Bad Celebrity Behaviour Trivia Quiz

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The first event referred to marked the beginning of the Taylor Swift-Kayne West feud. American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video in 2009 for the video accompanying her 2009 "You Belong With Me" song. She was in the middle of her acceptance speech when Kayne West took a microphone to promote Beyoncé's music video for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (2008). The feud has been stoked by things like West's 2016 single "Famous" (with Swift claiming the music video included revenge porn), and so on.

The Chris Rock-Will Smith slapping incident took place during the 94th Academy Awards in 2022. Comedian Chris Rock was presenting the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature when he made an unscripted joke about the alopecia-affected (or bald) head of Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith, who was also present. Smith apologised and pre-emptively resigned from AMPAS (the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), who present the awards. AMPAS followed up by banning him from membership for a decade.

Mel Gibson hit the headlines in 2006 when he was stopped for speeding and found to be drunk. When arrested, he reportedly let loose with a racial tirade for which he later apologised. A member of Alcoholics Anonymous, he has struggled most of his adult life with alcoholism. The chair-throwing incident also involved alcohol with country pop singer Morgan Wallen in 2024 narrowly missing two Nashville police officers on the street below. A court appearance followed. Justin Bieber was aged 19 when arrested after failing a sobriety test in 2014. He'd been drinking, smoking cannabis, taking prescription drugs, and was street-racing a yellow Lamborghini at 4 AM in a Miami Beach residential area. It was not his first brush with the law.

The Bill Murray 'phone rage' incident occurred on a Carmel rooftop bar in 2016. He was annoyed by camera flashes from fans taking his photo and threw at least two phones off the roof. The phones were apparently stolen by a passing driver, the fans did not press charges against Murray, and he offered to replace the phones. British supermodel Naomi Campbell was the one responsible for the 2006 phone tossing incident, with four assault incidents between 1998 and 2015. Other celebrities, such as American singer Bebe Rexha in 2023, have been on the receiving end.

The eleventh season of the TV sitcom "Roseanne" was cancelled in 2018 within hours of the protagonist Roseanne Barr posting racist comments on Twitter. The "Roseanne" series was replaced by a successful spin-off series "The Conners" (2018-2025) without any involvement from Roseanne Barr. Alec Baldwin claimed that playing the video game "Words with Friends" on an American Airlines (AA) flight in 2011 resulted in him being removed from the plane. Other versions of the story point to a phone call coupled with abusive and aggressive behaviour. AA later stated that staff was following federal flight safety procedures regarding electronic devices.