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4 days ago
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Worst TV Sitcom Characters Of All Time
We all have those TV characters we absolutely love! For example, I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't absolutely love Sophia, Dorothy, Blanche, and Rose on The Golden Girls. But just as memorable are the ones who drive us completely up the wall. Whether they're annoying sidekicks, overly dramatic main characters, or just plain unlikeable, some sitcom figures manage to be very, very divisive. Recently, redditor Final_Target_4274 wanted to know about the divisive sitcom characters when they asked: "Who is the worst sitcom character of all time?" Well, people had OPINIONS! Below are the top and most often repeated sitcom characters that people just can not stand: "Urkel on Family Matters. Dude was annoying, yet became popular, and then took over the whole fucking show. Kimmy Gibbler was similarly annoying, but never became the focal point." —Efficient-Hornet8666 "Kimmy Gibbler on Full House. Her neediness was only surpassed by her inability to take a hint. Her awkwardness made me feel second-hand embarrassment." —MerriweatherJones "Rachel Green on Friends. She is a real bitch and is actually one of the worst characters in any TV show." —LordCoke-16"Rachel is actually the most appalling. She is such a difficult character to like. Any person who likes to portray her as a victim, I immediately think less of."—Odd_Firefighter_8193 "Whoever Idris Elba was on The Office." —Marshiznit"Charles Miner and he's aware of the effect he has on women."—Vikingaling "Beverly Hofstadter on The Big Bang Theory must enter this chat. NOTE: I adore the actress, and I think the character is brilliant. But Beverly is objectively awful across every category. Truly nailed it." —SkatingNerd4Life "Seven on Married... with Children." —VStarlingBooks"Unwatchable episodes!"—mayfare15 "I don't know if it counts, but I dislike Gene Belcher of Bob's Burgers. I dunno what rubs me wrong, maybe just the general grossness of his jokes? Or his personality. He's the weakest link." —nazieatmyass "Randy on Season 8 of That '70s Show. and it's not even close." —Flat-Artichoke4289"Randy is totally inoffensive. He's a lightning rod for hate because of the circumstances of his arrival. A shame it really put the brakes on Josh Meyers' career because I thought he was great on MadTV."—Luchalma89 "Jim from According to Jim." —FrequentLunch2711"Today, I coincidentally looked up how long this terrible show was on, and it somehow was on for eight seasons. I've never found Jim Belushi to be funny at any point in his career, including this garbage show."—PHX480 "I really liked Cheers, but I couldn't bear Diane. An awful character that I felt was really badly portrayed. I understand that many people loved her, which baffles me! Maybe her character didn't 'travel' outside the USA!" —Automatic-Scale-7572 "Nellie from The Office." —johndhall1130"Nellie was annoying because of the storyline. It was frustrating that she just claimed Andy's job, just because he had one day off to sort out things with Erin. That's not how jobs work."—Sean_13 "Frank Grimes from The Simpsons." —Plane-Tie6392"Good ole Grimey…"—Madduxfan31-97 "Doug Heffernan on King of Queens. He acts like a perpetual teenager. He expects Carrie to do everything around the house despite having a demanding job of her own." —rachel_ct "Bernadette from The Big Bang Theory. Her character changes from one episode to another. She does a 180 within the same episode. Strong personality traits yet completely undefined as a character." —blackrain1709 "Principal Belding on Saved by the Bell. He was obsessed with Zack and even followed him from elementary school to high school." —szatrob "Phoebe was the worst character on Friends. I enjoy Lisa Kudrow outside of that role. Just hate Phoebe as a character. She was a terrible friend; she almost cost all of them their jobs." —Mr-Mortgages "Raymond on Everybody Loves Raymond." —Noshitsweregiven69"Fucking Ray Barone. I remember seeing a few odd episodes growing up and laughing... tried to watch from the beginning as an adult a couple of years back and that show was fucking garbage. Like, I could not even get through the first season, but it did make a lot of people's careers, so there's that, I guess."—Global_Intern_9248 "The neighbor/ carpenter guy on Schitt's Creek. I can't stand him." —SurrrenderDorothy "Gina Linetti on Brooklyn Nine-Nine is just an awful person who the rest of the cast gaslit the audience into thinking was awesome." —JustSomeBloke5353 "The wife, Jill, from Home Improvement. She just lacked any kind of joy and was a vortex in the home that would suck up any happiness her sons or husband brought." —Scambuster666 "Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory." —Away_Ad_5390"THANK YOU! What an obnoxious character — and completely unrealistic that he would have any friends at all given the way he treated literally everyone who knew him like total crap."—phm522 "Tom Haverford on Parks and Rec. The character, to me, was just a bad person who had no redeeming qualities." —skipper_jonas_grumby "I'm sure this is unpopular, but Michael Scott. I can't fucking stand him, and every time I try to watch the show, I give up after half a season. Still haven't made it past season 5, and I don't plan to ever finish it." —Goldfishyyy You can read the original thread on Reddit.
Daily Mirror
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Freddie Mercury's brutal Princess Diana snub at Live Aid that raised eyebrows
When the iconic rock band Queen performed at Live Aid in 1985, Freddie Mercury refused to sit with Charles and Diana in the royal box at Wembley Stadium for one reason Princess Diana charmed millions of people across the world, including celebrities - but Freddie Mercury seemingly had no interest in schmoozing with royalty. In 1985, thousands of people gathered at Wembley Stadium for Live Aid: a charity concert to raise money for those struggling with the famine in Ethiopia. The concert, which was broadcast to more than one billion people around the world, was also attended by royal couple Princess Diana and the then Prince Charles, who watched on from the royal box. One of the day's most anticipated performances came from iconic rock band Queen, who have since gone on to perform for royalty many times. Band members Brian May and Roger Taylor went on to headline the late Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee concert in 2022, and both received OBEs throughout their career. However, during Live Aid, the late Freddie Mercury had no such desire to mix with the royals, opting not to join Taylor and May in the royal box to watch the performance in the company of Charles and Diana. In an interview with The Express, Freddie's close friend and long-term assistant, Peter Freestone, revealed that Freddie simply had 'better' things to do backstage at Live Aid than mingle with the royals. He said: "Even at Live Aid, you see Brian May and Roger Taylor in the royal box. Freddie didn't go. He was more interested in being with friends backstage, talking with Elton John, hanging out with his people. His friends were always the most important to him." Despite choosing not to spend his time with Charles and Diana, there has long been a rumour that Freddie Mercury did have a level of friendship with Diana, with the pair allegedly having a wild night together at a gay bar in South London. According to urban legend, Freddie and Diana struck up a friendship and bonded over their love of the sitcom The Golden Girls, along with celebrities like Rupert Everett and Kenny Everett. Kenny's friend Cleo Rocos said: "The group spent the afternoon drinking champagne in front of reruns of The Golden Girls with the sound turned down and improvising show dialogue with a much naughtier storyline." The evening quickly got wilder, with Diana allegedly wanting to tag along with the rest of the group as they planned to party the night away at a famous South London gay bar, the appropriately named Royal Vauxhall Tavern. According to Rocos, they disguised the princess as a man in a baseball cap, sunglasses and army bomber jacket, as she said: "When we walked in ... we felt she was obviously Princess Diana and would be discovered at any minute. But people just seemed to blank her. She sort of disappeared. But she loved it." Despite the years of rumours over the wild night, Peter Freestone debunked the claims as he told Express: "No, not at all. Maybe Diana went with Kenny but Freddie wasn't there. He never met her."
Metro
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
I've made stupid decisions but I wouldn't change a thing
Drag queen Alaska shares the advice she would give her teenage self as part of Daniel Harding's book Letters to My Younger Queer Self: Inspiring, influential voices from the LGBTQIA+ community. Dear Younger Self, I have a serious problem with this assignment as I vehemently believe that travelling back in time and tampering with the past is a sure-fire way to throw off the current timeline. If you read this information from your future self, it will surely alter the course of events within your own life and beyond. Reading this letter could cause massive devastation, nuclear disaster, or worse – The Golden Girls might never get made. Perhaps there are some general, evergreen pieces of advice that might be useful to you and anyone reading this without throwing off the space-time continuum: Learn to meditate . Even if you don't do so regularly, knowing how to do it will give you something to do if you are ever buried alive. . Even if you don't do so regularly, knowing how to do it will give you something to do if you are ever buried alive. Stretching is good for you. If you watch Sex and the City, watch it in the knowledge that Carrie Bradshaw is an unsympathetic protagonist – not a role model. I want to avoid getting too specific with you, Younger Self. If I tell you that you'll grow up and be paid way too much money to dress up in long blonde hair, excessive make-up and tight, flowing dresses, I'm not sure if you'd believe me. I also doubt you'd believe that you drive an electrical space car and have a magical device in your pocket that can play any episode of any of your favourite TV shows on command. That's pretty cool though. With thousands of members from all over the world, our vibrant LGBTQ+ WhatsApp channel is a hub for all the latest news and important issues that face the LGBTQ+ community. Simply click on this link, select 'Join Chat' and you're in! Don't forget to turn on notifications! I won't tell you, however, that this same magical device is also a source of pain, worry, annoyance and this new, ever-present thing from the future we call 'anxiety'. If I attempt to tell you useful information that's good for your health, like 'don't drink too much', it could have the same effect that all those years in the D.A.R.E Program [Drug Abuse Resistance Education] had. In which case you'll end up not drinking or doing anything against the rules until you're 18, and then you'll do pretty much all of them all at once the second you get to college. Which I guess worked out fine. But as a general rule, avoiding cocaine and drinking a little bit less is pretty much categorically always better in every imaginable way. I could tell you not to make really stupid decisions. Don't drive your bike home drunk without a helmet from Faultline. Don't drive out of the city to meet some guy and then get stoned and realise you don't want to hook up with him, so he makes you leave and you have to drive terrifyingly stoned all the way home. Don't try to hitch-hike your way out of Burning Man to get back to LA. But wait – if you don't do that, then you'd never end up losing your job at Circus of Books, and then you'd never end up moving to Pittsburgh, and then you'd never end up getting into a relationship with Sharon, which would then mean you'd probably never get on RuPaul's Drag Race. And if you don't end up on Drag Race, I'm not sure what you'd be doing because being a Ru Girl has been the only job you've ever held for longer than a year. See, this timeline business is tricky. I could tell you to appreciate your parents, especially your father, because you will be faced with losing him in a very sudden and terrible way. But then if I told you that, you'd probably see to it that he never gets on a motorcycle again and then you'd really be cramping his style and taking away a hobby that he truly loved. So just be nice to your parents and tell them you love them. I could tell you to make really shrewd business decisions – like, creating a make-up line right after you win All Stars. But then you'd have as much money as Trixie Mattel and honestly, no one needs that much money. But no – enough! I want you to avoid reading any of this, Younger Self. Your drinking, drug use, career missteps and litany of all-around horrible decisions have created a rich and bizarre tapestry that led you to the place where you are now. You're almost 40, you're generally healthy and generally happy. You're on your patio, the sky is blue and there's a hummingbird sucking nectar from the feeder your sister got you last Christmas – and in this very moment, for you, everything's pretty OK. But now that I think about it, the current state of the planet Earth is terrifying, abysmal and borderline hopeless. More Trending Maybe if you read this transmission from the future it will cause massive changes to your life's timeline and therefore to the world. Maybe there's a chance there will be less war and predation. Less dishonesty and greed. Less hunger and pain. So, Younger Self, read on. What harm can it do? Alaska Do you have a story you'd like to share? Get in touch by emailing Share your views in the comments below. MORE: I went on a girls' trip and I didn't miss my children once MORE: At 53, I realised I'd never had sex while sober MORE: I took weight loss jabs and ended up in hospital four times
Daily Record
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Golden Girls actress Lynn Hamilton dies aged 95
American also starred in sitcom Sanford and Son and the The Waltons Actress Lynn Hamilton, best known for her roles in Sanford and Son, The Golden Girls and the The Waltons has died aged 95. Her former manager and publicist, Rev. Calvin Carson, confirmed she died peacefully on Thursday of natural causes in her Chicago home. In a statement, he said: 'Without profound gratitude and admiration, we celebrate the extraordinary life of iconic actress Alzenia 'Lynn' Hamilton-Jenkins, whose remarkable legacy continues to uplift and inspire. 'Her illustrious career, spanning over five decades, has left an indelible mark on the world of entertainment, motivating audiences across the globe through her work as a model, stage, film and television actress.' The post said that her 'captivating performances' continue to 'inspire new generations'. The statement added that Lynn was the recipient of the NAACP Award. It described the achievement as a 'testament to her outstanding contributions' to the industry. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. Lynn starred as Verdie Foster in the Waltons, with her having appeared on the CBS show from 1973 to 1981. The character becomes friends with the titular family and is said to have featured in more than a dozen episodes. The Mirror reports that she is also credited with playing Trudy in an episode of the Golden Girls in 1988. Trudy was introduced as the aunt of Lorraine Wagner (Rosalind Cash), who married Michael Zbornak (Scott Jacoby), the son of Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur). She also appeared in numerous other shows over the course of her career. Her credits include playing cousin Georgia Anderson in Roots: The Next Generation in 1979 and Judge P. Fulton in the Practice from 1997 to 2002. Lynn is said to have also worked alongside her late husband Frank S. Jenkins, who died aged 89 in 2014, over the years. She had married the poet and playwright in 1964. Their partnership was referred to as a 'shining example of creativity, love and dedication' in the statement released this weekened. Tributes were paid to Lynn on social media. One person wrote on X: 'Oh no, what a loss. She was wonderful in everything she did. Rest in peace, Lynn Hamilton.' Another said: 'Lynn Hamilton brought dignity and grace to her memorable performances. Rest in Peace.'
Yahoo
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Golden Girls' Creatives Spill the Tea on Bitter Feud Between Betty White and Bea Arthur — and Making a Classic Anyway
Creatives behind The Golden Girls shared funny and, at times, very candid behind-the-scenes stories — namely, among the long-rumored feud between stars Betty White and Bea Arthur — during a 40th-anniversary celebration of the long-running hit show on Wednesday night. The sold-out event, held at NeueHouse Hollywood as part of the monthlong Pride LIVE! Hollywood festival, featured a panel of writers, producers and others who worked on the show, which ran for seven seasons on NBC, from 1985-92. The series, created by Susan Harris, starred Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak, Betty White as Rose Nylund, Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux and Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo. (The Hollywood Reporter is the presenting media sponsor of Pride LIVE! Hollywood.) More from The Hollywood Reporter K-pop Star Bain is Ready to Open a New Chapter Following Historic Coming Out: "I Can Finally Be Free" The 'Wizard of Oz' of Gay Erotica OUTtv: They're Here, They're Queer, They're Canadian! Co-producer Marsha Posner Williams brought up a topic that has been much-discussed and speculated on: whether Arthur and White got along in real life. 'When that red light was on [and the show was filming], there were no more professional people than those women, but when the red light was off, those two couldn't warm up to each other if they were cremated together,' she quipped. Arthur 'used to call me at home and say, 'I just ran into that c' — meaning White, using the c-word — 'at the grocery store. I'm gonna write her a letter,' and I said, 'Bea, just get over it for crying out loud. Just get past it.'' In fact, the panelists shared that Arthur called White the c-word more than once. 'I remember, my husband and I went over to Bea's house a couple of times for dinner. Within 30 seconds of walking in the door, the c-word came out,' Williams said, and Thurm noted that he heard Arthur call White that word as well while sitting next to her on a flight. It's a story he shared a few years ago on a podcast and then got surprised at the internet's response over his revelation. The panelists differed on their theories about why the two didn't get along. Co-producer Jim Vallely thought it was because White got a lot more applause during cast introductions ahead of tapings, but Williams shot that down, noting that Arthur hated doing publicity and came from a different background (theatrical) than White (television). 'The show would have continued after seven years,' she shared. 'Their contracts were up and … the executives went to the ladies, and Estelle said, 'Yes, let's keep going,' and Rue said, 'Yes let's keep going,' and Betty said, 'Yes, let's keep going.' And Bea said 'no fucking way,' and that's why that show didn't continue. … And Betty would break character in the middle of the show [and talk to the live audience], and Bea hated that.' Script supervisor Isabel Omero remembered it differently, noting that the two used to walk 'arm in arm' to get notes together after the first of two tapings. Williams joked that was in case they were walking across the lot and a golf cart got out of control, suggesting that one of them might push the other in front of it. Casting director Joel Thurm was there from the beginning for the casting of all four leading ladies. He shared that Brandon Tartikoff, then-head of NBC Entertainment, originally did not want Arthur in the show, but Harris was dead set on her, having previously worked with the actress on Maude (she wrote several episodes, including the legendary abortion episode). Thurm said Tartikoff's resistance to casting Arthur had to do with her low Q scores in likability. '[This] created a big problem, but I never knew how dug in Susan was, because I just wasn't in the room where those kind of discussions happened,' he shared. 'So my job, according to Brandon, was to find someone that Susan would be happy with instead of Bea Arthur. I should have realized that she wouldn't have been happy with anybody besides Bea, but I was too naive, and I thought, 'Oh, I have someone. Her name is Elaine Stritch. She has the same acidic quality, you know, stare at you and give you the same thing that Bea does.'' Thurm shared that when Stritch came in for her audition, 'None of the people associated with Golden Girls wanted her. So this woman had to walk into a freezer of an office and try to make it funny. Stritch asked Susan one thing, it was something like, 'Is it OK if I change something?' And Susan said, 'Yes, only the punctuation.' There was no love in that room. I felt so sorry for poor Stritch because it wasn't her fault. She didn't do anything. And had I known that, that Susan was immovable on this, I wouldn't have done what I did and then try to find somebody else.' Williams, however, shared a different view of Stritch. 'I want to just say that I worked on a pilot, and Elaine Stritch was a guest star for one day,' she chimed in. 'Before the day was half over, we were calling her 'Elaine Bitch.'' Meanwhile, Getty, who was then an unknown actress, came in to her audition and nailed it: 'She did her homework and prepared for the part,' Thurm said, noting she was the first one of the four leads to be cast. Incidentally, Cher was supposed to guest star in the episode focusing on the death of Sophia's son, playing his wife, but she never replied to the offer, and Brenda Vaccaro was cast instead. The event kicked off with a highlights reel of some of the show's LGBTQ moments, including Blanche's brother coming out as gay, Sophia's coming to terms with her cross-dressing son and a politician's revelation that he was transgender. But behind the scenes, things weren't so progressive, shared writer Stan Zimmerman. 'People have to remember back then, we were told by a representatives to stay in the closet, so nobody knew we were gay,' he shared. 'Our first day on the set, we noticed Estelle come running toward us, and she's like … 'I know. Your secret's safe with me. You're one of us.' I thought she meant Jewish,' he quipped. 'But she meant gay. She wasn't gay, but she was probably the first ally ever.' Zimmerman added that he was telling his co-workers how he had bought some vintage sweaters at a garage sale one day, and they told him to 'go home and burn those sweaters because it was probably somebody that died of AIDS. … That was the climate then.' I know you see all these progressive scenes and you think, 'Oh, it was one big gay party there,' but we couldn't be who we really were.' Omero, who came out as transgender in 2019, shared that she was in the closet for all seven seasons of the show. She said that one day, Arthur offered to give her an Indian sari that she had picked up on a trip. 'In my closeted, panicked, paranoid brain, all I knew is that at that moment Bea Arthur was offering me a dress to wear around the house, and I wish I had been in a place where I could have said something, to even accept the gift without ever using it, just so I could express something to someone. But fear and shame is a big thing,' Omero said. Asked why The Golden Girls tackled so many different LGBTQ issues, Vallely replied: 'I think it's because we knew … we had a gay audience. They would play [the show] in [gay] bars across the country. … It was a big deal for middle America to see these women embrace the gay culture.' The panel, which also featured story editor Rick Copp and was moderated by New York Times best-selling author Jim Colucci (Golden Girls Forever), ended with a highlights package of cut scenes from the pilot, which originally featured a live-in gay housekeeper and cook named Coco, who was played by Charles Levin. The character was cut from the show because Sophia — initially meant to be a recurring character — was so popular that they made Getty a regular; unfortunately for Levin, that meant another character had to be cut. Among those in the audience were actress Deena Freeman, who played Dorothy's daughter Kate in an episode of the show, and production designer Michael Hynes. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
