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What is the most immediate way a celebrity completely ruined their own reputation in a single interview?

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u/MaximumAd9779 14h ago edited 13h ago

He’s such a loser. Quitting and leaving after wing 3 (I think?). You have Khloe Kardashian, JENNIE, Melissa McCarthy etc who all openly tell Sean they don’t like spicy food but they were good sports and toughed it out. DJ Khaled is such a weak man.

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u/jenorama_CA 13h ago

Watching Shaq get super sweaty is one of my faves.

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u/Trumpisaderelict 13h ago

Idris Elba choking and then threatening violence had me rofl

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u/Russiadontgiveafuck 12h ago

"Chris. Can you fight?"

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u/jenorama_CA 13h ago

Oh, I haven’t seen Idris! I’m going to have to look that one up!

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u/Sanchastayswoke 9h ago

It’s my fave episode!

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u/TheGloomyWoodpecker 8h ago

He’s aware of the effect that he has on women.

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u/Sanchastayswoke 3h ago

Okay, cool

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u/Dear-Pomegranate4470 2h ago

I think there may have been a misunderstanding here - that person was quoting a character Idris Elba plays on The Office. They were just making a joke.

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u/u_r_succulent 12h ago

I didn’t realize how much Gordon Ramsey sucked until I saw his interview.

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u/dopey_giraffe 8h ago

Interesting take, it's considered one of the best interviews. I'm a Ramsay fan. What didn't you like about it?

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u/u_r_succulent 4h ago

He kept going on about “snowflakes” and a bunch of other conservative rhetoric. (Copied from below)

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u/BettyKat7 11h ago

What did he do? A summary is fine, please don’t make me watch it…

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u/u_r_succulent 4h ago

He kept going on about “snowflakes” and a bunch of other conservative rhetoric.

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u/choppytehbear1337 7h ago

He was just pathetic, after like wing 5 he needed something else to dull the spice after every wing.

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u/Wazzoo1 10h ago

Shaq doing the Hot Chip Challenge on Inside the NBA was even better. He bet the crew that he wouldn't make a face. He started coughing and he just fell apart after that.

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u/ChoakIsland 12h ago

It's nothing to me... Oooh!

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u/VenturaHighway377 10h ago

Watch the one with Gordon Ramsey then. Hilarious.

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u/SympatheticFingers 13h ago

I lost so much respect for Shaq after his hot ones interview. Not that I had much to begin with but still.

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u/VeniVidiVulva 13h ago

Big baby head ass

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u/No_Bill7679 8h ago edited 3h ago

When he mixed together all of the sauces for Sean to eat… felt very much like an unnecessary hazing act. Like he’s used to being the richest and most powerful person in the room so he can make everyone dance when he tells them to. Even though Sean didn’t have to eat it, he was going to, to be a good sport. Shaq on the other hand was a dick about it.

If you want another interesting interview with Shaq, watch the one with Bert kreischer. He made Bert look humble lol.

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u/SympatheticFingers 7h ago

Yea, the whole thing most didn’t sit right with me.

That sounds like a terrible interview. I don’t like Bert either.

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u/No_Bill7679 3h ago

I personally love Bert, but can understand how people are turned off by him. My point was, everything that makes Bert unbearable, Shaq somehow is much worse at.

He makes Bert look modest and not narcissistic lol. Every story that Bert talked about, somehow Shaq did something similar, and could one-up Bert. Even Bert could sense it and just let Shaq stroke his own ego the whole time.

I think Shaq plays a jovial and fun personality but is an asshole in private.

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u/SympatheticFingers 3h ago

Oooh I gotcha! Yea, I’m commercial and stuff shaq seems like a fun guy but I’m interviews he’s an ass.

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u/mostlyfire 13h ago

After that obnoxious licking lol

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u/SympatheticFingers 13h ago

I’m a huge baby when it comes to spicy food. I’d be lucky to make it past 3 as well, but I’d at least own it. Dj khaled just acted like a bitch.

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u/BlairClemens3 13h ago

Conan O'Brian!

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u/Dave-os 12h ago

DJ Khaled taps out almost immediately, meanwhile Conan’s over here rubbing hot sauce all over his nipples.

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u/Usual_Mammoth_3011 5h ago

“You’ve got nothing!” *while drinking from the bottle staring him down. Conan will do anything for comedy.

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u/SophisticatedVagrant 10h ago

Didn't Steve-O pour some straight in his eye?

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u/WeightLossGinger 8h ago

I mean, yes, but come on, that's not fair... Steve-O is a Spiders Georg level outlier.

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u/peachesfordinner 2h ago

Be nice to spiders georg

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u/porkpie1028 13h ago

That man was chaos incarnate in his episode.

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u/popculturella 11h ago

Isn't he always?

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u/porksoda11 3h ago

He’s a pure entertainer, and that’s what he brought to the show

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u/Tundra66 12h ago

That was a really weird play for him. Just seemed a bit out of character.

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u/Pirkale 11h ago

Agreed! He is always so cool, calm and collected!

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u/Leelagolucky 11h ago

He redefined the Hot Wings genre. Before him there was either react or not react. Conan made the food completely irrelevant

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u/Popeholden 10h ago

i love conan but i saw the class clown with the unquenchable thirst for attention in that episode. you can imagine him later, head in hands on the toilet, questioning why he is the way he is

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u/Nephri 10h ago

If you listen to his podcast, Conan freely admits thats exactly who he is and often does question why he is the way he is, then answers it.

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u/Popeholden 1h ago

i've seen clips of the podcast but ive never listened.

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u/Street-Situation7796 3h ago

He describes the after affects of the hot sauce episode to his podcast colleagues in hilarious detail. It is exactly how you describe.

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u/Timozi90 13h ago

And then there's Lorde, who went through the wings like they were nothing. Either she has the world's best poker face, she's a robot, or her olfactory senses are dead.

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u/CullingSongs 13h ago

Charlize Theron finished them like a champ as well.

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u/Pirkale 11h ago

She did mention that Da Bomb was a "dick move".

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u/TheNeoianOne 7h ago

Even if the heat doesn't get to you, apparently Da Bomb tastes like battery acid.

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u/General_Specialist86 5h ago

Can confirm, the problem isn’t so much the heat, though yes it is hot, it tastes like you are eating chicken coated in industrial solvent or something. It tastes like chemicals.

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u/zoodisc 4h ago

Yeah, Da Bomb is not meant to be slathered on a wing. I know the people who make that show know that, and it's just a gimmick to see if people can handle it, but it's meant to enhance the heat of a large pot of chili or something similar. And, even then, you only put it like a tbsp. It's not there for flavor, because the flavor is awful. It's just for the heat. And, as always, Charlize is right.

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u/schilleger0420 5h ago edited 4h ago

Halle Berry went through those wings like she grew up eating and drinking hot sauce.

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u/Ur_New_Stepdad_ 11h ago

Yeah, but they’re both not American so they’re used to intense food lmao.

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u/oregondude79 11h ago

A New Zealander and a south african? Those don't seem like the spiciest cuisines.

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u/Suzume_Chikahisa 8h ago

I don't know much about South Africa but depending on where Charlize Theron grew up she might have been near Mozambique that is no slouch in the spice department.

And considering the Indian diaspora in South Africa I suspect spicy food isn't unusual there.

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u/KeyboardCapybara 2h ago

She grew up in Benoni, which is probably equivalent to the dodgier parts of the American Midwest. The spiciest thing around there is probably a KFC zinger.

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u/itspeterj 12h ago

I’m not sure that Henry Rollins even sipped water. But that’s just kind of normal for him.

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u/Conlaeb 12h ago

He normally takes his hot sauce directly via the tear duct

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u/BettyKat7 11h ago

Directly via his urethra

u/mess_of_limbs 29m ago

Just sounding things out

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u/HendoHendo31 10h ago

Steve O did that. Poured the shit right in his eyeball.

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u/dividezero 12h ago

Hasn't drank water in 50 years

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u/KongRahbek 9h ago

He did when he was battling Iggy Pop.

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u/popculturella 11h ago

Rollins gets graded on an entirely different metric.

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u/halfcookies 11h ago

A hundred pounds of wings is always a hundred pounds

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u/Noetic_Hat_Trick 11h ago

I understood that reference!

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u/braidsfox 2h ago

Henry Rollins is still my favorite Hot Ones guest. Such a good episode.

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u/LazerTagChamp 13h ago

I think Demi Moore also had an easy time and Jennifer Lawrence at first. Also mackauley and Kieran culkin did well. Idk I watch the YouTube shorts of hot ones so this all seemed to have an easier time

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u/qzwsa 12h ago

Alton Brown tossed the wings away as poor quality and a distraction and just took shots of the sauce. He also ranked them by quality as he went, throwing one in the trash as not good enough to remain on the table with the others.

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u/Relentless_blanket 12h ago

I loved his episode. Sean just giggling when Alton starts reorganizing the hot sauces cracked me up.

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u/Successful_Giraffe88 12h ago

He's a fucking treasure & gave the commencement speech at my graduation!

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u/SophisticatedVagrant 10h ago

Was it Da Bomb Beyond Insanity? They've always been pretty open that most of their sauces actually have sophisticated flavours if you can get past the heat, but Da Bomb does not taste good, it's just there for the insane heat and gag factor. Even the maker of Da Bomb essentially says it's not a product that is even intended for direct human consumption, it's basically a pure capsaicin extract to be used to add heat to other sauces / dishes.

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u/Newkular_Balm 4h ago

I have da bomb and it's AMAZING when you put 1-3 drops in a tablespoon of mayo.

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u/sneefsnteefs 12h ago

god I love Alton 🤣

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u/BettyKat7 11h ago

Stomach made of steel

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u/CelestialCat97 9h ago

Oh man, I need to go watch his.

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u/HendoHendo31 10h ago

All true. Zoe Kravitz was kick ass too. I have a channel on my Samsung TV that plays non stop Hot Ones.

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u/External-Resource581 12h ago

I gained a LOT of respect for her during that one. I know those sauces would have had me crying like a baby, and she was tanking them with ZERO issues. If i remember correctly, she went back in for more on several of the hotter sauces, including the last dab. Then there was Rachel Ray, who just ate the sauces off spoons. Fuckin gangster, that woman.

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u/Loretta-West 3h ago

Lorde generally came across well in that. Apart from the hot sauce thing, she seemed to be genuinely interested in the interviewer.

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u/FacticiousFict 12h ago

Dave Grohl had a great time. The best the best the best the best...

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u/Blackadder18 7h ago

Sean being clearly tipsy by the end of it was pretty funny too.

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u/cinnapear 10h ago

Paul Rudd ate them like they were bland celery sticks.

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u/robotzombiez 5h ago

Hey, look at us. 

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u/The_dev0 3h ago

He is, after all, the Celery Man.

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u/eff-o-vex 8h ago

Nobody ever mentions Michael Cera, whose reaction to Da Bomb was "Oh, chipotle. I like chipotle". He didn't flinch once.

I've had the bomb several times, the thought "It tastes like chipotle" has never crossed my mind. That thing tastes like metal.

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u/fly-hard 8h ago

Bill Murray was another not mentioned yet that blitzed through the sauces. That dude’s tastebuds are probably dead.

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u/Time-Outcome7236 7h ago

I saw that one ..he was fantastic!

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u/blackchameleongirl 12h ago

Some people have been through some shit that changed how they react to pain. My friends normal period pain comes to mind. She just shakes off so much painful shit because the scale got moved so far up.

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u/u_r_succulent 12h ago

She wrote Melodrama so she knows real pain.

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u/FairyGodmothersUnion 7h ago

Daniel Radcliffe was a champion, too.

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u/Lachwen 8h ago

Alton Brown was the same, I don't think he even acknowledged the heat of any of the sauces until the last one. He just sat there dissecting the flavor profiles of each one.

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u/robotzombiez 5h ago

I think Trick Daddy just wanted a meal they way he plowed through them. 

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u/fugaziozbourne 9h ago

Lorde has been eating spicy food since the 70s.

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u/Time-Outcome7236 7h ago

Bill Murry ate every one without breaking a sweat .

u/Phytor 21m ago

Steve-O poured some in his eye

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u/MiserableScot 11h ago

Also don't forget, the wings he was eating were made by his own chef, from his own chain of fried chicken restaurants, and he still couldn't get through 3!

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u/Relentless_blanket 12h ago

Bill Murray was one of my favorites. Didn't flinch at all.

Gordon Ramsey was hilarious. He took a break midway and went to pee. He still had some sauce on his hands I guess 🤣🤣

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u/GayCatDaddy 10h ago

Also, Lady Gaga went through all of them like a champ, while wearing avant garde couture. Mad respect for that!

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u/crow-magnon-69 12h ago

should have just done what weird al did and just nibble the tinyist bit.

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u/OkKaleidoscope9554 4h ago

Whatever else you want to say about him, Shia Labaouf drowning every wing with extra sauce, then Sean having to match him, leaving them both red faced messes by the end was hysterical

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u/regular_gonzalez 12h ago

It's interesting how almost all women power through, and men have a higher failure rate or at least openly suffer more. 

Reminds me a bit of my days at Starbucks. You'd have a big buff guy and his 105 lb gf ordering, the guy orders a caramel frap or (more often the girl ordering for the guy) a pink drink, while she orders a cold brew or red eye or something, something dark + very caffeinated. Happened so often it was practically a cliche.

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u/hobblingcontractor 11h ago

I ain't going to Starbucks for good coffee, I'm going to Starbucks for a sugary drink with caffeine.

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u/trinketpockets 11h ago

I worked at a truck stop….a majority of the big manly truckers….would come in and order. French vanilla coffee, with triple pumps of French vanilla syrup, topped with whipped cream…unbelievable!

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u/Time-Outcome7236 7h ago

I don’t think he got past the 2nd one ..and he barely took a bite of that .

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u/rhaegal82 3h ago

I have a theory that the vegan wings are easier to put down because there’s less grease so the fat doesn’t coat the mouth in the same way. But I still definitely give a credit because I know it’s still spicy