Being a celebrity cannot always be easy, particularly in today’s social media-fueled world. Some use their platform to advocate for causes they believe in, while others like to share memes or photos of what they ate for breakfast.
Sometimes things get uncomfortable—like when a celebrity is caught telling blatant lies. Hardcore fans and haters are willing to dig deep into a celeb’s feed to find receipts. Everything on the internet is permanent, after all.
Celebrities work hard to cultivate their social media persona, so it’s always exciting when they get caught in a lie online. Scroll down to find out about some of the most ridiculous and hilarious instances of celebs being called out on a lie.
Remember Bow Wow?
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In 2018, he posted about hopping aboard a private plane.
But an eagle-eyed Snapchat user found him out.
He was actually flying commercial.
Khloe Kardashian posted this picture of supposedly homemade desserts.
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But the owner of an LA bakery, Sweet Lady Jane, quickly recognized that the pies had been bought from her shop.
We’re not totally surprised, but we’re still disappointed.
Rita Ora got herself into a situation.
This is a risky tweet to begin with.
And then she backtracked when she didn’t get as many retweets as she expected.
By the way my Twitter got hacked somebody is threatening to release new music I've worked really hard on. Nothing comes out until I'm ready.
— Rita Ora 🙏✨ (@RitaOra) October 31, 2014
Ah, the classic hacker excuse.
Soulja Boy posted a photo with what seemed to be stacks of hundred dollar bills.
But look closely and you’ll see that they’re not real.
His response?
I just want my fans to know that yes I was on set shooting a video and they had prop money and I took a picture with it. All my cash is real
— Soulja Boy (Drako) (@souljaboy) July 23, 2014
Guess he should have mentioned that in the caption!
Sure, Jan.
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So we don’t have the receipts for this one, but it’s safe to say Kim is stretching the truth here.
Even Britney lies sometimes.
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She posted this picture of delicious-looking corn on her Instagram.
But it really was too good to be true.
When you're too lazy to cook so you google image search "grilled Mexican corn": pic.twitter.com/XrlXNT1Kwx
— Mister Preda (@MisterPreda) January 20, 2016
An observant follower discovered that Britney had re-posted a photo she found online.
Kris Jenner went a little too far with Photoshop.
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Seriously, what happened to Gordon Ramsay?!
Fortunately, he posted an unedited version.
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Bella Thorne was caught red-handed.
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In the original caption of this photo, Bella mentioned that she was wearing faux fur. But, followers found online that her coat was actually made of real rabbit and fox fur.
Bieber’s new jet.
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Justin Bieber posted this photo insinuating that he had bought himself a jet for Christmas, but TMZ revealed that he had just chartered it for one flight.
Hopefully, he stays a little more low-key next Christmas.
A cereal conspiracy.
last night i had cereal with milk for the first time. life changing.
— Kylie Jenner (@KylieJenner) September 19, 2018
To be fair, Kylie did have a pretty strange childhood.
But this follower noticed otherwise.
last night i had cereal with milk for the first time. life changing.
— Kylie Jenner (@KylieJenner) September 19, 2018
Of all the things to lie about!
Oprah shared the news about one of her favorite things, the Microsoft Surface.
But she tweeted it from her iPad.
You get a Surface, you get a Surface!
But I’m keeping my iPad.
Kim Kardashian shared this gorgeous picture from her vacation to Thailand.
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But Buzzfeed revealed that she had lifted the photo from a wallpaper website.
Shay Mitchell was advertising a makeup remover, but something wasn’t quite right.
SHE AINT EVEN ACTUALLY RUB HER EYE IM CRYING LMFAOOOO pic.twitter.com/JVbWbg5P1i
— jor (@ohjlizzle) September 9, 2018
Yep, that cotton pad definitely didn’t touch her face.
P. Diddy posted this awesome picture of an eclipse in 2014.
Turns out he lifted the photo from a photographer’s page.
If only Diddy had just given proper credit.
The invention of the selfie.
11 years ago today, Me & Britney invented the selfie! pic.twitter.com/1byOU5Gp8J
— Paris Hilton (@ParisHilton) November 19, 2017
To be fair, we think Paris might have been a little tongue-in-cheek with this caption, but The New York Times still put her claim to the test.
A bizarre beef between Perez Hilton and Will.i.am.
Back in 2009, Perez tweeted this.
And Will.i.am actually created a Twitter account to set the record straight.
Apparently, the feud started when Perez said he didn’t like the Black Eyed Peas’ record.
Wow, 2009 was a simpler time.
The band YACHT used an odd method to drum up publicity.
The band’s Facebook post announced that their sex tape had been leaked.
The whole thing was then revealed to be a hoax, in an effort to gain publicity. Followers of the band were not impressed with the stunt, which led to their public apology.
Reference: Twentytwowords.com
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