Ever since there have been celebrities, the media has been right there to catch them saying the most offensive things. Whether it was John Wayne calling Native Americans “selfish” for defending their land against the colonists decades ago, or Sean Connery’s defense for why it’s OK to hit women, to racist celebrity comments from people like Justin Bieber and Hulk Hogan, the press — and now social media — is right there to report it.
You’d think celebrities would have teams of people watching their every tweet and coaching them about what not to say in interviews, but offensive celebrity quotes still manage to get out there. And the effects can sink a star’s career. Sexist comments, racist comments, stars who fat-shame, even the most innocuous comment can get a star blacklisted in Hollywood. Has anyone seen Michael Richards since he called people the N-word onstage? Hulk Hogan got booted from the WWE for his racist comments. The list goes on, so let's look at some things you can't believe these celebrities said.
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T.I.
Rappers are hardly strangers to controversy, but T.I. put his foot in it when he said the Loch Ness Monster had a better chance of becoming president than Hillary Clinton. In a Sirius XM interview last year (now private), the rapper said, "Not to be sexist, but I can't vote for the leader of the free world to be a woman. Just because, every other position that exists, I think a woman could do well. But, the president? It's kinda like, I just know that women make rash decisions emotionally – they make very permanent, cemented decisions — and then later, it's kind of like it didn't happen, or they didn't mean for it to happen." He gave a canned Twitter apology shortly after.
50 Cent
Another celeb who put his foot squarely in his mouth after the tsunami was rapper 50 Cent, who yukked it up on Twitter after it happened: "Look this is very serious people I had to evacuate all my hoe’s from LA, Hawaii and Japan. I had to do it. Lol.” He recanted (sort of) later that day, saying, "Nah this is nuts but what can anyone do about it. Let's pray for anyone who has lost someone" and "Some of my tweets are ignorant I do it for shock value. Hate it or love it. I'm cool either way 50cent."
Fuzzy Zoeller
In a 1997 interview after a Masters final round, golfer Zoeller commented on Tiger Woods' outstanding performance. "He's doing quite well, pretty impressive. That little boy is driving well and he's putting well. He's doing everything it takes to win. So, you know what you guys do when he gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not to serve fried chicken next year. Got it. Or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve.” He immediately lost K-Mart and Dunlop endorsements. Zoeller offered a half-cooked public apology, but later apologized personally to Woods -- who accepted.
Giuliana Rancic
Perhaps trying to channel Joan Rivers’ snark, E! host Giuliana Rancic got some blowback for comments she made about singer-actress Zendaya’s fake dreadlocks at the 2015 Oscars. On Fashion Police’s Oscar episode, Rancic said, I feel like she smells like pachouli oil — or weed!” Rancic claimed the comment was edited and she wasn’t being racist, but did apologize profusely on air and Twitter. In an interesting twist, sources claimed the joke was rehearsed more than once, and cohost Kelly Osbourne warned her not to say it. Osbourne and cohost Kathy Griffin quit the show right after.
Hulk Hogan
Last year, the WWE unceremoniously dropped longtime wrestling fan favorite Hulk Hogan after the icon was heard unleashing racial slurs during a conversation heard on his infamous sex tape. Among many, many other hateful things he said was his tirade over his daughter possibly sleeping with an African-American man. “I mean, I’d rather if she was going to f*** some n*****, I’d rather have her marry an 8-foot-tall n***** worth a hundred million dollars! Like a basketball player! I guess we’re all a little racist. F***ing n*****.” He issued a garden-variety apology afterward.
Mel Gibson
We all remember Mel Gibson’s bizarre mid-aughts meltdown, but did you know he was railing against gays over a decade before? In 1991 when Spanish newspaper El Pais asked what he thought of homosexuals, he replied, “They take it up the a**, this [pointing to his butt] is only for taking a s***.” It was 15 years later that he blurted this gem at officers during his 2006 DUI arrest: "F***ing Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world… Are you a Jew?" And how could we forget “sugar tits”?
Michael Richards
Not-so-funnyman Michael Richards decided 2006 was the perfect time to commit career suicide when he blew a gasket after being heckled during a stand-up comedy show. The whole ugly incident was caught on tape, as Richards yells at two African Americans in the audience, "You can talk, you can talk, you're brave now motherf**ker. Throw his a** out. He's a n*****! He's a n*****! He's a n*****! A n*****, look, there's a n*****!” among other hurled epithets. As they traded insults, the club quietly emptied. He apologized on David Letterman’s Late Show but the damage was done.
Paris Hilton
In his book Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, famed music journalist Neil Strauss recalled a 1999 encounter with Paris Hilton before she was famous. After pointing out a guy she claimed to have made out with the previous night, she said, “We were making out, but we went somewhere where it was bright and I saw that he was black and made an excuse and left. I can't stand black guys. I would never touch one. It's gross." When asked how black does a guy have to be, she responded, “One percent is enough for me.”
Sean Connery
During a 1965 interview on the set of Thunderball, the man who played the fairly sexist James Bond told Playboy magazine, "I don't think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman--although I don't recommend doing it in the same way that you'd hit a man. An openhanded slap is justified--if all other alternatives fail and there has been plenty of warning." Over the years he asserted this opinion to Barbara Walters and Vanity Fair. Keep in mind his first wife, Diane Cilento, claimed he knocked her out while filming The Hill in 1965.
Tyrese
For some reason, AllHipHop.com asked Tyrese Gibson if he felt responsible for inspiring people to live healthier. His response? “If you are fat and nasty and you don’t like the way you look, do something about it…When you take a shower and you put your fat, nasty body in the shower and by the time you get out, the mirrors are all steamed up so you don’t look at what you did to yourself. That may sound offensive or insensitive but ultimately, you are big as hell because you have earned that sh*t. You worked your a** off to eat everything in sight to get big as hell.” In a sorry-not sorry tweet he apologized for his “bad choice of wording.”