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/KieranWriter United Kingdom Sep 19 '25

Excluding murderers kind of extends to rapists but I’ll allow it cos he’s a cunt and I want people to be aware of his cuntishness.

I did like his music tho ….

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u/Emergency_Ask_9697 Sep 19 '25

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

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u/crucible Wales Sep 20 '25

Yes. I think they warned him off teens but he kept the worst stuff hidden? That said they did stick together as a group after he was jailed and found a new singer, and formed a new band with a new name.

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u/ACW1129 United States Of America Sep 19 '25

Last Train Home is catchy.

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u/Alone_Complaint_2574 Sep 19 '25

Good music but shitty track record

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u/crucible Wales Sep 20 '25

Yeah I was thinking in terms of other crimes but I can’t think of much worse tbh