Top 10 Famous People That Ruined Their Career With One Photo
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- A picture is worth a thousand words. Or in these cases, a career. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most widely known public figures whose careers or political campaigns were severely damaged because of compromising photographs. Our countdown of famous people who ruined their careers with one photo includes Kate Moss, Michael Dukakis, Kathy Griffin, and more! What other career-ending photographs exist out there? Bring them to our attention in the comments below.
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It took decades, but the Miss America CEO apologized publicly to Vanessa Williams when she was hosting the Miss America show in 2015. It wasn't her fault and her reputation was damaged, but she climbed above it and has become an Icon.
If you can't tell your parents what you are doing, there is something wrong. Despite any so-called apologies, she was very wrong and has no morals. Of course we know that.
Vanessa Williams is the only Miss America that I remember. I'm glad she overcame that B.S. I never understood why people were upset about the photos anyway. The media has been telling us what to think for far too long. They act like they're the only ones with any morals when they are the biggest pieces of crap on the planet.
Yes, she's the most popular Miss America, great actress & singer. I can't name another Miss America, except maybe Mary Ann Mobley. 😊
You have to have some morals. Where does it end?
I personally loved the close up of her snatch in that infamous Penthouse pictorial in '84. Her stock rose with me.
If anything the photos made her career, without them, even with her talents she likely would have been just another forgotten Miss America
It's not "B.S.". It's called "Morality" and she has none.
Can we really say Ed Miliband’s photo was controversial? Or even career ending? It feels more like a “haha you’re mid bite of a sandwich” than some massive scandal
Yep. It's really really really difficult to explain how different it is on the political ladder of things.
Seems ridiculous
England really????
Yeah, how stupid. The poor guy was eating lunch. At some point when we are eating, we are often less than attractive. He wasn't engaging in anything controversial (it would have been different if he had claimed he was a vegetarian, which, I don't believe he did). How would anyone like it if someone took an embarrassing, unattractive picture of them, simply doing a normal thing in a daily life and then printed it for all to see? No wonder famous people hate certain photographers. So, this was published so some magazine or paper could make money? I hope the editor who decided to put this in feels bad. (My guess is that he or she doesn't because it probably sold a bunch of issues).
Watch the news or some other show and pause in the middle of their reporting. Often, you will see some pretty hilarious pictures - the anchor looking like he's falling asleep, about to kiss someone or looking very surprised. It's just how faces are. I hope someone follows the photographer around and snaps horrible pictures of them and posts it all over the place.
@@GoddessPallasAthena yea 😢 let's be happy we are on the other side of things.
Vanessa Williams - they hunted for dirt on her.
And they found it easily enough. When Williams won the title, you had to have some small semblance of morality to represent the country. I know that doesn't matter to some but to others, it means something.
Wait!! So politicians used to resign after having a scandal??!! Really?? wow
Trump would instantly resign if he was ever involved in any kind of scandal whatsoever....lol
Have we really stopped so low as a society that we ridicule and insult people who eat sandwiches…? And yet we allow others to get away with sexual harassment and assault and call that ok?
I don’t think this was an ending for Vanessa Williams. More like a spectacular beginning.
It’s crazy how Vanessa Williams even got better looking after being Miss America. Beautiful woman
I always felt the same. I was a child to teen age in the 1980s, I always hated the big hair and over done makeup. She was prettier years after that scandal then when she won.
The original edition of the Penthouse that first had Vanessa Williams's pictures is now illegal to own because that issue also contained nude images of 15-year-old Traci Lords.
My dad had it.
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No prince Andrew? Thought that’d be #1!
Prince "No Royal Marine, I want to be a sissy actor" Edward!
Or the epstein bill clinton painting lol but I guess it's not technically a photo, but still lol
@@CraigalicioususaIf they put that on the list people would call them biased for not showing pictures of Epstein and Trump.
Bill Clinton & Donald Trump haven’t suffered any damage from their connection to Jeffrey Epstein. Prince Andrew on the other hand has.
Don’t know if you could consider this a “celebrity losing their career”, but what about the one photo of Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre? Maybe do a similar list involving royalty losing their status as royals over a photo?
My question is: Why do people care about the type of plane Bow Wow was flying on? Even if he lied, it’s not that big of a deal. Tons of celebrities have done way worse.
I have more respect for him not flying a private jet
People don't care about that. People care about the fact that he was actively trying to lie to them and trick them. That really pisses people off.
@@aartadventure I don’t know if he lied. I’m not trying to disagree with you or anything, but I honestly have no idea because it was such a weird situation.
Wait….Ed Miliband was considered to be in a scandal because…he….was eating a sandwich…? W-why?
Right?! I mean, I could MAYBE see it being controversial if he claimed to be keeping kosher and that being a major part of his personality, but as far as I can tell, he never did.
John Edwards and the photo of him with his love child was pretty scandalous
The way Ed Milland’s career ended was stupid. He never should have lost his career like that.
If you're entertaining you get away with stuff. If not you'll have to go based on nonsense.
@@flugsven Ridiculous! People should judge based on their effectiveness as leaders, not over some mundane thing like eating a sandwich because we all do that. That’s just stupid! It‘s like the lyrics in a song, “God is great, beer is good, people are crazy“.
@@michaelmonthey5974 Yes, it's ridiculous, totally agree.
It's amazing how different the realm of politics is in the UK vs US. If that was considered controversial and career ending, one could only imagine what kind of issues an American politician would face there (the likes of MTGreene and G Santos)...
From a country that has voted and probably will vote Trump again as president I feel this sht is salt in the sea,..
I don’t really think that photo ruined Bow Wow’s career.
He was done way before that
He had no career to lose
Yall aint showing the photos
Ummm, yes they are.
I was wondering if some of them would be a youtube violation
If they had shown the infamous photos of Vanessa, they would be in trouble with Prude-Tube. The non-explicit pics can be shown
@@LucyLioness100 what about censoring?
Ed Miliband shouldn't have gotten canceled imo, but Gary Hart should've kept his mouth shut when he told reporters to follow him around.
This really just shows you that cancel culture wasn't just invented recently, its always been a thing. Heck people were killed over rumors.
It didn’t ruin Vanessa Williams in the long term. She ended up in several movies
She also has a beautiful voice.
What?? Models use drugs?? 😂
Vanessa Williams is so pretty!
In today’s political climate, Franken would have never resigned. We’ve seen congress people do far far worse
Some of these are ridiculous
I'll never understand why in the US a politician's love life is of any importance to their office, but whether they've actually broken the law is whatever.
I don't care who the person is f... as long as it's not The People or a minor.
If they claim to love family values and then they're cheating on their spouse and/or paying prostitutes it absolutely is an issue.
@@forshame2002 that's the thing! I don't care about their personal family values! I want to know what policy they're wanting to implement in the country, things that will impact everyone's lives, what they do in the bedroom has no impact in the lives of anyone except their own. Their goings-on matter as much to me as mine matter to them. It's the power to influence a whole people that should be the focus.
Bow Wow gets a pass from me; he never said he was on the plane and posted no photos pretending to be on one. Influencers can rent mock-ups of private jet interiors and pretend they're flying private or first class, he didn't do that.
you left out weeeeener's mirror selfie
Some of these weren't that bad. 🎉
Hey, let's do a list about 10 photos that ruined careers and only show two of them...
KG is correct. She is protected by the 1st Amendment for her disgusting photo. But so are all the calls to boycott her.
Yep! She wasn't stopped from her 1st ammendment right. She just had the consequences of the act. And she didn't like them... But oh well. No freedom was taken from her.
Exactly. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
This is an informative list
Amazing video watch mojo of celebrities destroyed there careers with photographers that being taken of them out there in the world,fantastic job.
Sooo do we have to look up the photos ourselves 😂 wtf
Ikr!!!
With a name like WEINER I would pay any amount of money to change it...and SUE my parents.🤬
supposedly its a German name
@@mattalan6618 huh, it sounds Jewish... either way it's SHAMEFUL!!!
A weiner named Weiner!!
@@mattalan6618 not really.... its a j name
I bet Prince Andrew's Epstein photo will be on here
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thats why they were mad at Bow wow?! and why was a politician sneared for eating a sandwich?
Because some people have sad little lives devoid of meaning and purpose and can be convinced that stupid crap matters
BAHAHAHA!! "Check out this photo of me flexing my muscles" 💪
they say a photo is worth a 1000 words
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09:48 probably not on purpose, but holy moly, that sentence gets a WHOLE new meaning in this kinda video..
Surprised Jane Fonda didn’t make this list.
Bow wow career wasn't ruined because a photo of him lying about being on a jet.
People on social media, especially Black Twitter, made fun of him and made memes.
He was still on the reality show Growing up hip hop
How can a career be "ruined' when they climb back to the top in 3 months? Do any words have any meaning anymore?
I know,I was wondering that myself. Watch Mojo does that all the time.
Dukakis' campaign wasn't torpedoed by the tank photo; it was tanked by the Willie Horton scandal...
Dude lost his job because he ate a bacon sandwich pathetic.
How is Prince Andrew not on this list??
6:48 the tank photo isn’t what tanked Dukakis
the problem with Kathy Griffin is she wasn’t funny in the first place, and her career was borderline lukewarm already.
Yet again somebody who has no idea what they are talking about. Regardless if she is funny or not she did nothing wrong. Trump has done and said waaaaaay worse, and his disgusting cronies.
Some of these are just simple stupidity. Bad judgment calls and immoral behavior. The poor sandwich guy? I mean come on, he was just eating a sandwich. Don’t ever judge anyone who prefers not to eat in public. 🙄🙄🙄
Anthony Weiner really living up to this name 😂
... he lost because he was eating a bacon sandwich? And what, Didn't "look right?'
What the eff ever "right" is.
What am I missing?
How different it is in politics. In their world, that makes sense. In ours, it doesn't.
It's just proof that there's no substance in politics. It's all about appearances
Hugh jackman played Gary hart in a movie
Ed milband looks like sacha baren Cohen cosplaying as ray barone 😅
Gary Hart's downfall was a classic example of hubris😮
Wow.
And Trump is STILL considered a viable Presidential candidate??!
Military tank? As opposed to all the other tanks? Fish, water, ____top?
The bow wow example is completely meaningless and ridiculous
the Kate Moss situation is kind of crazy. a supermodel doing drugs isn't really shocking to anyone, and brands dropping her seems more reactionary than anything else. it's no surprise that she bounced back, because most people in the industry wouldn't give a fuck about drug use
For her to be the face of several companies, it is a big deal. Thinking about the possibility of things happening behind closed doors is different than seeing photo evidence of it out in the open. None of those companies want that to be associated with drug use.
Vanessa Williams career took off with that photo.
Any picture of me doing my job would probably get me fired. I’m not particularly competent in the tasks.
WatchMojo: Famous People That ""RUINED"" Their Career With One Photo
Also WatchMojo: ...but Kate Moss' career bounced back in a matter of months.
Vanessa Williams is such a queen!
I’m glad Kathy Griffin retracted her apology. Comedians should never apologize for their material-no matter who’s claiming offense. If a person doesn’t like the joke or statement-go find another performer. That’s what grown-ups do.
i cant be famous i have panic attacks and anxiety id be a nervous wreck being hounded and go forbid i sneeze a wrong way
So who’s in the thumbnail? 🤔
Al Franken also had a photo taken, of a female soldier a sleep on a militairy plane, while he pointed at her breast in a demening way. And have those people on the list would now have big careers because of what they did. Socials and media changed and not for the better...
she's not a soldier
she's
LEEANN TWEEDEN
a actress
a swimsuit model
a nude model
It's crazy that Vanessa Williams Penthouse is illegal to own cuz Traci Lords
10) Drugs really smh
9) What a big doofus.....cheating, where do these people find the time.
8) Entire career ruined because you took a picture of a plane........doesn't sound believable.
7) That's not the full story...
6) He has no one else to blame but himself. Why would you challenge the media like that?
5) Bad Play!
4) If it ain't for sale ladies, don't advertise it.
3) Ethical issues
2) Stupidity is a talent for misconception and also you can't legislate against stupidity.
1) And that's what happens when you try to be funny while abandoning your moral principles.
I think it's so hypocritical that recreational drug use is frowned but it's OK to destroy lives with alcohol.
It was a huge blow to memers everywhere that we never got a President Weiner.
The Chris Lee thing seems mi or compared to what is in the courts now. And that career goes on... for now.
Franken never should have resigned.
A-MEN.
So just forget about all of the other women he fondled while taking a picture with him. He's lucky no one pressed charges against him.
Al, he’s good enough.. smart enough and God doggone it, people like him.
I'd completely forgotten about Ed Miliband's picture. I can't remember if I ever saw it 🤔 Just shows you how interested I am in politics 😂 Poor guy, he might as well have been caught sitting on the toilet 😪
Career ended with a photo
First entry; subject was back on top months later
Where's the Kate Moss photo?
Wiener own last name was his Achilles heel, the biggest pipe bomb of the 2010’s for me.
they have changed a lot, right everyone?
Not everyone condemned Kathy for that photo. I liked it.
The career of Kate Moss was not ruined at all!!!
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Bow wow's thing and Millebands thing were not like the rest, it was stupid to try to cancel them.
Vanessa Williams showed the world what grace and poise truly is...
as for Senator Franken... he showed the Republican party what accountability and responsibility looks like.
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So the poor guy lost his career because he ate a sandwich!?? Wow. Im dumbfounded on that one. I feel bad for him. Everyone has to eat. That is beyond ridiculous.
Winnie Wallace..... Someone needs to tell Kate Moss her career was ruined all those years ago because of her drug taking...She clearly hasn't heard yet....
I’m sorry… someone ruined their career because… they ate a sandwich!? A Sandwich!? 🤯 soooo….are people not allowed to eat now!? 🤯
Kate moss was hardly ruined by any claims of drug use
1. Did Milleband's political career really end up because of a photo? Or was it because he was a lousy politician? Because I really refuse to believe the British people are that shallow.
2. The only Miss America I can remember by her full name is Vanessa Williams.
Williams was treated sooo unfairly. In everyone of the other photos, they were reflecting some bad actions or attitudes or lacking personalities of the people they were of. But for Williams, it was just some partially nude photos which were never supposed to be released. It said nothing wrong about her, and she was betrayed.
It was a travesty that the committee didn't stand behind her on this. They looked really bad when they forced her to resign. But doing that, they told the world they didn't really care at all about the lives of the women, that it really wasn't about female accomplishments and empowerment, it was just about making a buck off their looks, and discarding them.
On the contrary, if they had stood by her, if they had said the truth, "Ms. Williams was treated unfairly by this photographer, who broke his word to her, and tried to ruin her reputation for a few dollars. We stand behind her, and support her", then I think they would have gained huge respect around the world. And that's not just me thinking this in hindsight, I remember that being the feeling for most people I spoke with at the time.
EDIT: Oh yeah, the sandwich bite was pretty innocent, too. But even he admitted that there were more important reasons he lost, than the sandwich.
Comparing these “scandalous” things to today’s immorality is almost laughable.
What about Sinead O'Connors PHOTO if the Pope.
I thing Hugh Grant's photo and scandal was career ending.
I cannot believe the guy eating a sandwich was a big deal….
She did not break the law. She just broke all the laws of common sense and decency. When you ack like the south end of a northbound mule, you don’t have the right to get upset when you’re treated like the south end of a northbound mule
Kathy G just because something is legal doesn’t make it right. It was just in bad taste like about 95% of the rest of your material
Calling Kathy Griffin a comedian is like calling Lizzo "svelt."