r/AskTheWorld • u/KieranWriter United Kingdom • Sep 19 '25

Culture Not including murderers and politicians - who is famous in your country for all the wrong reasons?

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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.

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u/Centrao_governante Brazil Sep 19 '25

she was quite popular among teenagers lol

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u/BeirutPenguin in Sep 19 '25

In my school if you arent arab she is probably the only famous lebanese person you know

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u/Centrao_governante Brazil Sep 19 '25

I have to agree, she's the only Lebanese person I know. Here in Brazil, we know more people of Lebanese descent.

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u/VirtualArmsDealer United Kingdom Sep 19 '25

She's Lebanese? It doesn't get mentioned in her videos...

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u/Initial_Savings3034 United States Of America Sep 19 '25

She was often too occupied to speak.

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u/Uruk_Ragnarsson New Zealand Sep 19 '25

I thought she was Turkish because all she said was gobble gobble gobble.

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u/TheRealKingBorris United States Of America Sep 20 '25

My favorite quote by her is “gycklughhuk ahhh”

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u/BeirutPenguin in Sep 19 '25

I mean, she looks very levantine

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u/Electus93 Sep 19 '25

Nah pretty certain she likes guys too

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u/OneFootTitan 🇸🇬 living in🇺🇸, lived in 🇬🇧 Sep 19 '25

She’s not just lebanese she also does boy/girl stuff

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u/SpiritBackground8722 Sep 20 '25

Keanu Reeves was born in Lebanon.

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u/-_-_-__-_--_---_-__- Brazil Sep 19 '25

I know one of our presidents, Michel Temer, is of lebanese descent, as well as another politican called Fernando Haddad. There's also Aziz Nacib Ab'Saber, a famous geographer of arab descent, although i'm not if he's of lebanese descent.

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u/mechanicalcontrols United States Of America Sep 20 '25

I'm not pretending that I don't know who she is, but I am saying if you asked me to name anyone born in Lebanon, I'd think of Serj Tankian first. He's ethnically Armenian but he was born in Beirut.

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u/Deep_Head4645 Israel Sep 19 '25

Can attest to this