Live TV has gifted us more than a few awkward
moments. When cameras are rolling, Hollywood drops
the glitz and glamour and gets real - sometimes, too real. Though you can thank JT and Janet for NBC's
five-second delay, live TV can get a whole lot worse than an accidental curse word. From Raven-Symoné's workplace policy
to Joaquin Phoenix's legendary Letterman interview, these live TV moments are so uncomfortable
you can't help but keep watching. While we all know some things are better left
unsaid, these celebs said it anyway. Naya Rivera's shower habits Naya Rivera has had a lot going on, including
her called-off engagement to Big Sean, her surprise wedding to actor Ryan Dorsey, and
her eventual divorce - which she later called off. Along with a domestic battery arrest, a secret
abortion, and her lifelong struggle with anorexia, you've got a proper media firestorm. When she's not busy publicly labeling her
husband a "pushover," she's throwing caution to the wind on live TV and firing off some
rather racially-charged ideas. In a 2015 episode of The View, Rivera revealed: "I think that white people shower a lot more
than ethnics. I feel like showering more than once a day
or every day is such a white people thing." Rivera admitted, as a person of mixed-race,
she showers "once or twice every three days." Unsurprisingly, a lot of people found her
comments offensive, and the actress later apologized. Kelly Osbourne's toilet talk In an August 2015 episode of The View, Kelly
Osbourne shared her stance on Donald Trump's immigration policy. The lavender-haired starlet asked, "If you kick every Latino out of this country,
then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?" Latina co-host Rosie Perez threw Osbourne
some pretty fierce side-eye, as Osbourne struggled to back-peddle. Osbourne eventually apologized on Extra, where
she said, "It was my poor choice of words, and it doesn't
reflect my opinion at all, and I do not want to be brought into this political nightmare." Too late, Kelly. Kathie Lee Gifford's insensitive questions In his memoir, comedian Martin Short described
losing Nancy Dolman, his wife of 36 years, as the most awful thing he's ever been through. And he admitted to still regularly having
conversations with her long after she passed away from ovarian cancer in 2010. But in 2012, when Short stopped by Today,
Kathie Lee Gifford complimented Short on his long, happy marriage. And it was clear she had no idea that Dolman
had passed away two years prior. "But you're still, like, in love." "Madly in love, madly in love." "Why?" "Cute, I'm cute." Short managed to keep his composure and harbors
no hard feelings towards Gifford for the mix-up, telling E! News, "On live television, people make mistakes. There's no ill-will intended. It's nice to aspire to be kind of elegant." Gifford tweeted an apology after realizing
her error, but our hearts still break for Short. Raven-Symoné's workplace policies Remember when Raven-Symoné was a fresh-faced
Disney channel darling? If only real-life Raven could've seen into
the future... Since Raven-Symoné joined The View as a full-time
co-host in 2015, she's frequently come under fire for her views on race. She told Oprah that she doesn't identify as
"African American" and also argued that Harriet Tubman didn't deserve to be on the twenty
dollar bill. Then, the former Disney star admitted on live
TV that she supports workplace discrimination if someone's name is sounds too ethnic, saying, "I'm not about to hire you if your name is
Watermelandrea. It's just not going to happen. I'm not going to hire you." The actress eventually issued a public apology
where she admitted to being the victim of workplace discrimination on numerous fronts. Joaquin Phoenix… being Joaquin Phoenix In 2008, Joaquin Phoenix quit acting, grew
out his beard and kinda became a rapper. After a few disastrous performances and public
appearances, it was revealed that the two-year mental breakdown was completely staged for
the mockumentary I'm Still Here. Of course, Phoenix's fake descent into madness
wouldn't be as infamous had it not been for his appearance on The Late Show with David
Letterman. It was so uncomfortably full of awkward pauses
that Letterman joked, "What can you tell us about your days with
the Unabomber?" Phoenix later apologized, and Letterman shrugged
it off during a follow-up appearance. "But I apologize, I hope I didn't offend you
in any way." "Oh no, oh no no no no. I was not offended!" But the general public wasn't so keen on his
fake mental breakdown. Phoenix told the Daily Mail, "There was definitely a period after I'm Still
Here when there was a discernible difference in the quality of movies I was being offered." Kanye's callout These days, Kanye West regularly gets friendly
social media nods from President Trump, wears "Make America Great Again" swag, and has publicly
claimed slavery was a choice. But during a 2005 Red Cross telethon, as the
rapper helped raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims, he famously announced, "George Bush doesn't care about black people." West later apologized to George W. Bush because
he, quote, "didn't have the grounds to call him racist." Miley's third-wheel beef Miley Cyrus and Nicki Minaj used to be pretty
friendly. The pair even posed together in a 2013 studio
snap and sat next to each other at the 2015 Grammys. Then Cyrus told The New York Times that Minaj
wasn't very nice. Cyrus was responding to a minor beef between
Minaj and Taylor Swift. Minaj tweeted that her song "Anaconda" was
snubbed by the VMAs in favor of women with "very slim bodies," and Swift assumed the
tweet was about her, when it wasn't. They cleared things up, and all was well in
the pop world - until Cyrus opened her mouth. The feud played out on live TV during the
MTV VMA's when - after her win - Minaj said, "Back to this b---h that had a lot to say
about me the other day in the press: Miley, what's good?" Minaj later told MTV she felt Cyrus should
have been more sensitive about black issues if she wanted to enjoy the culture. The two reportedly buried the hatchet in 2017. Jamie Foxx's transphobic joke While he was hosting the 2015 iHeartRadio
awards, Jamie Foxx opted for a roast-like monologue that took aim at Suge Knight for
his hit-and-run murder charges. But what came next was a whole lot worse. "We got Bruce Jenner, will be here doing some
musical performances. He's doing a his-and-her duet all by himself." At the time, Caitlyn had yet to make her Vanity
Fair debut and the only evidence of her lifelong struggle with gender dysphoria were tabloid
rumors and a new hairstyle. Afterwards, Foxx didn't just suffer the unyielding
wrath of the Internet. The Kardashian clan also joined in, with both
Khloé Kardashian and Kanye allegedly expressing their disappointment in Foxx's low blow, which
he insisted was not transphobic. "They made a name up, 'transophobia' or something. I didn't even know what that was." Tom Cruise's judgy interview In 2005, famous Scientologist Tom Cruise went
on Today to debate the merits of modern psychiatry. "I've never agreed with psychiatry, ever. Before I was a Scientologist, I never agreed
with psychiatry." In the interview, the star famously dubbed
psychiatry a "pseudoscience," slammed Brooke Shields for using antidepressants to treat
her postpartum depression, and claimed, "There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance." Cruise later apologized to Shields for calling
the fact that she treated her depression with doctor-prescribed medicine "irresponsible." He also apologized to Matt Lauer for the off-the-rails
interview. Samuel L. Jackson is not Laurence Fishburne Laurence Fishburne is a sci-fi superstar who
has been in The Matrix, Passengers, and Event Horizon. Samuel L. Jackson is an action legend who
starred in Pulp Fiction and The Hateful Eight. One taught us the difference between red and
blue pills, while the other got those motherf-----g snakes off the motherf-----g plane. They are not the same dude, and they look
nothing alike. But KTLA news reporter Sam Rubin learned this
the hard way when he asked Samuel L. Jackson about his Super Bowl commercial. "Did you get a lot of reaction to that Super
Bowl commercial?" "What Super Bowl commercial?" The problem was that Jackson didn't do a Super
Bowl commercial - Laurence Fishburne did. Jackson quipped, "You're as crazy as the people on Twitter. I'm not Laurence Fishburne!" The following Monday, Rubin apologized, admitting
it was an embarrassing "amateur mistake." Later that year, Fishburne lamented to The
Guardian that he's been confused with Jackson for the last 25 years. As for the live TV snafu, he didn't take offense
- but thought it was pretty funny that Jackson called Rubin out. "We don't all look alike. We might be all black and famous but we all
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