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30 Of The Creepiest Things These Celebrities Ended Up Doing That Completely Shifted The Public’s Perception Of Them
It’s pretty typical for fans to put famous people on the pedestal. Whether it’s the lead vocalist of an all-time favorite band or an actress from the new popular series, they often become idolized. That’s why they might be viewed as those capable of no harm, which makes contrary cases somewhat shocking news.
So, it’s no surprise that when it comes to celebrity-related stories, their fans and critics likewise have something to say. That might be one of the reasons for the abundance of answers to the Reddit user ohwowsports6’s question. They asked the ‘Ask Reddit’ community about what famous people they consider to be creepy and the members didn’t shy away from making their opinions known. Scroll down to find their answers below.
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Jared Fogle from Subway.
Started out with a mild cholesterol problem and ended up with a child molesterol problem.
Trump has been acussed of sexual harrassment and a*****t by at least 25 women since the 1970s.
And yet the dumb portion of my fellow Americans voted this shitsnack into office.
Woody Allen was hiding in plain sight.
Waited until his stepdaughter was 18 (if you believe that part), then started banging her right away! While still with her mom! And married her!
Kanye.
There is no excuse for his propagating of white supremacist slogans and classic antisemitism about Jewish power, especially with the platform he has.
Gwyneth Paltrow.
She promotes wacky wellness trends and is obsessed with strange diets and procedures (like rectal ozone therapy). Even though she's a good actress, I find this obsession creepy.
Mahatma Gandhi would test his 'purity' by sleeping with naked girls that were underage and related to him.
Yeah, was forcing family members to sleep naked next to him to prove how he cannot be tempted. He was also a sneaky racist, psychopathic and egomaniac . He went to Britain in order to make some deals with British government
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I hate how almost everyone in my country idolize him and act as though he’s done nothing wrong
As a kid, I watched the movie about him. He was really portrayed as a saint by the main role (don't remember his name). Never would have thought he'd do that.
That's just one of the bad things he's done. He makes Pigs look like saints.
Don't use "pig" as an insult. That's not right, pigs are social, intelligent, friendly animals who (it is who, not that) enjoy playing, running, mudbathing and almost obsessively seperate feeding areas from places to conduct bilogically unavoidable emissions. Pigs are cool, we insult THEM instead of the humans aimed at.
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That's just the sexually inappropriate part mentioned about him. The fact that he hated black South Africans so much that while in South Africa he demanded separate entrances for black people and Indians is often brushed under the carpet as well as his blatant refusal to share a prison cell with black people because according to him, they were inferior to his people. Yes, some of his political ideas have merit and relevance but the man was racist and bigoted who held some really problematic views and encouraged the glorification and continuation of the caste system in the subcontinent that made millions of people slaves of those belonging to the upper caste Hindus. He believed untouchables should remain untouchables and the fact that this man is valorised while having endorsed and participated in such systemic oppression is extremely unfortunate.
While he did good things for the people of India suffering under the yoke of British Colonialism, he also held very racist views against black people. It's a lesson to appreciate the good people can do but to not idolize them totally. The balance of their acts still must be carefully assessed.
Gandhi was a horrible person. As was Mother Theresa! They both profited from war.
Tom Cruise.
Scientology abuses people quite a lot, read more up on the survivors' accounts (non-famous people) and you'll see why he's creepy.
Harvey Weinstein.
Over 80 women in the film industry have accused Weinstein of sexual abuse acts.
He r@ped Rose McGowan and Annabella Sciorra, and torpedoed the careers of Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino because they refused his advances.
Bill Cosby, accused by sixty women of r*pe, drug facilitated sexual a****lt, sexual battery, or other sexual misconduct.
You know at first I was skeptical. I thought that there's probably a lot of vultures in Hollywood just waiting for a lawsuit to get their pound of flesh in. But then I saw this clip from The Cosby Show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBDRwiSZSBg), and I immediately was put off. It's right there, he's grinning as he admits it to the world, but nobody knows but him — delighted that his secret is hidden in plain sight.
Jimmy Savile. Sexually abused hundreds of people throughout his life.
The stories some of the nurses who worked in the children's wards he visited have some stories about him that would make your toes curl, to the point they told children to pretend to be asleep before he turned up so that he would avoid them. He was also known to spend time down in the morgue for 'reasons'.
Didn't the singer of the s*x pistols call him out on his abuse and no one cared?
Dan Schneider, he took advantage of young cast members on his Nickelodeon shows, and had a feet fetish.
I remember seeing random episodes of his shows and always wondering, "Why the hell are feet involved in this? How did this pass the editing/writers room?" Numerous people have to sign off and give notes on television production and NO ONE ever thought, "hey, maybe we shouldn't have this weird, feet stuff on our kids show all the time..?"
Jared Leto is a massive creep and cult leader.
He has been accused of sexual a*****t a few times, and there’s compelling evidence against him, but for some reason not enough to get him charged.
He'd been harassing other actors on set in the name of ‘method acting’. He has sent his co-stars used condoms, anal beads, and even a dead rat.
This guy triggered my creep alert even before this info started leaking.
No one's mentioned Roman Polanski? Shocked quite a few people when his arrest/prosecution/flight from justice became news. He drugged and sexually a*****ted a 13-year-old girl.
When he won the Academy Award for best director, he got a standing ovation. Harrison Ford accepted the award on his behalf and made a special trip to Paris to hand deliver the award. Hollywood is full of p**o-loving scumbags.
Jerry Lee Lewis didn’t just marry his 13-year-old cousin, he also had two wives who died under mysterious circumstances in the 1980s. Rolling Stone did a huge story that more or less said that he’d murdered one of them, but that as one of the richest people in that part of Mississippi the sheriffs etc. wouldn’t touch him.
Danny Masterson.
I'll never forgive him for ruining That 70s Show for me. I was looking forward to introducing it to the kids at the right age (especially because there's a certain line from Hyde that I used to quote all the time) but now just thinking about watching his stupid smug serial r*pist face on screen makes my stomach turn.
Phil Spector. Absolute musical genius, but a very deranged S**T excuse for a person who abused his wife (Ronnie Spector) and kids, and shot a woman to death (actress Lana Clarkson) for refusing his sexual advances toward her.
He destroyed his own legacy. When he died in 2021 it was barely a blip on the radar.
Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17 year old when he was 38. That's very creepy.
By the way, and I had forgotten about this before, but does anyone remember the episode where they ogled a 15-year-old and Jerry defended it as being normal?
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gl7IXuxSSk)
Never watched the show because it had too many creepy people.
Met Jack Hanna once at a zoo charity. He had wandering hands when he took pictures with girls.
I know Jack through a family friend who used to buy animals from him. She bought them to save them from those canned hunt things.
Jack Hannah is a creepy animal abuser and it makes me so mad when people think he’s an American Steve Irwin. Because he’s actually Cruella Devil.
Nobody who hawks out baby animals for tv and film is a good person. Unless it is absolutely necessary to save the animal's life, no young animal should be hand-reared, especially if the reason for handrearing is for the purposes of making the animal "tame" and compliant.
Marilyn Manson is a Nazi memorabilia collector and preys on very young women.
He do be looking like the wet paper towel for wiping paint brushes tho
Hugh Hefner. The whole Playboy, sophisticated party guy image worked in the 60 s and 70 s, but didn’t last. When he was in his 80s still partying with 20 year old women it was beyond cringe and the whole Playboy mansion lifestyle turned creepy.
James Franco.
He preyed on girls through Instagram and flew to places where the age of consent was lower to have sex with 16/17 year old.
Ezra Miller. They've gotta have something wrong in the head, and the fact that they didn’t lose their acting job truly upsets me.
Hope that young child they [allegedly] groomed is far away from them and back home.
Yeah. It’s people like them that perpetuate s**t about the LGBTQ+ community.
Kevin Spacey.
He seemed a little off to me at the peak of his career. Always liked his characters. I guess he's a damn good actor. Now I just see this predator though.
I've tried to separate the art from the artist, then watching a movie or show and just keep thinking back to to the creepiness.
Gary Glitter.
His name is barley spoken nowadays, for a reason. His career ended after he was imprisoned for downloading child pornography in 1999. He was also convicted of child sexual abuse in 2006 and a series of sexual offences (including attempted r**e) in 2015.
Alfred Hitchcock was a weird one.
Basically stalked some actresses and tried to control their lives; told them what they could/couldn’t eat, where they could/couldn’t go. He sent Tippi Hedren inappropriate Valentines letters. She claims he threw himself atop her in a hotel room and kissed her — and in her biography accused him of sexual a*****t.
I'm kind of shocked nobody has mentioned Armie Hammer yet.
He’s tried to convince women he’s dating to get a rib surgically removed so he can eat it.
What he wants, though, is to own those women. He wants them to submit to him- not because he’s paying them off, but because they want to. It’s a sexual thing for him (like it is with many serial killers). But the willing submission I think is a huge part of the appeal to him.
Louis CK. He’d m*sturbated in front of female colleagues.
Ian Watkins. Absolutely horrific crimes, including sexually abusing infant children (to put it mildly).
Matt Lauer.
Matt was a much-loved NBC presenter until his reputation was tarnished by sexual a*****t allegations.
Zuck. Who'd have thought a young genius programmer who created a website allowing students to rate and compare their fellow classmates based on their looks would turn out to be such a weirdo...
Mark Wahlberg.
I hate that he still has a platform when he is a clear racist, disgusting.
I'm not a huge fan of Mark Wahlberg but it really bugs me that people keep bringing this up about him. Yes, he did some horrible things when he was younger. But he has apologized for those things and turned his life around. Our mistakes should not define us forever.
Andy Dick, for sexual a*****t and battery. But Andy Dick is famous for being an a**hole already. He was never an A-list actor or comedian.
What would his parents call him Andy?? Did they not think his initials would be A. D**k? Well, I’ve never heard of him anyway.
Michael Jackson, for his alleged sexual abuse of children.
David Walliams.
Caught bringing underage girls into his dressing room a couple years + pulled multiple boys pants down on stage during his live shows. Heavy rumours of him being a predator. Also known to be an absolute a**hole to encounter irl. Like James Corden level.
i’m not super into pop culture and i’m on the younger side but growing up really liking james charles and shane dawson was really disappointing and gross to me
Isaac Asimov.
Self proclaimed Dirty Old Man who directed his perversity at female fans, secretaries, and graduate student researchers of his prolific non fiction, and not at women who had power over him, like editors.
Leo Dicaprio.
He's reportedly “really bothered” by the joke that he's unwilling to date anyone older than 25. He is about a day off from breaking the under 18 barrier.
John McCrea (lead singer of Cake) creeps on underage girls. I'd heard rumors and just didn't pay much attention like a lot of gossip but then he weirded out on a friend's little sister at a concert. She didn't look older for her age, either. Actually the opposite.
JM is certainly an odd and cranky guy but I've seen nothing about him being a predator anywhere. He's pretty private, a bit of a d**k and an anti-celebrity of sorts.
John Kricfalusi, the creator of Ren & Stimpy. He sexually harassed and groomed two of his female employees while they were underage.
Honestly, Ren & Stimpy is… not a children’s show. It’s amazing though
John Travolta.
I remember the whole scandal with John Travolta and his masseuse; that was pretty creepy.
Drake.
Allegedly sent some really sketchy texts to Millie Bobby Brown when she was still under 18.
There is something very wrong with Drake. guess we will find out in a few more years.
Justin Roiland.
Vile DMs he wrote to young women & teen girls emerged this year.
Supposedly, the investigation found that to be an unsupported allegation.
Bill Murray. He straddled and kissed a younger female colleague on the set of Being Mortal, leading to suspension of production.
Demi Moore and that video of her making out with an underage boy
They were both teens, even though she was majority age and he wasn't. 19 and 15 respectively. And he wasn't being molested, he was enjoying his birthday with a hot girl. Not exactly appropriate, but not child abuse/pedophilia.
David Bowie : I love his work but he was involved with underage girls during his early years
From what I hear, Paul Walker was into his daughters friends (they were in high school)
From what you hear. So nothing you know. I hear you like little boys. I don't know but I heard it so it must be true.
Johnny Depp. The texts he wrote Amber Heard really makes me side eye him. I think Amber Heard sucks too though.
I largely put that last part to avoid the wrath of Depp stans that buy into the myth that he was abused and a victim of domestic violence. At one point, it did seem that way...but the more I learned about Johnny Depp, the more I realized he is truly a scary person. She obviously has issues herself, but there is no way he isn't a thousand times worse. It is scary how many people think he is a really good person still. I didn't know Depp also collected Nazi memorabilia. What a psycho.
Remember just because someone isn't a perfect victim of domestic abuse, doesn't mean they weren't abused. Not to mention there was a lot of straight up misogyny hurled at Amber Heard.
Jim Carrey, just generally being creepy toward women.
Chris Brown is a woman-beating piece of sh*t. Sean Connery said it was okay to smack a woman if she was too uppity. John Wayne was an epic racist and homophobe.
I really don't like how many rumors are quoted as fact in this list. There's definitely some serious offenders, but let's not assume everything is 100% true
Erm I'm not a big fan of Gwyneth Paltrow but why is she on a list containing vile abusers and rapists? Bit much isn't it? putting her on there just because she sells wacky stuff online? Wasn't she harassed by Weinstein as well? Am I missing something or has she sexually abused people?
Still don't know what Ellen did, everyone just says "You don't wanna know"
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Because they are famous people who hire image consultants and have publicists who can deflect all of this from them so they can deny it. It's called alleged because it hasn't been proven in court but that doesn't make it any less terrible.
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Glad Michael Jackson made one of these lists finally. I always get downvoted when I bring it up. Also? David Bowie. Look it up.
There have been celebrity abusers for generations, anything from killers to just creepy ones. And don't get me started w/the abuse of power either, it doesn't have to be sexual to be traumatic. In the era of me-too, it's natural we give accusations more value. That said, I'm worried about how little it takes to ruin a person's life/career. For me it's actually a relief when the accusations are at least confirmed, even if I like the person. I can't imagine what it must be like to be an innocent target. It's so very sad that most accusations turn out to be true.
I find it disturbing there is only one female celebrity on this list and the rest are male. Seems like it's one sided. Nothing is mentioned about Fergie being 23 and dating a 16 year old Justin Timberlake. Or Cher and Madonna dating very young guys. Seems double standards are on for bored panda
Very young vs under age of consent. Madonna does nothing that DiCaprio doesn't. And if it's okay for him, then it's okay for her. If it's not okay for her, then it's not okay for him.
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Prince William has turned out to be a rage filled bully who is “incandescent “ at everything and everyone. Makes me sad for his family and the taxpayers who support him.
As the only evidence for this is an allegation by a single person who just so happens to have a *huge* axe to grind, I'm not going to take it too seriously.
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The red hot chili peppers group too The lead singer admitted to sleeping with a 14 year old girl in his book
Why is Elvis not on this list?? Priscilla was 14 when he started to pursue her, and then when they divorced a 40 year old Elvis started dating another 14 year old!
J. K. Rowling certainly belongs here. Her transphobic crusade and outspoken support of TERF ideology have killed her reputation with most of the LGBTQIA community and even gotten her banned from cast reunions of the Harry Potter films. She's cited her royalties as proof that none of that matters as she gets paid either way. Sickening behavior.
JK Rowling? Seriously? The woman only simply says stuff like 'only women have periods' and you are comparing her in a list against pedophiles and rapists? It's this 'extreme' and warped trans view towards women like this that are making women everywhere stand up and say 'hell no, enough already with the new hate and persecution towards women' get a life.
Load More Replies... Chris Brown is a woman-beating piece of sh*t. Sean Connery said it was okay to smack a woman if she was too uppity. John Wayne was an epic racist and homophobe.
I really don't like how many rumors are quoted as fact in this list. There's definitely some serious offenders, but let's not assume everything is 100% true
Erm I'm not a big fan of Gwyneth Paltrow but why is she on a list containing vile abusers and rapists? Bit much isn't it? putting her on there just because she sells wacky stuff online? Wasn't she harassed by Weinstein as well? Am I missing something or has she sexually abused people?
Still don't know what Ellen did, everyone just says "You don't wanna know"
Load More Replies... Because they are famous people who hire image consultants and have publicists who can deflect all of this from them so they can deny it. It's called alleged because it hasn't been proven in court but that doesn't make it any less terrible.
Load More Replies... Glad Michael Jackson made one of these lists finally. I always get downvoted when I bring it up. Also? David Bowie. Look it up.
There have been celebrity abusers for generations, anything from killers to just creepy ones. And don't get me started w/the abuse of power either, it doesn't have to be sexual to be traumatic. In the era of me-too, it's natural we give accusations more value. That said, I'm worried about how little it takes to ruin a person's life/career. For me it's actually a relief when the accusations are at least confirmed, even if I like the person. I can't imagine what it must be like to be an innocent target. It's so very sad that most accusations turn out to be true.
I find it disturbing there is only one female celebrity on this list and the rest are male. Seems like it's one sided. Nothing is mentioned about Fergie being 23 and dating a 16 year old Justin Timberlake. Or Cher and Madonna dating very young guys. Seems double standards are on for bored panda
Very young vs under age of consent. Madonna does nothing that DiCaprio doesn't. And if it's okay for him, then it's okay for her. If it's not okay for her, then it's not okay for him.
Load More Replies... Prince William has turned out to be a rage filled bully who is “incandescent “ at everything and everyone. Makes me sad for his family and the taxpayers who support him.
As the only evidence for this is an allegation by a single person who just so happens to have a *huge* axe to grind, I'm not going to take it too seriously.
Load More Replies... The red hot chili peppers group too The lead singer admitted to sleeping with a 14 year old girl in his book
Why is Elvis not on this list?? Priscilla was 14 when he started to pursue her, and then when they divorced a 40 year old Elvis started dating another 14 year old!
J. K. Rowling certainly belongs here. Her transphobic crusade and outspoken support of TERF ideology have killed her reputation with most of the LGBTQIA community and even gotten her banned from cast reunions of the Harry Potter films. She's cited her royalties as proof that none of that matters as she gets paid either way. Sickening behavior.
JK Rowling? Seriously? The woman only simply says stuff like 'only women have periods' and you are comparing her in a list against pedophiles and rapists? It's this 'extreme' and warped trans view towards women like this that are making women everywhere stand up and say 'hell no, enough already with the new hate and persecution towards women' get a life.
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