Canceled: misconduct is now paid
From Johnny Depp to Miguel Bosé through J.K. Rowling and Ellen DeGeneres, have suffered the new moral order of the times
Cancellation culture is no longer content to give the famous wayward a hard time or cause him to lose some of his popularity. Cry justice! It's the new show business, folks. And after high-profile scandals like those of Kevin Spacey, Woody Allen, and Plácido Domingo, all accused of S- abuse, these are the latest plagued celebrities.
Will Smith, the most beastly cancellation
From the luxury rehabilitation clinic that he entered on his foot to try to digest his execrable and violent behavior at the last Oscars gala, with the sword that hit comedian Chris Rock for making a joke in bad taste about his wife's baldness, Will Smith has seen that it is not enough to resign from the Hollywood Academy, since it has banned him for 10 years from the Oscars and any event of the institution, both in person and virtual. In addition, Jada Pinkett Smith, his wife, has denied it twice: after withdrawing her support and saying that the protagonist of I am legend had an "exaggerated" reaction at the gala, now the actress has confessed that she married him because she was pregnant of her son Jaden and her mother forced her. They don't want to see the Prince of Bel-Air on the set: he has lost several contracts with Netflix (the movie Fast and loose) and Sony (the fourth installment of Bad boys has been paralyzed), and the Fitbit firm no longer wants him as an ambassador. As far as he knows, there are only three people on the planet who cover him: Denzel Washington, Tatyana Ali (his little cousin in the popular 90s series), and Pablo Motos.
Kanye West, banished
The unpredictable artist has a long history of cancellations. In 2020, Twitter already vetoed him for uploading a video urinating on a Grammy (this was how he intended to air his dispute with Sony and Universal). In this recent edition of the same awards, in whose gala he was going to perform, he finally did not do it because the National Academy of Arts and Sciences forbade him: the rapper, producer, and businessman got fed up with making hurtful and racist comments towards the presenter of the ceremony and the Daily Show, Trevor Noah, which is why Instagram also closed his account. In addition, he has called his ex, Kim Kardashian, a "bad mother" on social networks, where he has also shared a disturbing video, that of the single Eazy, in which he dismembers a figure very similar to Pete Davidson, the current boyfriend of the socialite For all this, his contract with the GAP brand is weak and he has been excluded from the Coachella lineup, after more than 50,000 signatures on Change.org have asked him not to participate in the festival that will begin on April 15.
Johnny Depp, without movies and on trial
After airing his private life in a media trial a couple of years ago in London, Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard – who accused him before the judge of insults and assaults during their marriage – have returned to court on April 11, although this time in the United States, to accuse each other of defamation. The actor sued his ex for 50 million, which he denounced for vilifying him in an article that she published in 2018 in The Washington Post and in which she stated that she was "a survivor of domestic abuse" (tremendous photos also came to light of bruises). Depp has already lost a lawsuit against The Sun, which called him a "wife abuser", and he has been removed from certain productions, such as a new installment of Pirates of the Caribbean and the recently released Fantastic Beasts 3: The Secrets of Dumbledore, where he replaces him. Mads Mikkelsen.
Ellen DeGeneres, a "toxic" boss
Ellen DeGeneres' daily talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, on NBC Universal will come to an end next May after nearly 20 years of non-stop broadcast. The actress already warned in The Hollywood Reporter that the successful space where she has made friends with all kinds of stars, in addition to giving visibility to the LGTBIQ community, to which she belongs, would not go much beyond season 16. TRUE. But it is also true that the viral scandal in which she was involved ended up speeding everything up. The toxic environment, situations of harassment and racism – there was even a suicide attempt – that were experienced behind the scenes, situations to which the presenter would have turned a blind eye, came to light. And the audience did not forgive him.
J. Balvin, s-xist and racist "dog"
Before the tiara between Residente and J. Balvin, the cockfight with which the Puerto Rican and the Colombian have been entertaining us in recent weeks, the prince of reggaeton with multicolored hair has been at the center of the hurricane more times. Last year, for example, they asked him not to set foot in Cali again. Although he is from Medellín, several groups, and the mayor himself, processed a petition to the Cali authorities to veto the artist for his "misogynistic and racist" lyrics and for "promoting gender violence." The video clip for Perra, which he recorded with the singer Tokischa, raised eyebrows for showing Afro-descendant women chained and walking on all fours. Although J. Balvin apologized through Instagram – "my thing has always been tolerance, love and integration", he assured -, the ball transcended borders and he was reprimanded in an open letter by the vice president and chancellor of Colombia, Martha Lucia Ramírez, YouTube removed the clip.
Armie Hammer, heartthrob "cannibal"
Since the earthquake caused by the predator Harvey Weinstein, who abused and raped dozens of women for decades from his vantage point as a demigod and film super-producer, Hollywood lived in a placid calm that one of its new Rock Hudson-style leading men burst in 2021. The blond Californian actor Armie Hammer, the protagonist of memorable pictures in Call me by your name by Luca Guadagnino and the Netflix remake of Rebecca, gave a lot of fodder to the tabloids with an alleged paraphilia in the form of messages that an Internet user brought to light (@houseofeffie), in which the interpreter expressed his most sordid and cannibalistic desires through a private Instagram account, even talking about "drinking blood", "eating beating hearts" and masturbating after "breaking his ribs". Although he denied most, before he was fired, he ended up withdrawing himself from several projects, such as the film Shotgun wedding, the comedy in which he was going to share the lead with Jennifer Lopez and which will be released without him this summer. Death on the Nile, which was already recorded with him among the protagonists, waited in a drawer until the storm passed, and it was released a few weeks ago, shortly after Hammer came out of rehab after nine months.
Miguel Bose and Bill Gates' chips
With the arrival of the covid into our lives, famous figures began to express their strange ideas about the origin of the virus. Of course, based on new world-order conspiracy theories. In Spain, the greatest exponent was Miguel Bose, whom he took to saying that the vaccine was a method to insert chips into people. According to Don Diablo, this is how Bill Gates could keep the world's population under control with 5G technology. The internet was all over him, some of his videos were deleted and for a while, his Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts disappeared.
