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After a fan tweeted at Dominic Monaghan asking him to encourage Lost costar Matthew Fox to join Twitter, Monaghan replied, “He beats women. No thanks.” In response to a follow-up asking about Monaghan and Fox having “good times,” Monaghan replied, “How do you know we ever did? You don’t know either of us. He beats women. Not isolated incidents. Often. Not interested.”
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On her Instagram, Bebe Rexha posted a photo of messages asking if she was interested in “shooting social content” with G-Eazy, tagging G-Eazy and writing, “You have my number. Why don’t you text me and ask me yourself you stuck up ungrateful loser. You’re lucky people are liking you again. Cause I could go in on all the shitty things you’ve done and how you treated me after giving you your only real hit. Btw the answer is no. Hope you good.✌️”
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In early 2023, Britney Spears reposted a screenshot of an about six-week-old tweet from Alyssa Milano on Instagram. The tweet read, “Someone please go check on Britney Spears.” Over the screenshot, Spears wrote, “It saddens me to see things about me from people who don’t know me !!! This definitely feels like a form of bullying !!! Ladies, we are supposed to be rooting for one another not pulling one another down !!!” Milano reportedly later apologized to Spears.
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After Kim Kardashian revealed that she had lost 16 pounds to fit into Marilyn Monroe’s old dress for the Met Gala, Riverdale star Lili Reinhart appeared to call out Kardashian on Instagram, writing in a story, “So wrong. So fucked on 100s of levels. To openly admit to starving yourself for the sake of the Met Gala. When you know very well that millions of young men and women are looking up to you and listening to your every word.”
“The ignorance is other-worldly and disgusting,” she wrote. “Please stop supporting these stupid, harmful celebrities whose entire image revolves around their bodies.”
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Jameela Jamil similarly called out Khloe Kardashian for promoting weight loss shakes. “If you’re too irresponsible to a) own up to the fact that you have a personal trainer, nutritionist, probable chef and a surgeon to achieve your aesthetic, rather than this laxative product … and b) tell them the side effects of this non-FDA-approved product, that most doctors are saying [isn’t] healthy. Side effects such as: Possible Flat Tummy Tea side effects are cramping, stomach pains, diarrhea and dehydration… Then I guess I have to,” she wrote on Instagram. “It’s incredibly awful that this industry bullied you until you became this fixated on your appearance. That’s the media’s fault. But now please don’t put that back into the world, and hurt other girls, the way you have been hurt. You’re a smart woman. Be smarter than this.”
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Jamil also criticized Cardi B for peddling weight loss tea, tweeting, “They got Cardi B on the laxative nonsense ‘detox’ tea. GOD I hope all these celebrities all shit their pants in public, the way the poor women who buy this nonsense upon their recommendation do. Not that they actually take this shit. They just flog it because they need MORE MONEY.”
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Jamil is certainly not shy when it comes to calling out celebrities. After Emile Hirsch — who pleaded guilty to assault in 2015 for choking a Sundance exec, which he claimed he did not remember due to being drunk — was cast in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, she tweeted, “Emile Hirsch strangled my tiny female best friend until she blacked out at a party in front of dozens of witnesses at Sundance Film Festival (and was convicted) but Tarantino just cast him in a movie. INTENSE case of rich white male privilege eh? Cool. Cool. Cool.”
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Kim Cattrall has made a few public call-outs about her former Sex and the City costar Sarah Jessica Parker’s behavior. “I think she could’ve been nicer. I really think she could’ve been nicer. I don’t know what her issue is,” she said in 2017, pointing out that none of her costars called her when it was rumored she was having contract issues with Sex and the City 2. But she really put Parker on blast after her brother died, and Parker told Extra TV that she had sent condolences and love to Cattrall.
In response, Cattrall posted on Instagram: “I don’t need your love or support at this tragic time @sarahjessicaparker” and followed it up with: “Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now. Let me make this VERY clear. (If I haven’t already) You are not my family. You are not my friend. So I’m writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your ‘nice girl’ persona.”
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In a wildly petty yet iconic example, I must bring up Zayn Malik’s tweet about Louis Tomlinson. After Malik left One Direction, he made disparaging comments about the music he’d recorded with the band. Then-current member Louis Tomlinson took to Twitter to shade Malik’s collaborator, Naughty Boy, and, by extension, Zayn. Zayn then called out Tomlinson for his words, writing on Twitter, “Remember when you had a life and stopped making bitchy comments about mine?”
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In another kind of hilarious example, after Ciara claimed she ran into Rihanna at a party and “she wasn’t the nicest,” Rihanna called out Ciara for her comments on Twitter, writing, “My bad Ci. Did I 4get to tip u?” Ciara replied, “Trust me Rhianna u dont want to see me on or off the stage.” Rihanna then replied, “Good luck with bookin that stage u speak of.”
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In a more serious example, in a series of tweets, former Zoey 101 star Alexa Nikolas called out Justin Long for being friends with a man who she said was “sleeping [with] *aka assaulting a minor*” and having underage girls over to his house late at night in the 2000s.
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She also claimed Jonah Hill “slammed me to the door and shoved his tongue down my throat.”
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Finally, she called out “creepy” Seth McFarlene for having “utter predatory disrespect for professional boundaries,” saying he “mysteriously offered” her a role on Family Guy when she was 18, despite the fact that she’d never done voice work before.
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While shooting Fate of the Furious together with Vin Diesel, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson appeared to call out costar Vin Diesel, writing on Instagram, “There’s no other franchise that gets my blood boiling more than this one. My female costars are always amazing and I love ’em. My male costars, however, are a different story,” he wrote. “Some conduct themselves as stand-up men and true professionals, while others don’t. The ones that don’t are too chicken [shit] to do anything about it anyway. Candy asses.”
While Johnson never named Diesel, many assumed he was speaking about him in light of Diesel’s response, which was, “I think some things may be blown out of proportion. I don’t think that was his intention. I know he appreciates how much I work this franchise.” Diesel also referred to himself as Johnson’s big brother — which Johnson replied to, saying he wasn’t.
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Back in 2015, Nicki Minaj took to Twitter to complain that her video for “Anaconda” was not nominated for a VMA for Best Video, writing on Twitter, “When the ‘other’ girls drop a video that breaks records and impacts culture they get that nomination” and “if your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year.” Taylor Swift, whose video for “Bad Blood” was nominated, called out Nicki for her comments, writing on Twitter, “I’ve done nothing but love & support you. It’s unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot.”
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After Lea Michele tweeted in support of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, former Glee costar Samantha Ware replied on Twitter, “LMAO REMEMBER WHEN YOU MADE MY FIRST [TELEVISION] GIG A LIVING HELL?!?! CAUSE ILL NEVER FORGET. I BELIEVE YOU TOLD EVERYONE THAT IF YOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY YOU WOULD ‘SH\*T IN MY WIG!’ AMONGST OTHER TRAUMATIC MICROAGRESSIONS THAT MADE ME QUESTION A CAREER IN HOLLYWOOD.”
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And finally, let’s end on a silly example: when Doja Cat called out then-17-year-old Noah Schnapp after he posted messages from her asking him to tell his Stranger Things costar Joseph Quinn to hit her up. Doja then called Schnapp a “borderline snake” and “so unbelievably socially unaware and wack” on TikTok. Schnapp later revealed he’d apologized, and the two were good.
