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From controversial political views to scandalous behavior, Hollywood has a long history of shutting out talented individuals. Join us as we explore the most notorious cases of celebrities who found themselves on the industry's bad side, from legendary filmmakers to acclaimed actors who saw their careers dramatically impacted.
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00:00He was the legendary film producer at the top of his game, with the world at his feet.
00:06But Harvey Weinstein became the first major figure taken down by the Me Too movement.
00:12Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for celebrities who were most infamously shut out of Hollywood over scandalous beliefs or behavior.
00:20OJ's football legacy is destroyed. People will never remember or think about what a great running back he was.
00:27Number 30. Joss Whedon
00:31Raising creative standards across genres and mediums, Joss Whedon was one of pop culture's most respected minds.
00:37Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.
00:52The man behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer was particularly regarded for his outspoken feminism.
00:57Then, in 2020, actor Ray Fisher accused him of being harshly unprofessional as director of 2017's Justice League.
01:04This inspired a studio inquiry and many more colleagues to call out Whedon's toxic work environment.
01:09And I knew I was taking a really big, really big risk by saying this because, you know, I go to cons all the time, and, you know, it's a great deal of my income these days.
01:23And I was really putting myself in a position to alienate my fandom.
01:29The most harrowing stories of abuse came from women.
01:32Thus, one of Hollywood's most prolific filmmakers was removed from numerous projects and could not get any more off the ground.
01:39Whedon has acknowledged that he can be a bit totalitarian on set.
01:42Nonetheless, as of 2025, he has not been seen since his downfall.
01:47Number 29. Amber Heard
01:48Public opinion has shifted wildly for the versatile actress and activist Amber Heard.
01:53She particularly came under scrutiny when ex-husband Johnny Depp sued her over a Washington Post op-ed that alleged domestic abuse.
01:59It was very, very toxic.
02:03We were awful to each other.
02:05You know, I made a lot of, a lot of mistakes.
02:10A lot of mistakes.
02:13But I've always told the truth.
02:15The high-profile 2022 trial saw both parties exchange disturbing accounts of verbal, physical, and psychological cruelty.
02:22Meanwhile, histories of other volatile relationships came to light.
02:25Though Depp was found to be defamed, the trial damaged his reputation.
02:29It destroyed herds.
02:31There's absolutely no question that, especially Johnny Depp's lawyers, are playing to the public.
02:38There's no question.
02:39The stasis of her career raised debates about whether the former couple's disgrace was proportionate,
02:44and how Hollywood responds to abuse scandals based on gender.
02:47There's less debate over which party's accusations were more professionally devastating.
02:52Number 28. Ingrid Bergman
02:53A love story nearly snuffed out one of Europe's brightest stars in Tinseltown.
02:58I was just the simple girl, the refugee, and the good girl.
03:03And I got very, very tired of always being so good.
03:06America's moral panic following World War II became focused on Ingrid Bergman's extramarital affair
03:11with Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.
03:14The couple had just had a child when Bergman divorced Petter Lindstrom and remarried.
03:18With her reputation in the U.S. in tatters, she returned to Europe to work exclusively on her new husband's films.
03:24It is believed that Rossellini was highly possessive of Bergman's career.
03:28Of course, backlash over how they got together was mostly responsible for the once-idolized actresses' downfall.
03:33Only after her divorce from Rossellini in 1957 was Bergman able to return to Hollywood in triumph.
03:39No matter what they think, they will accept you.
03:40For 10 million pounds, gladly.
03:43They would accept me and pretend to love me for money?
03:45Is that what they are like?
03:46Isn't everyone?
03:47Number 27. Janet Jackson
03:49Even today, some blacklistings say more about society than the disgraced party.
03:54Such is the case of music and movie star Janet Jackson,
03:57who helmed the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show with Justin Timberlake.
04:00The electric performance was meant to end with Timberlake ripping off a piece of Jackson's top to reveal a red bra.
04:11That also came off, exposing her right breast.
04:14Despite Jackson's immediately visible shock,
04:16she experienced major commercial and professional decline for years.
04:21All the emphasis was put on me, not on Justin.
04:24And, uh, Justin, we were friends.
04:32Meanwhile, Timberlake received virtually no backlash for planning and botching the stunt.
04:37Jackson's comeback in the 2020s opened a dialogue about racial and gender factors in her downfall.
04:42Still, the so-called nipple gate continues to blemish her legendary career.
04:46Number 26. Rose McGowan
04:48The risk involved in the Me Too movement was perhaps embodied by Rose McGowan.
04:52In 2017, she was one of the first actresses to accuse producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault.
04:59Every time I thought about those black dresses, I would get a body flashback.
05:02Every time.
05:03Even right now.
05:05What do you mean by a body flashback?
05:07I can feel them there.
05:08She also accused other industry figures of blackballing her for privately reporting the incident.
05:13McGowan had indeed disappeared for most of the 2010s,
05:16but hasn't had much more of a comeback since her courageous statement.
05:19Her career has also been stifled by a long history of on-set hostility and inflammatory comments.
05:25McGowan's reinvention as an often divisive progressive activist has all but ended her acting career.
05:30People make, like, a really big deal out of anger.
05:33And they make a really big deal out of fear.
05:36And I think fear is just the biggest enemy of my life.
05:40There is no right way to be a woman.
05:42You can't win.
05:42While she initially said the last thing she wanted was to tie her legacy to monsters,
05:47she's made great sacrifices to hold them accountable.
05:50Number 25.
05:51Marsha Hunt and Robert Presnell Jr.
05:53The Red Scare didn't scare off all of its targets.
05:56Actress Marsha Hunt and screenwriter Robert Presnell Jr.
05:59publicly opposed the House Committee on Un-American Activities from the beginning.
06:03She did it to support something she believed in.
06:06The consequences, however, were devastating later on.
06:09The married couple's refusal to respond to allegations of communist sympathies ruined their careers in 1950.
06:15Rather than go into hiding, however, they traveled the world to promote humanitarian causes.
06:19Hunt and Presnell did land some projects before their comeback by the end of the decade.
06:23But Hunt mostly retired on her own terms after the 60s to focus on more important work.
06:28Being blacklisted slowed her career down, but says it certainly didn't end it.
06:33I wanted the greatest variety of roles that I could be given.
06:39And thank God they gave them to me.
06:42Despite the establishment's efforts to bury Hunt and Presnell's talents,
06:46they're even more renowned for a lifetime of dedicated activism.
06:49Number 24.
06:50Sondra Locke.
06:51Oscar nominated for her first role.
06:53Sondra Locke really became a star for her professional and domestic partnership with Clint Eastwood.
06:59Clouds over there.
07:03Clouds are like dreams floating across the sky below mine.
07:08This would also be her undoing.
07:10After the 14-year-long affair ended in 1989, Locke sued Eastwood with claims of abusive behavior and breach of contract.
07:17She also charged Warner Brothers with conspiring to blackball her.
07:21They settled out of court with a development deal,
07:23but Locke received another settlement a few years later when work failed to materialize.
07:27She ultimately had just a few credits between the breakup and her passing in 2018.
07:31Eastwood's claim that Locke was just out for money constitutes a classic he-said-she-said situation.
07:37Directly or not, he did kill a promising acting and filmmaking career.
07:42Yeah?
07:44Yeah.
07:44Number 23.
07:46Dorothy Parker.
07:47Even the literary darling Dorothy Parker felt she was slumming it when she turned to screenwriting in the 1930s.
07:52She was proven right when the Hollywood system proved less than accepting of her left-wing views.
07:57Parker had become a household name and scored two Oscar nominations when the publication Red Channels named her a communist in 1950.
08:04She would become one of the first public figures to fall victim to McCarthyism.
08:08Even her status in other writing fields took a hit.
08:10Parker continued working in radio and activism, but her eventual comeback was stunted by increasing alcohol dependency.
08:17Succumbing to a heart attack in 1967, Parker is as celebrated as ever, but lost everything to the Hollywood elites she loathed.
08:25Number 22.
08:26Paul Robeson.
08:27An accomplished athlete, scholar, singer, and actor, Paul Robeson was an all-American treasure.
08:32Paul Robeson was great at everything he did.
08:35And he did a lot.
08:37An acclaimed singer, actor, all-American football player, Ivy League educated lawyer, prize-winning orator.
08:48Robeson spoke over a dozen languages in a bass baritone voice that moved people.
08:54But he would be labeled un-American for his open criticism of his homeland and support for the Soviet Union.
09:00After a high-profile trip to Moscow to promote peace in 1949, Robeson was practically eliminated from American public consciousness.
09:08Despite his popularity and accolades abroad, his passport was frozen until 1958.
09:13His career would never fully recover even after McCarthyism ended with the decade.
09:18While he looked strong on the outside, the many years of isolation, alienation, and government hostility had taken a toll and would soon begin to show.
09:28Robeson's continued criticism of foreign governments made him an international pariah by the time health concerns forced him to retire in the 60s.
09:36He would still never give up on activism, and is now respected for that as much as his immense talent.
09:42Number 21.
09:43DeShiel Hammett
09:44Revolutionary, at least in detective fiction, DeShiel Hammett was subject to his own tragic investigation.
09:49The literary icon and film noir trailblazer was also a left-wing activist registered to the Communist Party.
09:55After being held in contempt for refusing to testify during the Smith Act trials, Hammett faced backlash that culminated in his blacklisting in 1953.
10:03His more brazenly leftist domestic partner, Lillian Hellman, was also blacklisted, but returned to form in the 1960s.
10:09Meanwhile, Hammett's resignation to advertising drove him to debilitating depression and alcohol dependency.
10:15His decline and sudden death from lung cancer in 61 marked one of the most heinous injustices of the Red Scare.
10:21Hammett and Hellman are remembered as martyrs as well as subversive artists.
10:25Number 20.
10:26Shia LaBeouf
10:27Shia LaBeouf had a promising career for many years.
10:30A wise man once said, a well-fed volunteer is a happy volunteer.
10:35He was constantly reinventing himself, exploring new creative paths and always surprising people.
10:41We've done some hard traveling to get to you.
10:44It's a big deal seeing you here.
10:45You mind waving to him?
10:46But from 2014 onwards, many of his actions were surprising for all the wrong reasons.
10:52Substance abuse issues were at the root of several arrests of the actor, including one in Savannah, Georgia, in 2017, in which LaBeouf was racist and abusive towards police officers.
11:03Then, in 2020, the Even Stevens star faced a lawsuit over battery and assault from former girlfriend, English recording artist FKA Twigs.
11:12While the case is ongoing, LaBeouf has faced severe backlash over this, and was reportedly let go from the Olivia Wilde project Don't Worry Darling due to his alleged poor behavior and treatment of others on set.
11:23Josh Trank emerged as one of Hollywood's hottest up-and-coming directors following the critical and commercial success of 2012's Chronicle.
11:34This led to him directing the Fantastic Four reboot, but things didn't exactly go as planned after that.
11:40On set, Trank was reportedly difficult to work with, continuously distancing himself from the cast and crew.
11:46Things unraveled further when it was revealed that Trank had caused $100,000 worth of damage to a house he was renting during filming.
11:53This sort of behavior would eventually cost him the chance to helm a standalone Star Wars picture, and seemingly shoved him off Hollywood's radar, save for the 2020 gangster flop, Capone.
12:05I'm going to fix this.
12:07You can't fix this.
12:11Nobody can.
12:12Number 18. Lloyd Bridges.
12:15Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.
12:18Imagine history had gone differently.
12:20Imagine Lloyd Bridges had been permanently blacklisted from Hollywood.
12:24Would Airplane have been as funny?
12:26What about Hot Shots?
12:27Would his sons, Jeff and Beau Bridges, even be actors?
12:30But I think the thing that I learned most about acting from him was just the joy in which he approached the thing.
12:38Thankfully, Lloyd Bridges wasn't blacklisted forever.
12:41But what did he do to be barred in the first place?
12:44Simple.
12:44He was affiliated with the Actors Laboratory Theater, which was alleged to have ties to communism.
12:50Bridges testified truthfully before the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Congressional Communist Hunt Committee, and was then blacklisted from Hollywood, but later returned after the FBI cleared his name.
13:02You risked the lives of some damn fine pilots.
13:06That's my job.
13:09Number 17. Thora Birch.
13:11Full moon outside. The weirdos are out.
13:14With Hocus Pocus and American Beauty, Thora Birch did an excellent job establishing herself as one of the industry's brightest young stars.
13:22But since the 2000s, Birch has been relegated to indie films and small television roles.
13:27So what gives?
13:28How does an actress with so much talent disappear overnight?
13:30The answer? Her father and manager, Jack Birch, a former 70s adult star, who demanded to be present during his daughter's love scenes and threatened crew members when things didn't go his way.
13:43His antics have gotten Thora fired more than once, resulting in Hollywood turning its back on her and Birch going on to take a break from acting, though she's subsequently returned to showbiz.
13:52Number 16. Isaiah Washington.
13:55Don't sweat it, Shepard. I'll only be your boss for a few days.
13:57At one time, this Grey's Anatomy star was an up-and-coming Hollywood favorite.
14:02However, he struggled to get quality work ever since he was evidently blacklisted from the game in the mid-2000s.
14:08Washington's difficulties resulted from an apparent on-set dispute with a Grey's Anatomy co-star.
14:14According to reports, Washington hurled homophobic slurs, and after being chastised, he went on to do so again.
14:21He was fired from Grey's Anatomy on June 7th, 2007, and while he went on Larry King Live less than a month later to defend himself, Washington only seemed to dig a deeper hole.
14:34Ever since the controversy, we haven't seen Washington in much.
14:38I can't change that narrative, but what I can do is upset the absolutes about who I am as a human being.
14:43Number 15. CeeLo Green.
14:45You did a great job. You know it, too. You did a great job.
14:48CeeLo Green is a man of many talents, and Trouble is just one of them.
14:53Being a successful singer, record producer, and TV personality didn't matter much when Green was accused of sexual battery and drugging a woman in 2012.
15:01He was eventually sentenced to three years probation, ordered to attend Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous meetings, and perform a round of community service.
15:10The Atlanta native continues to make music and shows up on reality TV from time to time.
15:15But his run-in with the law still cost him, as his show CeeLo Green's The Good Life was canceled after he posted controversial tweets about the case on his Twitter account.
15:24Hi, my name is CeeLo Green, and I'm coming to TBS.
15:27Number 14. Lena Horne.
15:30I never bother with people I hate. That's why the lady is a tramp.
15:37At her prime, jazz artist, pop singer, dancer, actor, and civil rights activist Lena Horne was one of the most active entertainers in Hollywood.
15:46She came up in the 1930s as a vocalist and, by the 1940s, had worked her way onto the silver screen, signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
15:55However, it's reported that by the 1950s, Horne had lost her lust for Hollywood and was looking to step away.
16:02Of course, that didn't matter much since she was blacklisted that decade for her ties to communism in the 40s and was forced out anyway.
16:09I just told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to.
16:15She couldn't get Hollywood roles, but fortunately, nightclubs welcomed her with open arms.
16:19Yesterday, when I was young...
16:26Number 13. Michael Richards.
16:28You're cold?
16:31No one could have predicted how far Michael Richards' star would fall in the years following his successes with Seinfeld.
16:37In the now-infamous Laugh Factory incident of 2006, Richards berated a number of audience members with a string of racist remarks, all of which was caught on video.
16:47While he was quick to apologize following the incident, the damage was done.
16:51I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites, everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger.
17:02Suffice it to say, Richards had a hard time finding work after the incident.
17:06And in an appearance on Jerry Seinfeld's web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, he professed that he's never truly gotten over it.
17:13And really, neither has Hollywood.
17:15Have you been back to the factory since?
17:17No, no, I haven't.
17:18Are you going to try to go back?
17:20I don't think so.
17:21Number 12. Jim Caviezel.
17:28At one time, Jim Caviezel was one of the most promising names in Hollywood.
17:33He had the requisite movie star looks, the camera clearly loved him, and his acting chops were solid.
17:39But Caviezel's entire career trajectory changed when he starred in one little movie, The Passion of the Christ.
17:52Portraying religious figure Jesus Christ, Caviezel actually received acclaim for his performance.
17:57But the film angered many in Hollywood for its graphic violence and apparent anti-Semitic undertones.
18:02Mel Gibson warned Caviezel about what the role could do to his career, but the actor firmly believed in the movie, saying, quote,
18:09We all have a cross to carry.
18:12Number 11. Megan Fox.
18:13Whoa, nice headers.
18:15You've got a high-rise double-pump carburetor.
18:17That's pretty impressive.
18:18While Megan Fox has appeared in a number of big-budget Hollywood films over the years,
18:23her outspokenness towards directors, other actors, and the media led to some degree of blacklisting.
18:29Before the third movie started filming, Fox notoriously compared her Transformers director Michael Bay to Hitler.
18:36Whether or not that was the reason she didn't appear in the film has been subject to debate.
18:41While that statement was insensitive, Bay's treatment of the young actress is certainly worthy of criticism as well.
18:47His solution to that problem was to then have me dancing underneath the waterfall getting soaking wet.
18:56Perfectly wholesome?
18:57At 15.
18:57Thanks in part to the growth of the Me Too movement, Fox has since regained some of her footing in the industry.
19:04Number 10. Katherine Heigl.
19:06Just remember that while you're sitting on 200 grand of student loans, I'm out of debt.
19:11With her work as Dr. Izzy Stevens on Grey's Anatomy serving as a launching pad,
19:15Katherine Heigl was sought after by many studios.
19:18However, reports then emerged that Heigl was difficult to work with.
19:22No.
19:23While that certainly didn't do her any favors, the biggest reason she hasn't found much work
19:28is most likely her bad-mouthing of Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, in their movie Knocked Up.
19:33Wait, what do you mean?
19:34Why don't you? Don't look at me. I mean, we can talk about our fears here.
19:37The film helped launch Heigl to stardom, but she publicly criticized the movie, even calling it sexist.
19:43We're not thrilled about it, because if anything, the movie is about what idiots' guys are,
19:49and how it drives women crazy.
19:51Those comments took the wind out of her sails in Hollywood, but she has fought her way back
19:56to the screen since then, starring in a main role in the 2021 Netflix series Firefly Lane.
20:02Live from Seattle, this is Tully Hyde.
20:07Whoa!
20:08Tully!
20:09Number 9. Kathy Griffin.
20:11Um, I'm not afraid of Donald Trump.
20:12Often outspoken, this comedian has seen herself banned from a number of talk shows,
20:17including The View and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, for her no-holds-barred brand of humor,
20:22something that was on full display during a 2007 Creative Arts Emmy speech,
20:26in which she told Jesus to, quote, suck it.
20:29That comment got her scheduled appearance on Hannah Montana cancelled.
20:33But of course, the granddaddy of Griffin misfires was her 2017 social media post
20:38that featured her holding a mask that resembled the severed head of the President of the United
20:42States' Donald Trump.
20:44CNN fired her for the stunt, while her comedy tour was promptly cancelled.
20:48Did you think your career was over?
20:49Yeah.
20:50I thought there was a really good chance my career was over.
20:52She even doubled down on the photo, posting it again on her 60th birthday in 2020.
20:58Number 8.
20:58Tippi Hedren
21:00You just can't discuss Tippi Hedren without bringing up Alfred Hitchcock.
21:07It was Hitchcock who first discovered Hedren.
21:09He was watching The Today Show, and was captivated by her appearance in a diet drink commercial.
21:14The two set up a meeting, and Hitchcock signed Hedren to a seven-year deal.
21:19And Hedren's Hitchcock debut wasn't minor.
21:21It was the lead actress role in his acclaimed film The Birds.
21:25I keep telling you, this isn't a few birds.
21:28She even went on to be Hitchcock's muse, until they parted ways.
21:32He told me he'd ruin my career.
21:35I said, do what you have to do.
21:36I don't care.
21:37According to Hedren, she repeatedly rejected Hitchcock's sexual advances,
21:42and he retaliated by ruining her career out of spite.
21:45Hitchcock wouldn't release Hedren from her contract, but he wouldn't give her work either.
21:50It's so sad that this relationship had to go that way, because I loved working with him.
21:56He was not only my director, he was my drama coach.
21:59Number 7.
22:00James Woods.
22:01I'm sorry, Ted.
22:02Academy Award-nominated actor James Woods has appeared in dozens of films in his decades-long career.
22:07Still, he fell out of Hollywood's good graces in 2017,
22:11when he made a number of anti-Obama comments on his Twitter account.
22:14Woods, a staunch Donald Trump supporter, didn't seem to care that he was being blacklisted,
22:19and at one point tweeted, quote,
22:21the only reason I express my views is that I have accepted the fact that I'm blacklisted.
22:25Hollywood, which has long been a democratic stronghold, didn't appreciate Woods' stance,
22:30and because of it, he's been pretty much out of work, whether he's concerned about it or not.
22:36Number 6.
22:37Mel Gibson.
22:37That they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!
22:43Gibson's struggles in Hollywood have been among the most public.
22:50He was once one of the biggest names in film,
22:52starring in movies like Mad Max, Braveheart, and Lethal Weapon, to name a few.
22:56Hey, Nose is in the dirt asshole.
23:02His directorial work has been equally impressive,
23:05but despite his talent, Hollywood turned on Gibson in 2006.
23:08After being pulled over for a DUI, Gibson reportedly spewed a shocking anti-Semitic rant.
23:15He's also been caught making homophobic and other racist slurs.
23:18While he's worked on a few projects like the 2016 film Hacksaw Ridge
23:22and the John Wick origin series The Continental,
23:24Gibson has mostly worn out his welcome in many Hollywood front offices.
23:28You hurt?
23:30Oh, side!
23:31Number 5.
23:32O.J. Simpson.
23:33Nobody does it better than hurt.
23:35Remember the time O.J. Simpson was arrested and tried for murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson
23:39and her friend Ron Goldman?
23:41Well, so does Tinseltown.
23:42Dubbed the trial of the century, Simpson was ultimately acquitted.
23:46But with many still believing strongly in his guilt,
23:49his life never truly went back to normal.
23:52In the years following the controversial verdict,
23:54the former athlete, actor, and convicted robber appeared in a grand total of zero films.
23:59A testament to the fact that even if the jury finds you not guilty,
24:02Hollywood and the general public has a hard time forgiving suspected murderers.
24:07We the jury in the above-entitled action find the defendant Orenthal James Simpson
24:12not guilty of the crime of murder.
24:14Number 4.
24:15Dalton Trumbo.
24:16I've got allies and enemies.
24:18There's no room for anything else.
24:20While more modern examples of Hollywood blacklisting tend to focus on individuals,
24:24the 1950s McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklisting was far more wide-reaching,
24:29and Dalton Trumbo's story is among the most outrageous.
24:31After refusing to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947,
24:37Trumbo was not only ousted from Hollywood, he also served time in prison.
24:42That, however, did not stop him from working.
24:45Trumbo launched a new subversive career,
24:47writing screenplays under pseudonyms and the names of other writers.
24:51Two of Trumbo's uncredited works,
24:54Roman Holiday and The Brave One, even won Academy Awards.
24:57Is this where I can find the Presidente?
25:01What do you want with the Presidente?
25:03It's about something very important.
25:05Number 3.
25:06Harvey Weinstein.
25:07This story was always in my eyes about the abuse of power.
25:10Following revelations that shocked few insiders,
25:13Harvey Weinstein awoke to a world of trouble in 2017.
25:17The reports, which included accusations of violence and harassment by dozens of women,
25:22caused many others to speak up,
25:24with the count rising to 80 women within weeks of the story-breaking.
25:28In addition to igniting the Me Too movement,
25:31and bringing to light other now-blacklisted individuals like Kevin Spacey,
25:35the allegations led to Weinstein's firing from the Weinstein Company.
25:38It also saw his ties to numerous big-name organizations severed,
25:41including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
25:45In 2020, while trials were ongoing,
25:47Weinstein was also stripped of his honorary CBE,
25:51a British order of chivalry.
25:53Thanks to his 2022 California conviction,
25:55he was sentenced to some prison time,
25:57but 2025 saw him back in court,
25:59facing a new charge in a New York retrial.
26:02Number 2.
26:03Charlie Chaplin.
26:04We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
26:07Chaplin was the silent movie star.
26:09Actually, he's one of the biggest Hollywood stars ever,
26:12which makes it all the more surprising that he was blacklisted from the industry.
26:16Like others on this list,
26:17Chaplin refused to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee,
26:21but his punishment was far harsher than others.
26:24Since he was not a U.S. citizen,
26:26when Chaplin left the country to premiere his film Limelight in London,
26:29the U.S. Attorney General revoked his re-entry permit,
26:33banning Chaplin from re-entering the United States.
26:36Not only was Chaplin blacklisted from working in Hollywood,
26:39he was banned from the entire country altogether.
26:42I love this country.
26:44I owe everything.
26:45That's precisely what I can criticize him.
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27:03Number 1.
27:04Bill Cosby.
27:05In 2014, legendary comedian Bill Cosby was publicly accused by dozens of different women
27:12of various heinous crimes, dating all the way back to the mid-60s.
27:17Charges were filed against him in 2015.
27:20After a 2017 mistrial, he was found guilty in 2018,
27:24fined $25,000, and given 3 to 10 years in jail.
27:29In the interim, Cosby was also dropped by sponsors,
27:32saw honorary degrees and awards revoked,
27:35and witnessed the entertainment industry turn its back on him.
27:38Even reruns of the show that made him a household name were pulled.
27:42Despite his conviction being overturned in 2021,
27:45Cosby's relationship with Hollywood is all but finished.
27:48Finally, Bill Cosby has been unmasked,
27:52and we have seen the real man as he is headed off to prison.
27:55Who are some other stars who fell out of favor with Tinseltown?
27:58Name some names in the comments.
28:00You got me blacklisted at Hop Sings?
28:04She named name.
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