This can be from past or present celebrites.
What Hollywood scandals are absolutely fascinating to you?
(I got these from boston.com)
Long before the whole Ashlee Simpson SNL debacle, there was pop group Milli Vanilli. The duo's lip-syncing was exposed during a 1990 MTV performance when the track to "Girl You Know It's True" skipped and repeated the same line. Four days later their Grammy was rescinded.
(I remember being at dinner with my family and my dad told us about this. Looking back on it, I didn't realize how big it was . . . I was eleven at the time, but I listened to Blame It On the Rain and Girl You Know It's True all te time! Later on, I was fascinated by the E! True Hollywood Story on it.)
Whether or not it was an attention ploy, the Britney Spears - Madonna kiss at the 2003 MTV Music Awards caused quite the stir. Dressed as brides, the two singers along with fellow pop star Christina Aguilera exchanged kisses during a performace of a fusion of Madonna's songs "Hollywood" and "Like a Virgin." Madonna is still paying for the kiss, as she has recently had to explain to daughter Lourdes that Mommy is not gay.
(That started the whole 'rivalry' between Christina and Britney. Christina didn't like Britney getting the attention and the scandal, but it was kind of expected for Christina to do it, but not Britney! Also, this was the first VMA's after Britney and Justin broke up and during the kiss, the camera focused on Justin in the audience to get his reaction. I don't think he liked the camera in his face while he was watching the show!)
It was the "wardrobe malfunction" that gave way to "Nipplegate." When Justin Timberlake pulled a patch off the front of Janet Jackson's shirt during the 2004 Superbowl, crowds got quite the eyeful. At the next year's superbowl, restrictions were so tight that even The Rolling Stones were on a 5 second delay, with certain vocals muted so as not to upset the FCC.
(They made SUCH a big deal out of that! It wasn't like Janet flashed her hoo-ha or anything. I was watching that show with my parents. My mother completely missed it, but my dad and I were like, "What was THAT?" Part of me thinks it wasn't much of an accident though.)
You'd think that after British pop star George Michael's 1998 arrest for lewd conduct in a public restroom he would have learned to behave. The former Wham! member was arrested again in 2006 for drug possession. Let's hope that after all this, Michael still has his "faith."
(I'm more interested in the 1998 one more than the 2006 one. When I first heard about it, I thought, "He was in a stall! Big deal!" He came out shortly after that, and confirmed what most of us kind of already figured. Talking about it, George Michael once said, "If someone's waving their genatalia at you, you don't automatically assume they're a police officer." Then he made a video making fun of the whole thing.)
In 2004, home design and cooking tycoon Martha Stewart served five months in prison and another five on house arrest after she was found guilty of consipring with her stockbroker and lying to investigators about selling her shares of the biotech firm ImClone.
(I think this was such a witch hunt! I think they were harsh on her because they wanted to make an example of her, but I would've thought the house arrest would be enough. It's strange to think of someone as perfect as Martha Stewart spending time in prison. And I love how she got her career back after she was released. Her reality show didn't do too well, but her products are selling, and she still has her talk show.)
What Hollywood scandals are absolutely fascinating to you?
(I got these from boston.com)
Long before the whole Ashlee Simpson SNL debacle, there was pop group Milli Vanilli. The duo's lip-syncing was exposed during a 1990 MTV performance when the track to "Girl You Know It's True" skipped and repeated the same line. Four days later their Grammy was rescinded.
(I remember being at dinner with my family and my dad told us about this. Looking back on it, I didn't realize how big it was . . . I was eleven at the time, but I listened to Blame It On the Rain and Girl You Know It's True all te time! Later on, I was fascinated by the E! True Hollywood Story on it.)
Whether or not it was an attention ploy, the Britney Spears - Madonna kiss at the 2003 MTV Music Awards caused quite the stir. Dressed as brides, the two singers along with fellow pop star Christina Aguilera exchanged kisses during a performace of a fusion of Madonna's songs "Hollywood" and "Like a Virgin." Madonna is still paying for the kiss, as she has recently had to explain to daughter Lourdes that Mommy is not gay.
(That started the whole 'rivalry' between Christina and Britney. Christina didn't like Britney getting the attention and the scandal, but it was kind of expected for Christina to do it, but not Britney! Also, this was the first VMA's after Britney and Justin broke up and during the kiss, the camera focused on Justin in the audience to get his reaction. I don't think he liked the camera in his face while he was watching the show!)
It was the "wardrobe malfunction" that gave way to "Nipplegate." When Justin Timberlake pulled a patch off the front of Janet Jackson's shirt during the 2004 Superbowl, crowds got quite the eyeful. At the next year's superbowl, restrictions were so tight that even The Rolling Stones were on a 5 second delay, with certain vocals muted so as not to upset the FCC.
(They made SUCH a big deal out of that! It wasn't like Janet flashed her hoo-ha or anything. I was watching that show with my parents. My mother completely missed it, but my dad and I were like, "What was THAT?" Part of me thinks it wasn't much of an accident though.)
You'd think that after British pop star George Michael's 1998 arrest for lewd conduct in a public restroom he would have learned to behave. The former Wham! member was arrested again in 2006 for drug possession. Let's hope that after all this, Michael still has his "faith."
(I'm more interested in the 1998 one more than the 2006 one. When I first heard about it, I thought, "He was in a stall! Big deal!" He came out shortly after that, and confirmed what most of us kind of already figured. Talking about it, George Michael once said, "If someone's waving their genatalia at you, you don't automatically assume they're a police officer." Then he made a video making fun of the whole thing.)
In 2004, home design and cooking tycoon Martha Stewart served five months in prison and another five on house arrest after she was found guilty of consipring with her stockbroker and lying to investigators about selling her shares of the biotech firm ImClone.
(I think this was such a witch hunt! I think they were harsh on her because they wanted to make an example of her, but I would've thought the house arrest would be enough. It's strange to think of someone as perfect as Martha Stewart spending time in prison. And I love how she got her career back after she was released. Her reality show didn't do too well, but her products are selling, and she still has her talk show.)