10+ TV Stars Who Destroyed Their Own Careers (2024)

There was a time when she had a great cooking show, when she was one of the most respected cooks in the game.

And then she dropped the n-bomb, which quickly got her removed.

We all remember the infamous incident where Ashlee Simpson revealed to the world that she would be lip-syncing on SNL, right?

We haven't heard of her since, have we? What was the last Ashlee Simpson song you heard?

Tila Tequila was all over the place for a while, until she did that whole Nazi thing. Not only did she post the above photo, but she also released a rant titled: "Why I Sympathize With Hitler".

She was taken off Celebrity Big Brother shortly after.

He was once the biggest thing on children's TV, but then he had his famous incident.

He was caught and arrested for indecent exposure at an adult movie theatre.

Pee-Wee toys were ripped from the shelves and Reubens disappeared into obscurity.

Brian Williams once was a newscaster for NBC.

He was suspended for six months after "misrepresenting" a story about the Iraq War, which tarnished his career.

His show later got canceled for low ratings.

He was on SNL, and for a while, we thought he was going to be the next big thing.

And then he dropped the f-word live on SNL and was promptly removed from the show.

One of the most [public]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUQP-RRinl0) meltdowns of all time came from Charlie Sheen.

He slammed Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre and lost his job because of it.

He was a huge star on Law and Order: SVU for years, but then one day he left because the producers didn't want to give him more money.

He's been in pretty obscure roles since. His biggest role was in the show Happy!.

Gilbert Gottfried is known for being rather crude, but his comments about Japan post-tsunami lost him the role of The Aflac Duck. The joke was:

"Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them."

Big yikes on that one.

CeeLo quit The Voice in order to keep from being fired for a terrible tweet about his alleged assault case.

"People who have really been raped REMEMBER!!!... If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! so WITH Implies consent."

This was a woman who ended her career on live TV! She was on top of the world until she ripped up a photo of the pope live on SNL.

So many people hated her after that, that it was hard for her to make a career for herself.

He and his family had a thing going on 19 Kids and Counting.

But things came to a halt when it was revealed that Duggar had sexually abused some of his sisters.

She didn't have much of a career to begin with, but she did reportedly have a show with CNN in the works.

This, of course, was before she posted a picture of her holding Donald Trump's severed head.

There are a lot of ways you can lose your career. And there are a lot of ways that you can come back.

But it's almost impossible to come back from dropping n-bombs.

And that's what Richards did. He took a voluntary break from acting after that, but we're pretty sure people wouldn't have wanted him anyway.

For a while, she was on Beverly Hills, 90210, but she was forced off the show after being unprofessional.

There were a lot of tensions with her on the set with pretty much all of her cast members.

Eventually, she was booted off for being difficult to work with.

Katherine Heigl is hilarious. Not because she's particularly funny in anything, but because she's always badmouthing her own projects.

She called Knocked Up "sexist" and refused to put her name in for Emmy consideration for Grey's because she didn't think the show deserved one for her role.

She was once the queen of kids' TV.

She was in tons of movies, was the star of two major shows, but then she got a DUI, and completely went off the rails after that.

She has since retired and unretired from acting, but she has never been as big as she once was.

She started her career in Saved By The Bell, and it would be the only thing she'd really be known for moving forward.

She didn't really do anything to destroy her career, except star in Showgirls which was a disaster.

Has she really done much since?

He had a pretty strong career going on Criminal Minds. At least until his bad temper took over.

He was fired from the show after he kicked one of the writers on set.

For a while, he was beloved and looked upon as the bastion of morality as Rev. Eric Camden on 7th Heaven.

And then we found out he had sexually abused multiple minors. That effectively ruined his career.

Hulk Hogan went on a racist rampage when he found his daughter was dating a black man.

Needless to say, he was not wanted by anyone after that mess.