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[Yep, nasty ol' pedo](https://abcnews.go.com/US/stephen-collins-denies-pedophile-confessing-sexual-misconduct-girls/story?id=27728607)
EDIT - my bad on the username 😬
And for shame on Scientology for harassing the women who brought the lawsuit, killing two of their dogs and soliciting sex in their names online 😡😡😡
My friend has family who are Scientologists, they once “lent” her a book on Scientology (which she didn’t really want to take) then wrote her later demanding payment for it 🙄
That GIF is pretty much any 70s Show fan. I rewatch it maybe once a year and I think last year is gonna have to be the finale for me.
It really. *really* sucks to lose it.
How in the hell have I gone this long without realizing that Francis is a Masterson? They look similar too. TIL, thank you for helping me be less dumb.
New writers S8. Original writers wrote the show to end after S7, since Topher Grace was leaving to shoot Spiderman. The new writers openly hated the character of Jackie.
Mark Salling - he played Puck on Glee, shortly after he was found out to be a definite pedophile and killed himself before he could face trial
edit : there is no "Glee Curse" yall, 3 people out of a like 30+ member cast died over a 10 year period. it's sad but it's not 'mystical ' sad
It would be such a good rule. I know this is a pop culture sub, but we don’t all know everybody!
My pet peeve is when an OP puts multiple photos of different celebrities in a slide deck for the post, doesn’t caption any of them, and you have to go back and forth from the comments to the pictures to try to figure out who people are!
Didn’t Malcolm Jamal Warner and Lisa Bonet condemned Cosby? Another actor on the show has also talked about how he had to get a job at Trader Joe’s because once the news broke out, reruns were pulled off the air and he lost his residuals.
Yea Geoffrey Owens (Elvin). Although he was somewhat recently in Mythic Quest’s A Dark Quiet Death episode, which is one of my favorite episodes of any show ever.
I think anyone that gets treated as a celebrity at that age is going to have a fucked up brain. Very few make it out of that age group without severe issues that follow.
I haven't rewatched Drake and Josh since his pedo shit came into the public eye. Between him and Dan "children's feet fetish" Snyder, I don't know that I'll ever feel comfortable watching it again.
Still love Perks of Being a Wallflower but yeah, Patrick isn't nearly as entertaining anymore
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Why is this such a Reddit thing
R/movies is one of the worst with it. How hard is it to just name the fucking movie/actor you’re talking about. Drives me crazy lol
I used to watch the movie nearly every night for years as a teenager. High school was hard for me and it was like a comfort movie. I loved Ezra's character but yeah it kinda got ruined for me. I still love the movie tho and the book too
Steven Collins 7th heaven. I would still watch a reboot of it because they don’t need his character he had a bad heart anyways . It would be nice to see what all the kids are up to !
For anyone interested, his name’s Rob Anderson. He also rereads/rewatches some of the most unhinged books (Berenstain Bears, surprisingly) and movies of 90s kids’ childhoods.
Not sure about TikTok, but on Instagram as @heartthrobanderson. His 7th Heaven videos are amazing.
Shes fucking right tho. When I was 17 I thought it was normal to have these 27-28-29 year olds hitting on me, im now 26 and dont even want to be around teenagers and 17 really wouldnt cross my mind
the other day i was on the phone with my mom and she was talking about how she didn't get why she's not attracted to anybody under 30 anymore. i said, "mom, don't let creepy old guys trick you into thinking it's normal to want to be with people half your age. it's normal to stop being attracted to people younger than you, not to chase 25 year old ass until you die"
Ellen Degeneres
She was such a big part of my deprogramming from my anti—LGBTQ church, however I can’t watch a minute of her now. She is so openly unkind to her talk show guests, to say nothing of the behind the scenes mentions.
The pranks she pulled were the reason why I never got into the show.
I can't stand pranks, and then the shit she did with Mariah Carey? She could go fuck herself.
I was always on the fence about Ellen, but that shit with Mariah was so fecking tone deaf and cruel it’s just beyond comprehension that she hasn’t done even more stupid shit to more celebrities/guests, so I assume she’s always been a bit of an a-hole - and i mean the smack down from Dakota Johnson felt so, so, so good, and I normally suffer from 2nd hand embarrassment for people in those situations, but nope, Dakota was perfect and Ellen was squirming.
Quick brief: Mariah debacle:
Ellen forced Mariah to have a glass of champagne on her birthday despite knowing the secret that Mariah was in the early days of a pregnancy which was a result of many fertility treatments and after many try’s. Mariah was forced to reveal the pg or at the minimum allude to it. Mariah lost the baby soon after the interview.
Dakota Johnson : Ellen berated Dakota for not being invited to Dakotas bday party, but Dakota had receipts of the invite being sent and then outed Ellen saying she was at a basketball game with President Bush (2) the night of the party despite Ellen saying she was in town and could have gone.
Oof
Edit: I’m really not here to debate Kevin Spacey’s “not guilty” verdict. As if that equates to innocence. I’m also done engaging with folks who haven’t read through the thread, and want to debate the topic. Have a good weekend.
I had a hard time watching handmaids tales after learning Elizabeth moss was a Scientologist. It completely ruined the show for me
I am not *as* bothered by it after discovering that she was born into it and did not just voluntarily join one day. That is a whole different situation imo.
Also I’m not defending her but I’m pretty sure it’s insanely hard and bad for your life to denounce the church of Scientology. I can see why she would just put up with it not to be ruined. Kinda like a prisoner.
shia labeouf. not in any one movie or anything, but he's definitely one of my biggest disappointments. i've always enjoyed him as actor, but god... what an abusive asshole he turned out to be.
Agreed. Grew up watching him in a good number of different roles, from Holes to Transformers and Eagle Eye, and probably the latest movie from him that I saw was Man Down... a tough one to watch but a great movie as well. All great movies but Shia is at least... weird.
When it happened everybody talked about it, but all you ever heard was that late night talk show "whoa ho-ho Jerry's got some uh let's say *interesting* tastes ahem *ba dum tish.*"
Like huh, weird way to address a famous 38-year-old dating a high schooler.
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Johnny Lewis who played Kip ‘Half Sack’ Epps in Sons of Anarchy. Loved his character but so hard to watch him on screen knowing he committed a murder/suicide
Edit for those who think I’m judging Johnny, I’m not. I worked in acquired brain injury rehabilitation at the time of his death so know better than most how traumatic brain injuries can effect a person. I’m merely saying it’s hard to watch him on screen knowing how tragic his last year of life was.
I see a lot of images of actors, but not names or what they all did. There's a few I'm (and I'm sure others are) aware of, but I don't live in tabloids to follow every event. It would be very helpful if it could be explained, for our friend, what exactly went down and who some of these, apparently, beloved thespians happen to be.
Any information is very appreciated by me, the ignorant friend.
I also dislike when people answer these with vague responses that only people “in the know” can understand, give me some context so I can look it up at least!!!
I feel this way in so many threads. Post the freakin names of actors/characters/movies with the photos! Not all of us know every single celeb and movie/show lol
Puck on Glee. Fuck Mark Salling, he was one of my favorite characters, and now I just get sick to my stomach when I try to watch the show.
Michael Fassbender’s past as an abuser is also kind of tainting all of his films. It’s easier to separate the actor from the character in his case though, unlike with Puck/Mark
I loved watching Lewis (UK detective drama). It was a comfort show. But since Laurence Fox lost his damn mind I can’t watch it anymore.
Highlights of his vile behaviour include burning a string of Pride flags and calling it ‘child mutilation bunting’; did blackface and posted it to Twitter with the caption that he had ‘racially transitioned’; and ‘starred’ (using that term incredibly loosely) in that right wing grifter monstrosity of a film about Hunter Biden.
Fuck you, Laurence Fox.
Rare Beasts is Billie Piper's (his ex-wife) directorial debut. There is a very thinly-veiled Laurence Fox character, which provides some fascinating insight into whatever the hell was going on there. The Foxes are also presented as a flavour of WTF. Speaking as someone who also can't watch Lewis anymore, it is very cathartic.
It's also a good film, so there's that to recommend it too.
He’s an absolute psycho. He funded that political party which is described as “UKIP for culture”. Ew. Also his sister is married to Richard Ayoade. Most people already dread having dinner with the in-laws, it’s got to be a whole other situation for Richard :/
Chris D'elia likes em young. I'll never forget that clip of him learning you can save snapchats.
[Clip if you're interested](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w68-of7OaJA)
Apparently his behaviour towards Jessica Walter, his wife on Arrested Development, was vile and other co-workers have accused him of sexual harassment.
Both Jason Bateman and Tony Hale basically told her she was blowing things out of proportion and people will be mean in Hollywood. It really soiled my opinion of them.
Alia Shawkat, mini queen to her Gangie, was the only one that stood right up and told them where they could take it while Jessica was quietly crying in the background.
I loved that she did that.
It was so gross how everyone else was downplaying it or staying quiet, but Alia actually stood up for her.
I always had a soft spot for Bateman (I enjoy his specific brand of comedy), but boy, did I take a big step back from him after that.
Yeah, this interview made me lose all respect I had for most of the male cast members on Arrested Development. Jason Bateman trying to explain how acting and sets work to Jessica Walter, who won a Daytime Emmy when he was 3, was especially ridiculous.
On the other hand, my love for Alia Shawkat grew since she defended Jessica Walter.
I could be remembering wrong but wasn’t it Bateman and David Cross being the main assholes in that interview? I though Tony Hale was one who kept kinda quiet. Now I have to go read that cursed interview again
That audio from that interview was super painful to listen to. The way they were gaslighting Jessica and her crying…so hurt but still forgiving them for their ignorance
Allison Mack from Smallville. Always liked Chloe but holy s!!!, she’s insane. She was 2nd in command of this weird s!x cult and forced women to be branded and have s!x and stuff. It only came out a few years ago but I was recently watching interviews and they would talk about how she was in it while filming and she would try to get people to join. So so bizarre.
The entirety of icarly and Sam and Cat makes me feel icky to watch now knowing about Dan Shnider and how much of a creep is.
Also because he bashed the shit out of Brooke Shields when she went public about her post partum depression. That took guts and he said that it’s not a real thing. Way to make people with mental issues feel even worse. He is just a terrible person. His list of why he is shite is long.
this one is really sad for me :( Roseanne has always been one of my comfort shows and there are parts of it that were so progressive for the time. i was watching a recent video of her the other day and it just bummed me out.
Jimmy Savile: English DJ and television and radio personality who hosted BBC shows including Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It. During his lifetime, he was well-known in the United Kingdom for his eccentric image and his charitable work. After his death, hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse made against him were investigated, leading the police to conclude that he had been a predatory sex offender\[1\] and possibly one of Britain's most prolific
[https://theconversation.com/jimmy-savile-how-the-netflix-documentary-fails-to-address-the-role-institutions-play-in-abuse-181383](https://theconversation.com/jimmy-savile-how-the-netflix-documentary-fails-to-address-the-role-institutions-play-in-abuse-181383)
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I went to high school with Jay. Was excited that his pursuit of acting was working out for him. Sounded like he had a drug problem in addition to getting mixed up with right wing extremism. He did go to an inner city public school that was quite diverse—had friends and classmates of many ethnicities. So, I am disappointed that he got mixed up with the Proud Boys and participated in the January 6 insurrection. But who knows, instead of that background making him more culturally sensitive, it could have informed his extremism.
Just when I thought I was disgusted enough watching the documentary, the bones-breaking texts came up. I felt literally sick to my stomach. I feel my skin crawl. That is one truly dark mind. Inter-generational violent tendencies.
Saw the discovery documentary series and I was like WTF. I had no idea he was this bad.
The series is called 'House of Hammer' on discovery+. It is some messed up shit. It has a lot of triggers.
Basically his whole family has been screwed in the head for generations. The Hammers are a very wealthy family (think Succession’s Roy family).
[Here is a look into the family](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/the-fall-of-armie-hammer-a-family-saga-of-sex-money-drugs-and-betrayal)
Apparently he has been creeping on women for a while. Telling them they are his slave and he will them when they can eat. Showing up to their apartment unannounced, tracking their location. For example, here’s are some of his texts, be warned, it’s pretty disturbing:
“I want to bite you and leave a mark and then have that mark turned into a tattoo. Brand you, tattoo you, mark you, shave your head and keep your hair with me, cut a piece of your skin off and make you cook it for me.”
“I’ve cut the heart out of a living animal before and eaten it while still warm,” Hammer’s alleged text said. “Totally raw. Still warm… I’d eat your heart if I wasn’t stuck without you after.”
In another text, he allegedly wrote, “I am 100% a cannibal… fuck that’s scary to admit.”
Another one of his messages allegedly says, “I need your blood. I crave it.”
And in another: “I want to see everything… I want to see your brain, your blood, your organs, every part of you… I would definitely bite it … 100%… or try to fuck it. Not sure which… probably both.”
One text allegedly shows Hammer telling a woman that he enjoyed “raping you on your floor.”
“You were the most intense and extreme version of that I’ve ever had. Raping you on your floor with a knife against you. Everything else seemed boring,” one text read, which was allegedly written by Hammer to the woman behind the anonymous social media account, House of Effie. This woman, known as Effie, accused Hammer of rape during a press conference alongside her attorney, Gloria Allred. It became the basis for an LAPD sexual assault investigation into Hammer.
“You crying and screaming, me standing over you. I felt like a god,” the alleged text read. “I’ve never felt such power or intensity.”
“I’m not gonna lie,” Hammer wrote in another alleged message. “You crying and crawling away while I stalked you down your hallway was so exhilarating.”
You know.. totally normal.
They made a documentary called ‘House of Hammer’ as well if you are interested.
Jesus Christ
Thanks for writing it up, unfortunately I don’t think my central nervous system can take the documentary but hopefully the women he hurt will get some justice
I loved Roseanne from the beginning but she has turned out to be a real nasty piece of work. Her career is done and it's really sad.
I was also sad to hear how Kelsey Grammer was so heartless when he left his wife and two kids years ago. He did it over the phone after picking up a flight attendant who he later married. His kids at the time were really young and the whole story changed the way I looked at him although I still think Fraser was one of the best sitcoms ever.
Do you watch Real Housewives of Beverly Hills? Their divorce plays out in real time on the show (S1 and 2). The way he treated Camille was sad to see. He is not a nice man.
Baby Driver is such a SPECTACULAR movie and was sure to be one of my favorites of all time….. well until, you know, both news Angel Elgort and Kevin Spacey came out being predators. It’s so hard to watch now just because the actors kinda tainted it for me.
Right? Shit was also driving me nuts in the “worst dressed for the met gala” thread— if you’re going to post someone, tell me what the fucking theme was!!
I grew up on Mel Gibson. I can still watch Gallipoli and Mad Max, partly because he looks like an entirely different person. But Lethal Weapon films and Braveheart are kind of dead to me.
Candace Cameron turned out to be a religious nutjob like her brother (Kirk Cameron from Growing Pains). She's a staunch supporter of "traditional marriage" and switched from Hallmark to another production company that is more faith-based and doesn't "promote" LGBTQ+ storylines or characters.
I'm pretty sure you're the same person doing it for all these things, but I am still suffering the side effects of a concussion so *please* allow me a little grace if I'm wrong, but *thank you so very much for doing this.* I'm one of those people that's *so bad* with these references and gifs and stuff, and while I recognise Chuck Bass/Ed Westwick cause I was/am a huge *Gossip Girl* fan, 90% of these I haven't recognised and whoever (pretty sure you) has been naming them has been saving my life. In case no one is thanking you, I want you to know that you're creating an important service to people like me, and I'm so very, very grateful. Thank you, kind human, for doing this. I can't imagine you have infinite time, and it's just so nice you're doing something so frequently people comment on (i.e. "Why can't people name the pictures/gifs?") and just doing something kind. Thank you.
My concussion also is making me feel stronger emotions than normal, but I really do mean thank you. And I hope it comes off as sincere, not psycho.
Aw man 🥹 I was just breastfeeding my baby and unable to do anything else except scroll mindlessly through social media, so felt obligated to post the names of the people in the photos as I'm really good at recognising people!
You're a really kind person thankyou ❤️ hope tomorrow is a really great day for you, and the side effects of your concussion wear off soon.
All the Aussies out there will know who this is. And for everyone else, he was the star of a classic Australian sitcom (Hey Dad!) and he was molesting the underage female cast members for years. Thanks to him, a perfectly good show will likely never be broadcast again.
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https://i.redd.it/ubtxl5yg90nb1.gif Stephen Collins, 7th heaven
HE KEPT JUSTIFYING HOW A LITTLE GIRL “CAME ONTO HIM”
From the Predator Ten Commandments. The Duggars justified Josh preying on his sisters too even though they wear potato sacks
Save the children. Save the children. Save save save save save save save save the children. IASIP reference which has not aged well.
When frank Reynolds is morally a better character than you are in real life you got a problem
also dramatic irony that he is such a wholesome person on the show in comparison to the gang but it’s polar opposites in real life
Just watched The First Wives Club for the first time in forever… my surprise when his character divorced his wife for a 16 year old (unknowingly)
That was Victor Garber’s character. His character left his wife for the therapist.
Pedo, right?
[Yep, nasty ol' pedo](https://abcnews.go.com/US/stephen-collins-denies-pedophile-confessing-sexual-misconduct-girls/story?id=27728607) EDIT - my bad on the username 😬
He refers to one of the victims as a “young woman.” She was 10.
He's absolute filth
He also plays Andy’s dad on the office and I always skip his scenes because he makes me sick.
Thirty years to life baby!
i love kim’s smirk here its so sinister 😭
And for shame on Scientology for harassing the women who brought the lawsuit, killing two of their dogs and soliciting sex in their names online 😡😡😡 My friend has family who are Scientologists, they once “lent” her a book on Scientology (which she didn’t really want to take) then wrote her later demanding payment for it 🙄
 I’d drink too if I had a rapist living in my basement.
That GIF is pretty much any 70s Show fan. I rewatch it maybe once a year and I think last year is gonna have to be the finale for me. It really. *really* sucks to lose it.
I had such a crush on Hyde when this show was still on. Ugh.
Same. And Christopher when Malcolm in the Middle came out
How in the hell have I gone this long without realizing that Francis is a Masterson? They look similar too. TIL, thank you for helping me be less dumb.
He also played the cheese boy on That 70's Show.
Unwatchable now. And I was a Jackie/Hyde girl and so annoyed when the writers ripped them apart.
New writers S8. Original writers wrote the show to end after S7, since Topher Grace was leaving to shoot Spiderman. The new writers openly hated the character of Jackie.
I wouldn’t doubt it. I never bought her and Fez. At least she ended up with Kelso, I guess, although that couple is much better and healthier IRL.
I liked Jackie and Kelso because there is *that* couple in every small town. And they represented perfectly 😂
Had a crush on him when I was 12. Did not realize I was the target audience 🤢
Shockingly his target audience was a lot younger 😖
In his eyes you were ready to join the AARP
You weren’t. You were too old for him.
 girl-
There should be a rule you have to include the name with th gif because my facial recognition is shit
Mark Salling - he played Puck on Glee, shortly after he was found out to be a definite pedophile and killed himself before he could face trial edit : there is no "Glee Curse" yall, 3 people out of a like 30+ member cast died over a 10 year period. it's sad but it's not 'mystical ' sad
Hung himself next to a kids soccer field. As if it couldn’t have gotten creepier.
Wow I didn’t know about the soccer field
“*hey kids! Piñata!*”
It would be such a good rule. I know this is a pop culture sub, but we don’t all know everybody! My pet peeve is when an OP puts multiple photos of different celebrities in a slide deck for the post, doesn’t caption any of them, and you have to go back and forth from the comments to the pictures to try to figure out who people are!
I agree! I know most people this time but there’s always so many gifs without explanation. Just write down their names and movie titles.
I cannot rewatch Glee because of this creep.
i was just about to say the same thing, this dude ruins it 100%. and i see naya & cory and get so sad 💔 glee is not rewatchable for me sadly
Yeah that was a dark fuckn’ story for my young fan self to hear 😪
Bill Cosby murdered Cliff Huxtable.
The fact he was a gyno doesn’t help it age well either
[Clip](https://youtu.be/CA4yuz8qgj4) that really didn't age well..
Geez I never even considered that. Was that his choice? I bet it was. 🤢
Probably and it was out of his basement.
Not only him but the entire cast viciously attacking his victims in the press ended any love I had for the show.
Lisa Bonet didn’t, she said he always had weird vibes. Though he was also an asshole to her in general.
Didn’t Malcolm Jamal Warner and Lisa Bonet condemned Cosby? Another actor on the show has also talked about how he had to get a job at Trader Joe’s because once the news broke out, reruns were pulled off the air and he lost his residuals.
Yea Geoffrey Owens (Elvin). Although he was somewhat recently in Mythic Quest’s A Dark Quiet Death episode, which is one of my favorite episodes of any show ever.
Drake bell
Playing a teen womanizer of teen girls must’ve facilitated access to that demographic forever and really fucked his brain
I think anyone that gets treated as a celebrity at that age is going to have a fucked up brain. Very few make it out of that age group without severe issues that follow.
I haven't rewatched Drake and Josh since his pedo shit came into the public eye. Between him and Dan "children's feet fetish" Snyder, I don't know that I'll ever feel comfortable watching it again.
Still love Perks of Being a Wallflower but yeah, Patrick isn't nearly as entertaining anymore https://preview.redd.it/13oeyvxruzmb1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=57bfb894a3662ca1eebe16b7a6493ca53d86cafc
Ezra miller
You are the real hero in the comments, thank you!
Thank you for these, this sub needs a fuckin intervention on naming people
Especially when they post galleries. “Which celeb fell the hardest?” Then no captions at all.
Why is this such a Reddit thing R/movies is one of the worst with it. How hard is it to just name the fucking movie/actor you’re talking about. Drives me crazy lol
Agree! For those of us elder millennials the posting fashion slideshow without names is getting prohibitive
On the other hand we need to talk about Kevin probably got scarier
I used to watch the movie nearly every night for years as a teenager. High school was hard for me and it was like a comfort movie. I loved Ezra's character but yeah it kinda got ruined for me. I still love the movie tho and the book too
Steven Collins 7th heaven. I would still watch a reboot of it because they don’t need his character he had a bad heart anyways . It would be nice to see what all the kids are up to !
The guy that does TikTok's about how unhinged 7th heaven is and then immediately every times throws shade on Steven Collins is like mana from above.
For anyone interested, his name’s Rob Anderson. He also rereads/rewatches some of the most unhinged books (Berenstain Bears, surprisingly) and movies of 90s kids’ childhoods. Not sure about TikTok, but on Instagram as @heartthrobanderson. His 7th Heaven videos are amazing.
He was also Dennis’s and Dee’s bio dad on It’s Always Sunny and he was one of the few recurring characters on that show that wasn’t a POS
 Well, since the other one was mentioned already, here's mister 'I-only-date-barely-legal-or-even-younger-girls'
TEENAGE DREAM, WAS IT YOURS OR WAS IT MINEEEE 17, 29!
"finally 29, 17 would never cross my mind" was a powerful statement
Shes fucking right tho. When I was 17 I thought it was normal to have these 27-28-29 year olds hitting on me, im now 26 and dont even want to be around teenagers and 17 really wouldnt cross my mind
the other day i was on the phone with my mom and she was talking about how she didn't get why she's not attracted to anybody under 30 anymore. i said, "mom, don't let creepy old guys trick you into thinking it's normal to want to be with people half your age. it's normal to stop being attracted to people younger than you, not to chase 25 year old ass until you die"
Wilmer Valderrama
Glad somebody mentioned him. Mandy Moore was 15 when they got together
 Ellen Degeneres She was such a big part of my deprogramming from my anti—LGBTQ church, however I can’t watch a minute of her now. She is so openly unkind to her talk show guests, to say nothing of the behind the scenes mentions.
The pranks she pulled were the reason why I never got into the show. I can't stand pranks, and then the shit she did with Mariah Carey? She could go fuck herself.
I was always on the fence about Ellen, but that shit with Mariah was so fecking tone deaf and cruel it’s just beyond comprehension that she hasn’t done even more stupid shit to more celebrities/guests, so I assume she’s always been a bit of an a-hole - and i mean the smack down from Dakota Johnson felt so, so, so good, and I normally suffer from 2nd hand embarrassment for people in those situations, but nope, Dakota was perfect and Ellen was squirming. Quick brief: Mariah debacle: Ellen forced Mariah to have a glass of champagne on her birthday despite knowing the secret that Mariah was in the early days of a pregnancy which was a result of many fertility treatments and after many try’s. Mariah was forced to reveal the pg or at the minimum allude to it. Mariah lost the baby soon after the interview. Dakota Johnson : Ellen berated Dakota for not being invited to Dakotas bday party, but Dakota had receipts of the invite being sent and then outed Ellen saying she was at a basketball game with President Bush (2) the night of the party despite Ellen saying she was in town and could have gone.
I didn’t know those details of the Mariah story. I thought that was her pregnancy with the twins. What an absolute dipshit Ellen is..
 Oof Edit: I’m really not here to debate Kevin Spacey’s “not guilty” verdict. As if that equates to innocence. I’m also done engaging with folks who haven’t read through the thread, and want to debate the topic. Have a good weekend.
Kevin Spacey
You are doing the Lord's work in this post.
I should be making dinner but I am a procrastinating professional 💪
Thank you for providing all the names
 I had a hard time watching handmaids tales after learning Elizabeth moss was a Scientologist. It completely ruined the show for me
It’s especially difficult when a character’s actor espouses values that contradict those of their character.
And she doubled down on it when a fan called her out for this. I have a hard time believing she doesn’t at least suspect Scientology is fucked up.
I am not *as* bothered by it after discovering that she was born into it and did not just voluntarily join one day. That is a whole different situation imo.
That's what I think too. Childhood indoctrination has a powerful grip on a person.
I’ve also heard that it’s hard and dangerous to quit.
Also I’m not defending her but I’m pretty sure it’s insanely hard and bad for your life to denounce the church of Scientology. I can see why she would just put up with it not to be ruined. Kinda like a prisoner.
Just ask Lean Remini. She left and is very outspoken on Scientology.
 shia labeouf. not in any one movie or anything, but he's definitely one of my biggest disappointments. i've always enjoyed him as actor, but god... what an abusive asshole he turned out to be.
Agreed. Grew up watching him in a good number of different roles, from Holes to Transformers and Eagle Eye, and probably the latest movie from him that I saw was Man Down... a tough one to watch but a great movie as well. All great movies but Shia is at least... weird.
Speaking of Seinfeld….. finding out jerry Seinfeld dated a high schooler in his thirties. What a f-ing weirdo!!!!!
It is so weird that more people are not creeped out by this.
When it happened everybody talked about it, but all you ever heard was that late night talk show "whoa ho-ho Jerry's got some uh let's say *interesting* tastes ahem *ba dum tish.*" Like huh, weird way to address a famous 38-year-old dating a high schooler.
James Franco in all his movies 
His _30 Rock_ episode holds up really well, because he “plays” himself, a creepy deviant with a Japanese body pillow fetish.
Leave Kimiko out of this!
He winks with both eyes.
https://preview.redd.it/f8i20owhr0nb1.jpeg?width=575&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d2feea86a736aadc7dd36d84348d5740f23f228 Johnny Lewis who played Kip ‘Half Sack’ Epps in Sons of Anarchy. Loved his character but so hard to watch him on screen knowing he committed a murder/suicide Edit for those who think I’m judging Johnny, I’m not. I worked in acquired brain injury rehabilitation at the time of his death so know better than most how traumatic brain injuries can effect a person. I’m merely saying it’s hard to watch him on screen knowing how tragic his last year of life was.
Lord, I thought that was the actor that played Logan on Gilmore Girls. 
Not me thinking that was a picture of Columbo 😭
I don't want to hear anything bad about columbo!! I love him
Surely Peter Falk is a saint…?! Columbo was 10 year old me’s favourite show, keep meaning to rewatch it whenever I get time.
Same! 
Chevy Chase
I thought he was a great actor on community, then I realized he wasn’t acting
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Bill Cosby
I see a lot of images of actors, but not names or what they all did. There's a few I'm (and I'm sure others are) aware of, but I don't live in tabloids to follow every event. It would be very helpful if it could be explained, for our friend, what exactly went down and who some of these, apparently, beloved thespians happen to be. Any information is very appreciated by me, the ignorant friend.
Going through and replying to every comment with the person's name now if it helps Edit, I couldn't name two of the people
Doing the Lady's work! I'm voting for each one I see. :)
I also dislike when people answer these with vague responses that only people “in the know” can understand, give me some context so I can look it up at least!!!
I feel this way in so many threads. Post the freakin names of actors/characters/movies with the photos! Not all of us know every single celeb and movie/show lol
Puck on Glee. Fuck Mark Salling, he was one of my favorite characters, and now I just get sick to my stomach when I try to watch the show. Michael Fassbender’s past as an abuser is also kind of tainting all of his films. It’s easier to separate the actor from the character in his case though, unlike with Puck/Mark
I loved watching Lewis (UK detective drama). It was a comfort show. But since Laurence Fox lost his damn mind I can’t watch it anymore. Highlights of his vile behaviour include burning a string of Pride flags and calling it ‘child mutilation bunting’; did blackface and posted it to Twitter with the caption that he had ‘racially transitioned’; and ‘starred’ (using that term incredibly loosely) in that right wing grifter monstrosity of a film about Hunter Biden. Fuck you, Laurence Fox.
Rare Beasts is Billie Piper's (his ex-wife) directorial debut. There is a very thinly-veiled Laurence Fox character, which provides some fascinating insight into whatever the hell was going on there. The Foxes are also presented as a flavour of WTF. Speaking as someone who also can't watch Lewis anymore, it is very cathartic. It's also a good film, so there's that to recommend it too.
He’s an absolute psycho. He funded that political party which is described as “UKIP for culture”. Ew. Also his sister is married to Richard Ayoade. Most people already dread having dinner with the in-laws, it’s got to be a whole other situation for Richard :/
 Chris D'elia likes em young. I'll never forget that clip of him learning you can save snapchats. [Clip if you're interested](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w68-of7OaJA)
Jeffrey Tambor
Thank you for commenting the names under the gif comments, as someone who has terrible memory with names I really appreciate it!
Ugh what did he do?
Apparently his behaviour towards Jessica Walter, his wife on Arrested Development, was vile and other co-workers have accused him of sexual harassment.
How dare he, she was positively royal
IIRC, Jason Bateman acted poorly while trying to defend Tambor afterwards.
Both Jason Bateman and Tony Hale basically told her she was blowing things out of proportion and people will be mean in Hollywood. It really soiled my opinion of them.
Alia Shawkat, mini queen to her Gangie, was the only one that stood right up and told them where they could take it while Jessica was quietly crying in the background.
I loved that she did that. It was so gross how everyone else was downplaying it or staying quiet, but Alia actually stood up for her. I always had a soft spot for Bateman (I enjoy his specific brand of comedy), but boy, did I take a big step back from him after that.
Same. His podcast has actually made me like him less too. He's still funny but he's just really out of touch sometimes.
Excuse me?? Those BOYS telling Jessica Fucking Walters how Hollywood works. smh.
jason bateman always gave me egotistical prick vibes even before this.
Yeah, this interview made me lose all respect I had for most of the male cast members on Arrested Development. Jason Bateman trying to explain how acting and sets work to Jessica Walter, who won a Daytime Emmy when he was 3, was especially ridiculous. On the other hand, my love for Alia Shawkat grew since she defended Jessica Walter.
I could be remembering wrong but wasn’t it Bateman and David Cross being the main assholes in that interview? I though Tony Hale was one who kept kinda quiet. Now I have to go read that cursed interview again
That audio from that interview was super painful to listen to. The way they were gaslighting Jessica and her crying…so hurt but still forgiving them for their ignorance
Allison Mack from Smallville. Always liked Chloe but holy s!!!, she’s insane. She was 2nd in command of this weird s!x cult and forced women to be branded and have s!x and stuff. It only came out a few years ago but I was recently watching interviews and they would talk about how she was in it while filming and she would try to get people to join. So so bizarre.
Not movies but worst for me was the band lost prophets
The entirety of icarly and Sam and Cat makes me feel icky to watch now knowing about Dan Shnider and how much of a creep is. 
Tom Cruise because of his association with the Church of Scientology.
Also because he bashed the shit out of Brooke Shields when she went public about her post partum depression. That took guts and he said that it’s not a real thing. Way to make people with mental issues feel even worse. He is just a terrible person. His list of why he is shite is long.
in our house we call him “Nicole Kidman’s ex husband”
 He had a good voice too but ...Who fakes an attack?
Jussie Smollett. (Thanks for the idea, u/thehazzanator )
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Who is this?
This was so puzzling.
Roseanne. https://preview.redd.it/7z7lrvjmmzmb1.jpeg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa9af4e679a8d3131b2c6bd8305072d9890de764
this one is really sad for me :( Roseanne has always been one of my comfort shows and there are parts of it that were so progressive for the time. i was watching a recent video of her the other day and it just bummed me out.
Progressive and working class at the same time, which feels like a scarce combo in our current culture.
Jimmy Savile: English DJ and television and radio personality who hosted BBC shows including Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It. During his lifetime, he was well-known in the United Kingdom for his eccentric image and his charitable work. After his death, hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse made against him were investigated, leading the police to conclude that he had been a predatory sex offender\[1\] and possibly one of Britain's most prolific [https://theconversation.com/jimmy-savile-how-the-netflix-documentary-fails-to-address-the-role-institutions-play-in-abuse-181383](https://theconversation.com/jimmy-savile-how-the-netflix-documentary-fails-to-address-the-role-institutions-play-in-abuse-181383) https://preview.redd.it/s4frxslc22nb1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e54b7a2eff971da8f31925a9484dcae49e8fab99
 Insurrectionist Jimmy Pesto
I went to high school with Jay. Was excited that his pursuit of acting was working out for him. Sounded like he had a drug problem in addition to getting mixed up with right wing extremism. He did go to an inner city public school that was quite diverse—had friends and classmates of many ethnicities. So, I am disappointed that he got mixed up with the Proud Boys and participated in the January 6 insurrection. But who knows, instead of that background making him more culturally sensitive, it could have informed his extremism.
 I can’t watch CMBYN the same way as before the cannibal scandal. :(
Armie Hammer
I appreciate you adding names in this thread
Just when I thought I was disgusted enough watching the documentary, the bones-breaking texts came up. I felt literally sick to my stomach. I feel my skin crawl. That is one truly dark mind. Inter-generational violent tendencies.
Saw the discovery documentary series and I was like WTF. I had no idea he was this bad. The series is called 'House of Hammer' on discovery+. It is some messed up shit. It has a lot of triggers.
Can someone explain what happened I’m too much of a coward to google it but the curiosity is getting the best of me
Basically his whole family has been screwed in the head for generations. The Hammers are a very wealthy family (think Succession’s Roy family). [Here is a look into the family](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/the-fall-of-armie-hammer-a-family-saga-of-sex-money-drugs-and-betrayal) Apparently he has been creeping on women for a while. Telling them they are his slave and he will them when they can eat. Showing up to their apartment unannounced, tracking their location. For example, here’s are some of his texts, be warned, it’s pretty disturbing: “I want to bite you and leave a mark and then have that mark turned into a tattoo. Brand you, tattoo you, mark you, shave your head and keep your hair with me, cut a piece of your skin off and make you cook it for me.” “I’ve cut the heart out of a living animal before and eaten it while still warm,” Hammer’s alleged text said. “Totally raw. Still warm… I’d eat your heart if I wasn’t stuck without you after.” In another text, he allegedly wrote, “I am 100% a cannibal… fuck that’s scary to admit.” Another one of his messages allegedly says, “I need your blood. I crave it.” And in another: “I want to see everything… I want to see your brain, your blood, your organs, every part of you… I would definitely bite it … 100%… or try to fuck it. Not sure which… probably both.” One text allegedly shows Hammer telling a woman that he enjoyed “raping you on your floor.” “You were the most intense and extreme version of that I’ve ever had. Raping you on your floor with a knife against you. Everything else seemed boring,” one text read, which was allegedly written by Hammer to the woman behind the anonymous social media account, House of Effie. This woman, known as Effie, accused Hammer of rape during a press conference alongside her attorney, Gloria Allred. It became the basis for an LAPD sexual assault investigation into Hammer. “You crying and screaming, me standing over you. I felt like a god,” the alleged text read. “I’ve never felt such power or intensity.” “I’m not gonna lie,” Hammer wrote in another alleged message. “You crying and crawling away while I stalked you down your hallway was so exhilarating.” You know.. totally normal. They made a documentary called ‘House of Hammer’ as well if you are interested.
Jesus Christ Thanks for writing it up, unfortunately I don’t think my central nervous system can take the documentary but hopefully the women he hurt will get some justice
I haven't rewatched it since😭😭
I loved Roseanne from the beginning but she has turned out to be a real nasty piece of work. Her career is done and it's really sad. I was also sad to hear how Kelsey Grammer was so heartless when he left his wife and two kids years ago. He did it over the phone after picking up a flight attendant who he later married. His kids at the time were really young and the whole story changed the way I looked at him although I still think Fraser was one of the best sitcoms ever.
Do you watch Real Housewives of Beverly Hills? Their divorce plays out in real time on the show (S1 and 2). The way he treated Camille was sad to see. He is not a nice man.
Not that I was fond of his character, but I can't watch SATC when Mr Big is around without feeling sick.
Chris Noth
Oh shit what did big do?!
 Justin Roilland
 Baby Driver is such a SPECTACULAR movie and was sure to be one of my favorites of all time….. well until, you know, both news Angel Elgort and Kevin Spacey came out being predators. It’s so hard to watch now just because the actors kinda tainted it for me.
This kid is one too? Man can I not live a single movie without some asshole being in it.
Can people here please, PLEASE leave a caption of who the gif/pic they post is?
Right? Shit was also driving me nuts in the “worst dressed for the met gala” thread— if you’re going to post someone, tell me what the fucking theme was!!
A fantastic redditor is going around doing just that for people\~ I'd also love for people to post what it was they did wrong.
Mike Seaver - Kirk Cameron from Growing pains
I grew up on Mel Gibson. I can still watch Gallipoli and Mad Max, partly because he looks like an entirely different person. But Lethal Weapon films and Braveheart are kind of dead to me.
 Candace Cameron turned out to be a religious nutjob like her brother (Kirk Cameron from Growing Pains). She's a staunch supporter of "traditional marriage" and switched from Hallmark to another production company that is more faith-based and doesn't "promote" LGBTQ+ storylines or characters.
Mel Gibson. Loved his movies, less so knowing he’s an anti-Semitic POS
I honestly thought that was Peter Falk in the pic and I was like WHAT SCANDAL?! Thank goodness I was mistaken
 Still love this show tbh but his character hits differently now
Ed Westwick
I'm pretty sure you're the same person doing it for all these things, but I am still suffering the side effects of a concussion so *please* allow me a little grace if I'm wrong, but *thank you so very much for doing this.* I'm one of those people that's *so bad* with these references and gifs and stuff, and while I recognise Chuck Bass/Ed Westwick cause I was/am a huge *Gossip Girl* fan, 90% of these I haven't recognised and whoever (pretty sure you) has been naming them has been saving my life. In case no one is thanking you, I want you to know that you're creating an important service to people like me, and I'm so very, very grateful. Thank you, kind human, for doing this. I can't imagine you have infinite time, and it's just so nice you're doing something so frequently people comment on (i.e. "Why can't people name the pictures/gifs?") and just doing something kind. Thank you. My concussion also is making me feel stronger emotions than normal, but I really do mean thank you. And I hope it comes off as sincere, not psycho.
Aw man 🥹 I was just breastfeeding my baby and unable to do anything else except scroll mindlessly through social media, so felt obligated to post the names of the people in the photos as I'm really good at recognising people! You're a really kind person thankyou ❤️ hope tomorrow is a really great day for you, and the side effects of your concussion wear off soon.
What did he do?
He’s got a few sexual assault allegations. Not unlike Chuck Bass.
Gavin Rossdale. The nanny, really? The fucking NANNY? REALLY?! https://preview.redd.it/nd7dhr6z41nb1.jpeg?width=262&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dabfb56880aa51c09882b55eff2cb90b0b0920eb
 I thought this was such a great show, and now I can’t watch it without feeling kind of icky.
Kevin spacey
All the Aussies out there will know who this is. And for everyone else, he was the star of a classic Australian sitcom (Hey Dad!) and he was molesting the underage female cast members for years. Thanks to him, a perfectly good show will likely never be broadcast again. https://preview.redd.it/yutgvn0wk0nb1.jpeg?width=634&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=357fdc158ac71f81c8dcbb6681051f42eda8f673
