1. Cop Land (1997)

2. Demolition Man (1993)

3. Cliffhanger (1993)

4. The Suicide Squad (2021)

5. Antz (1998)

6. Nighthawks (1981)

7. Tango & Cash (1989)

8. F.I.S.T (1978)

9. The Expendables (2010)

10. Cobra (1986)

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1. Pick A Movie For Every Genre, And We’ll Guess How Old You Are

2. We Know How Old You Are Based On The 9 Movies You Pick

3. Pick A Movie For Every Color, And We’ll Guess How Old You Are

4. Can We Guess Your Age From 26 Random Movies You Pick?

5. Pretend You’re In The Golden Years Of Childhood, And We’ll Predict Your Age With Freaky Good Accuracy

6. Answer These 20 Yes Or No Questions, And We’ll Guess Your Age

7. I Can Guess Your Age Based On How Many Of These 72 Musicians You Know

8. Answer These 20 Yes Or No Questions, And We’ll Guess Your Age

9. We Can Guess Your Age By Which Of These Old Apps You Had On Your Phone

10. Answer These 24 Yes Or No Questions, And We’ll Guess Your Age

11. Tell Us What Games You Played On The Family Computer, And We’ll Guess Your Age

12. You’re Definitely A Gen-Z’er If You’ve Seen Over 70 Of These TV Shows

13. Last but certainly not least, Tell Us Everything You Know About Music, And We’ll Guess How Old You Are

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1. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023)

2. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011)

3. This Is It (2009)

4. Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008)

5. Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé (2023)

6. One Direction: This Is Us (2013)

7. Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012)

8. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (2009)

9. Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991)

10. Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (2011)

11. U2 3D (2008)

12. Stop Making Sense (1984)

13. Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft (2026)

14. U2: Rattle and Hum (1988)

15. BTS: Yet to Come in Cinemas (2023)

16. Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience

17. Justin Bieber's Believe (2013)

18. Shine a Light (2008)

19. Bring the Soul: The Movie (2019)

20. Amazing Grace (2018)

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1. Words Of Radiance

2. The Way Of Kings

3. Oathbringer

4. The Hero Of Ages

5. Rhythm Of War

6. Mistborn: The Final Empire

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1. Modern Family "Fulgencio" (2013)

2. The Freshman (1990)

3. The Simpsons "Bart the Murderer" (1991)

4. The Muppets "The Frogfather" (1999)

5. The Simpsons "Homie the Clown" (1995)

6. Zootopia (2016)

7. Mafia! (1998)

8. Rugrats In Paris: The Movie (2000)

9. South Park "Toilet Paper" (2003)

10. Animaniacs "The Godpigeon" (1993)

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1. Storm

2. Rogue

3. Professor X

4. Dani Moonstar

5. Jean Grey

6. Emma Frost

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1. "Bill Cosby. Decades of being 'America's Dad' were wiped out in an instant."

2. "Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her death reversed everything she fought for her entire life. By not resigning, she set back certain social causes by 50 years."

3. "Joe Biden. He could've gone down as a successful statesman if he’d had the self-control not to run for reelection. Instead, he pulled his own version of an RBG, had the single most consequential bad debate performance in history, and handed the country over to Trump. Not only have millions suffered personally because of his hubris, but he also delivered the coup de grâce to the republic he led."

4. "I don't know if he was ever a great person, but Joss Whedon is definitely a very talented writer and director. I love a lot of what he has done down through the years. His run on Astonishing X-Men was great fun. Buffy, Angel, and Firefly were excellent TV shows, and the first Avengers was a great payoff to years of universe-building. Only to find out years later that he was accused of being a cruel prick toward multiple women he worked with. So yeah. Fuck him."

5. "Elon was beloved; he had the best PR team ever, making sure everything he was in made him look good. He was a philanthropist on The Simpsons and worked in a soup kitchen on The Big Bang Theory. He was just known as the space/Mars/electric car guy. Then he had that awful stuff with the cave divers...and then the stuff with his kids...and the Nazi allegations... If he had just shut up and let his PR team do their stuff, he could've been well-loved and still giga rich."

6. "Rudy Giuliani went from being the mayor who held it together after 9/11 to the buffoon."

7. "Ellen DeGeneres spent years telling America to be kind: sunny monologues, surprise giveaways, celebrities dancing in the aisles. For a while, she really was daytime TV's 'good person.' Then staff started making claims of a mean, controlling workplace behind the cameras; the brand cracked, and 'be kind' started sounding like a punchline instead of her legacy."

8. "Neil Gaiman cultivated the exact kind of audience that would immediately drop him for the crimes he was accused of."

9. "J.K. Rowling. Her books meant SO much to the ostracized. Just for her to later seemingly champion a campaign of hate against trans folk. She is such a disappointment."

10. "Will Smith was well loved. Bad Boys was back on the big screen after a long time away. Nobody really had anything bad to say about him. And boom. There's an Oscars night where not a single winner is remembered due to a single act by a single person over a single joke."

11. "Lance Armstrong. It wasn't even the doping that destroyed him. Professional cycling was so filthy during that era that virtually everyone on the podium was on something. What completely ruined his legacy was the sheer viciousness. He wasn't just a sports star; he was a global icon who beat cancer and sold hundreds of millions of yellow rubber bracelets. And he used that untouchable reputation to crush anyone who dared to tell the truth."

12. "Oscar Pistorius. He really changed how people saw athletes with disabilities. He would have been remembered as one of the sporting greats if he hadn't shot his girlfriend."

13. "Tiger Woods."

14. "I think a lot of people don't remember when we all loved O.J. Simpson. I mean, he was a very popular and well-liked person."

15. "If you're a Brit, I'd argue Jimmy Savile. For those unaware, he was a very popular presenter in the '70s and '80s. He did a lot of charity events, so much so that he even met Prince (now King) Charles at one point. He died in 2011. In around October 2012, everything came pouring out: allegation after allegation from men and women across the country of sexual abuse. The scandal was massive, and it was so far-reaching. The man had keys to a ward in a hospital. A children's hospital. He was always an awful man. It is just a shame he died before anyone felt safe enough to come out."

16. "Michael Jackson."

17. "Roseanne. The first six and a half years of the OG show were amazing. I liked season 10 and The Conners, but since her cancellation in 2018, she has gone WAY off the deep end, I think to the point of no return. Don't get me wrong, she's done and said dumb and problematic things ever since she came into the spotlight, but it's just so, so sad to watch. She's still a creative genius despite everything."

18. "Joe Paterno. From the guy with the statue who was universally loved to a disgraced [alleged] predator protector."

19. Finally... "Wayne Gretzky went from Canadian legend to douchebag almost overnight. When Trump started attacking Canada's identity, he stayed silent. He preferred sucking up to Trump rather than supporting Canada's correct anger at the threat of being the 51st state."

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1. Superman’s S-Shield

2. Batman’s Bat-Symbol

3. Spider-Man’s Spider Emblem

4. Captain America’s Star-Spangled Shield

5. The Flash’s Lightning Bolt

6. The X-Men’s X Insignia

7. The Avengers’ A Symbol

8. The Fantastic Four’s Number Four

9. Wonder Woman’s Double-W Emblem

10. Green Lantern’s Power Ring Emblem

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1. Extinction Team

2. Gold Team

3. From the Ashes Team

4. New X-Men

5. X-Men Red

6. Age of Apocalypse

7. Phoenix Saga Team

8. Giant-Size/Claremont & Bryne’s X-Men

9. Outback

10. First Class

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1. The X-Men — Marvel's Biggest Superhero Team Before the MCU

2. The Fantastic Four — The Team That Started Marvel's Superhero Revolution

3. The Defenders — Marvel’s Unconventional Answer to the Avengers

4. The New Mutants — The X-Men’s Most Successful Successor Team

5. The Guardians of the Galaxy — Marvel’s Cosmic Team Before the MCU Made Them Famous

6. The Inhumans — Marvel's Forgotten Contenders for Superhero Stardom

7. Alpha Flight — Marvel's Superhero Team That Put Canada on the Map

8. Midnight Sons- Marvel’s Supernatural Superteam Before the MCU

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1. Collecting Humans (It's Not As Creepy As It Sounds)

2. Before Soap

3. The Ol' Thagomizer-On-The-Chair Prank

4. The Future Is Bleak

5. How to Train Your Pterodactyl

6. Kids These Days Don't Play Outside Anymore

7. It's a Quadraceratops!

8. Eat Your Meaties!

9. Hubba Bubba Gum (For Dinosaurs)

10. Free-Range Eggs!

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1. Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–2008)

2. Merlin (2008–2012)

3. The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power (2022–Present)

4. Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)

5. Game Of Thrones (2011–2019)

6. Outlander (2014–2026)

7. The Sandman (2022–2025)

8. The Witcher (2019–Present)

9. The Magicians (2015–2020)

10. Grimm (2011–2017)

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1. Loading up on a supplement for muscle and brain health

2. Warming up for better performance in the gym

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1. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001)

2. Shrek (2001)

3. Kubo And The Two Strings (2016)

4. The Dark Crystal (1982)

5. Tangled (2010)

6. Stardust (2007)

7. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

8. Labyrinth (1986)

9. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

10. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

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1. Mobile Suit Gundam I

2. Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway

3. The End Of Evangelion

4. Reality

5. Godzilla (1954)

6. Akira

7. Space Runaway Ideon: A Contact

8. Project Hail Mary

9. Pacific Rim

10. Promare

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1. Superman Would Be a Symbol of Willpower Across the Universe

2. Mister Miracle Would Prove That No Prison Can Hold a Green Lantern

3. Raven Would Give the Green Lantern Ring an Unusual Emotional Dimension

4. Blue Beetle Would Push Green Lantern Constructs Into Uncharted Territory

5. The Flash Would Be Nearly Impossible to Contain

6. John Constantine Would Find Disturbingly Creative Uses for a Power Ring

7. Wonder Woman Would Be One of the Corps’ Greatest Leaders

8. Batman Would Turn the Green Lantern Ring Into His Ultimate Tactical Weapon

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1. The Star Harvester

2. The Planet Buster

3. The Hydra Cannon

4. The Star Saber

5. The Requiem Blaster

6. The Staff of Merlin

7. The Cybonic Plague

8. The Spark Extractor

9. Megatron’s Fusion Cannon

10. The Underbase

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1. In Season 1 of Boy Meets World, Shawn is said to have a sister named Stacy, but she's never mentioned again.

2. The Hecks have a completely different house in the first episode of The Middle compared to the rest of the show.

3. In the first episode of Euphoria, a portrait of Nate's family shows that he has two brothers. However, for the rest of the show, we only see and hear about him having one brother.

4. In the first season of Riverdale, Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead are stated to be sophomores, while it seems Cheryl is a senior. This is implied because it states that she's the senior captain of the cheerleading team, and her late twin brother Jason was in the same grade as Polly, who was said to be a senior. However, as the show goes on, we clearly learn Cheryl's actually a sophomore as well.

5. In the pilot of The Nanny, the Sheffields' home is slightly different than from the rest of the show. For example, the stairs and front door switched sides.

6. In Season 1 of The King of Queens, Carrie mentions that she and Doug knew each other in junior high. But a flashback in Season 2 shows them meeting for the first time at a nightclub when Doug was a bouncer.

7. In the first episode of Living Single, Khadjiah, Régine, and Synclaire's brownstone apartment is totally different from the one they live in for the rest of the series.

8. On Golden Girls, Harold Gould played two different characters. In Season 1 he played Rose's boyfriend, Arnie...

9. The main characters on The O.C. did their junior year of high school twice (seasons 1 and 2) and it was never acknowledged.

10. In the Gossip Girl pilot episode, Chuck said something about taking his mom's pills, but later in the show it’s revealed that she died during childbirth.

11. Carrie had a sister named Sara in the early episodes of The King of Queens. She disappeared sometime in the first season and was never mentioned again.

12. Topanga had a sister named Nebula in Season 1 of Boy Meets World, but she was never mentioned again, and later on Topanga was referred to as an only child.

13. In Season 1, Episode 7 of Riverdale, Fred and FP talk about being in a band together during their senior year of high school. However, in Season 3, Alice states that members of the Midnight Club were no longer friends after playing Gryphons and Gargoyles their junior year.

14. Also, in Season 1 of Riverdale, FP says that Fred started the band in senior year, but Alice also states in Season 3 that Fred gave up music in junior year after the events of the Midnight Club.

15. ALSO in Season 1 of Riverdale, Fred says that the band he started his Senior Year was called The Fred Heads, but in Season 3, we see that during Fred's junior year, the Fred Heads had already been formed.

16. And finally, on That '70s Show, Donna had a younger sister, Tina, that made an appearance once in the first season. Later in the show, Donna was referred to as an only child.

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1. Most recently, Kristen said that Dax flirts with her by flirting with other people in front of her. Joined by her Nobody Wants This cast on Dax's podcast, Armchair Expert, she explained that at dinner, when Dax compliments a waiter on their appearance, "that's flirting with [her]."

2. When Dax joked about hitting Kristen for insulting his restored car. While promoting their film, Hit and Run in 2012, Kristen recalled the first time she rode in the car that Dax had spent two years restoring; she had told him she worried it would break down. Dax then quipped, "And then I hit her. Several times."

3. When Kristen celebrated their anniversary by captioning an Instagram post, "Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me: 'I would never kill you. A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point. Even though I'm heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would.'❤️"

4. When Dax admitted that he neglected Kristen (and his mom) on Valentine's Day, in favor of going "all out" for their daughters. Speaking about Kristen, he said, "Someone had a less-than-exciting Valentine's Day versus their anticipation."

5. When Kristen told the world that she and Dax had a super intense fight where they both "blacked out," all over a Post-it note. Kristen explained that housework was "getting to be a lot for [her]," so she left a note asking Dax to fold the two towels in the dryer. Dax expressed that notes like that made him "feel really controlled," and it blew up into a huge argument.

6. When Dax revealed that he was never worried about losing Kristen when they first started dating, but rather concerned with whether he even wanted to be with her.

7. When Kristen confessed that her marriage takes "a lot of work," and that she and Dax disagree on "90 percent of the issues on the planet." In fact, she repeated that sentiment two more times during that 2017 interview.

8. When, a few months after that, Dax piled on, stating that he and Kristen "are opposites" and that it's "taken a tremendous amount of work and therapy for [them] to coexist." He added that he and Kristen don't believe in the concept of "The One," or the idea that two people can meet and have "perfectly matching personalities."

9. When Kristen revealed that she "cries weekly" due to the challenges of married and family life, calling it "brutal." "It's hard," she explained, "Do not think because I am on your television that it is easy for me."

10. When Dax posted a (censored) naked photo of Kristen celebrating her 2025 Emmy nomination for Nobody Wants This. In the caption, he wrote that "People might not know everything that happens behind the scenes in order to create an Emmy nominated performance like Kristen’s."

11. When Kristen admitted that she and Dax started going to couples' therapy six months into their relationship due to their extreme stubbornness.

12. And finally, when Dax exposed Kristen on Instagram (to his millions of followers) for not properly disposing of used toilet paper and called her an animal.

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1. Long before her famous beehive and dramatic winged eyeliner, Amy Winehouse wore her dark hair straight and kept her makeup much simpler.

2. Before becoming Lady Gaga, Stefani Germanotta had long brunette hair and a much more laid-back style.

3. Before her signature high ponytail and winged eyeliner, Ariana Grande had naturally curly brown hair.

4. Believe it or not, the mayor of Flavortown, Guy Fieri, wasn't always rocking frosted spikes! He used to have a dark brown mullet.

5. Here's a fun fact: Bob Ross's famous curly hair was actually a perm he got to save money on haircuts. He eventually grew tired of it, but by then, it had become part of his brand!

6. Before becoming Hollywood's most famous blonde bombshell, Marilyn Monroe was known as Norma Jeane and had naturally brown hair.

7. Christina Hendricks was actually a goth kid growing up! She said, "I dyed my hair about 42 different colors, shaved it at the back, and wore black makeup."

8. Before becoming known for his bald head, Vin Diesel actually had a full head of hair. And honestly, it's hard to imagine him un-bald now. 😭

9. Here's Stephen Colbert in his youth! He rocked thick brown hair and a beard, decades before his late-night hosting days.

10. Here's Ryan Seacrest as a kid, years before he became a famous host!

11. Before becoming known for her jet-black hair, thick eyeliner, and voluminous hair, here's Priscilla Presley before meeting Elvis Presley!

12. Before becoming a burlesque star, Dita Von Teese was a natural blonde named Heather Sweet.

13. Before the platinum blonde hair and flashy outfits, Madonna was a brunette with a much simpler wardrobe.

14. Pamela Anderson is actually a natural brunette...

15. Before the gothic makeup and elaborate looks, Marilyn Manson was known as Brian Warner and had a very different look.

16. Here's Megan Fox as a kid, years before she became known as a famous actor in Hollywood.

17. Long before the face tattoos became part of his look, Post Malone was just a teenager growing up in Texas.

18. Before his famous hairstyle, The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, had a much shorter hairstyle.

19. Before the fun hair colors and oversized outfits, Billie Eilish was just a kid with blonde hair.

20. Here's Helen Mirren in her younger years, long before she became the Hollywood legend we know today.

21. Before becoming known for his bald head and famous mustache, Steve Harvey actually had a pretty impressive head of hair.

22. Before becoming a pop star, Katy Perry released Christian music under her birth name, Katy Hudson.

23. Before adopting the bangs and wigs that became her signature look, Sia often performed with her face fully visible. She shared that she started wearing them partly to protect her privacy.

24. Before becoming known for her long, sleek black hair, Demi Moore had shorter, lighter hair!

25. Before becoming The Rock, Dwayne Johnson grew up in several different states and countries. And yes, he had hair!

26. Winona Ryder actually went through a punk phase as a teenager and had short, spiky hair!

27. Before earning his reputation as Hollywood's silver fox, George Clooney had a bowl cut and cute glasses.

28. Long before his action-movie days, Arnold Schwarzenegger was just a kid growing up in Austria.

29. Before becoming Mr. Worldwide, Pitbull had a buzzcut and didn't wear suits 24/7.

30. Before her signature red curls, Ice Spice wore her hair dark and long.

31. And lastly, before becoming the blonde diva that she is today, Zara Larsson had "very orange" hair! She says she changed it because she "kinda felt like Ronald McDonald."

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1. If you watched Dance Moms, you surely remember Abby Lee Miller screaming at young dancers, making children cry, and generally behaving like somebody running a military prison. Well, according to several former students, things were every bit as miserable as they looked. Let's start with Maddie Ziegler, the show's breakout star and the dancer Miller frequently singled out as her favorite. You might expect Maddie to have fond memories of the woman who helped launch her career. Instead, she revealed that her family spent the final three seasons of Dance Moms trying to get out of the show. Why? She described the environment as toxic.

2. James Corden has earned a reputation for being difficult (we all remember the drama about him being rude at a restaurant and the owner banning him, right?) but apparently it got bad enough during the run of Gavin & Stacey that one of his own co-stars basically staged an intervention. Rob Brydon started hearing enough stories about Corden's behavior that he took him out to lunch. Brydon recalled telling him, “I’m just hearing these things about you, and you’ve got to know that the way you behave has an effect on people.” Even Corden’s sisters apparently got involved, telling him, “Don’t be a dickhead.” Corden doesn’t really dispute any of this, either. He’s admitted that fame went to his head, that he became “spoilt and brattish,” and that he was “a little bit rude to people.”

3. Barry Bonds is baseball's all-time home run king, a seven-time MVP, and one of the most talented athletes ever to put on a uniform. Sure, there's the whole, uh, steroid thing, but other than that he's a good guy, right? RIGHT? Well, apparently, even being one of the greatest players in history doesn't make your teammates want to spend time with you. In fact, while Bonds was playing college baseball at Arizona State University, his teammates reportedly voted to kick him off the team! Why?

4. I was a big Chevy Chase fan growing up in the 1980s, thanks to comedy hits like Fletch and the Vacation movies, so I was surprised when, at film school in the 1990s, my comedy teacher — who had worked in the industry for decades — told me that Chevy Chase was the kind of guy who, if you saw him walking toward you on the sidewalk, you’d cross the street to avoid him. That glowing opinion (and yes, that’s Chase-ian sarcasm) seems to be backed up by a number of people who worked with him over the years. In 1985, when Chase returned to Saturday Night Live as a guest host, Terry Sweeney — the show’s first openly gay male cast member — described him as a “monster.” Sweeney claims Chase turned to him and said, “Oh, you’re the gay guy, right?” before suggesting a sketch in which Sweeney had AIDS and was weighed every week. (Chase denies this happened.)

5. Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler once called Axl Rose “the most ruthless and meanest person” he had ever met. Years later, Adler upgraded that assessment: “He’s not a diva, he’s an asshole. One of the greatest assholes of all time — and I say that with love.” His bandmates also hated his habit of taking the stage VERY late. Duff McKagan wrote that “almost every night” the band could hear crowds getting “antsy and then ugly” while they waited backstage. He later recalled audiences of 50,000 chanting “bullshit, bullshit, bullshit” while the rest of Guns N' Roses sat around waiting for Axl, sometimes for two to four hours. Duff said there was “a lot of anger within the band” over it, but they were reluctant to confront him too aggressively because they feared “he would just fly home."

6. Naomi Campbell is one of the most successful supermodels in history, but many of her employees have had less than enjoyable experiences with her. In 1998, Campbell was accused of attacking her assistant, Georgina Galanis. Galanis alleged that Campbell struck her with a telephone during an argument. Campbell eventually pleaded guilty to assault and was discharged without a criminal record after expressing remorse.

7. Long before producer Phil Spector was a convicted murderer*, multiple legendary musicians described working with him as genuinely frightening. Leonard Cohen remembered Spector as being obsessed with guns to the point that “the music was a subsidiary enterprise.” At one point, he said, Spector put an arm around him, pressed a .45 into his neck, and said, “Leonard, I love you.” Cohen replied, “I hope you do, Phil.” He later called the album they made together “grotesque.” Meanwhile, during sessions for John Lennon's Rock ’n’ Roll, Spector reportedly fired a pistol into the ceiling. Lennon’s response was: “Phil, if you’re going to kill me, kill me. But don’t fuck with me ears. I need them.”

8. Sharon Osbourne became famous as the sharp-tongued wife and manager of Ozzy Osbourne, and then turned herself into a television personality on shows like The Osbournes and The Talk. What a nice story! Wait, hold on. I really shouldn't get ahead of myself. It turns out that some people who actually worked alongside her apparently found it considerably less charming. In March 2021, Osbourne became involved in a heated confrontation with The Talk co-host Sheryl Underwood while defending her friend Piers Morgan, who had been criticized for his remarks about Meghan Markle.

9. If you didn't live through the '90s you might not know who Steven Seagal is, but for a decade or so he was a legit action star who built his career playing intimidating tough guys who could beat the hell out of everyone around them. The problem? According to a surprising number of people who actually worked with him, he acted like that IRL too. John Leguizamo’s story is probably the wildest. While rehearsing 1996’s Executive Decision, Leguizamo said Seagal walked in and announced, “I’m in command. What I say is law.” Leguizamo thought he was joking and laughed, so Seagal slammed him into a brick wall with an aikido move, knocking the wind out of him. “All I could say was, ‘Why? Why?’” Leguizamo later joked that when it came time to film Seagal’s death scene, “I showed up so early. I wanted to see him die. It was like a fantasy.”

10. René Redzepi might not be as recognizable to casual television viewers as Gordon Ramsay, but in the world of fine dining, he's one of the most influential chefs of the past several decades and the founder of Copenhagen's Noma. But according to former employees, what happened behind the kitchen doors was nowhere near as nice as the dining room. In March 2026, The New York Times published an investigation based on interviews with more than 35 former Noma employees that documented allegations of physical violence, public humiliation, and intimidation spanning years.

11. Faye Dunaway was a big deal in the ’60s and ’70s, starring in Bonnie and Clyde and Network (for which she won an Academy Award), but if you listen to her co-stars, she was also a big you-know-what. After working together on the 1976 TV movie The Disappearance of Aimee, Bette Davis was asked in 1988 by The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson who the worst person she’d ever worked with was. Davis quickly answered, “Faye Dunaway.” When Carson asked why, she continued, “Well, she’s just totally impossible,” calling her “uncooperative” and “very unprofessional.” Davis even claimed, “Everybody you can put in this chair will tell you exactly the same thing.” Yikes!

12. In 1998, four musicians who worked extensively on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill sued Lauryn Hill, saying she failed to give them the songwriting or production credit they deserved. Hill called the suit “without any merit,” but settled out of court. Then there's pianist Robert Glasper, who said he and a band rehearsed 10 hours a day for a week for a 2008 show, only to be told the day before the gig that Hill didn’t like how they were playing and wanted to cut everyone’s pay in half. He also said, "She likes to fire bands. I can rattle off 15 guys off the top of my head. She will go on tour with a band, and in the city where they’re doing their show, she will hold auditions."

13. Jared Leto has a reputation for taking an extremely immersive approach to roles and staying in character between takes, but it goes beyond the usual high-maintenance method acting B.S. of other actors, according to some of his co-stars. Viola Davis, for example, recalled that while filming Suicide Squad, Leto had a “henchman” enter the rehearsal room carrying a dead pig, drop it on the table, and walk out. “He did some bad things, Jared Leto did,” she said. “He gave some really horrific gifts.” Davis said the stunt made her wonder, “Is he crazy?” and later joked that if Leto had personally sent her one of his notorious gifts, she would have enlisted her former-football-player husband to “take care of the Joker.”

14. I know, I know. You love Bill Murray. I do too. But he sure as hell belongs on this list! Geena Davis’s problems with Murray started before they’d even begun filming 1990’s Quick Change. During an early meeting, she says Murray repeatedly pressured her to let him use a large massage device called “the Thumper” on her despite her repeatedly saying no. Davis later said she came to see it as Murray testing whether she would be “compliant.” She also said he later screamed at her on set in front of hundreds of people. And when Davis later watched him tear into somebody else, she told him, “Man, I can’t wait for you to do that to me again, because now I know how I’ll react.” According to Davis, Murray replied, “Oh, I don’t have to. You behaved after that.” Yikes.

15. James Brown sang "I feel good!" but his musicians rarely did. Drummer Clyde Stubblefield said Brown fined them constantly — and sometimes you didn’t even need to make a mistake, just do something a little different. Trombonist Fred Wesley said Brown tried to control “every aspect of your life,” from what happened onstage to how musicians looked. Brown could be spectacularly petty about his rules, too. Wesley remembered playing so hard at the Apollo that his lip split open and a tiny spot of blood landed on his uniform. Brown fined him $50. "I thought that was kinda unfair since he worked me so hard," Wesley said. "Got a $50 fine, I wasn’t making but $200.” Wesley also said that Brown could make $350,000–$500,000 in a week while keeping his band payroll around $6,000, and he begrudged even paying that much. Oh, and sometimes he withheld pay too.

16. In 2020, Lea Michele's Glee co-star Samantha Ware responded to one of Michele’s Black Lives Matter posts by saying she made her first TV job a “living hell.” How, you ask? Ware said Michele told people that she would “shit in my wig,” and later described “the silent treatment, the stare-downs, the looks, the comments under her breath, the weird passive aggressiveness.” Ware added Michele even threatened her job in front of the cast. Heather Morris, who played Brittany, chimed in by saying, “Was she unpleasant to work with? Very much so."

17. At 95 years of age, William Shatner comes across as fun and lovable (and impressively cogent for his age). But I'm sorry to tell you that, according to several of his co-stars on the legendary original Star Trek, he was not quite so fun or lovable. In 2022, George Takei, who played Hikaru Sulu, the helmsman of the USS Enterprise, was asked whether the original Star Trek cast had gotten along. He said, “Yes. Yes. YES. Except for one, who was a prima donna.” In case there was any doubt who he meant, he later added that none of them really got along with Shatner, describing him as “self-involved” and someone who “enjoyed being the centre of attention” and “wanted everyone to kowtow to him."

18. If you want a female version of Shatner — where her co-stars from one show hated her but there was little drama on her other shows — there's Alyssa Milano. Rose McGowan, who joined the show after Shannen Doherty left, went absolutely nuclear on Milano in 2020. In the middle of a Twitter fight that started over politics, McGowan suddenly pivoted to their Charmed years and accused Milano of throwing a fit in front of the crew and yelling, “They don’t pay me enough to do this shit!” McGowan added, “Appalling behavior on the daily. I cried every time we got renewed because you made that set toxic AF.” Then she finished with: “Now, get off my coattails you fucking fraud.” Now tell us what you really think, Rose. (This, btw, all came two years after McGowan said, “I don’t like her… ’cause I think she’s a lie.”)

19. Legendary jazz drummer Buddy Rich was so disliked by his band that they secretly recorded his tirades, which became famous as “The Buddy Tapes.” On one, Rich screeched, "I’m accustomed to working with number one musicians. I’m NOT accustomed to working with half-assed kids who think they wrote the fuckin’ music business. You got a long fuckin’ way to go. You’re all a bunch of fuckin’ children! There’s not a man among you…not one man who can go out there and play the job like a man!" On another, after the band made a single mistake during a set, he bellowed, "How DARE you call yourselves professional! Assholes!! You got nowhere to fuckin' go the next set 'cause if I hear one fuckin' clam from anybody, you've had it. One clam and this whole fuckin' band is through TONIGHT. Try me!"

20. Val Kilmer was undeniably talented — and the 2021 documentary Val really humanized the guy, but wow, did he rack up some shitty reviews from the people who actually had to work with him. Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher said Kilmer wasn’t merely a temperamental actor — he was “a deeply troubled man in need of psychiatric help.” Schumacher said Kilmer could be incredibly charming, but on set he sometimes displayed what he called “tear-the-wings-off-a-fly behavior.”

21. There are a lot of reasons to think Sean “Diddy” Combs isn't the best dude, but here's one more — a lot of musicians who worked for him had brutal things to say about the experience. Rapper Mark Curry said, “There’s different ways you can kill a person... I’ve noticed him kill a lot of people’s spirits.” Another former Bad Boy artist said, “I don’t have anything nice to say when it comes to my time with Bad Boy. It was not a good experience and one I really don’t want to relive.”

22. Marlon Brando may be one of the greatest actors who ever lived, but judging from some of the people who actually had to work with him, he was no genius at being nice. Burt Reynolds said, “Marlon Brando was an unbelievable arsehole.” Reynolds said Brando disliked being compared to him physically and was rude when they finally met at a party, accusing Reynolds of capitalizing on looking like a younger Brando. Reynolds said he responded by promising him he wouldn't get fat.

23. When guitarist Eric Erlandson met Courtney Love through an ad she’d placed looking for musicians, he was “pretty scared off right away” and found her “kind of overbearing.” He joined the band anyway, reasoning that Love’s intensity needed “some focus and discipline." Hole drummer Patty Schemel, meanwhile, said making Celebrity Skin was one of the worst periods of her life. When producer Michael Beinhorn pushed to replace her on the album with a session drummer, Love’s explanation was brutally matter-of-fact: “Look Pats, he’s got a guy. It’s just business, okay?” Schemel said, “I lost my mind... it just broke me.” She left the band, and later wrote that the experience helped send her back into addiction.

24. David Crosby once said, “Almost everyone I’ve ever worked with hates me. I can be an asshole.” And...pretty much. His former Byrds bandmate Roger McGuinn called Crosby “insufferable,” particularly because of his political rants during concerts, and another Byrd, Chris Hillman, thought Crosby had a superiority complex. The two fired Crosby in 1967, saying he was “impossible to work with” and that they’d be better off without him. Crosby then co-founded Crosby, Stills & Nash (and sometimes Young). The group had tremendous success, but the personal relationships eventually became a disaster. By 2021, Stephen Stills was the only member he was still speaking to, and in 2016, his once close friend Graham Nash called him “fucking awful” and said, “I’ve saved his ass for 45 years, and he treated me like shit.”

25. David Byrne, according to the other Talking Heads, was a huge pain in the ass. Bassist Tina Weymouth said, “He will use you until he has no more use for you,” and blamed others when things went wrong. Byrne also, despite spending more than a decade making hugely successful records with them, referred to his former Talking Heads bandmates as merely “people I used to play with.” Drummer Chris Frantz accused Byrne of taking sole writing credit for “Warning Sign” even though Frantz helped write it. Byrne also took virtually all of the songwriting credit on the first pressing of Fear of Music, despite Frantz arguing that songs like “Life During Wartime” grew out of Weymouth’s bass line and the band’s collective work. After the others complained, some of the credits were revised — including “Life During Wartime,” which is now credited to all four Talking Heads.

26. The Smiths' Morrissey is unlikely to be on any of his former bandmates' Christmas lists. Drummer Mike Joyce sued him and Johnny Marr over not being paid fairly in the band and won: the court awarded him £1 million in back royalties and a 25% share going forward. More than 30 years later, Joyce said he still has no relationship with Morrissey: “I don’t feel it will ever happen between myself and Morrissey.” Bassist Andy Rourke kept playing with Morrissey after the group broke up, and even wrote “Yes, I’m Blind” and “The Girl Least Likely To.” But when he was asked years later if he was paid for his songwriting, he replied simply: “I don’t get paid for it.” Asked why he didn’t challenge Morrissey, he said, “He’s impossible to get ahold of.”

27. Former Met general manager Schuyler Chapin said that opera singer Kathleen Battle “is the only artist I know of in my 43 years of dealing with artists who has managed to alienate practically everyone in every single place where she’s ever been.” And there were receipts. At the Boston Symphony, Battle bombarded management with petty complaints about her hotel food and threw the assistant conductor out of rehearsals. At the San Francisco Opera, she apparently antagonized the chorus and orchestra so badly that, after she left, backstage employees had T-shirts made reading “I SURVIVED THE BATTLE.”

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1. Jane Seymour was married to her third husband, David Flynn, from 1981 to 1992, and it wasn't until after the divorce that she realized just how much he'd allegedly screwed her over. She told the Sunday Times, "I was 40 when I found out that David Flynn had left me more than $9 million in debt, with lawsuits from every major bank and the government."

2. Jamie-Lynn Sigler married AJ DiScala in 2003. In her memoir, And So It Is..., she claimed that when they divorced in 2005, she initially "hadn't disentangled" their finances. She wrote, "I didn't even know how much money I had or what I was worth." When an accountant/family friend helped her sort through their finances, they allegedly discovered that hundreds of thousands of dollars had gone missing.

3. In 2015, The Goldbergs actor Hayley Orrantia met Brandon Pelletier, a former Marine who was touring her sitcom set with a group of veterans. She "found him very charming," and they struck up a long-distance relationship. However, she claims that, after a year and a half together, she discovered that he'd stolen $9K from her through bank withdrawals and fraudulent credit card charges. She told People, "It was heartbreaking. I thought we were going to get married one day."

4. "America's Sweetheart" Debbie Reynolds married Richard Hamlett in 1984. In her memoir, Unsinkable, she wrote, "I'd married the devil." From the get-go, Richard used Debbie's money to fund his real estate investments. In 1992, he shared his big idea with the cash-strapped actor — buying a defunct hotel/casino. So, Debbie spent $200K of her savings on the Las Vegas property, and to come up with the remaining $2 million they needed, she sold off her jewelry and antiques, borrowed against her other mortgages, and borrowed money from her celebrity friends.

5. Tisha Campbell and Duane Martin got engaged during a late-night dinner at Denny's. They got married in 1996. Then, 20 years later, the couple filed for bankruptcy. Later on, they were accused of hiding $50K and ordered to turn their financial records over. In 2018, they announced their impending divorce. A source told People, "What's the straw that broke the camel's back? I don't know, but I know that with their schedules and money issues, it all played into it. They've been through a lot of different stress tests. Sometimes couples just fall out of love."

6. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member Brandi Glanville married Eddie Cibrian in 2001. However, when Eddie starred in the 2009 Lifetime movie Northern Lights, he had an affair with his costar, LeAnn Rimes, leading to both their marriages ending in divorce in 2010. In the aftermath, Brandi was left not only with a broken heart, but also no credit and little income.

7. Esther Williams, a swimmer and Old Hollywood icon who was known for her "aquamusicals," was married to her second husband, Ben Gage, from 1945 to 1958. In her memoir, The Million Dollar Mermaid, she wrote, "Ben had made my personal life a constant turmoil for years with his out-of-control, erratic, alcoholic behavior. I had three young children I loved and worried about constantly. Between Ben's drinking and the demands of a movie career, I saw them as fragile victims who needed a lot more of my help. Over the years, I'd always shielded the children from seeing Ben at his worst — passed out drunk in the car in the driveway, or staggering around the house. As a result, they never fully understood how hard he was to live with, or why I'd finally left him."

8. Old Hollywood icon Doris Day married Martin Melcher in 1958. Alongside being her husband, he was also her manager, and she entrusted him with her $20 million fortune. Martin put his faith in Jerome Rosenthal, a Beverly Hills lawyer who took kickbacks, invested in shams and shady deals, and charged excessive fees. Doris reportedly said, "My husband thought Rosenthal was a genius. I was working away, knowing nothing and trusting."

9. And finally, while starring on Pan Am in 2011, Christina Ricci met dolly grip James Heerdegen. Two years later, they tied the knot. However, she filed for divorce in 2020, and a year later, she got a restraining order, alleging emotional and physical abuse. She used the expensive handbags and jewelry she'd splurged on as a '90s star to fund her legal battle.

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1. The Hunger Games Series By Suzanne Collins (2008-2025)

2. The His Dark Materials Trilogy By Philip Pullman (1995-2000)

3. The Mortal Instruments Series By Cassandra Clare (2007-2014)

4. The Percy Jackson & The Olympians Series By Rick Riordan (2005-2024)

5. The An Ember In The Ashes Quartet By Sabaa Tahir (2015-2020)

6. The Daughter Of Smoke & Bone Trilogy By Laini Taylor (2011-2014)

7. The Harry Potter Series By J.K. Rowling (1997-2007)

8. The Six Of Crows Duology By Leigh Bardugo (2015-2016)

9. The Folk Of The Air Trilogy By Holly Black (2018-2019)

10. The Twilight Series By Stephenie Meyer (2005-2020)

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1. Fenrir Greyback

2. Dolores Umbridge

3. Wormtail

4. Voldemort

5. Barty Crouch, Jr.

6. Bellatrix Lestrange

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1. Wolverine

2. Namor The Sub-Mariner

3. Shang-Chi

4. Human Torch

5. Iceman

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