6. Ellen DeGeneres
When DeGeneres interviewed Mariah Carey in 2008, her lack of professionalism and bullying attitude didn’t paint her in the best light. Attempting to confirm rumors of a pregnancy, DeGeneres offered Carey a glass of champagne and tried to coerce her to drink it. To avoid rumors, she took a small sip, but as the singer revealed in 2020, she remained silent due to a previous miscarriage and didn’t feel comfortable sharing the information. Sadly, she lost the baby not long after the interview.
5. Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer was fired by NBC in 2017 after the MeToo movement led to several high-profile men reaching their demise. Following his dismissal for inappropriate sexual misconduct at work, a 2009 interview between Sandra Bullock and Lauer surfaced. Lauer was disturbingly excited to bring up Bullock’s nude scenes and even said that an image of her without clothes was his screensaver. As the interview ended, he asked her to return to the show soon, which the actress quickly declined.
4. Ben Affleck
After #MeToo, actress Hilarie Burton accused actor Ben Affleck of groping her when she was on a 2003 episode of “Total Request Live” on TLC. Although Affleck apologized for acting inappropriately, another video came out of a 2004 interview conducted by a Canadian reporter named Anne-Marie Losique. In the footage, he tightly gripes her body and makes suggestive comments about it.