Biggest Pop Culture Scandals of 2010
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John Mayer...in general: Whatever happened to the days when John Mayer was just a singer who made a really weird face whenever he riffed on his guitar? In February, the playboy who has made a career out of dating half of Hollywood fittingly did an interview with Playboy and revealed details that even his Twitter page would never have expected. From his dream "to write pornography" to calling Jessica Simpson "sexual napalm" and his penis a "white supremacist," he certainly got people talking. And, after a recent tryst with 20-year-old, 13-years-his-junior Taylor Swift, he got people song-writing, too.

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Al Gore awkwardly kisses Tipper no more: After 40 years of marriage and one very uncomfortable public display of affection - in which the former VP locked lips with his wife Tipper on stage at the 2000 Democratic National Convention - the couple faced the inconvenient truth and filed for separation in June. But it gets weirder. Rumors surfaced that Al Gore cheated with Laurie David (the cheating ex-wife of Seinfeld creator Larry David), who supposedly shared the politician's insatiable love for the...
Roman Polanski's past comes back to sue him: Decades after the director fled the U.S. for France in 1978 - a year after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl, another stepped forward in May. Former actress Charlotte Lewis, in a press conference helmed by celeb attorney Gloria Allred, claimed the 77-year-old filmmaker sexually abused her more than 25 years ago, when she was 16. U.S. authorities attempted to extradite him, but after a paperwork snafu in July, he was no...
Mel Gibson goes to voicemail: Whatever happened to the guy who tore at our heartstrings in Forever Young and Braveheart ? Now, we're just left with the heavy breathing of an enraged man who took great issue with the mother of his 8-month-old love child. When a half-dozen audiotapes of phone calls with his ex, Oksana Grigorieva, were released in July, the jig was officially up. Not only did he mouth off about revealing dresses, breast implants, and the N-word, but he also called his former girlfriend...
Paris Hilton mistakes cocaine for gum: Two months after her marijuana "misunderstanding" with the South African police during the World Cup games, she managed to get in trouble for drugs again. In August, she was stopped by Las Vegas cops and was caught with a small bag of 0.8 grams of cocaine in her purse. She's now facing felony drug possession charges. But don't worry, officers, she says she just thought it was gum! Reprinted with Permission of Hearst Communications, Inc. Originally...
Courteney Cox and Co. get divorced: The Cougar Town star and her goofball hubby of 11 years David Arquette announced they were splitting, allegedly because he was too much of a goofball and she, too much of a cougar. Oddly, they separated right around the same time that her close pal Laura Dern and his close pal Ben Harper made news that they were also getting divorced. (Christina Aguilera also threw her name into the splitsville ring, for the record.) Both couples vacationed together, shared family...
John Mayer...in general: Whatever happened to the days when John Mayer was just a singer who made a really weird face whenever he riffed on his guitar? In February, the playboy who has made a career out of dating half of Hollywood fittingly did an interview with Playboy and revealed details that even his Twitter page would never have expected. From his dream "to write pornography" to calling Jessica Simpson "sexual napalm" and his penis a "white supremacist," he certainly got...
Charlie Sheen almost puts stop to Two and a Half Men: In February, after a few months of court appearances - stemming from his Christmas day assault on wife Brooke Mueller - and rehab, reports surfaced that Charlie Sheen wanted out of his CBS smash hit (we just don't get it) show, Two and a Half Men . His decision to take a break from the sitcom so he could focus on rehabilitation was a win-win for viewers of quality television, but he since signed a two-year contract with the network. Let the...
Katy Perry shows Elmo too much cleavage: Who knew things were so scandalous down on Sesame Street . When Katy Perry stopped by the Muppet hangout to perform a kid-friendly version of her hit song, "Hot N Cold" with Elmo, the clip hit the web, and parents got an unwelcome eyeful of Katy's cleavage. After complaints, it was deemed too hot to air. That didn't stop Saturday Night Live from spoofing it with the singer in a, um, slightly revealing Elmo tee. Reprinted with Permission of Hearst...
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