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As for today’s list, it’s common for celebrities to end up in a scandal.
Some of them they can shake off and pretend like it never happened, but then there’s
time when stuff really hits the fan and costs them their entire career.
Let’s check out some examples of this with today’s list of Top 10 Celebrity Scandals
That Ruined Careers.
May their careers rest in peace.
10) Starting off our list at number 10 is Lance Armstrong.
He was known to be one of the greatest cyclists of all time until he became famous for being
apart of the biggest doping scandal in cycling history.
He was an incredible athlete that many people admired and supported, but one thing no one
will tolerate is an athlete using drugs and cheating the system of performance and strength.
It was hard for fans to hate him because he was a heroic cancer survivor who strived to
inspire others, but the scandal quickly turned their feelings into anger.
According to the U.S Anti-Doping Agency, he, I quote: ran the most sophisticated, professionalized,
and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.
It was during an interview with Oprah in 2013 that he admitted to taking drugs.
Former teammates turned on him, as well as his fans.
He was stripped from his cycling titles and dropped by all of his sponsors including Nike
Inc and Livestrong.
On top of that, he was banned from professional cycling races all together.
He ended up reaching a 5 million dollar settlement with the government, but his career has never
been the same ever since.
He now has two podcasts, one called The Forward, and one called The Move, where he is hoping
people will forget about the doping scandal.
9) At number 9 is Chris Brown.
The singer ended up in court back in 2009 after he faced assault charges from his girlfriend
at the time, Rhianna.
They were once one of Hollywood’s favourite couples until the allegations came forward
and Chris actually pleaded guilty to them.
He openly spoke about the events that happened, admitting that they were both physical with
each other; he said: I remember she tried to kick me, but then I really hit her.
With a closed fist, like I punched her and tit busted her lip, and when I saw it I was
in shock, I was like why did I hit her like that.
Since telling the truth, his career and reputation has never been the same and people in the
industry lost a lot of respect for him.
More recently he found himself in another scandal in January 2019 after rape allegations
were made against him.
A woman filed a complaint saying that he raped her while partying together in Paris one night.
Chris continued to deny the allegations and said it was completely made up.
Once he seems to be getting back on track, another scandal comes up.
Either it’s a lot of bad luck or you’re just not a good person and you’re getting
caught.
8) Coming in at number 8 is Paula Deen.
Her face was all over the Food Network for years, until a lawsuit was filed a lawsuit
against her.
Lisa Jackson filed a lawsuit against the celebrity chef accusing her of racial discrimination
because she used the N-word when talking about African Americans..
Who’s Lisa Jackson?
It’s Paula’s former general manager of her restaurant, so it was personal.
When Paula was asked if she has ever used the N-word, her response was: yes, of course.
It’s just what they are- they’re jokes, most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks,
black folks; I can’t determine what offends another person.
FOX News obtained quotes that she has said over her career where she made a variety of
comments that some people would find offensive.
Her representative gave TMZ this statement: Ms. Deen does not condone or find the use
of racial epithets acceptable.
She is looking forward to her day in court.
Regardless of what the judge thinks though, Networks cancelled her TV programs world wide
and stores even stopped selling her products.
Her career took a big hit, all because of her choice of words.
7) Up next at number 7 is James Franco.
He was once one of the most popular actors in Hollywood, showing up in pretty much all
of our movies some way or another.
But his career started to crumble back in 2014 when screenshots surfaced of him trying
to rent a hotel room for him and a 17 year old girl.
The screenshots revealed that she told him she was underage and also shows him identifying
himself with pictures, confirming that it was really him.
Of course, when the screenshots broke the internet, people were disgusted.
The press was on top of him asking to hear his side of the story to which he apologized
and said he had made a mistake.
His career continued on after this scandal faded out, but resurfaced in 2018 after he
showed up to the Golden Globe Awards wearing a “Times Up” pin.
The pin was designed to show support for women who are victims of sexual assault and harassment.
But wearing that pin caused a massive scandal for him that put the nail in the coffin on
his career.
The controversy started the night of the Golden Globes as women started tweeting the accusations
in reference to his pin, sharing stories of how he sexually assaulted them and hash tagging
#cute times up pin.
Interviews with the girls and also Franco started flooding the internet and we haven’t
seen him on the big screen ever since.
Anything on his IMDB page is funded and produced by him.
Since then he’s also deleted social media which is probably for the best at this point.
6) In at number 6 is John Lasseter, the founder of Pixar studios and known worldwide for his
animation and filmmaker work, mainly as the man behind the Toy Story series.
He was one of the chiefs at Disney which is why it was such a shock when he was revealed
to be in involved in a sexual harassment scandal.
Back in November 2017 multiple women came forward with different accusations of inappropriate
sexual behaviour.
He announced that he was taking a leave of absence at the time but then it was announced
later in June that he would be leaving the company.
Pixar released a statement saying that he would leave the company at the end of the
year.
The worst part is that he didn’t deny any of the allegations but instead apologized
for them.
He lost everything he ever created with basically the biggest network in the world.
His reputation was shattered in the Disney universe but a statement was released saying
that he was sorry.
After taking a long time away from work he is now going to lead the Skydance Animation
studio.
He will continue to have a career but not like the one he had before.
5) Half way through the list at number 5 is Roseanne Bar.
The actress and comedian is known for her work but also known for being a supporter
of Donald Trump as president.
She once had her own ABC show called Roseanne, so you know she was successful, I mean the
show was literally titled her name.
However, this was all until she became one of Hollywood’s most controversial figures
in May 2018 after sending out some racist tweets.
Her tweets were about Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to the former president Barack Obama.
In her tweet she compared Valerie to a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and the movie
planet of the apes.
After seeing the backlash she received for the racist tweet, it was immediately deleted
and she issued an apology.
Sorry or not though, the damage was done and it was too late to save her career.
ABC cancelled her show which was supposed to reboot the same day, coincidentally.
ABC’s president called Roseanne’s tweets, I quote: abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent
with our values.
Since then, as of January of this year, her Twitter was off limits and she moved into
her mother’s basement in order to get out of LA.
She said she has a fear that everyone hates her and she blames ABC for ruining her life
rather than having her back.
When speaking about her tweet she continues to say that it was just a joke and that she’s
a comedian; the only issue was that she was the only one laughing at her joke.
4) Swiping the number 4 spot on our list is Jussie Smollet.
The successful actor is mainly known for his role of Jamal on the TV series: Empire.
His career was in the best shape of his life until a story broke the news on January 29th
2019 saying he was in the hospital after being attacked by two men.
The story said that the attackers were yelling out racial and homophobic slurs and even poured
a chemical substance on him before beating him up.
All of Hollywood and his fans teamed up and rallied against the incident which was seen
as a hate crime.
The two suspects in the case were both arrested and charged and that’s when the truth came
out.
The men ended up telling the courts that Jussie paid them to stage the entire thing; they
even had the 3500$ signed cheque as evidence.
On February 21, Jussie was arrested on suspicion of filing a false police report.
Under Illinois law, doing this is considered a Class 4 felony, and could lead to 1-3 years
in prison, with a judge set bond of $100,000 dollars.
They also ordered him to surrender his passport.
The producers of Empire cut his character from the final two episodes of the current
season and are evaluating all the options for the future.
Luckily for Jussie, prosecutors have now dropped all the charges against him.
Which is actually kind of annoying to me because if I feel like his celebrity status got him
out of that one.
But, people don’t forget.
3) Alright guys, in third place is Bill Cosby.
He was obviously going to be on this list you guys.
At one time he was known for his impressive work as an actor, but now he’s just known
for being the actor who had more than 50 people accuse him of sexual assault and misconduct.
That’s literally the worst title you could have.
The allegations began back in 2014 when he was accused of sexual assault that took place
in the mid-1960’s.
He has been accused by different women for rape, drug-facilitated sexual assault, sexual
battery, child sexual abuse, and sexual misconduct.
As more people started coming forward with allegations, the alleged incidents spanned
from 1965 to 2008 in the U.S and one in Canada.
He battled the allegations for YEARS but was first found guilty on April 26, 2018 for 3
counts of aggravated assault.
Then on September 25, 2018, he was sentenced to 3-10 years in state prison and fined $25,000
plus the cost of prosecution which was $43, 611 dollars.
Numerous organizations cut ties with the actor, and even revoked honors and titles that were
awarded to him throughout his acting career.
On top of that, media organizations pulled reruns of The Cosby Show, and TV Land and
NBC both ended relationships with Cosby along with others like Bounce TV, Hulu, and BET.
As for life in prison, he is currently serving his sentence at a state prison near Philadelphia
and apparently gets treated like any other prisoner.
In other words, no one cares that he is Bill Cosby.
2) In spot number 2 is Jared Fogle.
You guys remember that guy that was in every Subway commercial?
He was the pitchman for the entire company.
How did he get that gig?
He lost a significant amount of weight with the help of Subway sandwiches and his story
made him the spokesperson for the company’s advertising campaigns from 2000-2015.
Talk about the coolest job ever.
However, his entire career was destroyed after he was charged for child pornography and paying
for sex with minors.
He pleaded guilty to his charges and was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.
His attorney’s argued that he should only have a 5 year sentence since the girls he
had sex with were 16 and 17 years old, not young children.
However, the odds were not in his favour.
Jared agreed to pay a total of 1.4 million dollars in restitution to 14 different victims,
and on top of that, the judge fined him 175 thousand dollars.
And of course, he was fired from Subway immediately.
Duh.
1) Taking our number 1 spot is Harvey Weinstein.
I don’t even have to explain why he’s number 1 on our list I feel like I can just
say his name and you guys will be like okay, we get it.
But, for the sake of this video let me give you guys all the juicy details.
If for some reason you don’t know who he is or what i’m talking about, he is known
for being one of Hollywood’s biggest movie producers.
He’s the man behind pretty much all the big movies we see in theatres.
BUT, his incredibly successful career began to crumble in October of 2017 when the New
York Times reported that dozens of woman came out and accused him of rape, sexual assault
and sexual abuse over a period of 30+ years.
More than 80 women in the film industry have since accused him of these acts.Of course,
he denied the allegations, as most sexual predators do, but he was still dismissed
from TWC and expelled from the academy of motion picture arts and sciences.
Other associations also dropped his name and he basically disappeared from the public eye.
Which is understandable.
It wasn’t until May 25th 2018 that he was arrested in New York and charged with rape
and other offenses but was released on bail.
His lawyers said the settlement to resolve the lawsuits is worth 44 million dollars.
He had another court date set for September 9th 2019, but it has been postponed until
January 6th 2020.
So no further updates for you guys.
Alright guys, there is our list for today.
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