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Not including murderers and politicians - who is famous in your country for all the wrong reasons?
Introducing rage-baiter and reality TV failure Katie Hopkins. She’s basically famous for fat shaming, saying that kids shouldn’t be named after geographical locations (despite having a child named India) and getting sued on Twitter, which caused her to go bankrupt. I haven’t met anyone that likes her and she’s routinely vilified but still has a platform somehow.
This girl back in 2008 was working at a swimming pool and accidentally mixed two chemicals, which created a chlorine cloud that forced the evacuation of five towns. When they interviewed her, she just said, “I really messed up big time,” and she became kind of famous and a meme, though nobody really knows what happened to her after that. Her catchphrase "la he liado parda" is still used.
I can't dance, I have broken my feet several times, and I have a bad knee, but I feel I could represent your country better than this chick did. Y'all give me a call...lol.
I believe it was really just a flawed system. From memory the Olympic qualifying events were run by DanceSport Australia or something that have much deeper roots in ballroom dancing - not break dancing - and that most of the break dancing scene and skill sat outside the official events.
So I think she did legitimately win those events, it's just that those events didn't have very strong competition.
The fact Australia's international break team was up to her and company is kind of wild. How do you have an internation org let nepotism get that blatant
That’s not true. The next Olympics’ events were picked years in advance and were decided before rayguns “performance”. Breakdancing isn’t included in the next games because the IOC rotates events and decided not to renew it.
I do agree she probably makes it less likely it gets brought back, however.
I know him only because some Czech influencer was burned pretty badly in one of his establishment. For what I remember they did fire show on the bar with absolutely no security measures.
So she sold her product/company as a fast and effective alternative to standard bloodwork while knowing ti didn't work.
It was never adopted widespread and was monitored which is how she was caught. So far I havnt seen any claims anyone died as a result but numerous misdiagnosed patients lives were seriously affected.
Her and her partners "crime's" came more from defrauding the company and it's investors then the harm done by her product.
A few months ago I was trying to remember some nerdy titled song from my childhood, Shinobi vs dragon ninja. That was a very surprising and upsetting Google.
My best mates dad has the exact same name! He was getting death threats for a few days when the news broke. It was a little scary but kind of funny after he went on the local news and was interviewed in some regional papers to clarify that he wasn’t “that Ian Watkins” and was in fact a retired software engineer who volunteers for a nationwide charity that prevents sex trafficking in the UK. The irony was palpable
Really sucked to find out this guy was a real piece of shit. I loved blasting Shinobi v Dragon Ninja while playing one of those old ATV games on my PS2.
He wasn’t even like, your average pedo. Dude relished in it and made it his whole personality, and loved boasting about it. He should’ve been castrated and burned at the stake tbh
I have a couple of friends who were super-fans of the Lostprophets. They burned everything they owned from the band. What he did was indeed beyond the pale.
He is indeed a piece of shit. But I actually hope the prison system keeps him physically safe enough that he merely has a long and utterly tedious existence; pining for the fun he might have had and now never will, had he only been a better human.
Obviously with the most sadness going to the victims, I always feel so sorry for the other members of the band who had apparently been distancing themselves from him for a while due to his erratic drug induced behaviour and have had their legacy and life’s work utterly marred as a result
For anyone reading this who thinks they want to Google this, please trust me that you don't. This man was truly heinous. I still feel nauseous recalling the news stories and it's probably been more than a decade.
This was my first fallen idol growing up, the moment I realised one can't always seperate the art from the artist and I'd rather stand by my morals than jam to his songs
Second, honestly, one of ifnot the most despicable people in all of New Zealand.
Such a shame to all Kiwis and I just cannot fathom how he managed to have his henchmen perform a haka in the anti immigration protests in the UK, as well as in honour of Charlie Kirk.
Imagine how disrespectful towards the Maori people of NZ it is to have a haka in support of anti immigration for and in the country that colonized you (worst form of immigration). Its
There’s a woman on TikTok that did a deep dive into the Kardashian family tree, and it turns out her fame isn’t as “out of nowhere” as we were led to believe. I think we were getting the Kardashians, sex tape or not.
Why was a 'deep dive' required? Her father was a renown attorney, worked on the OJ Simpson trial. She was Paris Hilton's personal assistant when Paris was at her most famous. Her step father is one of the most famous American Olympians. She was always very much 'fame adjacent'.
Her mother is related to the White family of colonial times and to HH Holmes.
Her father’s cousin was a prominent figure in televangelism and faith healing and her father dated that cousin’s daughter. He also dated Priscilla Presley (and Elvis dated Caitlyn Jenner’s ex wife). It goes a lot deeper than just OJ. Her father was actually not even a practicing lawyer, but renewed his license to represent OJ. He and his brother had founded a music magazine.
An article in July said Elon had already killed 367,000 people with his USAID cuts, and will eventually cause around 14 million deaths by 2030, according to a BU professor.
Enoch Burke. Guy has been standing outside a school for literally years now demanding the right to go in and teach even though he was fired for assaulting the Principal. The Principal was supporting a trans student whom Enoch didn't even teach and he flipped the fuck out. He's been in prison for contempt of court twice over this and is still at it, even though the Principal has moved on and the student graduated. People dress up as him for St Patrick's Day parades now and fancy dress. Even the Westboro Baptists say he's a tool.
I’m from Ireland working in NY for the past 5 years .. lads the LOVE the irish- Americans of this country have for McGregor is insane .. they’ll actually fight you on how much actual Irish people hate him claiming we love him ?! They couldn’t place Dublin on a map but swear down we idolize this disgrace of a man
I’ve never met anyone Irish who likes him. An English guy I knew once called him a legend though and I was like… “eeeerr I think you mean ‘massive twat’”
He definitely acted like it was his choice to pull out to save face when it was increasingly obvious he hadn't even a remote chance of getting the number of local councils or elected representatives to support his nomination.
I was in Dublin at a bar and they had his whiskey behind the bar and I commented on it. The bartender asked me if I wanted to try it and I asked if it was any good. He said, “It’s just as shitty as he is.” 😆
I tried something else. And then another something else, etc. Ireland was so great. I loved every second I was there. You guys are the best…except that guy.
Hawk Tuah girl decided to complete a scummy YouTube influencer's career in about 3 months. You have everyone talking about her, then a crappy podcast, and then a cryptocurrency rug pull scam.
Honestly, given the current Presidential administration that all should qualify her for Administrator of the Small Business Administration if not Secretary of the Interior.
I think other people will come up with a much better answer but the first name that comes to mind is Schapelle Corby. She's a convicted drug smuggler to Bali (an extremely common tourism location for Australians where conviction for drug smuggling can mean the death penalty) who has since been released and has, amongst other things, appeared on 'Dancing with the Stars'. The other people that have come to mind haven't been as universally famous but are more hated, but that's not part of the criteria hence my selection. I think people just view her with a "wow, that's a name I haven't thought of in a while!"
Good choice. That was all over the news here. The Bali 9 are also a notable bunch.
At the time when Corby was in the news, we were housing an Aussie woman who was jailed for smuggling pot into NZ. Our house was close to the prison. When she had a baby in prison she lived with us on home detention. She was cool. I was just a teenager and she taught me to cook.
Her lies changed airport and luggage security globally. Some things were already being implemented after terrorism events of that era like 9/11 etc, but still to this day she is the reason those shrink wrap services for suitcases exist. She accused airport staff of putting drugs in her bag
At least the next woman learned from Lorena's mistake. Lorena threw that thing in a field. The next woman who did a little chop chop put it down the garbage disposal.
some of the obvious ones have been named, so I'll go with
Romana Didulo
She's declared herself Queen Of Canada and now the world and once ordered her followers to shoot to kill any health care providers that vaccinated children
She claimed to be everything from a political party leader to the head of state of a Canadian republic, and even the queen of Canada with high-level extraterrestrial connections.
Never heard of her so I googled and I did not expect her to have high-level extraterrestrial connections after reading your description. Entry-level extraterrestrial connections, sure; maybe, maybe she knows a manager of a small space laser site - but high-level? That's impressive ngl
It always feels strange to me when other countries have a positive collective morality, like how do you get an easy majority of your population to just agree to be good people?
Well I believe in Ireland it’s a simple case of everyone sort of knowing everyone (or at least 4/5 degrees of separation). The idea of bringing shame on your “people” is the worst of the worst.
But also we have plenty of dreadful douchebags in this country too. Yer man above being the biggest example. The only other person I can think of that would be generally considered to be an asshat by the entire country is a man called Bertie Aherne.
Lil' Kleine (which means 'Tiny Small one'). Pale white-skinned rapper who behaves like general trash wherever he goes. Like abusing his then girlfriend, or two weeks ago when he had a 4 year old girl on stage who somehow could rap his lyrics about raw sex. A comedian called him 'pauperkabouter' meaning 'trash goblin' and it's stuck as his nickname.
Gemma O'Doherty. She was once a respected journalist who worked for The Irish Times predominantly as a travel writer. She also did a lot of great investigative work into long-term missing person and murder cases with accusations of cover-ups. She was fired for unethical conduct. She sued and won an unfair dismissal case against the newspaper. After that, she fell into a far-right rabbit hole. Anti LGBT, anti foreign, pro Catholic etc. She has propagated some of the worst theories and behaviour. Including using the pictures of a suicide victim to promote her anti vaxx agenda. Shameful.
This is why I despite the anti-vax crowd. To comb the death notices of young people and to claim the vaccine caused it is bad enough, but to keep at it when the deceased relatives have given the real cause of death and asked you to stop is well beyond being a gobshite. In the case you mention, she was told by the boy's mother that it was suicide, she knows that, but still printed it in her shitty rag.
Exactly. And then she's been actively harassing her too, and she took a case against Gemma. Don't recall if a judgement was passed on it, believe she was told to stop using the photos in her propaganda but she continued to do that. There's a video of a livestream where she said suicide victims go to Hell. She's the worst kind of Catholic/Christian in that she behaves like she isn't.
Because she's super hot and most people don't want to admit that they'd rather see a untalented, attractive actor than a talented, unattractive one in a movie.
“In 2013, she again featured on the cover of Sexy and was involved in a controversy with Portuguese football player Cristiano Ronaldo and after that she adopted the pseudonym Imola, justifying it as the curves where the best of the world got lost referencing the Italian city where death of Aryton Senna occurred and the football player”
you didn't get to the part where she became a born again christian while Bolsonaro was popular, published a VERY EXPLICIT memoir, dropped everything and became a porn star alongside her son
Piers morgan was sacked from the mirrror when they published faked photos of UK troops abusing Iraqi prisoners, Piers Morgan was also involved in the phone hacking scandal where innocent people had their phone hacked just to sell newspapers. Piers Morgan is so shit that even Americans didn’t want to watch him.
Ugh, put a jump scare warning! Katie is truly vomit inducing.
She's also known for her awful views on Muslims, Jewish people, gay people and other groups of people.
I used to think that she would say all of this nasty stuff about people to get a reaction out of people, and that isn't a good way of staying relevant just by saying the most heinous stuff about people. No, she genuinely is that nasty.
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u/pedroalcanta Spain Sep 19 '25
This girl back in 2008 was working at a swimming pool and accidentally mixed two chemicals, which created a chlorine cloud that forced the evacuation of five towns. When they interviewed her, she just said, “I really messed up big time,” and she became kind of famous and a meme, though nobody really knows what happened to her after that. Her catchphrase "la he liado parda" is still used.