Patty Duke’s insistance that the DNA tests proving her son Sean was fathered by Michael Tell with whom she never had sex are wrong isn’t helping her credibility.
I’d say Grant is doing better than OK. He’s starred in numerous movies since then, and some of them have been very big hits. Maybe he would be demanding more money, but he hasn’t lost all credibility and become a joke.
Come to think of it, that might well have torpedoed Katie Holmes’ career, too. (Well, that and the Scientology stuff.)
How about all the celebs who promised loudly to leave the country if George W. Bush was elected president?
How about Pauly Shore, he was very popular for an extended time and then almost overnight, it was as if all his fans woke up and realized he was not really funny or clever. Was there any single incident for him?
Which ones? Did they loose much credibility?
{Real questions, I cannot even guess at who you are talking about}
Many celebrities can and have had incidents that made them the butt of jokes, yet still managed to survive. I doubt the Gibson or Cruise brouhahas will be remembered in another five years.
As for Roman Polanski, the charges hurt, but he still continued to make films – and eventually won an Oscar.
Ingrid Bergman so scandalized Hollywood in the 50s that she was forced to leave the country. Few now (not counting Eve) even remember why.
The Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman two-day marriage was fodder for a lot of jokes at the time. Borgnine’s career went merrily along; Merman’s did not, but that was more a function of her age than the public ridicule.
Colin Powell after the UN speech.
When Elvis died, there was some sort of candle light vigil outside Graceland, or some such place. Geraldo Rivera was covering the story as a reporter. He spent an embarrassing amount of time reminiscing on some of his own personal defining “Elvis moments”. He took a lot of heat for that interjection of himself into the news story, and lost a lot of professional credibility as a television newsman.
It wasn’t too long after that that he made the transition to full time television tabloid trash personality.
Probably not what the OP was thinking of, on account of the perversions of American pop culture making a wealthy man out of him in his new career.
Princess Di and the phone calls.
Winona Ryder shoplifting headbands.
Eddie Murphy picking up a transvestite hooker.
Ed Muskie bursting into tears.
Howard Dean screaming.
Bill Clinton and the fat girl.
Whichever Gabor it was who slapped the cop.
Rudy Valley petitioning the city council to change the name of his street to “Rue de Vallée.”
Jackie Kennedy marrying Onassis.
Lennon marrying Yoko.
Jeffrey Archer serving time in prison.
Jane Fonda in Vietnam.
I’d wager Pete Rose oughta be on this list somewhere.
Marv Albert, when it was revealed he like to wear womens panties and garters.
Marv Albert, when it was revealed he likes to wear womens panties and garters.
Marv Albert, when it was revealed he likes to wear womens panties and garters.
That really freaked you out didn’t it?
That really freaked you out didn’t it?
That really freaked you out didn’t it?
Andy Kaufman wrestling women.
Fergie and the toe-sucking photos.
Lionel Atwill and the orgy scandal.
Jeffrey Jones’s arrest for child porn.
It’s not always one incident that derails a reputation. Often, it’s a pattern of behavior. In addition to the couch-jumping, Tom Cruise also tried to pick arguments with Brooke Shields and Matt Matt Matt Matt Matt Matt Matt Lauer, reacted badly to a prank, and in general, behaved like someone off his meds. Mel Gibson’s drunken rant was not out of the cloudless blue, either. All they really did was drop the facade. And Michael Jackson was seen as odd even at the height of his fame. What changed first was the public’s willingness to give him the benefit of the doubt. The illegal/immoral stuff came later.
I disagree that Hugh Grant’s career suffered from the Divine Brown incident. It’s entirely possible that it was actually staged, as a means of proving that he’s straight. Similiarly, Paul Reubens had long been trying to shed the PeeWee persona, and even if his arrest was not planned, in a roundabout way, it did establish credibility.
More to the point would be Elia Kazan testifying for HUAC. Regardless of what he really said or didn’t say, he was seen as a scab, and that was what mattered.
Gary Hart never recovered from the Donna Rice revelation, although that had as much to do with his totally unrepentant attitude as with the incident itself.
Name 3 Americans that got shot in the head
Lincoln
Kennedy
guy sitting in front of Pee Wee Herman at porn show
Soory I coudnt resist
Little Richard went from straight to gay to reverend
Jerry lee Lewis married a child
When did Little Richard ever admit he ws gay?
Never mind, I researched it. He says he was gay and now he says he’s not because God cured him.
Little Richard being gay has never been a secret. He talks about it at length in his autobiography, “The Life And Times Of Little Richard, The Quasar Of Rock.” The first time I can recall seeing an article concening it was in a Rolling Stone magazine that coincided with the release of the book and the first Specialty CD remasters. The article was titled, “Tooty, Fruity.”