Fallen From Grace: 2012's Ten Most Spectacular Celebrity Meltdowns
Ahh… 2012... how fondly we will look back on it. The Olympics. The end of the Twilight Saga…um… loads of celebrities going utterly bonkers, losing the plot, mixing their drugs with their anxiety problems, mixing their drinks with their driving, finding God, denouncing their generous employers, driving over members of the public, telling lies, heading off to rehab… the bizarre behaviour of a huge number of celebrities has kept the therapists on speed dial and the gossip mags in overdrive this year.
We’ve selected the best / worst falls from grace this year, so you don’t have to trawl through the half-hearted meltdowns to get to the real grit of the trials of modern celebrity life.
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7. Flavor Flav
Nope, this isn’t about the embarrassing moment, caught on camera, when Flavor Flav mistook Miley Cyrus for Gwen Stefani. The Public Enemy star got himself into some far worse trouble this year when he assaulted his fiancée Elizabeth Trujillo and her son, aged 17. No stranger to a pair of handcuffs, Flavor Flav was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and battery and found himself jailed. Seriously bad form from Flav, there; he’d already been flung in jail for failing to turn up to a court custody hearing earlier in the year, he could find himself doing a much longer stint if he doesn’t straighten out.
Oh come on, you must have been expecting her somewhere up here in the Top 3, right? In fact we’ve only kept Lohan off the top two spots because a) she did actually manage to stick to her probationary terms for the best part of the year and b) even our cold, scandal-loving hearts, we are willing to admit that not all of the accusations levelled against Lohan may have been entirely fair. There’s still plenty that she’s guilty of though, first of all, an apparent lack of regard for her own reputation and an utter failure, despite everything that’s happened to her, to realise that if she does something naughty, it’s going to be 545 times worse than if a member of the public does it because we ALWAYS find out. Will Lohan ever learn to behave? Not if the list of offences of the last few months are anything to go by… there’s been car crime, brawling, losing her possessions after failing to pay for storage, falling out with her family, failing to thank Charlie Sheen after he gave her $100,000 to pay off her debts… er, we’ve all been there, right…? Right?
Rumer holds on tight to mum, Demi Moore, there, to stop her causing trouble
2. Demi Moore
OK, we feel sorry for Demi Moore. She got unceremoniously cheated on by her toyboy Ashton Kutcher and had a pretty hard time getting over it, ended up in rehab for ages and to be fair, she kept a pretty low profile for a while whilst she pieced her life back together, but by gosh, she’s come back on a real mission to show that hell hath no fury (and, indeed no potential for mockery) like a woman scorned. We can only imagine how her kids must be wincing to watch her mother grinding on the dancefloor at the latest celebrity bash, trying to attract the attention of Lenny Kravitz (or, indeed, anyone that happens to be a hell of a lot younger than her) and snaring herself a 26 year old boyfriend for a few months (that’s just two years older than her eldest daughter, fact fans!). Oh and her behaviour regarding her divorce has been particularly ungracious, so far – we’re expecting that to get a whole lot worse.
A classic 2012 pose for Amanda Bynes... hiding her shame
1. Amanda Bynes
There was simply no way that we could award this year’s top accolade for falling from grace to anyone except the former Nickelodeon star Amanda Bynes. Her spectacular journey though madness kept us on our toes for weeks on end earlier this year. She started out with the usual child-star-gone bad behaviour, which inevitably involved the odd hit and run charge, a touch of driving under the influence, of course. Amanda decided not to stick to that script though and instead chose to expand her repertoire of odd behaviour by acting strange in a spinning class, locking herself in a clothes shop changing room for hours, and, erm, pinching a paparazzi photographer. In your bid to become the next Lindsay Lohan, in all the worst ways possible, Amanda Bynes, we salute you.