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What's the weirdest scandal a celebrity has been involved in?

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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,792 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop




  • Registered Users Posts: 35,573 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭bmc58


    Ben Dunne high on coke on top of a building in the US.And his "donations to Charlie Haughie and the one and only Michael Lowrey".



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭bmc58


    Our former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern not having a Bank Account,and winning loads on the horses...yeah right.How do we Irish let these people away with this s*it???



  • Registered Users Posts: 30,150 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn





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  • Registered Users Posts: 596 ✭✭✭bigar


    Boy George falsely imprisoning a male escort by handcuffing him to a wall and beating him with a metal chain. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison.

    Boy George gets 15 months for falsely imprisoning male escort | Boy George | The Guardian



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Neil Prendiville exposing himself to passengers and masturbating on an Aer Lingus flight.



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Gerard Depardieu whipping it out to have a slash in the aisle of a Cityjet flight.

    These happened within a few months of each other too!



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,346 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Eddie Murphy caught picking up a trans prostitute

    Richard Prior had sex with Marlon Brando and he also had sex with Margo Kidder. So he had sex with Superman's dad and girlfriend



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    The one from smallville that was jailed for coercing women into her sex cult.

    Jimmy page kidnapping an underage groupie and taking her on tour.

    The many adventures of Randy Quaid - multiple burglaries, trespassing, deportations etc



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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭seenitall


    The mysterious death of the film-maker Tom Ince on board the mega-rich and powerful newspaper magnate W.R. Hearst’s yacht while at sea. He was actually said to have died a few days later in the hospital, ostensibly from health complications, but no one ever believed that. The story is that the young and cocky Charlie Chaplin had been romancing Hearst’s mistress Marion Davies, and so on a moonless yachting evening, a case of mistaken identity put a bullet into Ince’s head instead of Chaplin’s, with everything being hushed up thereafter. A very interesting case, they made a film about it that I have to get around to seeing, ‘The Cat’s Meow’.

    Talking of yachts... Natalie Wood of course. Who knows what really happened there.

    Isabelle Adjani had a rumour following her in the late eighties that she had AIDS. More idiocy than scandal.

    Mentioning Adjani reminds me that Day-Lewis dumped her through fax, the poor woman. And Matt Damon went one better and broke up with Minnie Driver while on a chat-show. But I’m sceptical of that last one as it wasn’t to be found on YouTube when I went looking. Surely, it would be there?

    Clark Gable fathered one of Loretta Young’s kids, Orson Welles fathered one of Geraldine Fitzgerald’s. Hollywood open secrets.

    Marlon Brando really put it about with a vengeance. A Mick, or a Rod, of his day.

    Polanski and Manson, Tate and Geimer. Horrible stuff all round.

    Ryan O’Neal is said to have a temper. We’ll say no more.

    Sean Penn, ditto. Lately, Ellen DeGeneres. And a couple other US showhosts, along with Weinstein, Spacey and all that jazz.

    Billy Crudup ran off with Claire Danes while his girlfriend was 8 months pregnant. Which is probably even worse than Tom Brady running off with Gisele Buendchen when his girlfriend was 2 months pregnant. Not great, in any case.

    Law cheated on Frost with Miller, then he cheated on Miller with his kids’ nanny, meanwhile Miller cheated on him with Craig, whereupon Law and Craig had a good old natter about it all on the blower, which was all duly recorded by Piers Morgan and got a good airing in court as well. Then Miller had the wise idea to bring some of all this excitement stateside as well, so chose the married father of four Balthasar Getty to have an affair with, next. And so on and so forth.

    More recently, Ewan McGregor thanking both his wife and his mistress for their unwavering support in his Award-acceptance speech last year. The wife wasn’t one bit impressed!



  • Registered Users Posts: 198 ✭✭teddyhead


    Jimmy Savilles work in Ireland ,with certain charities,prominent priests. Its like it never happened.



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Was there a DNA test done to see if Ronan Farrow is Frank Sinatra's son? He doesn't look anything like Woody Allen thankfully. Woody marrying his step daughter was so weird too. Hollywood is full of secrets.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Dickie Rocks 1974 album I Believe In Music has a photo on the back hed probably rather forget.




  • Registered Users Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭seenitall


    No, I don’t think so. Sinatra was already long dead by the time Farrow came out with this nugget, and his family dismissed it out of hand, so that was that I think. But the guy does look much more like Sinatra than like Allen, it has to be said. The ole blue eyes.

    Yeah, Allen and Farrow and the whole clusterfcuk with several of her adopted kids... the stories and the he said-she said are still being rehashed all these years later. One of the biggest scandals of the nineties, along with Lewinski’s famous blue dress, of course, and I forget all about it! Good call :D



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    In 1940, actress Carole Lombard was approached by her press agent with a plan to fake her death for publicity. The idea is that her plane would go down, she'd be reported dead, then twelve hours later she'd walk out of the forest with a shocking story. According to reports such as this, she loved the idea and they started planning for the "event", but didn't go through with it due to cost.

    In January 1942, Carole Lombard was aboard a TWA flight that crashed in to a mountain near Las Vegas, killing all 22 people on board.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Ben there, Dunne that, bought the Taoiseach.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan




  • Registered Users Posts: 10,521 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    The tide is turning…



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    When the prosecution offered to outline the facts of the case, the trial judge said this was not necessary and the entire proceedings were over in an estimated seven minutes.

    Nothing about that case made sense.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,190 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    Rolf Harris being a paedophile really shocked me. Did not expect that one.


    Saville always creeped me out. Now then, now then, now then



  • Registered Users Posts: 15,913 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    armie hammer was quite the fall from grace given he didnt really do anything, but his career is over just that was really accelerating.

    for the smallville fans, allison mack who i think is on trial for human trafficking.

    hugh grant shagging a prostitute while with liz hurley

    george michael was a big scandal in the day

    MJ is a pretty big scandal as well



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,870 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Same here, never would have suspected Harris.



  • Registered Users Posts: 315 ✭✭backwards_man


    [Quote] Was there a DNA test done to see if Ronan Farrow is Frank Sinatra's son? He doesn't look anything like Woody Allen thankfully. Woody marrying his step daughter was so weird too. Hollywood is full of secrets.[/quote]


    She was not his step daughter. She was the adopted child of Mia and Andre Previn. Woody and Mia never lived together and never married. Not to take away from the ickyness of the situation since he dated Mia for 12 years, but facts is facts.


    (cant figure out how to quote the right quote....)



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Never knew about Alison Mack and NXIVM. Nicki Clyne also involved who played the super-sweet Cally in Battlestar which I'm watching at the moment.



  • Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭smillingsam


    To tie in with the Olympics starting

    Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte was banned from swimming for 10 months in 2016 and forfeited $100,000 in bonus money that went with his gold medal at the Olympics, as part of the penalty for his drunken encounter at a gas station in Brazil, Lochte claimed to have had a gun held to his head at a Rio de Janeiro gas station, where he and three other American swimmers had stopped to use a restroom, but later confessed he over-exaggerated the encounter.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,569 ✭✭✭2ndcoming


    I think the Black Mirror episode was based on Brooker's knowledge of the existing rumour of it.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,569 ✭✭✭2ndcoming


    Not exactly a household name, but maybe the weirdest headline ever written...




  • Registered Users Posts: 10,699 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975




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  • Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    He’s obviously small time compared to other names here but I still can’t believe he got away with that relatively unscathed. Should be on a sexy offenders list. No one was held accountable for that disaster of a trip, which was just a glorified piss up there was no convention or anything.


    anyway he’s back on the radio for years now being his usual sanctimonious self.



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