Beyonce lip-syncs the National Anthem: You'd think Queen Bey was
practically perfect in every way, but the internet was aflame with
horror after she mimed to a pre-recorded track at President Obama's
inauguration on a chilly January afternoon
Amanda Bynes' public meltdown: What started as simply picking
fights with fellow celebs on Twitter soon escalated to behaviour that
led to Bynes’ being charged for a variety of offenses including reckless
endangerment after she allegedly threw a bong from her luxury
apartment’s 36th floor window. (She wore a wig and false eyelashes to
court.)
Miley Cyrus grows up: Twerking at the VMAs, sticking her tongue
out at every available moment, photoshoots with Terry Richardson,
straddling a wrecking ball in the nude - Miley took every opportunity in
2013 to let us know she’s no longer a Disney tween. The world responded
with extensive pearl-clutching
Julianne
Hough’s Halloween costume: Everybody loves Orange Is The New Black, but
most people who aren’t black would probably choose to dress as, say,
Piper for Halloween. Not so Julianne Hough, who thought it would be a
good idea to don blackface and dress as the show’s character ‘Crazy
Eyes’.
Lance
Armstrong admits performance enhancing drug use: Not only did the
former Tour De France champ come clean about his history of doping, he
did so in a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey. Celebrity scandal
bingo!
Simon
Cowell’s baby drama: Not known for being a tabloid magnet, the Idol and
X Factor impresario was suddenly all over the scandal sheets this year
when it was revealed that he was expecting a baby with gal pal Lauren
Silverman… who was still married to Cowell’s friend Andrew.
Reese Witherspoon vs. The Cops: When her husband Jim Toth was
pulled over by police under suspicion of DUI, an intoxicated Witherspoon
decided to unload those classic celebrity words of entitlement on the
officer in question: “Do you know my name, sir?!” She received a
disorderly conduct arrest for her troubles.
Miranda Kerr (allegedly) hooks up with James Packer: It was enough
of a shock when Gunnedah’s princess broke up with Orlando Bloom; the
news (or, if you prefer, “news”) that she might be dating James Packer
just added insult to romantic injury.
Kim Kardashian's "belfie": Okay it’s not really a 'scandal per se,
but the way everybody carried on when Kim K snapped a shot of her
post-baby bum in a white swimsuit, you’d think she’d shot a man in cold
blood
Justin Bieber goes off the rails: From his rampage through Rio De
Janeiro to his taste for graffiti to weeing in a bucket at a nightclub,
here’s hoping Biebs takes some time off for a nice lie down very soon.
Once upon a time, the concept of "celebrity" was but a twinkle in a
newspaper editor's eye. We didn't really care what stars were doing,
and that was that. That was also, it needn't be said, nearly a century
ago, and today celebrities and scandals go together like cheese and
Vegemite.
Not only that, but it seems 2013 was a banner year for the sorts of
scandals that make magazine designers crack out the 48-point bright
pink exclamation marks. We'll be doing no such eye-straining thing, but
here are 10 of the year's most notable headline grabbers.
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