Celeb scandals of the 90s

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I'd forgotten all about Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland until I read this piece about it. And then wondered how I could've forgotten as it was huge! And those were the days before social media!

I never realised that Michelle Pfeiffer played a conciliatory role or that the wedding cake apparently spoke to a tabloid reporter!

What are some scandals you remember from that period? (I'm housebound with Covid - humour me!)

God I love Drew Barrymore!! I remember her and Cameron Diaz turning up at the premiere of Charlie's Angels on foot, guzzling bottles of champagne, because their limo broke down! (2003, I know, but still...cool as fuck 😄)

@70isaLimitNotaTarget

you’d rather blame a young woman with no ties than a married man in complete control of his own actions. Nice internalised misogyny from you

Unless Ms Loos didn't have a TV or every read a newspaper she'd have known exactly who David Beckham is , he is one of the most famous recognisable men in the world and she'd have known his marital status

She cannot say "Oh I never knew he was married "
She could've said "Nah , not interested in married men, thanks all the same Dave"

So no , she's not entirely innocent but obviously he would shoulder more blame .. .

I hope she did know who he was and that he was married with kids as wasn't she his PA. She is just as at fault as he was, despite the fact some posters here feel she is blameless, and staying that she is just as culpable is not misogyny. They were both dirty lowlives, and the ones deserving of sympathy were Victoria and her very young children.

It was so destructive wasn’t it, yet when you were living it - certainly as a young teen - we didn’t see it for what it was. FHM had a Girlfriend of the Week colour where lads sent in photos of their girlfriends hoovering in their underwear or equally appalling set ups!! And this was all ‘empowering’, in the same way lip fillers and porn star outfits are now.

As another who was in their teens at the time (and loathed it), Lad Culture got away with it by claiming it was all "ironic" - ie. the men weren't really misogynistic, they were all just doing it as a "bit of banter" and - like the men in Men Behaving Badly - infantalising themselves (yeah, we know we're rubbish but like toddler or dog that makes a mess and needs looking after, you still love us and we're fun).

It was probably a reaction to the late Eighties/early Nineties "New Man" thing. Quite a few of the self-proclaimed Ladettes I knew were also trying to square the more equality-minded men they felt they should date with the misogynistic archetype set by their fathers that they'd grown up with and was comfortable. Someone who behaved like a "Lad" but offered a "yeah but not really" disclaimer worked as a fix, I guess.

Truth of the matter was, it wasn't actually "ironic" at all. Just an excuse to bring back and get away with behaviour that was now censored.

@JudgeJ Oooo I didn't know that!

@BernardBlackMissesLangCleg

oh god, wonder bras

I remember Terry Christian saying something about them being like jelly moulds, and 90% of the time it being incredibly disappointing when he pulled a woman and got her wonder bra off

I was too large of nork for wonder bras

Me too 🤣 Although I did buy one,I wore it once as it was so incredibly uncomfortable!

I loved my wonderbra! I was convinced one day I'd wake up looking like Eva Herzigova!

i had ones that were called some thing like 'ultra bra', although google refuses to help me find them

they were a little less held together with string and went above a c cup. the cleavage they delivered got me a lot of attention from middle aged men, which I didn't enjoy much, looking back

@BernardBlackMissesLangCleg

i had ones that were called some thing like 'ultra bra', although google refuses to help me find them

they were a little less held together with string and went above a c cup. the cleavage they delivered got me a lot of attention from middle aged men, which I didn't enjoy much, looking back

That was the Gossard Ultrabra, the rival to the Wonderbra

ah, thank you for stopping me from feeling I'm going mad! I had red (racy), white, black and beige ultra bras. clearly I bought in heavily!

and it was 2000 so slightly out of scope for this, but Julia Roberts getting together with married man Danny Moder, and being photgraphed wearing a t-shirt that said 'A Low Vera' (Moder's wife at the time was called Vera).

presumably meant to be a play on Aloe Vera, but such a shit one that she must have had the t shirt printed...

[quote PinotGroggio]@StrychnineIntheSandwiches and Tamara Beckwith![/quote]
Of course! How could I forget Tamara

@BernardBlackMissesLangCleg

ah, thank you for stopping me from feeling I'm going mad! I had red (racy), white, black and beige ultra bras. clearly I bought in heavily!

One for every day of the week 😁

My teen years spanned grunge and ladette. I took ladette to mean the grown up version of my childhood 'why can't I play with the boys?', but drinking pints and being empowered by having my tits on display at all times.

@CharacterForming

MP Steven Milligan's death from auto-erotic asphyxiation - it was the eye catching details which make it memorable. You'll have forgotten his name (I had to Google it) but you won't have forgotten the orange.

Yes! As soon as I read this I thought about the orange in his mouth! And something about a black sack? Quite sad really.

@BernardBlackMissesLangCleg

and it was 2000 so slightly out of scope for this, but Julia Roberts getting together with married man Danny Moder, and being photgraphed wearing a t-shirt that said 'A Low Vera' (Moder's wife at the time was called Vera).

presumably meant to be a play on Aloe Vera, but such a shit one that she must have had the t shirt printed...

@BernardBlackMissesLangCleg That's also referred to in the article I've posted in my OP. A real low for Julia and even worse, when asked about it years later she said "I stand my my shirt". Not a shred of remorse! But they've been married 20 years now with 3 kids and there's never been any rumours about either of them straying. As far as I know!

From the Wikipedia article about Stephen Milligan:

"Following Milligan's death, Hat Trick Productions, the producers of the BBC's satirical television programme Have I Got News For You, sent black bin bags, oranges and black stockings to journalists to publicise a new series of the show. The BBC subsequently apologised to Milligan's parents for the incident."

What were they thinking???

woah! (re HIGNFY)

apparently Milligan was good mates with John Sergeant who says he may have been done in by russian spies

apparently there are a number of people in russia who have died the same way....

and how about Matthew Perry becoming addicted to Vicodin and booze? he looked so terrible around series 5 or 6, painfully thin, and no mention was ever made of it

@BernardBlackMissesLangCleg it's really noticeable in the first episode of season 6 when Chandler and Monica get engaged. It's meant to carry on directly from the last ep of season 5 but he's noticeably thinner.

When spike Milligan called Prince Charles a snivelling bastard or something like that, and then cheekily wrote to him saying ‘I suppose a knighthood’s out of the question ?’ !

I love Spike Milligan.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=TkOAUht3G5o
Here’s the clip, it was grovelling bastard !

Not quite 90s I think very early 00s but Sadie Frost and Jude Law's daughter eating an ecstasy tablet at a London club.

There is a very long post on Tattle Life about the Primrose Hill set of the 90s and early 00s.

@Tillymintpolo

m.youtube.com/watch?v=TkOAUht3G5o Here’s the clip, it was grovelling bastard !

Brilliant, I have never seen that.

I’m sure spike was on Barrymore once and just stole the show (good !)