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Paris Hilton has a lengthy historical past of utilizing slurs, a lot of which have been uncovered in 2007 after a lot of Paris’ private belongings from a storage unit have been revealed. In a single video, dancing together with her sister Nicky Hilton to a tune by the Infamous B.I.G., Paris stated, “We’re like two .” She additionally used the f-slur and made antisemitic feedback.2.
Blake Energetic gave an interview in 2008 the place she joked about “look like a tranny.” Here is the quote: “Individuals assume I am goofy. I haven’t got that complete Angelina Jolie air to me. I want that I did, and that is an insecurity of mine. Some days, I get up, and I am like ‘Oh, I look good at the moment!’ And a few days, I get up and really feel like I appear like a tranny.”3.
Megan Fox has had a number of notorious interview quotes over time, significantly her comparability of Transformers director Michael Bay to Hitler, however I really feel like we overlook the opposite quotes from that similar 2009 Wonderland interview. In a single, she principally known as Elizabeth Taylor a “schizoid,” saying: “I do have a concern of ending up like Elizabeth Taylor within the sense that I’ll have been married eight instances and this senile insane borderline persona schizoid after I’m 80, nonetheless drawing on my eyebrows.”4.
Fox additionally stated in one other interview, “I’d by no means date a lady who was bisexual, as a result of which means in addition they sleep with males, and males are so soiled that I might by no means wish to sleep with a lady who had slept with a person.”5.
John Mayer is not any stranger to controversy, however maybe one of his most controversial interviews that usually will get forgotten at the moment is the 2010 interview the place he used the n-word and known as his penis a white supremacist. When the interviewer requested, “Do Black girls throw themselves at you?” Mayer replied, “I do not assume I open myself to it. My dick is type of like a white supremacist. I’ve acquired a Benetton coronary heart and a fuckin’ David Duke cock. I’ll begin relationship individually from my dick.”6.
British Comic Zoe Lyons made a very terrible joke about Amy Winehouse again in 2008: “I can not consider Amy Winehouse self-harms. She’s so irritating she should be capable of discover somebody to do it for her.” The joke truly received on the Edinburgh Competition Fringe.7.
An attendee of one among Tracy Morgan’s stand-up reveals in 2011 claimed that Morgan had gone on a rant in opposition to homosexual individuals, saying being homosexual was a “alternative” and that anti-gay bullying was “insignificant” and never value complaining about. Most horrifically, the attendee claimed Morgan stated that if his son have been homosexual “he higher come house and speak to him like a person and never or he would pull out a knife and stab that little N (one phrase I refuse to make use of) to demise. … Tracy then stated he didn’t f–king care if he pissed off some gays, as a result of if they will take a f–king d-ck up their a–… they will take a f–king joke.”8.
One other Tracy Morgan remark from 2011 was, “Let me let you know one thing about Sarah Palin, she’s good masturbation materials.”9.
Kevin Hart equally spoke in 2010 about what he would do if his son was homosexual in a stand-up routine, revealing that one other boy was “grinding” on his son at a celebration, and he “knocked them each down,” and when he was reprimanded, he stated “you present me one other child getting fucked within the ass and I will relax.”10.
He additionally tweeted in 2011 about how he would name his son “homosexual” if he tried to play with a dollhouse, in addition to break it over his son’s head — together with a number of different tweets that made mild of homosexual individuals and points.11.
Yet one more tweet — in 2013, Steve Martin tweeted, asking followers to ship in grammar questions. “Is that this the way you spell lasonia?” somebody requested, and Martin replied, “It relies upon. Are you in an African-American neighborhood or at an Italian restaurant.”12.
In 2008, Madonna not directly known as her soon-to-be ex-husband Man Ritchie “emotionally retarded” at a live performance when she stated, “This tune is for the emotionally retarded. Perhaps some individuals who fall in that class. I do know I do.”13.
In 2009, after the divorce was finalized, Ritchie stated of Madonna, “I nonetheless love her. However she’s retarded, too.”14.
Madonna has made quite a lot of different problematic feedback, together with fatphobic feedback about “obsessive” followers. “It’s all the time fats individuals too,” she says of a majority of these followers. “They’re probably the most unattractive social outcasts, like actually obese women or guys with a number of zits that observe me round and pester me. It’s horrifying as a result of not solely are they bothering me, however they’re horrible to take a look at, too.”15.
She’s additionally made remarks disparaging Black males. She as soon as instructed Spin Journal, “I’ve all the time on this naive means recognized with different minorities as a result of I’m in a minority. You assume that by some means unifies you in some philosophical means. However in the end it doesn’t. As a result of I’ve discovered that being a powerful feminine is definitely extra horrifying to the Black males that I’ve dated. It took me a very very long time to just accept that. … I consider that I’ve by no means been handled extra disrespectfully as a girl than by the Black males that I’ve dated. I’ve by no means truly stated that to anyone, however it’s true and I feel it’s a cultural factor.”She continued to say it would not be the identical if she was a Black girl. “I feel Black males have simply been shit on for thus lengthy, that, in a means, Black girls are possibly extra prepared to just accept rage from a Black man, as a result of they see what’s occurred to them. So many Black males develop up with out fathers, with out sturdy male figures, and not using a sense of romance and seeing a person deal with a girl with respect.”16.
Extra lately, in 2015, she talked about how “Girls are nonetheless probably the most marginalized group” and that “it is moved alongside for the homosexual neighborhood, for the African-American neighborhood, however girls are nonetheless simply buying and selling on their ass.” Additionally in 2015, she stated that ageism is “nonetheless the one space the place you’ll be able to completely discriminate in opposition to someone and speak shit. Due to their age. Solely females, although. Not males. So in that respect, we nonetheless dwell in a really sexist society. Nobody would dare to say a degrading comment about being black or dare to say a degrading comment on Instagram about somebody being homosexual. However my age — anyone and everyone would say one thing degrading to me.”17.
Borat was all the fad again in 2005, main MTV to faucet Sacha Baron Cohen to host the Europe Music Awards in-character. This led to a bunch of untamed quotes from Cohen, calling the Pussy Cat Dolls “worldwide singing prostitutes.” He additionally provided to promote a child to Madonna, saying, “My solely concern is that this singing transvestite won’t be such father,” at one other level calling her a “real transvestite.”18.
Olivia Munn has made some fatphobic feedback, together with writing in her 2010 memoir, “I’ll repair America’s weight problems issues by taking all motorized transport away from fats individuals. In flip, I’ll construct an infrastructure of Fats Tunnels, the place all of the fats individuals can stroll. This may create jobs and subsequent weight reduction.”19.
Additionally in 2010, Munn joked, “See, I date totally different guys of various religions and races so I can all the time make the joke. I date the Blacks, I date the Mexicans. I date ’em all for comedy. You may’t purchase that sort of gold. Having intercourse with a man as soon as is value it.”20.
Chelsea Handler has made quite a lot of racist digs at Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s youngsters, together with, after the divorce, “I ponder why he wanted to self-medicate. Perhaps as a result of he may have been spending the final 12 years at Lake Como hanging out with George Clooney and Matt Damon as an alternative of being caught in a home with 85 children talking 15 totally different languages. Oh yeah, as a result of he married a f***ing lunatic, that’s why.”21.
She additionally tweeted, “Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt… he desires the China; she desires Pax and Maddox. ##sorrycouldnthelpmyself.” Pax and Maddox have been adopted from Vietnam and Cambodia, respectively.22.
In her ebook Are You There, Vodka? It is Me, Chelsea, she wrote of Maddox, “I rolled over and picked an Us Weekly journal off the ground. The quilt had an image of Angelina, Brad, and their little Eskimo son, Maddox. I sat staring on the picture, questioning why this little man seems so pissed off in each image. At first I believed he was simply pissed about his mohawk, however then I spotted he’s in all probability livid.”“Maddox will need to have thought he hit the jackpot when some A-list movie star rescued him from third-world Cambodia, solely to find that she was going to shuffle him forwards and backwards to each different third-world nation within the universe. He’s in all probability like, ‘When the fuck are we gonna get to Malibu, bitch?””23.
Handler had truly made this joke earlier than, whereas making a racist comment about Madonna’s adopted baby. In 2006, when Handler was requested about experiences Madonna had adopted a one-year-old from Africa (her son David), she replied, “, truly, the essential factor to recollect, Joe, is that the child technically—whether or not she raises it in London or the States, technically the child is African-American. So my query could be: Do you assume he‘ll speak loud in film theaters?” She then added, “I actually hope this child doesn‘t prove like Angelina Jolie‘s, , and Brad Pitt‘s little Eskimo, Maddox,” after which telling the identical joke about Maddox and Malibu.24.
Handler additionally was accused of racism regarding her ebook about her journey to Africa, Uganda Be Kidding Me. Within the comedy variations of the ebook, she stated, “Wouldn’t or not it’s humorous if I went to Uganda? I’ve all the time wished to know the place rappers come from.” She had beforehand used a tweet congratulating Lupita Nyong’o on her Oscar win for 12 Years a Slave to advertise the ebook (with no obvious connection in addition to Lupita’s African heritage — which, by the way in which, is just not Ugandan). Talking of Nyong’o — throughout the identical Oscars ceremony, she additionally joked that Angelina Jolie was submitting papers to undertake Nyong’o.25.
She’s additionally made anti-trans feedback. She wrote in her ebook Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, “I’d reasonably sit subsequent to a transgender individual and focus on why each single one I’ve met smells like a bar within the daytime than take heed to individuals inform me why I wish to have youngsters and that I simply do not know it but.” This random dig about trans individuals was not even related within the context of the story she was telling. Handler additionally misgendered and joked about Chaz Bono.26.
Again in 2003, there was a “feud” between Kelly Osbourne and Christina Aguilera, with Osbourne saying of Aguilera: “She’s one of the vital disgusting human beings on the planet” and “I’ve seen drag queens who look higher,” in addition to calling her a “cow.”27.
Later, in 2011, Osbourne spoke about Aguilera gaining weight. “Perhaps she is simply turning into the fats bitch she was born to be. I do not know. She was a c**t to me. …She known as me fats for thus many f***ing years, so what? F**okay you! You are fats too.”28.
And eventually, in 2012, Emily Blunt made a fat-phobic remark she has since apologized for after the clip resurfaced. Within the clip, she instructed a narrative on The Jonathan Ross Present about going to Chili’s whereas filming Looper within the US. Ross, the host, joked about People being “monumental,” and Blunt laughed and replied, “Properly, the lady who was serving me was monumental.”What wild and problematic forgotten movie star feedback do you bear in mind? Tell us within the feedback.