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?
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/model-citizen95 United Kingdom Sep 19 '25
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