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Gaming Celebrities You might have played Call of Duty against Will Arnett. Arnett loves playing online anonymously and getting heckled by other players. Не has interviewed celebrity gamers on the podcast Game Chat. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities Henry Cavill almost missed on playing Superman because of World of Warcraft. According to Cavill, he missed a call from Zack Snyder to give him the lead role on Man of Steel, because he was in the middle of a tough dungeon. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities T-Pain will school you in Overwatch. When he's not overdoing autotune mixing, you can find T-Pain over on his Twitch channel playing solo or with others, including teaming up with folks in Overwatch. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities Snoop Dogg rage quits on the regular. Snoop loves playing games on Twitch, especially Madden and GTA. Sometimes it gets heated, and he quits mid-stream. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities Seth Rogen is a gaming connoisseur. Rogen has been a gamer ever since he was a kid playing E.T. on PlayChoice-10 the Atari. Out of the systems he owns, he likes playing on his PlayChoice-10 arcade machine. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities Samuel L. Jackson is a huge video game advocate. Jackson hosted several video game award shows, and was an old school player of Pong and Space Invaders. Не currently plays sports games like Tiger Woods Golf. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities Jodie Foster is a Guitar Heroine. While Foster loves music, she admits that she has no talent for instruments. The good thing about Guitar Hero is you can just go 'blue, green, green, green, blue, green, green... CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities Matthew Perry loves Fallout so much he got carpal tunnel. Chandler from Friends is a huge fan of the series, especially Fallout 3. So much so that he had to take a break for his wrist to heal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities Megan Fox will FINISH YOU at Mortal Kombat. Fox was a Guitar Hero fan back in the day, and still loves to showcase some killer moves in any Mortal Kombat games. Except for Superman in Mortal Kombat VS. DC Universe (she hates his combos). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities MS MAS Mila Kunis will WoW you. Kunis is a member of several different guilds in World of Warcraft. She's also known for shooting it up in Call of Duty. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities ENDS C E Freddie Prinze Jr. plays regularly on Twitch. Prinze is an absolute gaming nerd, playing older titles like Injustice and Uncharted 4, while also enjoying current titles like Sea of Thieves. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities Michael Fassbender will race you. M Fassbender was a fan of racing games, but had to tone it down after finding himself staying up until 8:30 А.М. playing. Не only got into the Assassin's Creed franchise after being cast in the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities Jessica Alba is Da Bomb(erman) Alba is an old-school gamer, growing up with Bomberman and Mario Bros. She also likes physical games with motion controls on the Nintendo Wii and Switch. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities INGS ONAL STIVAL Jack Black has his own gaming channel. Not only is Black proud of finishing Project Gotham Racing, he's been playing arcade classics on his JablinskiGames YouTube channel and playing Minecraft with gamer PewDiePie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities Zac Efron loves his XBox. Efron is a huge gamer and was the host of the Halo 3 launch event. His gaming addiction got so bad that his then-girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens allegedly said, it's me or the XBox. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities nives wars Jamie Lee Curtis is a big eSports supporter. Curtis got into gaming when her son introduced her to Street Fighter. The two now support Team SoloMid during League of Legends competitions. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities Daniel Craig loves Halo and Grand Theft Auto. You'd figure Craig would be into spy games, but he actually prefer lore- heavy games like Halo, and has gone on record saying he plays GTA. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gaming Celebrities Rosario Dawson is a Nintendo fan. Dawson grew up playing Pokémon, and still busts out Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda now and again. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now MATT LAUER was the face of NBC's Today for 20 years. НЕ ALSO REPORTEDLY HARASSED A LOT OF WOMEN, abused his power, and had a button to close the door of his office automatically, as normal people do. Не was fired from NBC, and nobody has seen him since. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now For almost two decades, HARVEY WEINSTEIN was a respected figure in the indie movie industry. НЕ WAS ALSO ABUSING ACTRESSES. He'd harass them and threaten them with career death-and he indeed boycotted the careers of amazing actresses such as Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd. He's currently serving a 23- year sentence for sexual assault and rape. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now JUSSIE SMOLLETT had a somewhat solid career for around 30 years, THEN НЕ MADE UP A HATE CRIME FOR ATTENTION, spent less than a week in jail, and dared to appear in 2022's BET Awards like nothing happened. Truly a champion of black liberation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now KEVIN SPACEY was a respected character actor for over two decades. SINCE 2017, HOWEVER, HIS CAREER HAS PRETTY MUCH DIED after a bunch of abuse and harassment allegations came out- including four charges of sexual assault in the UK just in May 2022. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now CHRIS BROWN had a very successful R&B career. HE'S ALSO A NOTORIOUS COLLECTOR OF ABUSE ALLEGATIONS. In the years after the Rihanna fiasco, accusations of violence just keep popping up. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now WOODY ALLEN's list of classics is insane. BUT PUBLIC OPINION HAS STRONGLY VEERED AGAINST HIM IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, given allegations of abuse dating from the early '90s. His last two movies were mostly ignored, many performers regret working with him, and he has lost passion for moviemaking. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now RANDY QUAID is an Oscar- nominated actor. НЕ THEN WENT FULL MAGA, and started supporting networks too extreme RIN even for Fox News. And this without even mentioning his star whacker conspiracy theory about movie star assassins he claims killed Heath Ledger. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now FELICITY HUFFMAN can boast an Emmy and a Golden Globe. SHE CAN ALSO BOAST 14 DAYS IN PRISON for a college admission bribery scandal. Lori Loughlin was also involved, but Huffman is, you know, a much better actress- so her downfall actually darkens the movie industry, and not just Full House reboots. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now ELLEN DEGENERES was funny and contributed to a more accepting society. THEN CREDIBLE ALLEGATIONS OF RACISM, MISTREATMENT, AND INTIMIDATION emerged during her years as a talk show host. She lost the show, and nobody likes her anymore-and we haven't even mentioned her cozying up to war criminals. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now GGIRO GRO ESTRONG.ORG LANCE ARMSTRONG won the Tour de France seven friggin' times, which is amazing. LIVESTRONG EXCEPT WHEN YOU FACTOR IN THAT НЕ RAN A HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED DOPING RING, and took performance-enhancing drugs for most of his career. Не was stripped of his wins and banned from the sport, but hey, what would Dodgeball trivia be without him? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now ROSEANNE BARR got eaneel-culture'd paid for the consequences of her own dumbass, racist, pro-MAGA opinions THAT ENDED UP RUINING A SUCCESSFUL CAREER, and her own sitcom killed her off and changed its name. Well, we always knew it as Lame Married with Children anyway. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now R. KELLY was an R&B superstar with a string of worldwide hits. ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM, THOUGH, GO BACK TO THE '90s. In 2022 he was sentenced to 30 years in jail for running a literal sex ring -which means crimes we won't even mention. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now WILL SMITH is a rap and screen legend. SOME WEIRDLY SEXIST DRIVE TO PROTECT WOMEN ended up backfiring, though, and he sabotaged the Oscar ceremony that should have been his crowning achievement. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now LENA DUNHAM was an up-and-coming Wunderkind of feminist indie media. AFTER A STRING OF CONTROVERSIES AND TONE-DEAF POSITIONS, her name became synonym with liberal hypocrisy and privileged white feminism. By the time she agreed to adapt a book about a Syrian refugee, she had become a parody of herself. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now Stand-up comedian CHRIS D'ELIA portrayed characters such as a child molester and a sexual predator. PLOT TWIST: НЕ WAS ACCUSED OF BEING EXACTLY THAT. His agency dropped him and he lost a bunch of gigs, including a role in Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead (which actually sounds like a win for him, but whatever). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now RYAN ADAMS has musical talent and indie cred. НЕ ALSO HAS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM OF ASSISTING FEMALE MUSICIANS TO THEN PURSUE THEM, as well as retaliating and even underage pestering. Nothing has been proven, but even his ex-wife Mandy Moore called his behavior psychologically abusive. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now ELON MUSK was considered a visionary whose eccentricities were just a side effect of being a genius. EVEN IGNORING STUFF LIKE THE ONE-LANE GAMER TUNNEL and the whole Twitter fiasco, the mask was pretty much off by the time he said the Democratic Party was the party of hate - four days after the Buffalo shooting. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now ARMIE HAMMER rocks in Call Me by Your Name. THINGS FELL APART WHEN ALLEGATIONS OF HARASSMENT (AND LATER ABUSE) emerged around 2021. What makes them different, however, was the explicit, insisting, and systematic fantasies of sexual torture and even cannibalism. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now JEFFREY JONES acted in a bunch of awesome movies НЕ WAS ALSO ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION OF, ERM, CHEESE PIZZA, and had to register as a sex offender. Не has since resumed acting, mainly on the stage and stuff like 2019's Deadwood: The Movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now CHARLIE ROSE hosted his eponymous talk show from 1991 to 2017. НЕ WAS FIRED FROM PBS AND CBS due to allegations of sexual harassment dating from 1991 to 2011. Не tried a comeback in 2022 by interviewing a billionaire. Sheesh, holding water to climate-collapsing obscene wealth sure is a great look, Charlie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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