# Celebrities You Hate Without Any Real Justification **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 26, 2005, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337 "2005-03-26T08:51:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/61 "2005-03-28T20:11:16Z")
I used to not mind **Rachel Ray** , but my mom watches a lot of Food Network and I’ve now just recently come to disliking her greatly. Her bubbliness really gets on my nerves. But it is humerous at times watching those celebrities subtly cringe during her “Inside Dish” show. They just have this look like they’re thinking, “Man, is this girl nuts or what?” Oh, and I’ll add **Oprah Winfrey** to the list. I admire all that she’s gone through when she was younger, but watching even a half second of her show makes me want to smack my head and scream ala Rain Man. The way she panders to her guests like she’s worshiping them drives me nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/62 "2005-03-28T20:23:27Z")
> [@sweepkick](#): > > I have one that I thought of immediately upon seeing this thread title: > > John Mellencamp > > I do not know what it is… but the mere sight of him or hearing his music _curdles my blood_. Amen to that. I spent 16 years living in Indiana, were every piece of dreckish music that emerged from him was treated as Holy Writ, and played to death on every single radio station in the state. “Hello listeners. John Mellancamp accidentally dropped his guitar down a flight of steps yesterday. We’ve got it on tape, and we’ll be playing it non-stop for the next six weeks.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/63 "2005-03-28T20:28:18Z")
Jim Carrey Adam Sandler Jimmy Fallon Russell Crowe Dan Ackroyd Catherine Zeta-Jones All just seem a little too pleased with themselves. Cristina Ricci Scarlett Johansson Both are way too young to be as world-weary and cynical as they seem. Youthful cynicism annoys the hell out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/64 "2005-03-28T20:47:16Z")
Eric Balfour, a character actor who played a high school jerk on Six Feet Under, a computer tech in the first season of 24, and a victim in the pilot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I don’t know why, but he annoys the piss out of me. It’s mostly his Six Feet Under character, since I went to a high school full of guys like him, and in Miami, almost every dude looks and acts like him. I can’t stand him. There was an actor named Jack Noseworthy who seemed to be everywhere in the early '90s, and he bugged me too. The way he looked, and the fact that he popped up in so many places. I couldn’t escape that guy. I don’t like to wish ill on anyone, but I’m glad his career seems to have cooled off. Martin Short is really hard to watch. He annoys me in everything he’s in, and brings down the comedic value of otherwise find productions (The Three Amigos, his episode of Arrested Development). I am too disgusted by the promos for his show Prime Time Glick to ever watch it. I REALLY dislike Jay Leno, Gloria Estefan, Josh Groban, Dr. Phil, psychic John Edward, the Eagles, Usher, Avril Lavigne, Ashton Kutcher, rappers 50 Cent and Ja Rule, and pro wrestlers Triple H, the Undertaker, Kane, and John Bradshaw Layfield (as well as WWE boss Vince McMahon), but I feel that I have plenty of justification, and this isn’t The Pit. That said, I love Quentin Tarantino, Woody Allen, Rachael Ray, and Will Ferrell, although I can see why they’d get on certain people’s nerves. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/65 "2005-03-28T20:48:33Z")
Another vote for Russell Crowe. He somehow manages to irritate the hell out of me while at the same time having a huge sucking black hole where his screen charisma should be. Oddly, I usually like everything else about the movies he’s in. Bruce Wilis has always made me itch to slap the snot out of him. ---
**Author:** ![slu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@slu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slu)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/66 "2005-03-28T21:15:57Z")
If I ever see David Arquette on the street, he’d better pray he is wearing a cup, because he is going to get a kick in the testicles. Bono, please shut up. You are the lead singer of a crappy band. Your opinion on 3rd World debt does not matter to me. And the fact that you can get a meeting with the President of the United States when you are just a singer of a crappy band (needed repeating) and not even an American citizen makes me so angry. Eddie Vedder - see Bono above, except change 3rd World Debt to the Iraq war, cut out the meeting with the President part, and change crappy band to one of the greatest bands ever. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/67 "2005-03-28T21:40:33Z")
Ben Afflek needs to be hit in the mouth. I shouldn’t speak ill of the dead, but I never liked Michael Landon. John Travolta bugs me, too. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/68 "2005-03-28T22:35:44Z")
All this and no one’s mentioned Rosie O’donnel? Maybe she’s just too easy a target or maybe there’s enough real justifications to disqualify her. ---
**Author:** ![bclouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@bclouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bclouse)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/69 "2005-03-28T23:07:24Z")
I don’t hate him but **Robin Williams** really gets on my nerves. He just won’t go away. I second **Michael Landon**. He’s a prick. Second **Tom Hanks** as well. You ain’t that great an actor. Come down off your pedestal. Almost everyone from **SNL** from the last 10-15 years. Cancel the show already. Actor most disappointed with - **Harrison Ford**. What happened?!? ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/70 "2005-03-29T00:08:39Z")
> [@bclouse](#): > > I don’t hate him but **Robin Williams** really gets on my nerves. He just won’t go away. I feel the same way about Mike Myers. ---
**Author:** ![Patster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@Patster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patster)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/71 "2005-03-29T01:20:15Z")
Survivors - Rob and Amber Barry Manilow ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/72 "2005-03-29T03:17:02Z")
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas - they both seem really dumb and yet constantly pleased with themselves. And they have rotten taste in partners. Russell Crowe, for behaving like a retarded Caveman at all times. Anyone who’s ever been on _The Apprentice_. Colin Farrell - WANKER ALERT! It’s a never-ending list, really… ---
**Author:** ![Lillith\_Fair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@Lillith\_Fair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lillith_Fair)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/73 "2005-04-03T01:48:20Z")
Richard Gere - he looks like my brother - it’s just a little too weird Kiefer Sutherland (once he was a really bad guy so I’m afraid of him) Helen Hunt Jodie Foster Roseanne I couldn’t stand the old “Ellen” show sit-com, but I love her talk show Nicole Kidman (don’t know why) ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/74 "2005-04-03T02:10:11Z")
Tom Cruise, he’s so toothy and he just oozes sleaze. The scientology thing doesn’t help either. I’ll second John Travolta. He is transformed into full craptastic costume from Battlefield Earth each time I see him anymore. I never even saw that movie and the image of him looking like a pudgy mutated Ewok is burned into my brain. Jessica Simpson. She’s everywhere. Her cleft irks me. I want to kick it in. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/75 "2005-04-03T07:10:07Z")
Paris Hilton. Mark McGrath. ---
**Author:** ![Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hot_Buttered_Toast)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/76 "2005-04-03T08:13:24Z")
Gwen Stefani. Tom Cruise. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/77 "2005-04-03T22:41:22Z")
I will add Thandie Newton and Michelle Trachtenberg, because I just can’t stand their pencil-necks. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/78 "2005-04-03T22:49:59Z")
Wilford Brimley. I hate that guy so much it hurts. None of my friends understand it, but they all know I hate him. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/79 "2005-04-03T23:33:31Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > Wilford Brimley. > > I hate that guy so much it hurts. None of my friends understand it, but they all know I hate him. LOL. I hadn’t thought of him, but yes, I too dislike him (maybe not to the same degree.) Something about him. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337/80 "2005-06-06T21:48:07Z")
> [@Sarah Woodruff](#): > > Russell Crowe, for behaving like a retarded Caveman at all times. > > It’s a never-ending list, really… Didn’t you get that right. Let me add Madonna. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-hate-without-any-real-justification/296337.md?page=5)