Janet Jackson's boob expose top controversies list

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Washington (ANI): Three years after Justin Timberlake pulled down Janet Jackson"s top to flash her breast at the 2004 Super Bowl, the incident dubbed 'Nipplegate" has topped a poll of the '25 Biggest Celebrity Scandals since 1982". According to Entertainment Weekly magazine which compiled the list, the incident gave enough ammunition to people already forming the opinion that 'Hollywood was polluting kids" minds". “With nearly 90 million people watching, many of them children, the incident became a flash point for family-values groups who had long argued that Hollywood was polluting kids' minds — and now they had proof," the mag states.

Coming in close on Timberlake and Jackson"s heels was Mel Gibson with his alcoholic anti-Semitic rant in July 2006. Gibson took second place on the list. Third place went to Sinead O'Connor who capped her 1992 SNL appearance by ripping a photo of the Pope live on TV. Hugh Grant getting caught by cops while indulging in ''lewd conduct'' with prostitute Divine Brown back in 1995 judged to be the fourth most scandalous event of the past 25 years. Rounding off the top five was the incident where Michael Jackson dangled his son Prince Michael from a fourth-floor balcony while visiting Berlin in November 2002.

The list for the top '25 Biggest Celebrity Scandals since 1982" as per Entertainment Weekly is:

Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake"s 'Nipplegate"

Mel Gibson anti-Semitic rant

Sinead O"Connor ripping up the Pope"s picture on live TV

Hugh Grant getting caught with hooker Divine Brown

Michael Jackson dangling son from fourth-floor window

Woody Allen marries Soon-Yi – his former wife Mia Farrow"s adopted daughter

Dixie Chicks criticising George Bush over Iraq war

Britney Spears shaving off her hair

Brad Pitt leaving Jennifer Aniston and hooking up with Angelina Jolie

Mariah Carey"s promotion antic for 'Glitter"

Tom Cruise"s anti-psychiatry rant

Isaiah Washington"s calling gay costar T.R. Knight a ''faggot''

Milli Vanilli lip-synch lie exposure

'Seinfeld" star Michael Richards' racist rant

Lindsay Lohan"s car-chase chaos

Radio host Don Imus calling Rutgers women's basketball team ''nappy-headed hos''

Pee-wee's Playhouse host Paul Reubens" indecent exposure arrest

Roseanne Barr's crotch-grabbing, spitting while singing National Anthem at San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium

Rosie O"Donnell quitting The View

Courtney Love's using cocaine while pregnant

Rob Lowe"s 1988 sex-tape scandal

O.J. Simpson"s book tell-all 'If I Did It"

Kate Moss" cocaine scandal

Whitney Houston"s dramatic weight loss in 2001

Madonna simulated masturbation on stage during 1990 Blond Ambition tour