14 DAY TRIAL // It’s a known fact that being a celebrity no longer means one actually has to do something extraordinary for it. Thanks to a strong blogger community on the Internet and the surge in popularity of glossy mags, sometimes it’s enough to have just one big project out there to be called a bona fide star – or, in some cases, something as relatively insignificant as a video on YouTube. Whichever may be the case, bottom line is that celebrities – all of them – are rather bad at making excuses, as the Daily Mail says in a piece summing the most ridiculous explanations ever.
Take Paris Hilton, for example: the actress, singer, fashion designer and fashionista was once photographed with a white substance up her nose. Given the context in which the photo was taken (at a party) and Paris’ reputation of a wild party girl, it wasn’t hard for many to conclude that the substance in question was coke. Shortly after the story broke in the media, her rep issued a statement saying that what looked like coke was actually sugar or whipped cream from desert, which got on Paris’ hand and then on her nose, when she wiped it.
Amy Winehouse, on the other hand, got her father to pick up the pieces behind her and do damage control. “Last year, Amy was seen crawling around a hotel in St Lucia on all fours, stealing booze from tables and being a nuisance. She was such an annoyance that the hotel asked her to leave. Her father, Mitch, popped up with excuses for her behavior. ‘She is better,’ he said. ‘She was close to death twice. We have been working a lot to get her to where she is now.’ And the crawling? ‘She was just having fun, pretending to be a horse’,” the Mail writes.
In 2008, at the Elle Magazine Style Awards, singer Lily Allen, who’s often spoken about her problems with alcohol, got so intoxicated she literally had to be carried out of the ceremony. Though countless people saw her down glass after glass of booze, Lily said the next day that she believed her drink had been spiked because she literally couldn’t remember a thing about the entire night. Another argument she used was that she was a drinker, therefore knew how her body would react – and what happened to her at the awards had never happened before.
“Lindsay Lohan: The actress was pulled over by police and found to have cocaine in her pockets. She said she had borrowed the trousers and had no idea what the drugs were doing there,” the Mail writes. “Andrew Ridgeley: The Wham star said in 1984 that a friend had accidentally swung a Champagne bottle at him in a nightclub, breaking his nose. In fact, the reason he was covered in bandages was that he had undergone cosmetic surgery on his [nose],” the publication goes on to say.
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