Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life

Let’s be honest - sometimes we imagine some scenarios in our heads, for example, if we met our favorite celebrities, how we would chat with them, take photos and say how much they mean to us, right? And in our scenario, everybody is nice and we have created this image that celebrities are the nicest people, they love their fans and so on. Well, no. They are also humans and unfortunately, not all people are nice.

Probably most of us have seen many videos where folks share celebrities who they have met and how their interaction went. Some turn out to be the kindest people, while others disappoint us by revealing that they are not as nice as we imagined.

Speaking about celebrities who actually turned out to be jerks in real life, one Reddit user created a thread online asking people to share celebrities who are rude once the cameras are off. Scroll through and check it out!

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Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Ellen Degeneres. It just really sucks that she’s such a hypocritical b***h

Over-Marionberry-686 , TheEllenShow Report

Final score:

84points

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Dread Pirate Roberts 10 months ago

I was super disappointed as well when I found this out.

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Khalid. I've been fortunate to have been a part of a lot of different events, festivals, and shows. I've met a bunch of singers and preformers throughout my time at these events...
The most memorable what this guy, but not for anything good.. it was for his attitude towards hotel staff, my colleagues, and his own team. arrogant a*shat. I had to avoid him, I can keep my mouth shut when I have to but I can't contain my face.

Surprisingly I expected Cardi B to be "that b*tch" but NOPE, she was a doll! My room happened to be next to her's/ her crew .. final day of a festival I woke up to laughing yelling and loud music from their suite.
I was like whatever, honestly.. it's part of it all, nbd. But they had bought me breakfast and mimosas (left at my door with a note by housekeeping) and when they caught me on my way out they apologized for their "routine" and even asked me if I wanted to come hang out.
I had things to do for the day or I would have but seriously.. from all I heard that wasn't at all what I expected.

LiaCee , TheEllenShow Report

Final score:

61points

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Katy McMouse 10 months ago

Bernie (Sanders)loves her, and praises her intellect, so she can't be all that bad, in my opinion. This just backs up what I've heard. Good on her and her guys.

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Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life interviewed zachary quinto once. i could tell he was very talented and he would be going very far with his career in a more thespian-like manner. he wasn't a terrible person but he was unsurprisingly - how do i put this... um, well - conceited. obviously he can back it up; he's very talented but, c'mon - it's still just acting.

if anyone loves Chris Pine, he is absolutely charming in real life; knows how to address fans and press. a total sweetheart.

but the biggest sweetheart of them all is Elijah Wood. what a great actor to interview. humble, kind, sensitive, and very very sweet natured. *edit: love seeing this confirmed in other's personal experiences!!

Virgopinionated , Vertical Report

Final score:

55points

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Captain McSmoot 10 months ago

Elijah Wood and the Lord of the Ring Hobbit cast are sweet souls.

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Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Many years ago I volunteered for a charity. We had an event where Jim Carey was a keynote speaker and guest. This was shortly after "Mask" was released.

When Jim Carey showed up, he was a c**k to everyone.

When the event started, we expected him to still be a c**k. Nope, it's like he flipped a switch and became "Jim Carey" and wowed the audience.

Walked off stage and was a c**k again.

Orangecatbuddy , jasethehoo Report

Final score:

50points

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g90814 10 months ago

I liked him for a short while when he was on "In Living Color". Can't stand him now, won't watch anything he's in.

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Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Bill Nye.

Was a huge fan growing up. My brother works for NASA at Goddard in Maryland and Mr Nye has been a guest speaker for a number of events. The dude is apparently, according to my brother and his colleagues, a total jerk and gets a little creepy with the ladies. Anytime I've shared this, I get a fair amount of people disbelieving or say it's probably a misunderstanding. Look into it for yourself and I'm sure you'll find many anecdotes of him being an a*s.

Wishilikedhugs , TODAY Report

Final score:

45points

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Bonesko 10 months ago

God damn it! Bill the science guy?! F**k! 😔

30points

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Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Jared Leto, I've read all the stories and the guy is just awful.

NormanskillEire , Warner Bros. Pictures Report

Final score:

44points

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Captain McSmoot 10 months ago

Most sociopaths or aliens are.

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Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Dhar Mann , bro built his whole career by making videos on kindness , helping others , compassion , empathy etc. Turns out he was an awful boss and didn't even pay his employees a wage they could live off of despite having millions of views on his youtube channel

lawfuliterature , Ed Mylett Report

Final score:

42points

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Captain McSmoot 10 months ago

Like Ellen.

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Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Steve Martin. Started out as a promising young, black inventor with great ideas about eyeglasses. Eventually let all the wealth get to his head and wound up broke again after his glasses left customers crosseyed. What a shame.

Drawdehellfire , Team Coco Report

Final score:

39points

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Brian N 10 months ago

What a "Jerk"

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Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life I lived in Oklahoma when Twister was filmed. Locals who worked/dealt with Helen Hunt, referred to her as Helen C**t.

anon , Rotten Tomatoes Coming Soon Report

Final score:

39points

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Kaye 9 months ago

Wow! I didn't know.

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#10

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Will Smith. Loved him as a kid and was one my favorite actors since the fresh prince and and the movies up to Pursuit of Happyness

Then all that cringe family drama and then him smacking Chris Rock was the deal breaker for me and I no longer like him

BushyOreo , Guardian News Report

Final score:

34points

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INGI 10 months ago

His wife was a whole lot ruder to me than he was.

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#11

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Surprised no one has mentioned Bill Murray. Then again maybe it's not that much of a surprise?

BurritoBurglar9000 , Conan O'Brien Report

Final score:

33points

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INGI 10 months ago

Worked with him. TOTAL AH.

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#12

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Bill Cosby? I've seen a bit of dis on Phil McGraw too.

Salt-Marionberry-712 , Entertainment Tonight Report

Final score:

32points

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Michael Largey 9 months ago

One of his early comedy bits was about drugging women to have sex (Spanish Fly). That red flag had been up and flying for decades before the public caught on.

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Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Chevy Chase

CapG_13 , Washington Post Report

Final score:

32points

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INGI 10 months ago

OMG. Worked with him. I have a hard time watching his movies now. He was an absolute horror show. Mean. Rude. SO disappointing.

34points

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#14

Finding out Ricky Gervais is a d**k irl was extremely disappointing. I work in film, and wanted to work with him so badly that I took a huge pay cut to work on his movie “special correspondents” and he was an absolute terror on set. Longest 2 months of my career.

Amaline4 Report

Final score:

24points

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Kate 10 months ago

Wait, how is this surprising?

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#15

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life My Dad worked as a chef in various restaurants over the years and got to meet quite a few celebrities that way. The one that always stuck out to me was when he told me he got to serve dinner to Richard Dreyfuss. I had always liked his movies and brand of humor. To me, he seemed like a nice guy.

My Dad told me he was incredibly rude and entitled, demanding that the staff not speak to him at all. They comped his meal as a courtesy but never received a compliment or thank you. Like dude, next time, just go through a drive-thru if you don't want to interact with people.

Anarchysparky12 , Rachael Ray Show Report

Final score:

22points

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INGI 10 months ago

I worked with a ton of celebs in the 90s. Mariah Carey takes the #1 AH spot, in my book! (On the flip side, Steve Irwin was seriously the kindest, most down to earth guy I worked with.)

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#16

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Jerry Lewis.

Growing up as a kid in the 1970s, I watched his movies (both with and without Dean Martin) countless times on tv. I just LOVED his movies (still do). And he was hailed as a Saint for his charitable efforts regarding muscular dystrophy.

As the years passed, little by little it was coming out how a godawful human being he really was. How he was a serial philanderer, cheating on his wife early on in their marriage, sexually harassing and abusing numerous actresses he worked with, secretly fathered a child (a daughter) in the 1950s with a fashion model and never acknowledged her existence or helped his biological daughter out, even when she went homeless decades later. Passed away, leaving all his sons and/or grandkids nothing in his will.

Pretty shocked to learn what a jerk, a monster, he was in real life.

WallyPlumstead , Johnny Carson Report

Final score:

21points

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robin aldrich 9 months ago

Also thought women could not be comedians because they were not funny.

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#17

I'm still a huge fan, but when I met Danny Elfman backstage after an Oingo Boingo concert, he was a total d**k! He was a d**k to this other guy first, making funny faces at him while he was saying what a big fan he was. He was openly mocking the poor guy. Then, he was a d**k to my date, a nice young woman who simply asked a question. I was shocked. All the other guys were nice, especially Johnny Vatos and the horn section guys. I have heard other people say they met him and he was nice, so maybe I got him on a bad night, but still. I could have the day from hell and I'd still be nice to people, especially ones who like me.

Nervous_Magazine_200 Report

Final score:

21points

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Btsquestrian 9 months ago

All the stories that have come to light about Danny Elfman are so disappointing and saddening. I was a dues-paying member of the Oingo Boingo fan club back in the '90s and attended two of their Halloween concerts. The 'Dark at the End of the Tunnel' album and the song 'Mary' from their final album got me through some very dark times in my life.in my younger, deeply troubled days.

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#18

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Rolf Harris - a jerk would be putting what he did mildly but he was beloved in a sweet eccentric uncle way without giving off a false vibe like some other ‘nice guy’ celebs. When a few older celebrities in Britain got accused of crimes a lot of them were not considered that surprising, but Rolf was the person people felt a genuine sense of shock towards; it felt like a betrayal.

BarraDoner , BBC Report

Final score:

17points

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PeepPeep the duck 10 months ago (edited)

He was always a creep to me growing up. I hated him as a kid and adult - he likes underage girls for those who don’t know. Pervert wabble board guy

22points

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#19

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Jonah Hill

tontotheodopolopodis , Jimmy Kimmel Live Report

Final score:

14points

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Zophra 10 months ago

I wish it would say why they were included in the list.

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#20

soulja boy. not that surprising but this situation stands out among the celebs i’ve met.

my sister in law & i were out shopping in LA with my nephew in a stroller. we passed a famous shoe store and saw soulja boy run out with a few boxes of shoes. a guy in the store ran out after him saying “you didn’t pay! come back”. soulja boy tries to open his car door but it’s not working for some reason. he sees the guy still standing there so he runs back with the shoes while laughing and saying “haha just joking man chill”. what really pissed me off was that when he ran back into the store he damn near knocked my nephew’s stroller over and just looked at us like “so?” f*****g d**k.

soulotaughtme Report

Final score:

14points

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Mike F 10 months ago

Who?

19points

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#21

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Adam Baldwin - I always generally enjoyed his work in movies and loved Jayne in Firefly. then I ran into Baldwin on witter many years ago and saw what he's like.

Joss Whedon goes in the same category, but for different reasons

Uncertain_Dad_ , Fandom Spotlite Report

Final score:

13points

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Molly Whuppie 10 months ago (edited)

He's a self declared conservative libertarian, was involved in #gamergate and made many bigoted right wing leaning controversial statements on his now deleted Twitter account. No surprise to see him on this list.

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#22

Morris Dees, the founder of The Poverty Law Center, whom I had admired for years. Then he was fired, allegedly for sexual harassment and his treatment of minority staff.

Lucicatsparkles Report

Final score:

13points

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David 9 months ago

for decades he refused to hire any non-white lawyers (other than 1 asian), never allowed black employees access to the financial accounts, etc, all while labeling other people and groups as racists and taking multi-million dollar govt contracts to provide lists on racists groups and people, and while some were legit hate groups, some were just his political opponents of critics.

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#23

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life It seems like Julia Roberts is not really that nice when not in front of a camera.

I grew up watching her movies since my mom and aunt are big fans and I've always thought she was a sweet amazing beautiful lady.

Turns out she's really not.

the_Brunette_Barbie , The View Report

Final score:

12points

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INGI 10 months ago

I worked with her once. She was nice enough, but did call me at 4AM to tell me their were ants in her very fancy room. I literally lived an hour away. All I had to do was call the front desk. I asked them to call me back and let me know 1- what they did to resolve the situation (they moved her to the presidential suite, and 2- how many ants there were... THREE. It took her longer to call me than to just call the U&^#Iing front desk herself.

24points

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#24

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Tobey Maguire

No_Jacket4523 , Scene City Report

Final score:

6points

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Zophra 10 months ago

Huh? I will have to read up on this. This one surprised me.

18points

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#25

I’ve heard Jason Bateman is a d**k and that makes me really upset

kitten_inthekitchen Report

Final score:

6points

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Sand Ers 10 months ago

He lost me completely when his reaction to Jessica Walter being abused on set was to rush to reassure the abuser that everything was ok, and publicly made excuses for the abuse.

17points

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#26

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life The Weeknd. Unfollowed that guy everywhere smh

TheWindUpBird22 , iHeartRadio Report

Final score:

5points

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WindySwede 10 months ago

7points

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#27

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life I run a recording studio and I get some celebrities now and again mostly doing voice overs.

I had Danica Patrick doing voice over for a tv show she produced about racing.

She thought the read was only a few lines, but they had like 10 pages for her.

She lost her s**t when I handed her the script. She spent almost 40 minutes on the phone yelling at her assistant and other people about it...Instead of just f*****g doing the read.

When she finally calmed down, she was a huge a*****e to the producers on the phone listening in. Its typical for them to ask the reader things like, "gives us one more take of that a little slower..." When they would, she would explode about how much time she is giving them already and she is only going to read each thing once.

It was really cringe. I always wonder how much she was paid for that and was so just unaware of how lucky she is.

Raspberries-Are-Evil , Jimmy Kimmel Live Report

Final score:

4points

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Sonja 10 months ago

I somehow feel she was screwed over and understandably angry about it. And I feel OP is a little callous. She was told to read a few lines and then handed a whole script. This sounds like someone willfully mislead her

26points

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#28

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life As a Canadian. Shania Twain is a HUGE B***h.

T_DeadPOOL Report

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2points

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Octochicken 10 months ago

Wait, is she a bad person relative to the average Canadian, or in general?

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#29

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Rachael Ray. She seems pretty outgoing and friendly but I've read on several different platforms that she's an ahole. It's a shame.

nikkip7784 , Rachael Ray Show Report

Final score:

0points

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SweetCheesySpaghetti 9 months ago

I served her in a restaurant in NY back in the early 2010s. She was an absolute nightmare.

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#30

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Gary Burghoff, better known as Corporal Radar from M* A* S* H. Apparently he is not as much of a teddy bear as one would expect.

haileyskydiamonds , Jordan Burghoff Report

Final score:

-1point

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Ian Shaw 9 months ago

I met him once at a wildlife art exhibition. He does wonderful watercolors. Of course, nobody wanted to talk about that, but about M*A*S*H. He was a perfect gentleman about it, and other than lacking Radar's naiveté, he was every bit the teddy bear I expected. His autograph is one of my most treasured knick knacks.

17points

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Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Michael Jordan

rachellzzz , ABC News In-depth Report

Final score:

-5points

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JayWantsACat 9 months ago

Pretty well known that he's a giant a*****e. Some of it you could understand with how much he worked at basketball and expected excellence from his teammates. But as also as a person. Listen to his Hall of Fame speech. Most people use it to celebrate their career, the people, etc. Jordan used his to air petty grievances. That SNL sketch based on the dice game with the security guard isn't true but it's based on truth. He's the GOAT but he's not the nicest guy.

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#32

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life I got into an internet argument with John Dimaggio (voice of Bender) when I was like 14 years old. This was over email using my hotbot account at the time (just to date myself), sometime before Futurama premiered..

To be fair I'm not sure if he was the jerk or I was. Wish I still had those emails

suddenly-scrooge , Vanity Fair Report

Final score:

-14points

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PeepPeep the duck 10 months ago (edited)

That’s funny 😂

4points

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#33

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Tyrese Gibson, Emma Roberts, Edward Norton, Michael Peña

CrystalCandy00 , BigBoyTV Report

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-16points

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Manny 9 months ago

I don't believe that about Pena.

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#34

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Zoey Deschanel

acefrosting , Entertainment Tonight Report

Final score:

-18points

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Felonius Gru 10 months ago

No explanation?

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#35

Folks Online Didn’t Expect These 29 Celebrities To Be Terrible People In Real Life Bruce Willis. Not super surprised I suppose, but really disappointed.

LashawnnaMeimand1985 , Conan O'Brien Report

Final score:

-32points

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PeepPeep the duck 10 months ago

This is obviously before the illness yeah?

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What do you think ?

JB 10 months ago

Am I the only one who wants to go through this list downvoting the ones where it’s just a name with no explanation?

Marnie 10 months ago

I came here to complain about a name with no explanation. Now I'm going to downvote all of them. Thanks JB.

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Leviathan 10 months ago

a lot of these "CELEBRITIES ARE JERKS" things are actually cause people come up to them while there busy or just trying to relax or stuff, there "JERKS" cause they wont entertain you every second, iv met a few that if you act like you know there "someone" they usually are friendly then will let you know and end up doing a picture or signing something, but being backstage while there busy yeah there gonna be asses cause THERE BUSY, if they are out side and you walk up to them going "hey i know you can i have such and such?" YEAH THERE GONNA BE A JERK BACK

Apatheist Account2 10 months ago

Totally agree. If they're not working, you should leave them alone; by the same token, if you are there because of their work (eg waiting outside at a premier, or they're doing a book signing) it is incumbent on them to give you some time.

RJ 9 months ago

Imma say it right now... if I ever became a celeb with that level of money and clout, there will be plenty of times where I'd be sketchy in public too. It's not that I really am a douche (or maybe I am, my informal poll only had 1 participant in it - me), it's just that I have days where I'm off and I just find it so hard to be kind by default. People have bad days and they just don't know how to keep all that negativity in. Not everyone is Tom Hanks.

Kristal 9 months ago

... so, you just glossed over the reports by people that WORKED in an industry where they had to interact with the celebrity?

Papa 9 months ago

I agree. I was at a restaurant with my wife decades ago when Chuck Norris came in. The man couldn't eat his meal in peace.

Bernd Herbert 9 months ago

THANK YOU! And that's why I think these kind of lists are pretty much pointless

Der Kommissar 10 months ago (edited)

I met Chuck Berry through work, and his reputation for being a rude a*****e is well deserved. The jail time for tax evasion and the Mann Act, and filming women in the ladies room of his restaurant does give you some idea of what a horrible person he was.

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