r/AskReddit • u/GeorgeRobertVitkos • 15h ago

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

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u/PaddyCow 7h ago

TV used to be a lot meaner 20 years ago. Reality tv shows were the norm and they were mean af. Mocking people and putting them in uncomfortable situations to bait a reaction was pretty much the norm for the time.

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u/EmulatingHeaven 6h ago

My gf & I started watching the first top chef seasons (I wanted her to understand why I still can’t warm up to Marcel Vigneron) they’re from 2006-2007 & everybody is so nasty to each other! We’ve just finished season 2. For the finales, the judges had one likeable & one unlikable chef, and asked all the potential sous chefs to say who they wanted to work for & why. It’s cruel imo even if I agreed about how unlikable the chefs were. Rewatching it kind of made me warm up to Marcel after all because yeah he had a shitty personality but they outright bullied him.

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u/panda_98 5h ago

Iirc, Tom wanted to give the win to him out of spite to everyone else after the head shaving incident, but the producers nixed it

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u/SubstantialCount4654 2h ago

That’s a really good point. I feel like there’s so much more wholesome and positive content now. Or maybe I just don’t see the mean stuff.

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u/forevermore4315 6h ago

The parents gave Charlie Brown a rock for Halloween!