10 Celebrities Kicked Off Planes For Embarrassing Reasons
Proof that no matter how rich and famous you are, an airplane is no place to act like a jerk.
Published 7 years ago in Facepalm
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Courtney Love. Here’s a very good reason to converse politely with the flight crew, your travel companions, and your fellow passengers. If you get into a boisterous argument with the cabin crew, your airline may kick you off your flight, like Virgin Atlantic did to Courtney Love in 2003. Police escorted Love across the tarmac when she landed, and authorities detained her for several hours.
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Amanda Bynes. You need a valid form of photo identification to fly. (That’s true even if you’re famous enough that lots of people would recognize you.) Amanda Bynes found that out the hard way in 2013, when the crew wouldn’t let her get on a flight without an ID. The actress reportedly told the pilot to Google her. No surprise that the airline still wouldn’t allow her on the plane.
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Alec Baldwin. Back in 2011, plenty of us played Words with Friends on our phones. Alec Baldwin famously loved the game. He didn’t want to stop playing it on a flight from Los Angeles to New York. So when the flight crew asked him to stop, Baldwin lashed out at the flight attendants and American Airlines in a barrage of tweets. Ultimately, the airline kicked him off the flight.
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Billie Joe Armstrong. Have you heard about the time he wouldn’t pull up his sagging pants? In 2011, a Southwest flight attendant asked Billie Joe Armstrong to pull up his sagging pants as he boarded a flight from Oakland to Los Angeles. The Green Day vocalist refused. Then, he got into an argument with the flight crew instead. So the airline kicked him off the plane.
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Some celebrities, like Snoop Dogg, have managed to get stopped by the authorities even when they fly via private plane. Italian police stopped the rapper as he prepared to board a private plane with $422,000 in cash in his Louis Vuitton luggage. In the European Union, you can only board a plan with a maximum of 10,000 euros — an amount that the rapper dramatically exceeded. Some say he was ratted out that the money was for drugs.
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Sir Paul McCartney. Even today, you’d get in big trouble for carrying half a pound of marijuana onto a plane. But Paul McCartney did just that in 1980. At the Tokyo airport, customs agents arrested the singer-songwriter, who had tucked the marijuana into one of his suit jackets. They say he was told "there is no good stuff in Japan". The artist was facing up to 7 years in prison but in reality it was 9 days in lock up.
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While Amber Heard was not kicked out of the plane for smuggling she was caught later. The rules regarding bringing dogs to Australia are strict- 30 days of quarantine, but Amber wanted none of it. Heard hid dogs while traveling to Johnny Depp but was reportedly caught in a pet beauty salon. Amber claims it was a case of "paperwork problems" and she thought everything was filled by her assistants. i hope the doggies got their pedicure at least.
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Charlie Heaton. Stranger Things star Charlie Heaton was denied entry into the U.S. — and missed the series’ season 2 premiere party — when officials at LAX found traces of cocaine in his luggage. Drug-sniffing dogs made the discovery. Officials didn’t arrest Heaton, but they detained him at the airport and then put him on a plane back to London.
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Kevin Smith. We end with someone that got embarrassed without being rude or disorderly. Southwest Airlines kicked filmmaker and actor Kevin Smith off a flight not because he had too much to drink or started an argument, like other celebrities, but because of his size. Smith said he had no trouble fitting in his seat, buckling his seatbelt, or lowering his armrests. Smith later boarded another plane with no problem. His guess? He thought that he got kicked off the flight by an airline employee who didn’t like his movies.
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