15 Q&As Weirder Than Willow & Jaden Smith’s - Page 11
Challenge: can you legitimately find 15 interviews weirder than Willow and Jaden Smith’s with T magazine? Seeing the offspring of press-savvy vets Will Smith and Jada Pinkett go off the deep end in print is a hard act to follow.
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But as long as famous people need a platform to promote product, and media outlets need famous people for ratings and page views, there’s always an opportunity for some magic in the form of a botched press opportunity. Check out other celebrities that topped the Smith siblings on the scale of zero to Andy Kaufman.
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What appeared to be a public meltdown was really just Joaquin Phoenix and Casey Afflect getting prime footage for their 2010 mockumentary, I’m Still Here. But the beard, shades and lucid behavior had David Letterman and us all fooled.
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Eight words that will forever live in infamy: “Mariah Carey is stripping on TRL right now.” In promotion of her Glitter album, Mimi popped up on Total Request Live half naked with an ice cream cart and lost her marbles.
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Tom Cruise redefined sprung by jumping on Oprah Winfrey’s couch at the studio audience’s behest. He was head over heels for Katie Holmes at the time. Cruise and Holmes divorced in 2013, and he hasn’t publicly jumped on any couches since.
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Suzy Kolber just wanted a sideline Q&A with Joe Namath about then-New York Jets quarterback Chad Pennington. But after drinking for several hours, Broadway Joe gave a bunch of slurred, nonsensical answers before telling Kolber, “I wanna kiss you.”
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You know it’s bad when Madonna is the voice of reason. Any doubts about Courtney Love being crazy were removed when she bumrushed a 1995 MTV interview between Madonna and Kurt Loder. Highlights include her throwing her compact and falling out of her chair.
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November 11, 2010. While in full damage control mode, Kanye West flipped on Today host Matt Lauer for what he called replaying a clip of George Bush to prompt his emotion. After an awkward interview, he canceled his performance and went ham on Twitter.
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Diane Sawyer kind of set a trap for Whitney Houston during their infamous 2002 interview. So when she read a tabloid headline about Houston being addicted to crack, the heralded diva responded, “Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack,” and we all shook our collective heads.
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The court of public opinion was still out for Chris Brown’s blood when he agreed to a 2011 interview with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. He only wanted to talk about his FAME album, and things got heated when Roberts asked about his 2009 against former girlfriend Rihanna.
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Most people already knew Tracy Morgan had the potential to go off the rails in an interview. But his 2008 sitdown with David Letterman on the The Tonight Show featured him yelling, “I’m crazier than a box of rocks” and referencing his “DUI gremlins.”
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Paula Abdul spaced the eff out in the middle of a 2007 interview with Seattle Fox affiliate Q13. She rambled on, noted that Seattle “has the best delusional people” and the two Q13 co-hosts basically asked for a do over in the middle of her interview.
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Nothing about Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s vintage interview with MTV’s John Norris made sense. Ol’ Dirty laid down on the couch in the middle of the interview, called himself “Rainman,” and a producer had to break in the middle of the session.
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The secret to what may be Kanye West’s most uncomfortable interview lies in the choice quote he gave Sway Calloway in 2013. “You ain’t got the answers, Sway!”
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Conservative Tucker Carlson’s Crossfire lived up to its name when he brought The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on in 2004. Stewart just killed Carlson with dry, witty comebacks punctuated by him telling Tucker “I’m not going to be your monkey!” when Tucker was miffed he wasn’t being funny.
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For some crazy reason, T magazine gave Willow and Jaden Smith a platform for their zaniness. We learned that they think they can manipulate time, they abhor the traditional education system, babies have energy-filled soft spots in their heads, and more nonsensical quotes.
