Which celebrities have had the biggest fall from grace in history?
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Hey Showbiz posters, I hope your weekend has been fantastic?
It maybe to do with their professional or personal life or both.
From Hollywood, to soap stars, to reality tv stars, presenters, sports people and musicians etc.
Which celebs do you reckon will be next in the near or far future?
Enjoy people.
It maybe to do with their professional or personal life or both.
From Hollywood, to soap stars, to reality tv stars, presenters, sports people and musicians etc.
Which celebs do you reckon will be next in the near or far future?
Enjoy people.
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When I saw the title of the thread that was the first name I thought of!
For example I have no idea who the last guy is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Arbuckle
Other celebrities have been a bit naughty, or said or done something controversial, or something they have supposedly done is vague and open to question.
But Roscoe Arbuckle was crucified by the media for a crime it was proven he was entirely innocent of.
Just shows you how to not believe in the idiom 'There's no smoke without fire', and demonstrates the destructive effects the power of the media can have on an individual by influencing the perception of the public.
Though ...
The battle with Columbia (and her ex husband) followed by working into the ground, a very public breakdown and axed by her second label after just one album. Songs that would previously had been an easy #1 for Mariah 4 or 5 years earlier barely broke the Hot 100.
She did however go on to have one of the biggest comebacks a few years later.
That didn't help. People still believed he was guilty even right up to just recent years.
He was blacklisted from Hollywood. The damage was done.
Even though he was entirely innocent he was held up as an example and used as a scapegoat to take the blame for the excesses of Hollywood at the time.
It was disgusting. Poor man. Hearst and the 'yellow' press really went for him and sold a hell of a lot of papers.
I read that that the third jury took 6 minutes to return a unanimous not guilty verdict, most of which was taken up with writing a letter to him expressing shock and sorrow at the way he had been treated.
It's only really Buster Keaton who stood by him, to his great credit.
Everyone else pales into insignifance alongside his downfall.
Jimmy Savile - ok he was dead, but his reputation as a TV icon and the greatest ever charity campaigner has been utterly destroyed and not long after he passed. You used to see him impersonated by every single impersonator, he fronted important public service campaigns, he hung out with the PM and Princess Diana, he attended national events and was a 100% household name. His legacy now is that of a grotesque monster, a byword for monstrosity along with Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. His vast archive of decades of TV, radio and press is worthless junk. His lifetime's work will never be seen again except in horrific crime documentaries.
Rolf Harris another 60s and beyond icon, has also had a devastating plunge in career and is in prison. He painted the Queen, was left alone with her for hours, he fronted decades of family TV hit shows, he was named in polls as the most famous artist in history ahead of Picasso, he was Number One in the charts with classic songs that were repeated ad nauseam (and it was nauseam) on Radio 2. As with Savile, his vast archive of work and celebrated role as an ambassador for Australia is now taboo. He is persona non grata with no way back, he will likely die in prison, given his age.
There are a few others like this. In a different field let's see how Sir Philp Green fairs with the BHS scandal. Destroying a historic national high street brand, forcing tens of thousands out of work, effectively stealing millions from average workers' funds while living it up tax free in a haven and hanging out with Simon Cowell - it will be interesting to see if he keeps his title and any of his friends.
OJ Simpson
Max Clifford!
And Mr Clifford himself fell spectacularly from Mr PR Guru to slopping out very quickly.
SAville
But then Hollywood forgave him....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Pl-qvA1X8
He was also in the live-action So Dear to My Heart and Song of the South, IIRC.
I think Bobby Driscoll's case is one of the saddest examples of a child star gone wrong. His story brings a tear to my eye.