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Academy Awards Banned Oscar Slap Punishment Will Smith

HAS WILL SMITH BEEN PUNISHED ENOUGH?

Will Smith still has 8-years left on his 10-year Oscar ban after slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards. According to a movie industry insider, he’s getting antsy and quietly trying to get the punishment amended. Will IS still remorseful about his behavior, but he now feels the punishment was too severe for the incident. He’s strategically trying to plead his case to influential Academy members one by one, but only time will tell if his top secret campaign to lift the ban is successful…

Photo Credit: BACKGRID-USA  Will Smith in Miami filming Bad Boys 4

By Janet / March 26, 2024
Banned Grammys Taylor Swift Travis Kelce

TAYLOR SWIFT BANNED TRAVIS FROM THE GRAMMYS

The Grammys took place in Los Angeles Sunday night and nominee Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, was conspicuously absent. Here’s what we just found out: Travis was actually granted permission to take the night off from practice to attend music‘s biggest night as Taylor’s date, but SHE insisted he stay with his team and practice for the Super Bowl. Why? Taylor remembers that when Travis’ team, the KC Chiefs lost a game right after he was visiting her in South America where she was performing. Some fans blamed his poor game performance on being distracted by the trip. Taylor doesn’t want history to repeat herself and she doesn’t want to be blamed if Kansas City loses the Super Bowl next week. THAT’S why she and only she, insisted Travis not attend the Grammys. Smart girl!

Photo Credit: BACKGRID-USA

By Janet / February 5, 2024
Banned Brett Ratner Hair! Sally Hershberger

BRETT RATNER: NO MORE FANCY HAIRCUTS, EITHER!

This is the best news we’ve heard all day. According to the Hollywood Reporter, those fancy offices on the Warner Bros. lot aren’t ALL that former Wonder Woman producer Brett Ratner, 48, has lost due to his sexual misconduct with women. He’s suddenly found that he isn’t welcome in some places WHERE WOMEN ARE IN CHARGE! Case in point: The Sally Hershberger Hair Salon in West Hollywood. (Sally is responsible for Meg Ryan’s famous ‘do and she gets $600 for a haircut.) Until recently Brett was a steady customer at the luxury salon, but he’s been told he is no longer welcome there! We love Sally for that.
(Above: Brett seems to be making some kind of “scissors” gesture)

Photo Credit: AKM-GSI

By Janet / November 22, 2017
Banned Kim Kardashian Kourtney and Kim Take Miami Kourtney Kardashian

SOUTH BEACH DOESN’T WANT KOURTNEY AND KIM TO INVADE THEIR SPACE

“Kardashian banning” might become a trend this year. South Beach has refused to allow Kim and Kourtney Kardashian to film their reality show and the girls and their film crew had to relocate fifteen miles away in a gated community in a decidedly unglamorous Miami neighborhood. The Miami Beach office of film and print didn’t grant the show “Kourtney and Kim Take Miami” the necessary permits to film in fashionable South Beach. The show, which airs in January, started filming last week wherever they can.

Photo Credit: Pacific Coast News

By Janet / October 14, 2012
Banned Oscars Sacha Baron Cohen The Dictator

CAN YOU IMAGINE THE OSCARS WITHOUT SACHA BARON COHEN?

We are SO upset to hear that Sacha Baron Cohen has been banned from the Oscars! According to Deadline.com, Cohen was expected to attend with the cast of his movie Hugo but the Academy has pulled his tickets even though he’s an Academy member! The reason is that Cohen submitted a proposal to the Academy that he walk the red carpet in full costume as his title character in The Dictator, with the intention of donning a tuxedo after that for the show. The straitlaced Academy didn’t just TURN DOWN the idea, they banned him altogether. Must this dull award show be taken so SERIOUSLY?

By Janet / February 22, 2012
Kim Kardashian Private Soho House

KIM KARDASHIAN BANNED FROM HOLLYWOOD HOT SPOT



Photo Credit: Pacific Coast News

Things are still not going well for Kim Kardashian. Ratings for “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” went down and venues aren’t throwing money at her to show up for events. The Kardashian magazine deal fell through and Kim’s products aren’t selling. Perhaps the most painful blow of all is the fact that the very exclusive and celebrity laden Soho House wants nothing to do with her. The ultra private club will not allow Kim to become a member and they quietly discourage members from bringing her as a guest.

By Janet / January 24, 2012
Banned Barbi Doll Iran

SOMEONE IS SMUGGLING BARBIE DOLLS INTO IRAN

Iranian police have been shutting down toy stores that sell the forbidden icon of Western culture: Barbie dolls. The government fears little girls who play with the dolls won’t want to grow up and be marginalized and forced to wear head coverings. They’ll want to wear miniskirts and drive convertibles. Barbie has been banned since the mid 90’s and Iranians attempted to produce a modest knockoff doll draped in black, but – surprise – it didn’t sell. Those little girls want fashion, too. In spite of the crackdown, the dolls CAN still be found…
Photo via: TheDailyWhat

By Janet / January 21, 2012
Banned France Rihanna Video We Found Love

GUESS WHO BANNED RIHANNA’S “WE FOUND LOVE” VIDEO!

Rihanna’s “We Found Love” video has been BANNED – and you’re not going to believe WHERE! Of all places, France! Don’t they always claim to be much more sophisticated and tolerant than Americans? French authorities don’t like the “destructive behavior” in the video – or the pills, smoking, or shoplifting, slapping, or suggestive romantic scenes. So the video can only be shown after 10PM. (Above Rihanna with her fling and video costar Dudley O’Shaughnessy)

By Janet / November 21, 2011
Banned Kim Richards Kyle Richards Paris Hilton Reality Shows The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

BEVERLY HILLS HOUSEWIVES KIM AND KYLE RICHARDS BAN PARIS HILTON FROM THEIR SHOW

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills stars sisters Kim and Kyle Richards have, for some reason, never been particularly close with their niece Paris Hilton. So they were surprised when she suddenly started calling them, making plans to get together, inviting them places, and buttering them up, in general. It finally dawned on them that Paris’s attentiveness increased as their reality show became more popular and she wanted to make guest appearances. The second season is now in preparation and Kim and Kyle have declared that Paris will NOT be soaking up their limelight – she’s banned from the show.

By Janet / January 10, 2011
Cocaine Cy Waits Drugs Fired Paris Hilton Steve Wynn

IMAGINE THAT. PARIS HILTON IS BANNED FROM NIGHTCLUBS THAT USED TO PAY HER TO SHOW UP

We figured Steve Wynn was angry enough to fire Paris Hilton’s boyfriend Cy Waits from his nightclub manager job, but we didn’t realize Wynn was fed up with Paris also! After he fired Waits, Wynn went on the BAN Paris from the two Wynn resorts in Las Vegas (and all the nightclubs therein,) according to the Huffington Post. Waits was arrested for misdemeanor DUI while Hilton is accused of felony cocaine possession. So far, Cy’s twin brother Jesse is still working for Wynn. If cocaine charges don’t faze her, we wonder if being banned from nightclubs will get Paris’s attention.

By Janet / September 1, 2010