The Most Embarrassing Celebrity Moments
Starting strong with Vanessa Hudgens' seriously wild response to COVID-19 lockdowns — and their potential impact on Coachella — during an Instagram Live in March 2020:
"Terrible, but like, inevitable?" remains a core part of my lexicon to this day.
Moving on, there's that seriously awkward time when James Corden couldn't name a single cameraman who worked on his Late Late Show, and opted to drink fish smoothie instead:
Watch here:
How about when Lorde dramatically shushed the crowd to deliver her, erm, somewhat divisive vocals a cappella.
You can watch the video here.
And speaking of divisive vocals, Millie Bobby Brown's impromptu performance of John Lennon's "Imagine" literally lives rent free in my head.
Watch here!
Then there's that time a TikToker shared the awkward video Ben Affleck sent her after she unmatched him on Raya because she thought he was a catfish:
Thinking about it, TikTokers and celebrity men don't exactly have a great track record — who could forget Adam Levine's cringey extra-marital sexts (to multiple different women!) leaking? Alongside the claim that he wanted to name his and his wife's son Sumner, which is the same name as one of the woman he cheated with.
Idk about you, but I'm forever wondering what Bella Hadid was thinking when she let us know what sneakers homeboy needed to wear if homeboy wanted to get it.
And I'm still cringing over Tom Holland telling American-born Eric Nam that he speaks "great English."
And, at one point, Hailey Bieber was physically down bad for Justin Bieber. The notorious video of Justin skateboarding away from paparazzi and Hailey tripping over — as in, literally falling to the ground — as she tries to run after him genuinely haunts me. "Go Hailey, don't fall! Don't fall!"
How about that time Jennifer Lopez confidently strutted up to her old home in the Bronx and told the owner that she used to live there, only for him to have no clue who she is?
You can watch the full, awkward clip below:
And speaking of misplaced confidence, remember when Usher seemed pretty certain that he'd be placed in the middle when a whole bunch of celebs got together to sing "We Are The Champions" for Jimmy Fallon?
I still need to know what exactly was going through John Travolta's mind when he introduced Idina Menzel as Adele Dazeem at the 2014 Oscars:
Let's relive the moment together:
Not to mention the time that same year when Rita Ora was "hacked," but all that those pesky hackers did was send a tweet reading: "Dropping my new song monday if this gets 100,000 retweets."
When the tweet was still hovering at less than 2,000 retweets a while later, Rita followed up with: "By the way my Twitter got hacked somebody is threatening to release new music I've worked really hard on. Nothing comes out until I'm ready. Or the bots insist on it! When it's ready we will drop music! Luckily I caught the hacker really quickly and deleted the post. Thank you!!" So lucky, Rita!
But Rita isn't the only celeb with an X faux pas up their sleeve. Personally, if I were Patrick Schwarzenegger, I would have been kept awake at night when my sassy tweets about Austin Butler being cast in the upcoming American Psycho movie resurfaced amid my own campaign for the role...
I also need to remind you all of the time that Ryan Seacrest tried to high-five a blind American Idol contestant:
Watch below:
And that time Kendall Jenner genuinely seemed to believe that she could achieve world peace with a Pepsi:
Finally, how could I not mention that genuinely infamous Kelly Osbourne The View moment? In the sense that—
Rewatch below... If you're strong enough:
Whew, that was a lot. Let me know your thoughts — and any moments I've missed — in the comments below!
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