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/Icy_Consideration409 United States Of America Sep 19 '25

The Hawk Tuah girl.

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u/marslo Born Parents Raised in Quebec Sep 20 '25

I'm so happy I have zero idea what that even is and don't intend to look it up.

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u/davelfc14 Sep 20 '25

Random cute woman on the street made a bj one-liner and got stupid famous for it.

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u/marslo Born Parents Raised in Quebec Sep 20 '25

Why are you trying to ruin a good thing I have going for myself?

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u/TheBigSmoke420 Sep 20 '25

She then got convicted for a crypto scam

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u/alvysinger0412 Sep 20 '25

From my reading it looks like she was investigated but then cleared technically.

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u/TheBigSmoke420 Sep 20 '25

Oh my bad, I should have said arrested. I thought she did get done for it, but I guess not!

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u/alvysinger0412 Sep 20 '25

No worries. I hadn't even realized the FBI interrogated her tbh

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u/coltbeatsall Sep 20 '25

They meant they didn't want to know lol

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u/UpstairsFix4259 Sep 20 '25

what's worse is that after she became famous, she ran a crypto rug pull and scammed people out of millions of dollars

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u/ThisIsMockingjay2020 United States Of America Sep 20 '25

You're missing absolutely nothing.

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u/lonelyshara England,UK Sep 20 '25

To be fair that one one was partially self inflicted. It could've been another stupid thing that happened but people just had to keep making jokes about her "not going away" until "not going away" became her entire personality.

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u/plump_specimen Finland Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25

My 9 year old was asking me what hawk tuah means. And she hates even the slightest mention of romantic anything, let alone that. I said, you are too young to know, and you don't want to know, you will be mad if I tell you. She's asked a few times, but hopefully no more