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2025 is astir implicit (mercifully), and successful reviewing the year, I realized I wrote a lot astir celebrities and the wacky, wild, and occasionally disturbing things they get up to. So see this a year-end “best of” station — the astir fascinating entries (for amended oregon worse) from each of those stories, collected successful 1 place:
We made nary friends successful Hollywood by sharing these stars' astir embarrassing moments connected the job:
1. Taylor Kitsch pooped his pants portion waiting to beryllium called backmost for an audition. During an August 2025 quality connected Today With Jenna & Friends, the Friday Night Lives prima revealed that successful his aboriginal L.A. days, helium was surviving retired of his car, hustling betwixt auditions, and relying heavy connected caffeine. One morning, helium grabbed an extra-strong java from a nutrient motortruck connected the mode to an audition. Shortly thereafter, sitting successful the waiting country successful his clean, cautiously chosen audition clothes, helium felt thing spell very, precise incorrect successful his bowels. Before helium could marque it to the bathroom, helium crapped his pants.
2. Imagine being a young histrion appearing successful your archetypal monolithic movie other a monolithic star. You'd surely anticipation you didn't bash thing that would aftermath you successful a acold sweat successful the mediate of the nighttime for the remainder of your life. Unfortunately for Damson Idris, helium accidentally spat connected BRAD PITT successful the mediate of shooting a scene.
3. It’s been years since the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, but Kate McKinnon precocious confessed connected The Drew Barrymore Show that 1 of the movie’s large moments was ruined not by method issues, not by a stunt malfunction… but by her blasting an ear-rattling fart. She said it was hands down the astir embarrassing on-set infinitesimal of her career. (I would anticipation so, lol.)
We talked astir the BIG roles stars missed retired connected — and surely regret:
4. During a caller interrogation connected Hot Ones, Macaulay Culkin revealed that helium recovered an unread screenplay for Wes Anderson's Rushmore successful his house, and inactive can’t judge helium missed it! The Home Alone prima was connected a interruption from acting backmost past and figured helium was keeping up with submissions, but this 1 slipped through. His absorption present is portion amused, portion horrified: "I mean, I can't ideate anyone but Schwartzman doing that part, but astatine the aforesaid clip — oh, man, that would person been a shot and a biscuit, that one." It’s an alternate timeline — with Culkin arsenic Max Fischer — that underscores however easy a azygous unopened envelope tin alteration a career.
5. Earlier this year, with the sequel to 2006's The Devil Wears Prada acceptable to film, Kate Hudson confessed connected Capital Breakfast that she turned down the relation Anne Hathaway made famous. "That was a atrocious call,” Hudson, 45, said. “It was a timing thing, it was 1 of those things wherever I couldn’t bash it, and I should’ve made it happen, and I didn’t. That was 1 wherever erstwhile I saw it I was like, ‘Ugh.'" She went connected to say, “Everything happens for a reason.” Dunno, Kate. I deliberation that's conscionable what we archer ourselves erstwhile we marque epic mistakes, lol.
6. It's beauteous communal cognition present that Will Smith turned down the pb relation successful The Matrix, but helium precocious told vigor presumption Kiss Xtra that helium besides turned down a large portion successful different monolithic film. "I don't deliberation I've ever said it publicly," Smith began, "but I americium going to accidental it due to the fact that we are opening up to 1 another. Chris Nolan brought maine Inception archetypal and I didn't get it. I've ne'er said that retired loud. Now that I deliberation astir it, it's those movies that spell into those alternate realities... they don't transportation well." Damn. Passing connected The Matrix and Inception? What a slap to the face.
We named the celebs who committed horrific crimes and are successful jailhouse for a LONG time:
7. Jared Fogle made nationalist headlines successful 1999 erstwhile — arsenic a pupil astatine Indiana University — helium mislaid 245 pounds connected a self-created fare wherever helium exclusively ate Subway each day: a tiny turkey sub, a ample veggie sub, baked murphy chips, and fare soda. He was soon hired by Subway to beryllium their spokesperson, and appeared successful implicit 300 commercials betwixt 2000 and his apprehension successful 2015.
8. Sometimes called the King of R&B, R. Kelly is 1 of the best-selling euphony artists of each time, selling implicit 75 cardinal records. "I Believe I Can Fly" and "Ignition (Remix)" are astir apt his best-known songs. Allegations of intersexual maltreatment of minors followed Kelly for astir of his career, but for a agelong time, helium escaped accountability.
9. Reality TV prima Josh Duggar is the oldest kid of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, who became celebrated for their highly ample household of 19 children, arsenic featured connected the TLC world amusement 19 Kids and Counting. The amusement often focused connected Duggar and his wife, Anna, arsenic they started their ain family, but behind-the-scenes his cautiously crafted wholesome representation was a lie.
We talked astir actors who cheated connected their spouses oregon semipermanent partners with co-stars:
10. Want to perceive however a Lifetime movie launched 1 of the astir scandalous affairs of the precocious 2000s? Well, that's what happened erstwhile LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian met filming Northern Lights successful 2008. At the time, Rimes (the vocalist and actor) was joined to dancer Dean Sheremet, and Third Watch prima Cibrian was joined to Brandi Glanville, who would aboriginal transmission the fallout into a Real Housewives career. The matter started connected acceptable — with kisses caught connected a edifice information camera, according to US mag — and was evident to Sheremet erstwhile helium visited. He said, "There was this barroom that everyone hung retired astatine aft acceptable and I retrieve coming down the stairs and seeing the 2 of them shooting excavation together. I could conscionable archer by the assemblage connection that everything had changed. My tummy dropped... I virtually felt similar I got hit."
By 2009, Rimes and Cibrian had separated from their spouses, finalizing divorces the pursuing year. The backlash was brutal, particularly for Rimes, who'd built her vocation arsenic a saccharine state ingénue, and was abruptly painted successful a antagonistic light. She aboriginal told People, "I did 1 of the astir selfish things that I perchance could do, successful hurting idiosyncratic else. I instrumentality work for everything I've done. I hatred that radical got hurt, but I don't regret the outcome." Despite the scandalous start, their emotion has lasted...they are inactive joined today.
11. In the precocious '90s, Billy Bob Thornton and Laura Dern were successful a superior narration and adjacent lived together. But past Thornton was formed alongside Angelina Jolie successful the aerial postulation controller drama Pushing Tin. While filming, Thornton and the astir 20 years younger Jolie deed it off, and successful May 2000, they joined successful Vegas successful a determination that shocked everyone, but nary 1 much than Laura Dern. She told Talk magazine, "I near our location to enactment connected a movie (likely the Hallmark movie A Season for Miracles) and portion I was away, my fellow got married. I've ne'er heard from him again. It's similar a abrupt death. You don't get to mourn oregon negotiate."
Meanwhile, the Thornton-Jolie narration was...strange. They wore vials of each other's humor astir their necks, made retired connected reddish carpets (and bragged astir having enactment successful the limo connected the mode over), and gave interviews that made adjacent hardened publicists request a vacation. The mates divorced successful 2003.
12. In precocious 2016, Ewan McGregor — who had been joined to Eve Mavrakis for 22 years — joined the formed of FX's 3rd play of Fargo, playing the dual relation of the Stussy brothers, 1 of whom was lovers with Nikki, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who was besides married. Well, beingness imitated creation arsenic photos emerged successful October 2017 of McGregor and Winstead kissing and getting cuddly astatine a London restaurant. The erstwhile May, McGregor had separated from his woman (though they were inactive legally married), and — wouldn't you cognize it? — that aforesaid month, Winstead announced the extremity of her marriage.
All play aside, McGregor and Winstead person since joined and welcomed a son, and past year, erstwhile McGregor received a prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame, his daughters, Winstead, and their lad were each by his side.
We told you astir celebrities who died successful beforehand of their fans:
13. On Dec. 8, 2004, "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott — formerly of the legendary dense metallic set Pantera and wide regarded arsenic 1 of the champion guitarists of each clip — was doing a nine amusement with his caller band, Damageplan. Only 90 seconds into their archetypal song, Nathan Gale, 25, a six-foot-three, 250+-pounds antheral with a shaved head, strode done the assemblage and onto the stage. Fans watched successful fearfulness arsenic Gale, astatine point-blank range, raised a pistol and shot Abbott successful the forehead.
14. On June 10, 2016, 22-year-old Christina Grimmie — the talented young vocalist who'd placed 3rd connected Season 6 of The Voice — had conscionable finished a show successful Orlando, Florida, and was holding a meet-and-greet wrong the venue. She was successful bully spirits arsenic she worked done the enactment of fans, signing autographs and taking selfies. The joyful nighttime took a horrific turn, though, erstwhile it was 27-year-old Kevin James Loibl's crook to conscionable Grimmie. According to a fan down Loibl: "The 1 feline successful beforehand of america was walking up to conscionable her. Her arms were open, waiting to greet him with a hug. Then determination was a dependable of 3 pops, similar balloons. People had brought balloons to the show, and the information guards were popping them, truthful astatine archetypal I thought it was that."
15. Owen Hart whitethorn person been calved into a legendary wrestling dynasty (his dada was Stu Hart; his member was Bret "Hitman" Hart), but helium was a prima successful his ain close and astatine the halfway of immoderate of the biggest '90s storylines of the WWF (now the WWE). However, connected May 23, 1999, during the WWF's Over the Edge pay-per-view lawsuit successful Kansas City, Missouri, his beingness (and those storylines) ended. Hart was acceptable to marque a melodramatic entranceway arsenic his superhero persona, the Blue Blazer, by being lowered from the arena rafters into the ring. Tragically, a malfunction occurred, and Hart fell a agelong region — astir 78 feet — landing chest-first connected the apical rope. He was rushed to the infirmary but pronounced dormant not agelong aft arriving; the origin of decease was interior bleeding from blunt unit trauma, resulting successful a severed aorta.
We dished connected the astonishing stories of celebrities who conscionable vanished 1 day...never to beryllium seen again:
16. Barbara Newhall Follett came from a household of precise agleam radical (her sister, for example, was the archetypal pistillate postgraduate pupil astatine Princeton), but she was the brightest of them all. She wrote poesy astatine property 4 and successful 1927, and astatine conscionable 12, she published her archetypal book, The House Without Windows, to captious acclaim (The Saturday Review of Literature called the publication “almost unbearably beautiful”). Her adjacent caller came retired 2 years aboriginal to much captious acclaim. But fame faded, her begetter (and champion) near the family, and her beingness dilatory unraveled.
In 1939, astatine property 25, aft a combat with her hubby (whom she suspected of an affair), Barbara walked retired of their flat with the equivalent of conscionable nether $700 successful today's dollars. She near nary note. No trace. Her hubby didn’t study her missing for 2 weeks. She was ne'er seen again.
17. Jim Sullivan was a folk-rock instrumentalist successful the benignant of Gram Parsons oregon Nick Drake who appeared successful the classical movie Easy Rider. His 1969 debut medium U.F.O. was filled with lyrics astir godforsaken roads, aliens, and leaving Earth down — the benignant of worldly that didn't precisely shriek "chart-topper," lol — but it built a cult pursuing years later.
In March 1975, Sullivan near L.A. to thrust to Nashville successful hopes of kickstarting his euphony career. En route, helium checked into a motel successful Santa Rosa, New Mexico, past bought a vessel of vodka and drove retired of town. He was spotted 26 miles distant astatine a ranch...and past ne'er again. His car was aboriginal recovered abandoned with his wallet, ID, guitar, and belongings inactive inside.
We amazed you with celebrated actors who had euphony careers earlier making it large onscreen:
18. This factoid astir Maya Rudolph — the drama prima from Bridesmaids, Saturday Night Live, and The Good Place — is bound to stroke the minds of Gen X'ers and '90s euphony fans.
First, a small background: You astir apt admit the set beneath — it's Weezer, specifically the lineup from their 1994 debut album, which featured hits similar "Buddy Holly" and "Undone (The Sweater Song)."
Before signaling Weezer's 2nd album, bassist Matt Sharp started a broadside project, a set called The Rentals, which scored a large MTV deed of their own, "Friends of P." That's wherever Maya Rudolph came in. Right aft graduating from assemblage — and earlier Rudolph had a azygous acting recognition — she joined The Rentals arsenic they toured down their archetypal album.
"It was specified a amusive occupation retired of college," Maya told the New Yorker. "I got to unrecorded connected the roadworthy for six months. We opened for Blur and for Alanis Morissette, and we got to walk Thanksgiving with her and play hacky sack with her set and spell bowling."
19. Academy Award-winning histrion Brie Larson (Captain Marvel successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe) besides had a astonishing — and little — euphony vocation backmost erstwhile her acting vocation was successful its embryonic stages.
Larson began playing guitar astatine property 11 and soon started writing, recording, and uploading songs to her website. This led to her opus "Invisible Girl" (written aft she failed to triumph the relation of Wendy successful 2003's Peter Pan) getting immoderate airplay connected a Los Angeles vigor station. Things kept looking up for Larson erstwhile the 16-year-old got signed to a large statement woody and released her debut medium Finally Out of P.E.
We called retired celebs who had shameful events successful their pasts:
20. Mark Wahlberg was a troubled teen with a violent past. In 1986, Wahlberg hurled rocks and radical epithets astatine Black schoolhouse children, and 2 years later, a 16-year-old Wahlberg was arrested for assaulting a Vietnamese antheral successful a racially motivated attack. The incidental near the unfortunate permanently injured, and Wahlberg was convicted of felony battle (He spent 45 days successful jail). He has since apologized publically and claimed he’s changed.
21. Christian Bale threw a monolithic tantrum portion filming 2009's Terminator Salvation aft a unit subordinate accidentally walked into Bale’s shot. The star's expletive-filled tirade lasted respective minutes, with Bale berating and humiliating the unit member. Unfortunately for him, idiosyncratic recorded the full happening — and erstwhile it leaked online, his estimation took a hit. He aboriginal apologized, saying, "I was retired of bid beyond belief. I marque nary excuses for it."
22. In 1995, Hugh Grant was arrested successful Hollywood for receiving oral enactment successful a nationalist spot from a enactment idiosyncratic named Divine Brown. The British star, who was dating chap histrion Elizabeth Hurley astatine the time, rapidly released a statement: "Last nighttime I did thing wholly insane. I person wounded radical I emotion and embarrassed radical I enactment with. For some things I americium much atrocious than I tin ever perchance say." Grant aboriginal pleaded nary contention to the transgression and, aft paying a fine, was placed connected 2 years' probation and ordered to implicit an AIDS acquisition program.
And we talked astir celebs who had very, very, VERY awkward moments:
23. In aboriginal 2021, the hashtag #HereForCharli trended connected Twitter, starring to TikTok sensation Charli D'Amelio penning successful a since-deleted tweet: "I americium looking done the 'hereforcharli' hashtag, and ohio my goodness you are each truthful saccharine to me. You person nary thought however overmuch your benignant words lukewarm my heart. I americium truthful fortunate to person you each by my side!! I emotion you bebs." The lone problem? The hashtag was not for D'Amelio but Charli XCX, whose person and collaborator SOPHIE had conscionable died from an accidental fall. Yikes. I stake you conscionable shifted successful your spot from secondhand embarrassment, huh?
24. Rappers similar to task an representation arsenic hard and badass, and 50 Cent is nary different. Here's 1 of his lyrics: "The play truly means nothin' to me. / I'll thrust by and stroke your brains out." Damn, 50 Cent! Go easy! But successful May 2014, the rapper looked softer than a kitten's fur portion throwing retired the archetypal transportation astatine a New York Mets game. His transportation didn't conscionable miss location sheet — it soared wildly disconnected course, veering astir sideways toward a cameraperson. It wasn't simply a atrocious pitch; it was perchance the worst transportation ever thrown, landing person to archetypal basal than the catcher. The rapper aboriginal joked astir however helium would everlastingly beryllium immortalized successful shot blooper history, truthful helium gets points for having a bully attitude, but damn...embarrassing isn't a beardown capable word!
25. On The Today Show successful 201, Kathie Lee Gifford enthusiastically praised Martin Short’s decades-long matrimony to his wife, Nancy Dolman. She gushed astir their “beautiful” narration and adjacent asked however they managed to enactment truthful successful emotion aft each those years. There was conscionable 1 monolithic occupation — Nancy Dolman had passed distant 2 years earlier, successful 2010, aft a agelong conflict with ovarian cancer. Short, ever the people act, didn’t close her on-air. Instead, helium graciously smiled and nodded along. Backstage, producers rapidly realized the mistake. After the commercialized break, a intelligibly embarrassed Gifford apologized and expressed her deepest sympathies to Short.
26. In 2020, Madison Prewett, a contestant connected The Bachelor, appeared to permission a fawning remark connected 1 of her ain Instagram posts, writing, "Beautiful day Madi. You are truthful genuine and real." It seemed — oh, honey, noooo — she intended to station the compliment from a fake instrumentality relationship but forgot to power accounts. Fans connected Reddit roasted her, saying, "Nothing says 'genuine and real' similar having a fake instagram acct to remark compliments connected your nationalist one!!" and "Omfg commenting without switching to a instrumentality relationship of yourself is embarrassing enough, but commenting that you're truthful genuine and existent is SENDING ME what a nightmare operation of cringe." Prewett aboriginal claimed it was a friend's remark mistakenly posted from her account. Sure, Jan. Sure.
27. And lastly, sometimes stars tin mean good but inactive earnestly embarrass themselves. Take Glee prima Heather Morris, who, successful June 2023, posted an interpretive creation tribute to George Floyd connected societal media. Yes, you work that close — an interpretive creation tribute to George Floyd (honestly, it sounds similar thing her Glee quality Brittany Pierce would've done). In the video, Morris performed an affectional dance, acceptable to spoken connection audio addressing radical injustice. While intended arsenic a heartfelt tribute, galore viewers recovered the show insensitive and self-indulgent, criticizing Morris for making the calamity astir herself. As 1 idiosyncratic wrote connected Twitter: "this miss had not adjacent 1 person to archer her this was stupid. Heather Morris (Brittany) doing an interpretive creation to correspond George Floyd's decease I truly thought I'd seen it all."
Thanks for speechmaking this year! I admit each and each 1 of you*. There's much amusive successful store for 2026, I promise!
*except for that feline with the weird username who keeps leaving mean comments.
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