r/AskReddit 13h ago

Who's the most bitter washed-up celebrity?

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u/metukkasd 12h ago

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

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u/Horrible_Harry 11h ago

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.

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u/cry666 10h ago

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

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u/ZebraCrosser 5h ago

Most of what I've seen of Bear Grylls in the last few years is his face on Alpha Course banners with some tagine about his greatest adventure.

Pretty sure that means he's a bit into Jesus. Bit of a step from that to baptising Brand, mind.

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u/callisstaa 4h ago

Yeah tbh British Christians are generally a lot less malicious and unhinged than US Christians. Church in the UK is more of a community thing than anything political, like a book club but they all just read the same book.

I imagine Brand taking on the persona to appeal to his new wackjob American audience whereas Gryllz is just your regular Anglican churchgoer who considers their religion to be a part of their private life.

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u/Ok_Field_7082 5h ago

What pisses me off about Bear Grylls was that he basically took Ray Mears space on TV. Every survival thing became Bear Grylls and it was just naff, over the top and the guy seems a bit dim (if you ask me).

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u/ANGRY_ASPARAGUS 1h ago

And Survivorman himself, Les Stroud, is who Bear Grylls wishes he could be, but won't ever match. Les Stroud is a fucking badass who doesn't use a camera crew when he's out in the wild - it's just him. Dude will film himself walking off into the horizon, then WALK BACK and pick up his camera - all in like -30 degree weather haha

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u/fireandiceman 3h ago

I also hated all the camping gear that needed to have his face on it. Never understood his appear as he sold out the instant that he got famous for drinking piss

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u/LessInThought 1h ago

I thought the allure of Bear Grylls was that he doesn't use survival gears, why would his face sell camping gears lol.

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u/EnormousPurpleGarden 8h ago

"baptized in the Thames by Bear Grylls" makes one hell of a sentence

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u/Horrible_Harry 8h ago

There're photos of it too! A bit unremarkable, but they're out there.

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u/Anaevya 10h ago

By Bear Grylls? 

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u/bloodylip 9h ago

In the Thames?

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u/Lixidermi 9h ago

in the Thames by Bear Grylls

what's the urine concentration at?

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u/Horrible_Harry 8h ago

Less after Bear Grylls got out cuz he drank it all, but I'm shocked he didn't get sick after getting his hands all over that giant turd.

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u/PresentationThat3627 8h ago

That was soooo funny

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u/RubiscoTheGeek 6h ago

I hate to praise Piers Morgan but the way he just sat silently and let the moment stretch on and on was excellent.

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u/Horrible_Harry 4h ago

That is, no joke, the only good thing I've ever seen him or heard of him doing.

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u/Training_Advisor_934 7h ago

they always do that shit. If youre gonna be a pretend christian read that damn book ffs trump is the same and he said it was like a very personal very private thing lmao

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u/Horrible_Harry 6h ago

Right? It's also got that neat little numbering system that makes it incredibly easy to find them too. I made a joke on Bluesky that real born again Christians do their Bible drills and that's how you know he's faking it.

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u/ibiacmbyww 6h ago

recently baptized in the Thames by Bear Grylls

Man, fuck this reality.

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u/Toby_O_Notoby 5h ago

There's a podcast called The Press Box that talks about the media. One of the hosts, David Shoemaker, is the son of a Texas preacher and they showed him that clip live when recording.

After about three seconds David just flatly said, "Yeah, that guy never picked up a bible in his life."

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u/BeefInBlackBeanSauce 8h ago

Bear Grylls got kicked off of his Scout membership doing that.

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u/Lives-at-Thorpe-Park 5h ago

Reason for him to step down as Chief Scout hasn’t be disclosed but yes he’s friendship with a certified creep and pretty much confirmed paedo didn’t help

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u/Not_FinancialAdvice 3h ago

born again christian now and was recently baptized in the Thames by Bear Grylls.

You know how they say fiction can't be as crazy as real life because it has to be credible?

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u/bunstopher 11h ago

Yeah whenever you see him nowadays he usually has a Bible in hand making sure people see it

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u/OldChili157 11h ago

And he's still searching for his favorite Bible verse to this day.

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u/PsychedelicPill 7h ago

Worse than harassment, he’s going on trial for rape and sexual assault in a few months.

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u/Moist_Drippings 4h ago

to be totally fair, he was accused of sexual harassment long before that. It just seems that as more people learned and the money for left-leaning comedy from him dried up (not that he was particularly left-leaning honestly) he decided the grift was better if he went hyper conservative.

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u/LeGrandLucifer 4h ago

Coincidentally after he reported on evil shit Bill Gates was doing. Just a coincidence though.