# Local Celebrities you hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691 "2008-01-08T03:04:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ro\_Carter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Ro\_Carter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ro_Carter)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/21 "2008-01-08T14:20:46Z")
This is WAY local, but the local “celebrity” around here made all his money by owning several nursing/retirement homes and complexes. Ganton is the last name, and he makes himself out to be this benevolent character. He is a complete and total jerk. He thinks that just because he has the most money in town, he needs to be consulted on everything, and that everyone should bend over backwards to do what he wants, and now. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/22 "2008-01-08T15:24:42Z")
[QUOTE=Mahna Mahna] Ask any Torontonian about Russell Oliver, and I guarantee they’ll wince. [/QUOTE] Ugh. I remember him from when I lived in Toronto. Didn’t DC Comics threaten him for his “Cashman” commercials? (IIRC, he just changed his commercials; not even Superman and his lawyers could shut a guy like him up.) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/23 "2008-01-08T15:46:45Z")
Steven Seagal owns a house not far from me. Apparently Germantown lost a bet. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/24 "2008-01-08T16:28:08Z")
[QUOTE=Kid\_A] Ugh…and you linked the newest commercial. It’s just awful. [/QUOTE] Mind you, the only thing that distinguishes it from the old commercial is the addition of dancing hoochies. Depending on one’s point of view, this could be interpreted as an improvement on the old formula, or just a descent further down the spiral of crapitude. ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/25 "2008-01-08T17:03:32Z")
[Jay DeDapper](http://www.wnbc.com/meetthenewsteam/1169179/detail.html). I had to serve on a jury with him. He was selected as an alternate and he was very peeved. After all, he’s a TV news reporter–he had important things to do! I can understand his unhappiness–we served jury duty not long after [Amadou Diallo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadou_Diallo) was killed, and there were protests everywhere. In fact, one day on my lunch break, I walked over to One Police Plaza to watch the protestors; I got to see Al Shartpon get arrested. But really, he acted like spending time with us was so beneath him. I was really pleased when one of the jurors got dismissed and he was the alternate chosen to replace her. The trial was only a week long, and deliberations were one day and he kept pushing us to make decisions (we had multiple defendants). Since then, I have hated his guts. Pompous jerk. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/26 "2008-01-08T17:04:45Z")
Roger Clemens Beyonce Tom DeLay ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/27 "2008-01-08T17:42:04Z")
In Vegas, there are so many. Where to begin… Gary Waddell–Anchor of the local news on channel 8. When I lived in NY, I thought Roger Grimsby was the worst anchorman in the world, but this guy beats him by a mile! Guy’s been here forever, and I can’t figure out why. Boring, monotonous, and averages at least 3 screwups every newscast! Jason Feinberg–Fox 5 morning news anchor. Please, please, PLEASE, someone wipe that stupid grin off his face! Everything is a big freaking joke to this guy, and his partner is no better… Monica Jackson–Robin Quivers on meth! Laughs at every damn thing Feinberg says. Mike Doria–Another Fox 5 loser. Field reporter who appears to HATE what he’s doing. No matter what the story, he manages to come off with this smirking “I’m too hip for this shit” attitude. ---
**Author:** ![clnilsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@clnilsen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clnilsen)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/28 "2008-01-08T17:45:51Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] Carrot Top doesn’t live far from me, in the suburbs north of Orlando (although I imagine he’s in a lot nicer neighborhood). My best friend sees him working out at the gym all the time. He is apparently quite buff, but wears a lot of makeup. He always struck me as a big weirdo, and I never found him funny. There is also one guy who does a lot of open mic poetry events who I find really obnoxious, but for reasons I won’t go into here. [/QUOTE] **BBVL** , yaknow, I just moved down here thinking it’s a nice wonderful place, and you had to go and ruin it for me that he’s a frekin neighbor of mine? Can’t stand him… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/29 "2008-01-08T17:57:20Z")
Michael Savage is one of our more infamous rabid radio ranters – a real throbbing-at-the-veins, foaming-at-the-mouth bandog of a man. I hate his guts because he’s such a nasty venomous loudmouth, but I’ll listen to him for hours because he’s fascinating, in a raggedy-street-preacher sort of manner. Naturally, he’s a 'phobe and an urban redneck blowhard – what’s really weird about him is apparently he used to hang out with prominent lefties and weirdos in the Bay Area (people he now routinely insults) and was some kind of second string natural health guru himself, up until 25 or so years ago when he morphed abruptly from hippie-dippie flako to near-fascist AM windbag. You gotta give him props for energy, though, and he’s got a unique way with words. Sometimes he goes off for a half hour at a time about the opposition party, the, ahem Demoncats. The over-the-top venom this man spews, and his indescribable delivery, would be hysterically funny if one didn’t know there are people all over Northern California who take him serious. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/30 "2008-01-08T18:20:04Z")
**Jack Whittaker.** Guy was already a near millionare here, then he goes and wins several more million in the Powerball lottery. He came off to the press as this really loveable, kind of “aw shucks” person when in reality he’s a dirty old man who thought throwing money at people would make him look like the best thing since sliced bread. **Randy Moss.** Nasty little PITA who was a local bully, then left the area to play pro football. The guy is a dimwit of the highest order. ---
**Author:** ![Ro\_Carter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Ro\_Carter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ro_Carter)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/31 "2008-01-08T18:32:42Z")
OOO! I forgot the used car salesmen! There’s [North Clark](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3922282622305254947&q=Rose+City+Motors&total=27&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0) a complete moron that has the worst commercials… Too bad more of them aren’t up online, or I’d show you the one with people in Halloween costumes playing baseball. There is also Terry Hanks, who I couldn’t find a commercial for. He fancies himself a cowboy, and he and his daughter (who now helps him) do the commercials all decked out in true cowboy fashion, generally on horses from their riding stable, which they also advertise. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/32 "2008-01-08T18:33:52Z")
Being a NYer it is easy to find. So I’ll go with where I spent my teen years, out in the wilds of Suffolk County, Long Island, at a time when there were still cows and farms near where I lived, on the Huntington/Smithtown border. While I never had the displeasure of meeting her, I found out many years later than Rosie O’Donnell went to my sister school (Commack H.S. South to my Commack H.S. North, since merged into a single Commack H.S. on the north side). Now I can’t visit my parent’s home and head anyplace local without seeing her face plastered about, the local hero. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/33 "2008-01-08T19:19:02Z")
[QUOTE=BaneSidhe] **Jack Whittaker.** Guy was already a near millionare here, then he goes and wins several more million in the Powerball lottery. He came off to the press as this really loveable, kind of “aw shucks” person when in reality he’s a dirty old man who thought throwing money at people would make him look like the best thing since sliced bread. [/QUOTE] I remember that guy. I actually seriously considered murdering him when he won. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/34 "2008-01-08T19:43:29Z")
We got the Watson’s girl on television here in Little Rock. I really thought it was a local commercial. Marc ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/35 "2008-01-08T20:00:12Z")
Clay Aiken. At least his popularity is fading now, but he used to be _everywhere_. I got so tired of hearing that stork choking his faux-emotional bleating in radio and TV ads. He’s had Christmas specials at the local sports complex where he plays the Good Christmas Fairy or something and sprinkles happy dust on orphans. Now he’s lucky to get booked at the Holiday Inn Lounge, thank the dark gods. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/36 "2008-01-08T20:02:01Z")
[QUOTE=TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW] I remember that guy. I actually seriously considered murdering him when he won. [/QUOTE] While I do feel sorry for him that his granddaughter OD, he’s still an asshole of the highest order. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/37 "2008-01-08T20:03:28Z")
Local TV personality Henry Tennenbaum - he handles a lot of the “soft” stuff and entertainment bits on one of the local news programs. He comes across as somewhat crass and rude on TV - they do a phenomenal job of editing as he’s much worse in person. ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/38 "2008-01-09T02:57:42Z")
Thanks for this thread. I rarely get the opportunity to say how much I despise that self-important twat Garrison Keillor. Yes, I appreciate that he recently opened a bookstore down the street from me. And that it’s not just his books that are sold there (this really did surprise me). It is a great little bookstore, and I am sure that it will close within the year. But he still sucks. This is reason #8 that I will never be a _true_ Minnesotan. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/39 "2008-01-09T03:17:45Z")
[QUOTE=Kneepants Erasmus, the Humanist] This is reason #8 that I will never be a _true_ Minnesotan. [/QUOTE] No, now you actually _are_ a true Minnesotan. We all think he’s a pompous windbag that is tedious and not one bit funny, we just keep it to ourselves. Welcome, dear. We’ve been waiting for you. Would you like some jello? ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691/40 "2008-01-09T04:01:59Z")
[Adele Arakawa](http://www.9news.com/company/bios/arakawa.aspx) has got to be the prime candidate from Colorado. Arrogant to the extreme, she is even more intollerable in person if you should ever be in a position where you should need to be of service to her… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-celebrities-you-hate/432691.md?page=3)