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damage-control gone wrong
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or on their behalf that backfired
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number 10 Steve Harvey for the 2015 Miss
Universe pageant Steve Harvey made one
of the all-time biggest award show
mistakes ever when he announced the
wrong country as the winner Miss
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to his credit he immediately sent out an
apology to the two finalists Miss
Colombia and Miss Philippines but
unfortunately he didn’t bother to run it
through a basic spellcheck the tweet he
sent out misspelled the names of the two
home countries to whom he was
apologizing writing Colombia with a you
instead of Colombia and Philippines as
in the 11th book in the Bible
rather than Philippines thankfully he
was willing to play along and mock
himself during the 2016 budget yep they
asked him back number 9
Cee Lo Green
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this hip-hop producer and recording
artist found himself in legal jeopardy
in 2012 when he was accused of drugging
a woman and committing sexual battery
while the trial was still ongoing Cee Lo
Green decided to defend his actions via
Twitter by suggesting what he had done
was not rape with some seriously
problematic logic the singer later
apologized for the tweets which he said
came from an emotional state but that
didn’t stop TBS’s decision to cancel his
show Cee Lo Green’s the good life after
only airing six episodes number 8 Kim
Kardashian normally one wouldn’t
associate Kim Kardashian with global
politics but in 2012 the socialite
decided to send her support for Israel
in a tweet saying she was praying for
the country seemingly worried about
having picked a side and wanting to be
more inclusive she then put out a tweet
saying she was also praying for
Palestine her next tweet was about
something that really mattered the color
of her hair as a result of the backlash
she faced for her tweets Kardashian put
out a statement explaining why she took
down her divisive tweets
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in July 2015 a misunderstanding on
Swift’s part quickly blew up after Nicki
Minaj complained on Twitter about a VMA
snub and accused the award show of being
biased towards women with quote slim
bodies Taylor who was nominated that
year assumed the tweet was an insult
directed at her rather than taking the
high road
Taylor fired back with a tweet of her
own expressing how betrayed she felt
that Nicki would say such a thing but in
an awkward attempt at being the better
person
she then invited Minaj on stage in the
event she won when Taylor later found
out what Minaj actually meant she sent
out another tweet apologizing number 6
Harvey Weinstein following the
allegations made against the longtime
powerful producer Weinstein made a
statement in response to the New York
Times article saying one of his plans
was setting up a foundation for the
University of Southern California to
help women film students according to
Weinstein the foundation was in the
works for a year before the allegations
when she admitted himself sounded quote
coincidental USC was set to receive five
million dollars but they ended up
passing on the offer because of all the
negative publicity Harvey was gonna
honor his mother by naming the
foundation after her the thing is
actions speak a lot louder than
checkbooks maybe he should have honored
his mother by respecting women number
five Michael Richards oh he’s not a Nazi
it just happens to be a little eccentric
most geniuses are best known for playing
the whimsical eccentric Seinfeld
character Kramer Richards image as a
lovable goof was tainted by his racist
rant shouting down a heckler during a
when Jerry Seinfeld went on Letterman
he let Richards appear on the show to
explain himself but rather than admit
what his real personal problems were
regarding race he just blamed the Laugh
Factory outburst on his temper and
played it off as an edgy riff that got
out of control
I lost my temper on stage I was at a
comedy club trying to do my act and I
got heckled and I I i took it badly and
went into a rage Richards continued his
apology rounds by going on Jesse
Jackson’s radio show but was seen by
critics as insincere number four Paula
Deen when a former employee sued Dean
for racial discrimination the Food
Network Star denied that she used
racially charged language however when a
lawyer asked her under oath if she had
ever used the n-word
she replied quote yes of course during
the deposition she made excuses for
using the words such as the extreme
circumstance of being robbed by a black
man and the south being different times
in the 1960s she later issued a
videotaped apology but the damage was
done and several business partners like
Target and Walmart cut ties with MS Dean
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after facing backlash for abusing his
then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009 Brown
decided to tell his side of the story in
a Larry King interview instead of
showing remorse Brown hesitated to take
any responsibility and kept making
excuses for his behavior when King
showed Brown the picture of a battered
Rihanna Brown speculated that the
photograph could have been altered as
part of some conspiracy to smear him I
didn’t know what to think at the time I
was like what right because I had to at
the time I just didn’t know what
honestly what to think and I didn’t know
if the pictures were father I didn’t
know they were real I didn’t know what
so what made Brown look more pathetic
was that his mother joined him for the
interview as if he couldn’t fight his
own battles alone it’s been hard really
hard seeing him going through the pain
number 2 Bill Cosby shortly after rape
accusations began to circulate in the
mainstream media in 2014
Cosby decided to change the subject with
a social media campaign the entertainer
asked fans on his Twitter page to make
memes of him by writing short phrases
over pictures of Cosby provided by his
account the stunt didn’t go the way it
was planned with countless people
submitting memes related to the rape
accusations unsurprisingly the campaign
was shut down almost immediately if
Cosby thought he could artificially
manufacture memes to preserve his legacy
on his terms he clearly doesn’t
understand how memes work number one
Kevin Spacey some celebrities have
chosen to come out of the closet as an
act of bravery but Kevin Spacey
seemingly came out to distract from
sexual assault allegations in 2017 actor
Anthony Rapp described an encounter with
Spacey from when he was 14 years old
where the then 26 year old Spacey had
made an advance on the minor in response
Spacey released a statement in which he
admitted to having been involved with
people of both sexes but that he now
made the choice to adopt an openly gay
lifestyle critics pounced on Spacey’s
tone-deaf statement for its suggestion
that being gay was a choice and that
being gay could be linked with sexually
predatory behavior
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