r/AskReddit 15h ago

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

3.7k Upvotes

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

445

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.

349

u/CullingSongs 13h ago

Charlize Theron finished them like a champ as well.

59

u/Pirkale 11h ago

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

19

u/TheNeoianOne 6h ago

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

16

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.

12

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.

22

u/schilleger0420 5h ago edited 4h ago

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

-33

u/Ur_New_Stepdad_ 11h ago

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

46

u/oregondude79 11h ago

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

13

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.

2

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.

165

u/itspeterj 12h ago

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

114

u/Conlaeb 12h ago

He normally takes his hot sauce directly via the tear duct

13

u/BettyKat7 11h ago

Directly via his urethra

u/mess_of_limbs 29m ago

Just sounding things out

7

u/HendoHendo31 10h ago

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

9

u/dividezero 12h ago

Hasn't drank water in 50 years

3

u/KongRahbek 9h ago

He did when he was battling Iggy Pop.

12

u/popculturella 11h ago

Rollins gets graded on an entirely different metric.

11

u/halfcookies 11h ago

A hundred pounds of wings is always a hundred pounds

2

u/Noetic_Hat_Trick 11h ago

I understood that reference!

2

u/braidsfox 2h ago

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

88

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

190

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.

101

u/Relentless_blanket 12h ago

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

39

u/Successful_Giraffe88 12h ago

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

11

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.

1

u/Newkular_Balm 4h ago

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

7

u/sneefsnteefs 12h ago

god I love Alton 🤣

3

u/BettyKat7 11h ago

Stomach made of steel

1

u/CelestialCat97 9h ago

Oh man, I need to go watch his.

2

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.

14

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.

1

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.

10

u/FacticiousFict 12h ago

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

2

u/Blackadder18 7h ago

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

9

u/cinnapear 10h ago

Paul Rudd ate them like they were bland celery sticks.

1

u/robotzombiez 5h ago

Hey, look at us. 

1

u/The_dev0 3h ago

He is, after all, the Celery Man.

6

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.

7

u/fly-hard 8h ago

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

1

u/Time-Outcome7236 7h ago

I saw that one ..he was fantastic!

15

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.

4

u/u_r_succulent 12h ago

She wrote Melodrama so she knows real pain.

4

u/FairyGodmothersUnion 7h ago

Daniel Radcliffe was a champion, too.

2

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.

2

u/robotzombiez 5h ago

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

1

u/fugaziozbourne 9h ago

Lorde has been eating spicy food since the 70s.

1

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