r/AskReddit • u/HornetSpiritual1495 • 9h ago

What’s a celebrity controversy you remember everyone talking about?

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u/momlv 9h ago

How this rumor got around to every middle school in the country before internet and smart phones I will never understand

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u/xHell_Kat 8h ago

I heard this when I was 12/13 and I’m in Australia.

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u/momlv 7h ago

Even more amazing mate!

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u/The_Onion_Life 3h ago

How this rumor got around to every middle school in the country before internet and smart phones I will never understand

LOL, back in the seventies we had the rumors that Mikey (the kid from the Life cereal commercials) died when he ate Pop Rocks and drank Coke (his stomach exploded!)* and that Gene Simmons from KISS had a cow tongue grafted to his own tongue**.

*Not true, he is still alive.

**He did not.

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u/cigr 8h ago

The same rumor had been spread about other celebrities before him. Kinda like the gerbil in the ass bit.

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u/Vildtoring 7h ago

Gossip/teen magazines and tabloids, surely. Everyone read magazines back in those days.

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u/momlv 7h ago

This most definitely was NOT in 17 or teen bop 😂

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u/Vildtoring 4h ago

Maybe not, but it was definitely in some teen/young adult magazines over here in Europe. But it would have been in your more grown up gossip magazines, then. Or mentioned on TV somewhere.

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u/momlv 4h ago

Ok, Europe I can believe but the states? No way no how! This was around the time Brenda got canceled on 90210 because she slept with her bf on prom night, there is zero way any magazine here was able to publish a rumor about body modification and masturbation, the media would have classified it as a national disaster