It’s easy – and so much more fun – to scroll through pages of celebrity gossip, rolling your eyes as you go and making hilarious sarky comments about people who lay their lives out for your amusement.?
There are, however, a select few famous people who get more flack than they deserve from their not-so-adoring public. So, in a refreshing change of pace, here’s five celebrities that you probably can’t stand and five reasons why you should probably rethink that.
#5 – Tom Cruise
Reputation:?
A slightly demented midget with the whitest teeth known to man. He’s just as famous for believing that we are the lost souls of an ancient alien race as he is for appearing in Top Gun and jumping all over Oprah’s furniture. Did I mention he’s really short?
Why You Shouldn’t Hate Him:
Sure, Scientologists sound like a bunch of nutters, but imagine you had to explain Christianity to someone who had never heard of it? All of humanity is descended from two people, one of which is made out of the rib of the other, and they both angered God by taking advice from a talking snake who told them to eat an apple.
I’ll give you the weird teeth thing, but if you can look past them, he’s a pretty great actor. Tropic Thunder may not have been a brilliant film in itself, but Tom Cruise’s character was widely regarded to be the best part of the whole thing, and it takes talent to stand out in a crew that includes some other pretty big names – Robert Downey Jnr, Ben Stiller and Steve Coogan to name a few.
#4 – Nickelback
Reputation:
Literally the worst band in the world. The butt of every music-related joke on the internet and the musicians that Canada are most ashamed of.
Why You Shouldn’t Hate Them:
Okay, so they aren’t the greatest band in the world. At best, they are just another slightly boring alt rock band, and everybody’s fascination with hating them is slightly confusing. It can’t be over-exposure, because who can name more than three songs by them that have even registered in the mainstream media? Despite this awful reputation, they’re still a band and have been since 1995, so they must have some loyal fanbase.
#3 – Gwyneth Paltrow
Reputation:?
An America-hating health food nut, who in her own words, “can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.” She was also named by Star Magazine as the world’s Most Hated Celebrity.
Why You Shouldn’t Hate Her:
Granted, it can be extremely irritating to be told that you shouldn’t let your kids watch television because it rots the mind by somebody who literally does it for a living. But is this worthy of crowning her the worst person in Hollywood? Chris Brown beat the shit out of his girlfriend and then got it tattooed on his neck and he only came in at #20. She also once tweeted “Who do I have to bang to get an advance copy of the new Coldplay album? I mean, really.” That’s pretty damn funny.
Gwyneth is often slated for slating America at every chance she gets, claiming that Britain is now where it’s at. Self-deprecating humour and general grumpiness towards your homeland is about as British as you can get, she’s just trying to fit in with the rest of us.
#2 – Ke$ha
Reputation:
Dumb-as-rocks party girl who has had more shots than showers, and relies heavily on her good friend Mr. Autotune to make songs ?about being wild and crazy kids who just want to have fun. She also drank her own piss.
Why You Shouldn’t Hate Her:
She’s a parody artist that managed to make it big. She scored 1500 on her SATs (I’m told this is near-perfect) and her IQ is 140, which puts her perilously close to the ‘genius’ category. Her obsession with Daft Punk lead to her using so much autotune, but you only have to listen to the acoustic version of her hit ‘Blow’ to know that Ke -dollar sign- ha actually has talent hiding beneath the layers of grime and glitter.
As well as all of this, she’s hella entertaining just on her own – do you think Selena Gomez or Katy Perry would drink their own pee and openly talk about dreaming about dick? No, because they are hidden behind so many PR guys that you don’t actually get any sense of their personality at all. We, the public, much prefer some good ol’ fashioned trailer trash to polished celebrities any day. Case-in-point…
#1 – Honey Boo Boo and Co.?
Reputation:
White trash rednecks with no actual talent besides belching, who embody everything that is bad about reality TV.
Why You Shouldn’t Hate Them:
I’ve found the majority of people who voice the above opinion also follow it up with ‘I have never watched the show’. This is evident, because anybody who’s watched Here Comes Honey Boo Boo has seen how strangely endearing this family are. It’s a welcome break from the ?obviously fake ‘drama’ of Keeping Up With The Kardashians or Real Housewives, and they are the one reality tv family that haven’t let fame go to their heads.
The family reportedly make around $20,000 an episode, and every penny of it goes into the kid’s savings accounts to save for college or any emergency medical care. They survive solely on the money that Sugar Bear makes as a contractor, they still clip coupons and their biggest splurge since hitting the big time is a second-hand 2005 Ford truck.
All the kids are also raised to be happy in their own skin and accept people for who they are, rather than being taught that quickie marriages are the best route to a multi-million dollar perfume deal. I’m not ashamed to say that Alana is also cute as hell.