Wonder which were the 10 Worst Celebrity Career Moves ever?
When it comes to celebrities, almost all of us have to admit to owning our People magazine or having that celebrity website we visit every once in a while to check what’s going on in the Hollywood world. We even have our favorite actor, singer or someone famous that we admire and can’t help but check their lives on TV. Moreover, we’ve all have experienced the disappointment of reading something about our idol that we couldn’t believe they did, just like when Jamie Oliver hired a pedophile chef (for some of his success stories, check out our 4 Business Strategies that Turned Jamie Oliver into the World’s Richest Chef list).
We wanted to tell them not to, we wanted to warn them. We were yelling at them from our computers: “this is going to ruin your career!” But it was too late, and they were all over the news. The Worst Celebrity Career Moves are those mistakes we couldn’t watch them make and that you’re now going to read altogether in this list. Some of them recovered from them, but their careers were never the same. And if you don’t even know that actor’s name, then you know for sure that they’ve made a mistake, or you would at least know who they are. Let’s see…
10. Matt LeBlanc staring in the show “Joey” after “Friends”
Joey was the fan’s favorite character in Friends (maybe below Rachel), but the moment we saw this show, we knew it was over. This new TV series was nothing like the one we loved, and the character lost its simplicity. It wasn’t funny anymore.
“Joey” was a huge failure, and it lasted two seasons before it was cancelled. Matt LeBlanc continued doing other shows, though nothing was at least “good”.
9. Ben Affleck staring in Gigli
Now, having won an Academy Award for being one of the producers of “Argo”, we can all forget about this. Though, we can’t. Ben Affleck starred in a movie in 2003 called “Gigli” with Jennifer Lopez, which got a 2.3/10 ratings from 38,428 users in IMDB. The words “Awful”, “Hopeless”, “Terrible”, “Benifer’s-Gate”, were used by the viewers…
8. Jamie Oliver hiring a pedophile chief
He gave a convicted pedophile a job as an apprentice at one of his restaurants. Whether you may think this is right or wrong, it is definitely controversial.
Find out more here: 4 Business Strategies that Turned Jamie Oliver into the World’s Richest Chef
7. Britney Spears turning down the song “Umbrella”
When Britney Spears was at her worst (remember her shaving her head?) she was actually offered the possibility to record “Umbrella”, however her producers turned it down. And that’s how Rihanna made it into Hollywood.
Could that song have saved her career? We’ll never know… But wrong move, Britney!
Keep reading this list to find out which were the 6 worst celebrity career moves ever.
6. Winona Ryder getting arrested for shoplifting
The innocent girl from “Girl, Interrupted” was caught shoplifting at the Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills in 2001. After that, she made a couple of more movies, but the fans were definitely disappointed. Though in 2013, she revealed “’I think a lot of people think that that is what sort of sent me off in another direction, but I was actually starting to have some trouble a few years before” and that that incident saved her.
5. Will Smith turning down the lead role in The Matrix
The title says it all. Even though Will Smith is now an A-list actor, he could have jumped into fame way faster if he had starred in the blockbuster move “The Matrix”, which won several Academy Awards in 1999.
4. Chris Brown charged with assault on Rihanna
In 2009, Chris Brown was accused of brutally beating Rihanna, which was proved and was sentenced to five years of probation and six months of community service. I don’t think any of us can look at Brown and not remember this incident!
3. Lindsay Lohan and her many, many visits to the court room
We tried to look away the first, second time. But after so many days spent in jail, I think we can all agree that she’s definitely not going back to Disney. Drug abuse, rehab, more alcohol, theft, rehab again… it’s a never ending story, one that’s for sure didn’t help for her career.
2. John Lennon – Yoko Ono
Okay, we love John Lennon no matter what, but at the time, Yoko Ono was an issue, and a big one. The fans criticized him for her standing between The Beatles. Everything changed after his death, but some still think she changed it all…
1. Tom Selleck turning down Indiana Jones
One of the biggest movies of all times was starred by one the biggest actors of all times. However, that part was offered to Tom Selleck first.
This is the number one in the Worst Celebrity Career Moves, because many of you may not know this actor, other may know him for his part in the TV show Friends, but I bet everybody in the entire world would know him if he’d starred in the multimillion-dollar movie “Indiana Jones”.
