# Universally beloved celebs you just don't care for **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078 "2006-10-11T17:54:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/1 "2006-10-11T17:54:16Z")
Bill Cosby strikes me as a real smug SOB. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/2 "2006-10-11T17:57:37Z")
Jennifer Anniston. I don’t hate her, I just don’t get all the love. Maybe in person she’s very nice, but she just seems very blah to me. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/3 "2006-10-11T18:02:41Z")
I’m not sure there’s any such thing as a “universally loved” celeb. At least not while they’re alive. I thought Bill Cosby’s smug SOBishness was pretty well documented? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/4 "2006-10-11T18:04:47Z")
Of course no one is _universally_ beloved – but I just (and not for the first time) got a “You don’t like Bill Cosby? How can you not like Bill Cosby?” reaction when I mentioned this. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/5 "2006-10-11T18:15:05Z")
Barbra Streisand. I just don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/6 "2006-10-11T18:15:37Z")
Oprah Winfrey. I just can’t stand her. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/7 "2006-10-11T18:17:37Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] Barbra Streisand. I just don’t get it. [/QUOTE] Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/8 "2006-10-11T18:20:45Z")
Tom Hanks: McActor ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/9 "2006-10-11T18:42:02Z")
Too many to name. It’s rare that I DO like a celeb that nearly everyone else likes. This started quite early…I remember watching “I Love Lucy” and the sequels, and wondering how anyone could stand that woman. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/10 "2006-10-11T18:54:49Z")
Jennifer Aniston. I just don’t understand the adoration. George Clooney. Yeah, I liked him on ER, when ER was actually halfway decent but really, why do I see his name everywhere? Why should I care about his political views? Julia Roberts. Nuff said ---
**Author:** ![Bike\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Bike\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bike_Rider)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/11 "2006-10-11T19:03:09Z")
Bono. Love the music. Love that he’s using his fame to do what he feels is right. I’m not sure that I’d go so far as to call him smug or self-righteous, but _something_ about him just rubs me the wrong way. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/12 "2006-10-11T19:12:17Z")
Bono. Hate the music. Hate that he’s using his fame as a soapbox. I’d call him a smug, self-righteous asshole and everything he does rubs me the wrong way. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/13 "2006-10-11T19:16:24Z")
[QUOTE=yellowval] Ditto. [/QUOTE] Ditto that ditto. Also, until _Braveheart_, I didn’t get Mel Gibson’s attraction. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/14 "2006-10-11T19:21:37Z")
Mother Teresa. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/15 "2006-10-11T19:26:02Z")
[QUOTE=Bike Rider] Bono … I’m not sure that I’d go so far as to call him smug or self-righteous [/QUOTE] I would. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/16 "2006-10-11T19:34:25Z")
Bruce Willis. Smuggy McSmugmeister. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/17 "2006-10-11T19:38:36Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] Mother Teresa. [/QUOTE] :rolleyes: Nasty little troll… That could be misleading - I mean Mother Teresa not **Der Trihs** , if even half the stories I’ve read about here are true, that is. Those two (Grey and McDreamy) on Grey’s Anatomy. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/18 "2006-10-11T19:46:37Z")
Jennifer Aniston for me as well. She strikes me as clingy and needy and like a girl that jumps wants a man to love her. It’s like if you hooked up with her one night, you would be happy in the morning until she woke up and opened her mouth leaving you slinking along the walls looking for the first opportunity to bolt before you get bored to death. Her head looks like an egg as well. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/19 "2006-10-11T19:50:47Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] I mean Mother Teresa not **Der Trihs** , if even half the stories I’ve read about here are true, that is. [/QUOTE] “ **her** ” not “here”. Jeez, freakin’ spell check can’t tell what I mean. [RIGHT]It’s ok Jennifer, I still love you.[/RIGHT] ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078/20 "2006-10-11T20:02:13Z")
glad I’m not the only one who finds Bill Cosby a smug smarmy bastard. Assuming she counts as universally loved, Grosie O’Donnell. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universally-beloved-celebs-you-just-dont-care-for/376078.md?page=2)