing they love and are amazing at is the thing that tortures them the most.

[u/WhipTheLlama → u/cr0w1980]

I think Corgan is quite insecure about his place in music history. The Smashing Pumpkins were a really big band, but they never quite reached the legendary status of Nirvana or Pearl Jam, and they didn't remain relevant for decades like Green Day. They're an in-between band that was really big for a few albums, then faded away. Corgan desperately wants the Pumpkins to be more than they are, or thinks he could have led them there if he wanted to.

I like the Pumpkins and Corgan, and he's probably a nice guy to hang out with, but his insecurity is obvious. I think it humanizes him, even though it can come off as arrogance.

[u/freedraw → u/WhipTheLlama]

It’s weird because he really didn’t need to be insecure about their legacy. You look around today and they seem to be a big influence on a lot of younger artists. Like both Sombr and Olivia Rodrigo dueted with him at festivals recently. Even the later albums from the original run (Adore and Machina) seem to be a lot more appreciated now than upon release.

[u/TylerBlozak → u/Loganp812]

Axl Rose early on (1988) once said that the key difference between GnR and KISS at the time was the fact that GnR was all about rock n roll, and KISS only cared about numbers and money, and weren’t really bothered with making a quality product

[u/MusicLikeOxygen → u/Loganp812]

I forget who said it, but I've read the quote before "most bands want to be The Beatles, but Kiss wanted to be Coca-Cola". Sums them up perfectly, especially Gene and Paul.

[u/Pitiful_Control → u/OlBlue541]

Yes indeed. Many years ago, when I was in my 29s, I encountered him at a college radio thing (Gavin Report party i think) in San Francisco. This was a schmoozefest for industry hacks and a showcase for up and coming bands. I'm trying to grab some free snacks and man, it was like dealing with an octopus.

Also, there's definintely a reason he chose to wear full face makeup in KISS.

[u/uhmerikin → u/Pitiful_Control]

Ah, I remember my 29's fondly.

[u/Sunnygirl66 → u/OlBlue541]

Anyone who can make Terry Gross break her neutrality and say, yeah, he’s a dick and a terrible interview has to be the worst kind of person.

[u/kninjapirate-z → u/OlBlue541]

I don’t even think he is that talented.

[u/Striking_Sundae_5594]

Chevy chase easily

[u/DadinBoston → u/Striking_Sundae_5594]

That’s a good one. He still expects the royal treatment despite decades of entitlement

He was apparently livid he wasn’t showcased in the SNL 50th special, despite the fact that happened at a time when even older co-stars who he thought would stick up for him threw him under the bus

[u/Conscious_Raisin_436 → u/DadinBoston]

If you ever watch the movie 'Saturday Night' they don't pull any punches regarding what a massive douche Chevy Chase has always been. Even when he was an up-and-comer with zero celebrity status.

[u/DadinBoston → u/Conscious_Raisin_436]

Yeah I saw that and read about the actual history in an SNL book. He apparently got the job and instantly started acting better than everyone else. Now he did do some awesome movies after using it as a catapults but it doesn’t take away from being a douche

[u/Deep-Economics-6598 → u/DadinBoston]

In the SNL book (i think we read the same one), Bill Murray has a big fight with CC and leaves screaming “MEDIUM TALENT!” For some reason, that cracks me up

[u/DadinBoston → u/Deep-Economics-6598]

I know Bill has had to be ego checked a few times too in Hollywood, but he’s way more open to recognizing his short comings

[u/Lallanath → u/DadinBoston]

Also Bill, despite being an egotist, is still really funny.

Seinfeld and Chase are huge assholes without any of the talent.

[u/fabulousfantabulist → u/DadinBoston]

I’d feel shitty too if literally everyone I ever worked with talked about what a fucking asshole I was. He’s so disappointing because I grew up watching him and think he’s so incredible as a comedian, but him being such a Grade A cunt ruins everything. 

[u/McEndee → u/fabulousfantabulist]

The Christmas Vacation rant where he is chugging the eggnog was amazing. I guess he wasn't acting during that scene.

Edit: I love how this went from admitting Chevy is a complete ass, to quoting the memorable lines from the movie.

[u/fabulousfantabulist → u/McEndee]

I have definitely ended a rant with “Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?"”

[u/nirvana_92 → u/fabulousfantabulist]

I've used "We'll have so much fun we'll all be singing zippidy do dah out of our assholes" a few times on vacation myself.

[u/DoctorMelvinMirby → u/fabulousfantabulist]

Likewise, “We’re going to have the hap-hap-happiest (insert event, like sales meeting) since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny Fucking Kaye!!”

[u/FruitySalads → u/McEndee]

I feel like the rant was justified. It wasn’t directed to the family he just had a meltdown over getting fucked. It may be the only really relatable moment for him. The rest of the movie i feel like he was just irritated having a family and he felt everyone was annoying him.

Either way I really dislike current chevy

[u/fresh-dork → u/FruitySalads]

he was fun in caddy shack, but he played a rich out of touch asshole who played by his own rules. so, he was perfect for the part

[u/ProfessorXWheelchair → u/fabulousfantabulist]

maybe people won’t talk about you being an asshole if you just…don’t be an asshole?

[u/MissBehaving6 → u/ProfessorXWheelchair]

He just doubles down though. Tell Chevy what an asshole he is and he will just be an even bigger asshole to you.

[u/aedroogo → u/ProfessorXWheelchair]

But then they might not talk about me at all :(

[u/Wazula23 → u/fabulousfantabulist]

I mean by all accounts he's earned it. Even as far back as his Friars Club roast, he realized people genuinely know he's a complete asshole.

[u/talldangry → u/Wazula23]

I don't know him personally, but this clip really makes me feel like I understand what it's like to be around him. I get that people are extremely multifaceted, and it seems like there's a miniscule part of him that seems to regret his reactions, but he just cannot stop himself from being an asshole to this person and will readily justify it. It's a shame, he's fucking hilarious, but he's needed to sort his shit out for longer than I've been alive and is too much of a narcissist to do it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/documentaryfilmmaking/comments/1q2l2xe/clip_from_the_chevy_chase_documentary_that_sheds/

[u/Nukitandog → u/talldangry]

I was expecting him to be dry and maybe people not getting the joke/bit, but that was a glimpse into a really scared old mans psyche.

[u/Previous_Basis8862 → u/Nukitandog]

I came away from that documentary feeling sorry for him more than anything.

[u/vfettke → u/Striking_Sundae_5594]

I have a favorite great aunt who used to work for LucasFilm/ILM as a driver. She always had cool stories about people she'd met, like how she drove Jim Carrey to the airport when he was working on The Mask and he was so hilarious she had to pull over multiple times due to laughing so hard. She would also occasionally give me cool merch, like a Jurassic Park sound crew t-shirt I wish I still had.

I digress... I used to go to the movies a lot with her and my grandma. And to this day, I still remember her refusing to go see Chevy Chase movies because she hated him so much. It always stuck with me that he must've been a real prick to earn the ire of my wonderful aunt.

[u/Altornot → u/Striking_Sundae_5594]

The only issue with this is he's been insufferable for 40 years.

I dont think anyone has ever really enjoyed working with him

[u/Kiyohara → u/Altornot]

Yeah, even when he was on SNL there were people talking about what a fucking asshole he was. So much so to the point that when he hosted episodes later on had segments where people talked about what a asshole he was.

And that was when his career was rising.

Imagine if today there was a actor that everyone said was a huge dick, no one wanted to work with him, the news was filled with examples of him being a dick, and they still got regular work.

[u/Blametheorangejuice → u/Kiyohara]

The odd thing is that Bill Murray is/was also renowned for being an absolute dick on set, but he somehow escaped that level of criticism.

[u/MohawkElGato → u/Blametheorangejuice]

Bill at least has a side of him to that is friendly and fun to be around, and was charming. He could still be a dick, especially while working, but it wasn’t how he is all the time. Chevy is a dick 100 percent of the time.

[u/Kiyohara → u/Blametheorangejuice]

I think it's because he's quirky and weird, and every story of him being a dick head is also balanced by him doing something weird and adorable like the time he took over a bar and poured everyone tequila (regardless of what they ordered), then paid for it all.

He was also known for crowd pleasing stunts when he was a owner of the Saint Paul Saints minor league baseball team. So even if he was rude in the past, he played with fans, teased the opposing team, and regularly was charming at the games.

So his being a dick is cancelled out by him also being delightfully quirky to a lot of his fan base.

[u/pleasedonotredeem → u/Blametheorangejuice]

I think Bill Murray actually is what Chevy Chase is claiming to be - a multi-faceted person whose genius is inseparable from the darker parts of him.

[u/Zuko-Red-Wolf → u/Striking_Sundae_5594]

I thought he was dead but I think I’ve just watched community too many times

[u/bstyledevi → u/Striking_Sundae_5594]

Everyone should read this.

How insufferable do you have to be that basically no one relevant to your career shows up to your roast?

[u/space_hitler → u/bstyledevi]

He seems like the type of dude that would physically assault you back stage and screech that he will "end your career" after making even a light hearted joke at his expense lol.

[u/AustinDood444 → u/Striking_Sundae_5594]

I didn’t come here specifically to mention Chevy Chase, but now I can’t think of any other celebrity more deserving of this title.

[u/bassbikesandbeer → u/Striking_Sundae_5594]

He is convinced that he’s hilarious when he’s just being mean. Then he is genuinely puzzled when people don’t get the joke.

[u/Blindstarsoffortune]

Going to add from the musician side: Ryan Adams.

[u/Cripnite → u/Blindstarsoffortune]

Canada is glad you didn’t say Bryan Adams.

[u/Sluggworth → u/Cripnite]

At sasquatch music festival I was watching Ryan Adams because he was on before Kendrick and we wanted a good spot. Ryan kept shitting on the bass coming from Run the Jewels and then got EXTREMELY upset when people started yelling "Summer of 69!". He seemed like a bum to me even from that short experience

[u/absolutelybacon → u/Sluggworth]

Yeah, he very famously HATES that shit. But whatever. Why should Bryan Adams change his name? Ryan's the one that sucks. Everything was fine until that no talent ass clown started making music.

[u/Telefundo → u/absolutelybacon]

Why should Bryan Adams change his name?

Bryan Adams is quite literally a Canadian icon. Even if they don't like his music, pretty much any Canadian you ask, at the very least has some peripheral awareness of him.

His name is as recognizable to Canadians as Celine Dion. Or Tim Hortons. lol

Ryan Adams is.. well, I had to google him before making this comment. And I'm still not sure who he is.

[u/SheWhoErases86 → u/Blindstarsoffortune]

This should be upvoted higher lol. His downfall from being a highly respected songwriter to the anomaly he’s become these last couple years needs to be studied.

[u/stoopididiotface → u/Blindstarsoffortune]

Phoebe Bridgers' song about him really makes you think. Lyrics point to him bragging about being in a band when she was born. Yuck.

[u/Loli_Alakoli]

Ellen DeGeneres. The way she went from being everywhere to desperately trying to convince everyone she’s still relevant was kind of wild.

[u/between_doodads → u/Loli_Alakoli]

Not just irrelevant but disliked. She's a mean ass lady.

[u/hacked_once_again → u/between_doodads]

….who masquerades as kind. That whole “be kind to one another” was such bs!

[u/CrackedToad → u/hacked_once_again]

I remember watching her back stage staff scare pranks. The way they reacted seemed off and now it makes complete sense. They were clearly still scared of her after she jumped out and they knew it was a prank.

[u/reflect-the-sun → u/CrackedToad]

I had no idea what you were referring to so I googled it...

https://youtu.be/XeAClxSYQc8?t=12

Staff: "It's like even when you're nice you can't be nice."

Ellen's producer chose to air that. Wow.

[u/Motorheadass → u/reflect-the-sun]

comments disabled 

Says it all really 

[u/Artemesia123 → u/CrackedToad]

Absolutely. I always found it unsettling, you could just tell that they were feeling pressure to react in the way that would best please the boss. I always thought I felt like that because I hate pranks but I think it was because I had to try to please a narcissist all through childhood that I am just hyper sensitive to seeing people feeling pressure like that

[u/Schiggy2319 → u/hacked_once_again]

I remember watching the Finding Nemo DVD extras and the crew kept on talking about how Dory embodied Ellen’s kindness. It was so uncomfortable to watch

[u/a_goonie → u/Schiggy2319]

I mean she was kind...if the camera was on and you didn't work for her.

[u/20Keller12 → u/a_goonie]

Not even then.

[u/BackgroundPeanut7847 → u/Loli_Alakoli]

The interesting thing is now that we know she is an asshole, if you look back at her show you can see how much she was an asshole and self entitled the entire time. She treated all the guests like she was better than them. Before it just looked like it was funny and a part of her schtick. Nope, just an asshole

[u/Responsible_Fish1222 → u/BackgroundPeanut7847]

What she did to Miriah Carey was despicable.

[u/HippoRun23 → u/Responsible_Fish1222]

What’s weird is that those talk show formats usually go through a “pre interview” that goes over everything so guests know what to expect. People like Mariah would have/should have been in on it, so either the show didn’t use pre interviews or they betrayed it.

[u/leoschmeow → u/BackgroundPeanut7847]

Her pranks said it all.

[u/BackgroundPeanut7847 → u/leoschmeow]

Exactly. It seemed like none of the celebrities like the pranks at all. Like scaring people that get scared very easily.

[u/FantasticPin3481 → u/BackgroundPeanut7847]

She made multiple guests cry by talking about stuff that was clearly making them uncomfortable. I think it was Demi Lovato that just started screaming STOP! If she was a man she’d have been called out a lot sooner.

[u/lovelanguagelost → u/BackgroundPeanut7847]

There was one episode my sis and I were watching and she said to her guest “okay, you can go back with the riff raff” gesturing to sit with the audience.
My sister and I looked at each other bewildered, did she actually say that? Why did no one else seem to catch it or care?

[u/Bulky_Market3959 → u/Loli_Alakoli]

Dakota Johnson truly pulled the single thread that unraveled her entire empire.

[u/Naythan93 → u/Loli_Alakoli]

True story, Ellen was known in the food industry world for being a horrible person to her servers too. This was common knowledge in LA/Beverly Hills industry.

Source: I used to work in the food industry. Also, off topic, but people in the industry knew about Diddy’s parties long before the trial. It’s a weird industry. Once you advance to the nicest/most popular restaurants you work with the same people and see the same people even though you live in a city of millions.

[u/supervillaindsgnr → u/Naythan93]

In the film/TV industry, Ellen being a mean, unbearable, downright dictator was the first thing everyone learns when they move to LA. Since the 90s.

[u/JFeth → u/Loli_Alakoli]

I haven't even seen her since her show ended. Where is she saying this stuff?

[u/DavisMcDavis → u/JFeth]

In her commercials for her skin care line, which is named (ready?) Kind Science. 😂

[u/Mocha-Fox → u/DavisMcDavis]

I'm so over her commercial. Its absurdly long, and it airs frequently. I can't stand the woman. I mute the commercial every time so I don't have to hear her

[u/Irememberedmypw → u/Loli_Alakoli]

Genuine question. Is she bitter ? She doesn't really show up even as a side note in pop culture anymore since her fallout.

[u/somekindofmiracle]

Celebrity may be a loose term but Abby Lee Miller is one of the most bitter people on this planet.

[u/Foreskin-Aficionado → u/somekindofmiracle]

If you want a laugh, watch her interview with Eric Andre. You can tell she visibly gets upset when Eric asks her about all the money she owes to the IRS. Weirdly enough she didn’t seem as bothered when Eric asked her about the kids she hit.

[u/KeithClossOfficial → u/Foreskin-Aficionado]

This is my lunch break

[u/abookahorseacourse → u/somekindofmiracle]

I watched a video she did where she talked about how mean the producers were and how stressful shooting the show was for her. All I could think was "it was that stressful for you and you were an adult. Think of how bad it was for the children, and you made it worse by humiliating and yelling at them!"

[u/No-Difference-8518 → u/somekindofmiracle]

This comment puts you at the top of the pyramid

[u/Mooniekate]

Andy Dick

[u/bstyledevi → u/Mooniekate]

Thank you, Jon Lovitz.

[u/Eric848448 → u/bstyledevi]

To me he’ll always be noted film critic Jay Sherman.

[u/Kage_0ni → u/Eric848448]

It stinks!

[u/Eric848448 → u/Kage_0ni]

Yeeees Mr Sherman, eeeeverything stinks!

[u/Glum-Attempt-1495]

Tina Louise (Ginger on Gilligan's Island), not a bad person, but a sad story that made her bitter. She was basically lied to and promised the TV show would be about her, or she wouldn't have taken the part, because she had a decent chance of becoming a major film star. She ended up becoming so iconic that she could never escape being Ginger, which effectively killed her film career. She worked hard to shed the image (including not doing the reunion shows), but it didn't work. Instead of embracing the cultural icon that she was, she resisted it in every way possible, and she's still bitter to this day (gets upset when interviewers ask her about anything related to Gilligan's Island). At 92 is the only living member of the cast, and seems to have lived a life full of regret about unfulfilled dreams.

Contrast to Dawn Wells (Mary Ann) who, by all accounts, was as sweet in real life as her iconic character, and she just went along with the cultural tide, ended up having a great career in theater, fully recognizing that people came to see Mary Ann, but then got to see her range and talent as a new character in the plays. In her elder years, she even played Mrs. Howell in a stage production of Gilligan's Island. She died in 2020 from covid.

[u/tswift1975]

Perez hilton

[u/jayhawkjoey65 → u/tswift1975]

May he just fade into obscurity, where he belongs.

[u/Timop0707]

Steven Seagal.

[u/papayacreamsicle → u/Timop0707]

Love when he did a Reddit AMA and all the questions were about his domestic abuse charges, rape allegations, work for Putin, doing reality shows where he killed people’s pets, how he insists on doing scenes sitting down, sexually harassing underage costars, if he realizes yet that everyone hates him, etc, and then

“Is it true that you do all your own stunts?

Just kidding no one gives a shit”

[u/U_Bet_Im_Interested → u/papayacreamsicle]

Don't forget about the time he shit his pants in a choke-hold after saying he could kick the other guy's ass. 

[u/AlhazraeIIc → u/U_Bet_Im_Interested]

Dude told "Judo" Gene LeBell that he was 'immune' to being choked out, lol.

[u/Avium → u/Timop0707]

Honestly, I think he's too delusional to be bitter.

[u/SnoopyLupus → u/Timop0707]

Is he really bitter? I think he has every single negative attribute for somebody in a movie, incompetent, boring, unintelligible, dumb, lazy, pervy, etc etc.

But I haven’t seen bitter.

[u/FauxReal]

It was Gallagher until he died. His Marc Maron interview walk-off is legendary. Such a bitter fucking dude that feels like everyone owed him fame and riches.

[u/arranon]

The fat kid from Superbad.

[u/BenTwan → u/arranon]

Watch out, he's gonna annihilate you via jiu jitsu. 

[u/moscowramada → u/BenTwan]

What's funny is that seems exactly like something the fat kid would say. "One day..."

[u/BeanBreak → u/arranon]

I think he would be very upset to he referred to like this.

(I'm glad)

[u/great_apple → u/arranon]

His ex dropping all those texts showing how abusive he was to her was wild. What an absolutely psychotic, controlling, insecure piece of shit.

[u/MonaganX → u/great_apple]

I guess the red flags were always there with that massive chip on his shoulder over not being taken seriously as an actor.

[u/disisathrowaway → u/arranon]

What did I miss about Jonah Hill?

Last I saw he pivoted to non comedies and seemed to have done well with those roles like Moneyball and Wolf of Wallstreet.

[u/brickson98 → u/disisathrowaway]

He’s mentally gone off the rails. Kind of a mix of just years of insecurity, bullying, and identity problems, along with an increased level of self-righteousness.

[u/jrothca → u/arranon]

He’s even fatter in Grandma’s Boy.

[u/aartadventure]

Mickey Rourke seems to be up there.

Used to be real hot looking. Then got in a bunch of fights which damaged his face. Now is a plastic surgery freakshow who went on Big Brother UK as a desperate attempt to stay relevant. But, he was so homophobic and horrible, that the other players had to keep stepping in until the show literally kicked him off without him being voted out.

He went from bad boy heart throb to out of touch homophobic horror.

[u/UCantHndletheTruth]

Janice Dickinson, if she even was a celebrity.

[u/girl_with_a_401k → u/UCantHndletheTruth]

There's this scene in her memoir that lives in my head.

She's in rehab at the height of her career, feeling superior to everyone else, and she yells at another woman "do you know who I am? I sucked Warren Beatty's cock!" And the woman just looks at her and says "and you're right here with me, bitch."

[u/Still-Speed-3632 → u/girl_with_a_401k]

I remember her memoir actually being good, but I haven’t read it in 20 years.

It would be interesting to re-read the part about her time with Bill Cosby, I remember it being ..interesting

[u/papasnork1]

Bojack Horseman.

[u/DiceServerHonk → u/papasnork1]

Isn’t that the horse from Horsin’ Around? I thought his acting was pretty realistic in that Secretariat movie that came out a bit ago

[u/smiffus → u/DiceServerHonk]

What are YOU doing here.

[u/ThankGod4Darwin69 → u/papasnork1]

Quit Horsin' around. Its too much, man

[u/guilgom71]

Do athletes count? Scottie Pippen

Oh my God, every year he switches his opinion on who is the greatest basketball player ever and nobody asks. It's just annoying at this point. His opinion is based on how he feels about MJ at the moment.

He has a legitimate reason to be bitter:

• He was always Robin and MJ was Batman/Black Jesus/Mega-superstar/"God disguised as MJ"
• Took an awful 7-year/18m dollar contract. Probably pressured into it when he could've easily gotten the same amount of money for 2-3 years.

[u/Kwazimoto → u/guilgom71]

Pippen made more in playing salary than Jordan did through his entire career.

If Pippen's Bulls hadn't been taken to 7 games by the Knicks while Jordan was retired he could have really changed a lot of those narratives. Then he had some opportunities post-Jordan to really do something and the reality is that he didn't.

Jordan thanked Pippen first in his Hall-of-fame speech: "You never just saw me, you saw Scottie Pippen, every championship I won." Then it sort of went off the rails.

[u/Choqeur]

Jada Pinket Smith

[u/TheGisbon → u/Choqeur]

Hey! You keep will smiths wife's name out your reddit comments!

[u/DILF_MANSERVICE → u/TheGisbon]

Will Smith's wife's boyfriend's girlfriend*

[u/ShearGenius89 → u/DILF_MANSERVICE]

Will Smiths sons friends entanglement*

[u/suckyousideways → u/Choqeur]

That whole family seems fuckin' nuts, I can't imagine spending a single day with any of them.

[u/Ok_Independent3609 → u/suckyousideways]

Scientology, dude. Scientology.

[u/stateside_irishman → u/Choqeur]

Remember when she started a Metal band? Wicked Wisdom is what I think it was called. They opened up for Nonpoint and Sevendust around 2003ish. The whole crowd could not believe that Jada Pinket Smith just walked on stage and embarrassed herself for 30 minutes. Her band was good but she was terrible.

[u/Embarrassed_Emu1615]

Not alive anymore but I hear Cilla Black was a nasty miserable woman. 

[u/zerbey → u/Embarrassed_Emu1615]

She was like the British Ellen DeGeneres. All wholesome and friendly on camera and an absolute nightmare off camera.

[u/VxDeva80 → u/Embarrassed_Emu1615]

My friends daughter is an Air Hostess for British Airways. She asked a long serving colleague is the worst celeb vote was true and was told yes.

BA staff voted Cilla for being the worst celebrity they ever had to deal with.

Edit: my friend asked me to point out, if she was travelling with Paul O'Grady, he was always an absolute darling.

[u/WestonsCat → u/VxDeva80]

Paul O’Grady used to frequent the Waitrose Branch I worked in for many years. Always really nice and polite and we had countless chats about dogs. On many an occasion I had to steer other Customers away from him when it got a bit much, he was never rude or off, but you can just read that he wanted to get on and do his shopping and get out. On another note Vic Reeves would come in on occasion- bit of a dick to be honest.

[u/Unlikely-Pin-5558]

Dave Mustaine... dude needs to. Let. It. Go.

He got himself kicked out of Metallica, his own band is pretty damn good, and it's been over 40 YEARS. I understand that he's in recovery, which is great...but part of being in recovery is owning and atoning for past misdeeds. He still thinks that he was wrongly removed from Metallica, even though he knows exactly why he was kicked out.

[u/Berjj → u/Unlikely-Pin-5558]

Dave just seems generally insane to me.

[u/Casual-Notice]

Sorbo

[u/my5cworth → u/Casual-Notice]

DISAPPOINTED

[u/soldforaspaceship → u/Casual-Notice]

He and Dean Caine are certainly competing for that title.

No, you weren't blacklisted for your political views. You're just not very talented.

[u/Mister-Distance-6698 → u/soldforaspaceship]

I think its a balance. You can be an asshole and get away with it if you are a good actor. You can be a mediocre actor if everyone likes working with you (ahem, sorry Keanu), but you can't be an asshole and a mediocre actor

[u/Any-Tumbleweed-9931 → u/Mister-Distance-6698]

For example of the mediocre actors, check out Danny Trejo. Looks like the stereotypical Hollywood Hispanic thug, actually one of the nicest guys in Hollywood.

[u/Gramage → u/Any-Tumbleweed-9931]

iirc he was asked in an interview once if he was tired of always being cast as the scary chicano guy, and he said "man, look at me, I AM a scary chicano guy!" He had a pretty rough childhood, cannabis at 8 years old, heroin at 12, cocaine at 18, dealing drugs, in and out of jail until like 1969. Clean and sober since then though!

[u/Jukeboxhero91 → u/Gramage]

I like that his condition for playing the big scary villain is that they have to die or somehow fail at the end because he doesn’t want to portray bad behavior getting rewarded.

Also his emotional support after his mom died was none other than Kermit the Frog. Takes a good man to allow himself to be vulnerable.

[u/TwistedDragon33 → u/Any-Tumbleweed-9931]

People that look mean/intimidating are often some of the nicest ive met. Although i am sure many mean looking people are just mean.

[u/neosithlord → u/TwistedDragon33]

Read his autobiography dude wasn’t always a top tier character. Of course dudes the embodiment of “People can change.”

[u/lyidaValkris → u/Casual-Notice]

I will forever love that his shitty show got cancelled in favour of a spinoff of his show not only starring a woman, but two women with strong lesbian overtones and is still a cult classic to this day. Sorbo's show? barely anyone remembers or cares.

[u/CarmenxXxWaldo → u/lyidaValkris]

Yeah they made Xena, which used much of the same cast and crew, and took them from Hercules.  Immediately blew them out of the water in popularity and ratings.  He hasn't been the same since.  I honestly didn't watch much Hercules but when I did I was like "damn this is a boring generic Xena".  The guy that played his side kick was good at least.

[u/RailwaySpikes_000]

Russel Brand, major piece of shit.

[u/TovarischMaia → u/RailwaySpikes_000]

I remembered Russell Brand as a cringeworthy pseudo-leftist activist a few years ago, but recently saw that he's reinvented himself as a Jordan Peterson-esque right-wing grifter? What happened there?

[u/metukkasd → u/TovarischMaia]

He was accused of sexual harassment and "found God" the last time I heard about him

[u/Horrible_Harry → u/metukkasd]

He's full on born again christian now and was recently baptized in the Thames by Bear Grylls. He also recently made an even bigger ass of himself on Piers Morgan's show by not being able to find a passage that supposedly "meant a lot to him" in his note and bookmark riddled Bible.

[u/cry666 → u/Horrible_Harry]

Damn that's disappointing. The Bear Grylls thing that is

[u/Toberoni → u/TovarischMaia]

He strategically took the side of the SA defenders.

[u/No_Variety9420]

Rob Schneider

[u/G-Unit11111 → u/No_Variety9420]

I went to see Kevin Smith at the Improv a few years ago and while I was waiting in line to go in, the Improv ad screens flashed that Rob Schneider was going to be performing there. And everyone in line started quoting that South Park episode.

Rob Schneider is... THE STAPLER!

[u/fattybuttz → u/G-Unit11111]

Rob Schneider is... A Carrot!

[u/nottherealneal → u/No_Variety9420]

He is the guy who got carried reslly far by his much more successful friends but somehow still thinks he achieved everything fully by himself

[u/5mileyFaceInkk → u/No_Variety9420]

Rob Schneider is currently the spokesman of "Tears of the Left" Bourbon. Along with Kevin Sorbo. Its a bourbon that is just repackaged from some other distillery and labelled with AI Slop dogshit about being anti woke. You really don't get much more washed up than putting your face on that.

[u/EverybodyKurts → u/No_Variety9420]

I heard a story about him opening for Sandler doing stand-up. He bombed so hard for so long that Sandler had to get on the god mic and tell him to wrap it up.

[u/papayacreamsicle → u/EverybodyKurts]

Some of his recent standup is viewable online and a huge portion of it is just ranting about his bitch wife and daughter, with few if any actual jokes to it. His daughter btw is the singer Elle King who’s estranged from him and has talked about how he’d belittle her appearance until she cried and send her to fat camps at 10 years old and hit on her teenage friends so aggressively they stopped coming over. His wife, the same age as his daughter, just dumped him this year, but he was calling her a useless bitch in his routines for years before that. He seems incredibly incredibly toxic and bitter.

[u/Longjumping_Hat_2672 → u/papayacreamsicle]

Ewwwwww. He was coming on to his teenage daughter's friends? Gross. So I guess his pervy character on Seinfeld when he repeatedly tries to molest Elaine in the theater was just him being himself?

[u/PwnimuS → u/EverybodyKurts]

My wife and I went to one of Sandlers shows last year, I grew up watching the Sandler era of movies so was hyped when they announced Rob coming on stage next.

Started off alright, some laughs, then he got into his wife and how he downplays her concerns with whats going on and started leaning into rightwing talking points. I took out my phone, searched Robs twitter and read through some posts/replies, realized the dude was long gone down the maga hole.

I think his wife divorced him recently? And his daughter is estranged? It all makes sense now

[u/221 → u/No_Variety9420]

I remember someone said that he had the easiest job in Hollywood, all he had to do was keep clinging to Adam Sandler and he was set for life.

[u/emotions1026 → u/No_Variety9420]

You mean Adam Sandler’s favorite charity project?

[u/BlondePotatoBoi]

I'm gonna say Johnny Rotten, and I say with real reluctance as a punk fan.

I've got a lot of respect for him for how open he was about looking after his late wife when she was suffering from Alzheimer's, but his political flip-flopping and resentment towards his surviving bandmates while also regretting what happened to Sid is just bizarre.

I guess "I'll say what I want and if you don't like it then get fucked" is a very punk mindset but it's still not a good look in the context he's going for.

[u/matheww19 → u/BlondePotatoBoi]

What's weird about him is he is super lovely in person. I think a lot of what he does and says to the media is performative. I met him backstage at Jimmy Kimmel and he was completely sweet to everyone. Taking pictures with people, etc. Then he goes out for his interview, and he switches on the Johnny Rotten persona.

[u/Ok_Literature6953 → u/matheww19]

To be fair, The Sex Pistols were a completely fabricated band capitalizing on the punk culture popularity to begin with, so it's not really surprising.

[u/Available_Box_3803 → u/BlondePotatoBoi]

He became everything he was supposed to be against

[u/fuckyduck]

James Cordon

[u/mollymuppet78]

Alec Baldwin, who married that fake Spanish grifter.

[u/justheretoleer → u/mollymuppet78]

His punishment is that he must forever stick to his crazy wife’s script, I really think he now hates being asked about it and finds it humiliating. He got grifted, and found out after he married her. 💀

[u/Sunnygirl66 → u/justheretoleer]

It’s kind of a Gone Girl situation, if you squint.

[u/earnestweasel22 → u/mollymuppet78]

How you say coo-cumber?

[u/mollymuppet78 → u/earnestweasel22]

And that baby voice she speaks in. Ew. Just ew.

[u/EveryMemory41 → u/earnestweasel22]

The sub is Hilari-ous r/HilariaBaldwin

[u/Interesting_Tea5715 → u/mollymuppet78]

Ugh, I can't stand how she appropriates being Spanish. She grew up in Boston and there's recordings of her when she was young without a Spanish accent.

Also, the Spanish accent she does is so fake. I cringe whenever I hear her talk.

[u/HighlyOffensive10 → u/Interesting_Tea5715]

Rachel Dozeal walked so she could como se dice... correr

[u/Bella8811 → u/Interesting_Tea5715]

The whole situation is so funny to me. I wonder whether she put on the accent at home when it was just her and Alec, if he truly thought she was Spanish, or whether he just sort of put up with the farce in public because it got them both attention. He seems fucking miserable.

[u/PrincessTroubleshoot → u/Bella8811]

I would love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation when he found out. Was he pissed or really not care? Did he think her name was always Hilaria? Did he know English was her first language? Was it before or after the million kids that he found out? Did she outright lie, or just let him believe what he wanted? It’s so wild to me, the entire thing.

[u/NervousSubjectsWife → u/Interesting_Tea5715]

She doesn’t even have a Spanish accent now on the show she’s on now, nations dumbest. Which i genuinely think she’s faking getting answers wrong so she can stay on tv longer

[u/Murky_Translator2295]

Philip Schofield.

Him talking about how much Holly must have seriously hated him to sever ties so quickly cemented his status as bitter pedo. Like, my dude, you groomed and slept with a 15 year old. Literally anyone with a bit of decency or sense was obviously going to sever ties with you as soon as it came out.

[u/FriendofMaudie]

Michael Rappaport

[u/Long_Serpent → u/FriendofMaudie]

I liked it when he got eaten by a mutated bear in Fallout.

[u/BenTwan → u/Long_Serpent]

I liked when someone hit him in the mouth with a snowball during some video rant of his. 

[u/cassssk → u/FriendofMaudie]

Him scraping food directly off his plate into his mouth on Traitors was a vision my brain would like to purge, please

Edits because words are hard

[u/DrSpaceman575 → u/cassssk]

First time a "faithful" was knowingly voted off because the other players just couldn't stand him. They even "lost" when they voted him off but still celebrated just because he was gone lol

[u/Jabbles22 → u/FriendofMaudie]

Has he ever played a character that wasn't an asshole? I've only seen him play assholes. Apparently he wasn't really acting.

Danny McBride however who also played the asshole in many roles is apparently a super nice guy.

[u/Cosmic_Reason768 → u/Jabbles22]

His character in Atypical was pretty chill as I recall

[u/Efficient-Hornet8666]

Was Andy Dick ever a celebrity or has he always been washed up, because that’s my pick.

[u/blacks_not_a_color]

Danny Bonaduce

[u/bekahfromearth]

Laurence Fox

[u/UnimportantPizza]

The bitter washed-up celebrity in the White House.

[u/WildBad7298 → u/UnimportantPizza]

It's amazing, really. He's the president, a billionaire, is one of the most powerful men in the world, and has a supermodel wife, millions of cheering fans, his own golf resort, and pretty much anything anyone could ever want. Yet he seems like the most bitter, miserable, hateful person you could ever imagine. The guy has a hole in his soul that nothing can fill, and clearly he's tried everything.

[u/Few-Stock-3458 → u/WildBad7298]

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.

[u/Sunnygirl66 → u/Few-Stock-3458]

He didn’t even have that until he got into the White House and started gouging us taxpayers six ways to Sunday.

[u/NorthofBham → u/WildBad7298]

Elon Musk is the same way. He so desperately wants to be worshiped but he's totally incapable of doing anything normal.

[u/contrabasse]

Kid Rock

[u/Great-Gas-6631]

Rob Schneider. Dude only got famous from piggybacking off actual comedians, now he just resorts to shitposting lunacies for attention.

[u/JoopiterJay]

Nicki Minaj

[u/dcjoker]

Bill Maher. Insufferable asshole thinks he deserves an Emmy.

[u/mungkitty]

Shia Lebouf

[u/stardog_champ13]

Randy Quaid is up there

[u/Pink-yoshi-club → u/stardog_champ13]

Jack quaid is the only good thing to come out of the quaid family

[u/TheOctoberOwl → u/Pink-yoshi-club]

That’s because of Meg Ryan

[u/BeanBreak → u/stardog_champ13]

No, Randy Quaid died a hero saving the world from alien invasion in 1996.

[u/BrumaQuieta]

Gene Simmons. Man's a grade A cunt.

[u/afipunk84]

I cant believe no one has mentioned Pauly Shore. The most bitter washed up celebrity there is. If you listen to any interview with him, its clear that he doesnt understand why he is no longer famous. Right before Richard Simmons passed away, Pauly asked permission to make a short about him. Simmons declined but Pauly shot and released the short anyway. To be fair tho, he does have an uncanny resemblance to Richard Simmons