Worst Cases of People Letting Fame Get To Their Heads

All of them? But if I had to make a choice, Meghan Markle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Garner come to mind.

Well, hello .. Welcome to my thread!

Kevin Spacey

There are too many people to list. Evidence of who all these people are will be clear when millions of people show up at their funerals just to make sure that they are indeed dead.

Gene Anthony Ray from Fame. He had the cutest ass, I would drool like a dog when he was on the Fame tv-series. He got into drugs, partying, and finally died of Aids-related complications. Alas, if he had a better agent and wasn't so into hedonism, he'd still be around.

Power is a great aphrodisiac!

Trump

R7 wins!

Tom Daley

JLo had a huge star attended baby shower for her twins. Something wasn't right or something was late and she threw a massive fit. Typically no one would care, but since other celebs were present it leaked. Basically, you can yell at the help all you want, but when you make other stars feel uncomfortable you have an issue. JLo has never, to my knowledge, stepped out of line in front of other celebs.

It would be easier to list celebrities who haven’t let fame go to their heads.

John Boyega; didn't he refuse to work on Disney Plus? For a relatively unknown actor, he should be happy to work anywhere

Some more. Madonna after the success of the Confessions Era. She thought that mindless dance music would create more hits because she's Madonna and knows what she's doing. She was very wrong. Then her latest album came out as an authentic reset but no one wanted to hear whatever ramblings she was singing on her tracks. A mess of hubris.

Lohan showing up late to sets, interviews, and photo shoots. She let the party girl image define her career then she lost it.

Lady Gaga's BTW era. She switched up producers and obtained even more control over her image. Setting her theater kid instincts to 100% created polarizing work that hurt her career. She was only able to recover thanks to ASIB.

Katy Petty ditching the sexy vixon look for a pixie cut and social conscience pop tunes. It flopped hard and this was right around the time of her feud with Taylor Swift. A two bunch K.O. for Kerry's dominance on the Billboard Hot 100.

OP, the correct answer is Hitler.

Our Miss Lindsey

Kim Davis

Bill Barr

Mike Pompeo

Kellyanne Conway

Jeanine Pirro

Sean Hannity

The Huckabees

Megachurch TV Preachers

Mika

Ari Melber

Cuomos

Kushners

#MoscowMitch

Stacey Abrams

So many more.

Meghan McCain

Most all of the Real Housewives. Carole Radzwill had an inflated ego when she started and was insufferable by the time she left or got fired.

NEWT GINGRICH

Jennifer Lawrence. As soon as fame hit her head, she became a diva and a cunt overnight. Then came the drinking, partying, the stupid jokes, the endless fake romances, and top it all of the fake marriage.

R1 already listed my choice.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Ellen D owns this thread.

Marie Antoinette. Fame got to her head and she lost it.

Timothee Chalamet. We all know he was overrated and overhyped from the beginning. Once fame went to his head, it was all about Hollywood PR shit, fashion, clickable articles on Daily Mail etc.

How does he control that click bait articles on the DL. Is Timothee moonlighting as an Editor as well?

On the DM (Daily Mail) not DL.

Roseanne

Jon and Kate Gosselin... one of my favorite long reads ever

Nick and Aaron Carter.

Lea Michelle.

Adam Rippon.

Johnny Weir.

Betty Hutton

Paris Hilton...so gross!

Reese “do you know who I am?” Witherspoon

The ones who make a huge effort to "brand" themselves, and who speak of themselves as a brand--Gwyneth, Reese, Meghan, J-Lo--are the worst.

R31: Drinking makes her cuntiness and ego even worse.

R16 Megan is so putrid. She's as entitled as it gets, all because she was spawned by a sociopath heiress and an overrated scumbag politician.

DO WE NEED to separate those who are actually successful and thus "rightfully" big stars and who have let fame go to their heads Or those who are no talent (literally) reality stars and other b and c level "stars" who have let any fame go to their heads in proportion to their actual abilities and success?..

I'm having this thread shut down.

Joel

Johnny Manziel

Meghan Markle

Beto O'Rourke

Miles Teller

Mo’nique

Samantha Eggar

Helen Lawson

Jussie Smolette

Criminal Chris Christie and his fat head.

Samantha Eggar? How so, pray tell.

"Here in a private capacity"

R19

Did someone say my name three times??

R19, I agree. It was too much for her, and she was too much for everybody else.

Had rather thought it went without saying, but for those who arrived late I shall whisper the name to you: Brian Slade.

R24: I agree. Once they starting hyping him up, the fame went to his head and he bought his own hype. Then came the fake romance, tweeting his exact location, partying in the Bahamas, stupid Instagram posts like the pantry picture, fashion, etc.

Tom Hiddleston. When he had some success in the Marvel films, he should have solidified a career as a talented character actor. Instead, he tried to sell himself as a big celebrity and a movie star, and started dating Taylor Swift.

If he'd had the sense to just shut up and act he'd be in demand, but no! He had a bit of fame, and wanted more.

Along with Reese, anyone who has ever uttered the words, “Don’t you know who I am?”

I remember reading that SNL alum Sudekis said this to a TSA agent. Also the fat one from the singing nun movie.

Train wreck

The cast of Glee

R10 I know people who have worked for Jlo and they say she's a complete cunt.

Trump's ego became massive as soon as he became President and the world has cringed on a daily basis since then.

Mariah Carey

kevin spacey, harvey weinstein

justin bieber

kanye west

and his stupid wife

R56 I suspect Mariah was the same mad diva all of her life. She's on her own planet anyway.

R55 Trump had a problem long before he became president and probably long before he was hyped as a billionaire back in the 80s. He has an actual personality disorder which begins in childhood.

Trump, Markle, Goop.

Noah Galvin

I think fame would be very difficult to handle well.

r60 Yes, people misjudge Mariah, she has a sense of humour about herself and he place in the industry, she has fun

Nothing worse than Premature Diva Behavior. Cher, Babs, Diane, JLo, even the Biebs, all earned their stripes. And sometimes the fame is so extreme that they have everyone staring at them 24/7. Fans and regular people on the street, they cannot control unless they hide under a rock. That’s why they can be justifiably quite difficult to other professionals and staff (hopefully not to family).

But when some dipshit who has just had his/her first brush with fame starts berating subordinates, press, and fellow professionals, they only end up looking like idiots. Ed Norton, Naomi Campbell, Tatum O’Neal and Madonna, at the beginning of their careers, were already behaving like this. Some went into further fame, others paid the price. A lot of flash-in-the-pan hip hop artists tend to be guilty of this, perhaps because the attitude is part of the persona or perhaps because they had to put up with a lot of shit when they were unknowns.

And then there’s the kids of privilege and entitlement: EJ Johnson, Princesses Caroline and Stephanie, Kyle Jenner, the Kardashians, Paris Hilton, etc. who find it very difficult to display an iota of gratitude to their lucky stars.

Chris Pratt.

[Quote] she has fun

Being an alcoholic doesn't sound like fun.

[Quote] Cher, Babs, Diane, JLo, even the Biebs, all earned their stripes.

Yes...J.Lo had to suck Tommy Mottola off and God only knows the shit Bieber had to do.

Opera star Kathleen Battle owns this thread.

JonBenet

R70 LOL

The Hefty Hideaways girl lead in the Hairspray movie. Isn't she like a barista now?

Lens Dunham

Oh yeah....Jill Soloway. My guess is that her sister and father were "authentic" and she wasn't, so had to join the club.

Judge Judy. The bitch is fucking insufferable.

I co-sign on the cast of Glee. They all became rich and famous very young. We all know what happened next: massive egos, drug overdose, suicide, child pornography, etc.

Poor Lea Michelle has been well and truly humbled, her big Broadway, music and movie career went nowhere. She's back on cable TV now?

R75: Cast feuds too.

James Franco

A lot of reality tv contestants, though in that case, “fame” and not fame. This one girl from Big Brother, Michele, never talked to her husband or family again after leaving the house, got breast implants, and tried to become a Z list actress.

His time at Vogue ended with pity and resentment and a LOT of embarrassment for everyone, twenty years ago, but “officially” only much later. As bad as this book and its promotion are, it has to better than demoralizing an entire organization by celebrating this pretentious nightmare another minute. It must have taken so much to get him off the tit.

But I hope other men like him aren’t excluded from similar opportunities because he is making such a public spectacle here. Indulging that giant, phony, pretentious egomaniac has ended badly for everyone, including Andre himself. He is a sad icon of ego, self-pity and failure.

It’s so unfortunate that he is now an HR benchmark that harms the potential of others. Now we have to stop and think before advancing unconventional colleagues. We have to be sure we never end up with another ALT. In that sense, he is actively undermining the progress we have made diversifying the creative workforce. What a shame.

So sorry, posting to wrong thread at r80

Don’t look at US!

I mean...really, do not look at us. Lower your eyes when we enter the room, peasants.

Yes R7! Trump owns this thread. The worst possible personality type. Driven by fame and power, but I wouldn’t want him in charge of my homeowners association, let alone my country.

And yet it totally fits, R80/81.

I told this on another thread but - Andy Cohen. He was in Miami for Art Basel at a restaurant for lunch....with a security detail around his table. One of the patrons asked the waiter who was that and the waiter told him. He said "why does he need a security detail?" The waiter told him "so people do not bother him while he is eating lunch." The patron then asked the question everyone wanted to know "who is going to bother him?" The waiter got a chance to talk to one of the security guys who admitted he didn't know who Andy was and had to google him to figure out why he needed security. He still could not understand it after he googled him.

The security team is there in case Andy’s errant eyeball makes a run for it.

VIN DIESEL

Duchess of Doolittle.

Scott Disick. Ugh 💩🤢

Although he's humble now and has a lot of perspective, Vanilla Ice. He only had one hit song, which was just lightning in a bottle. He got very lucky. Rap and Hip Hop was becoming more mainstream, and some white rapper helped ease it into the pop charts with a terribly shitty song. His ego started to get out of control.

I remember reading a Rolling Stone interview with him. The writer of the piece made him look like an asshole, although it probably didn't take much. Vanilla Ice didn't know his song sampled the music from Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie. But the best bit was when the writer informed Vanilla Ice that Mariah Carey's album had just replaced Vanilla Ice's as #1. You can tell Ice is pretty shocked by the news and the interview was stilted after that. It's probably the moment when he realized his 15 minutes were up.

To his credit, he did go on to have a successful house rehab career, and I've read he invested his money pretty wisely in real estate right away. Still, he let fame go to his head before he had any sort of longevity in the industry, which obviously never came to pass.

You’re terrible, r86! Come sit by me!

Mother Theresa

Oprah freaking out about not being let into the Hermes boutique even though she arrived several minutes after closing time. And then she just would not let it go. Did no one tell her how grandiose this made her appear? And does Hermes have security video of her freakout? I like to imagine executives watching Oprah freak out and wail when the mean store clerk wouldn't let her in. I'd pay to see that recording.

I used to know a certain someone who started to get too big for their cowgirl boots after "winning" a few sashes. But then something else entirely went to their head.

TimoTay and JLaw own this thread

Ice Ice Baby was THE jam for a while . It was everywhere ,and everybody loved it . You have to remember he was all of 22 when he shot straight to the top ,of course he didnt handle fame well . At age 22 your still a kid,and quite stupid . Also,fame then was a different creature from fame now . In a world where anyone can be "famous" from social media ,it meant a hell of a lot more then to be that known . Was he a great,or even good,singer ? Not at all. But that boy could dance,and was sexy as hell . Before so many whites acted black of course. Now he wouldnt stand out in the least. But then ,it was different . I watch his show all the time,though my god his taste is appalling ,just because I think hes still super hot . Talk about the Dick Clark syndrome ,he really does look pretty much the same !