Celebs That Farted On Live TV
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BY DEREK DE KOFF/NOV. 20, 2018 9:11 AM EDT/UPDATED: JULY 13, 2020 4:55 PM EDT
Did you hear the news? In a 2016 survey conducted by Wrangler Jeans, 56 percent of participants admitted that, of all the many "bodily offenses," loudly farting was by far the most embarrassing affront on the list. However, publicly passing gas must be child's play compared to the embarrassment of involuntarily "emptying the tank" on live TV — particularly if the infraction leads Rosie O'Donnell to comment ruefully about breakfast burritos.
Want to insert yourself into a really humiliating scenario? How about involuntarily dropping a booty bomb in front of Anderson Cooper's piercing baby blues (and their approximately 2.30 million dedicated viewers)? Or unleashing a gut-busting gust right after waltzing to "Moon River" on Dancing with the Stars? Or — as was arguably the case with one particularly bumbling 2016 presidential candidate — farting while stoutly reciting scripture to Jeanine Pirro?
It's a fact both fascinating and foul: A life-affirming number of celebs have suffered backend blowouts on live TV. Since we imagine you're curious to know the culprits, we've gone ahead and done the dirty work... by compiling their most heinous on-air honkers to date.
As it says on Leslie Nielsen's gravestone: "Let 'er rip."
Mike Ditka dealt it, didn't he?
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There are questions. During a live 2015 broadcast of ESPN's Monday Night Countdown, former Bears coach Mike Ditka very well may have "released the hounds," but damned if he'll ever come clean. As the New York Daily News reports, Ditka did his best to deny perpetrating the foul faux pas, but we have ears, and sportscasters have noses: Cris Carter's expression following Ditka's inferred infraction says everything we legally cannot.
Ditka's alleged cheese-cutting wasn't so easily swept under the carpet, either. Word of "Fartgate" rapidly rumbled through mainstream media, with NBC primly suggesting the presumed keister cacophony "raised some eyebrows." Bleacher Report called Ditka's alleged under-burp "thunderous," while GQ assumed the role of body-language experts, sagely dissecting how he "leans off his chair" and "the arch of his eyebrows" as irrefutable proof of the poot. Meanwhile, Uproxx abandoned any pretense of civility at all, simply calling Ditka's suspected stinker "a big old fart."
As the media fanned the flames, Ditka felt the need to defend himself to the reputable Chicago-Sun Times: "It wasn't me," he adamantly told the newspaper. "Believe me, I'm to the point in my life where it doesn't matter." For what it's worth, Ditka doesn't give a toot about any of our sulfurous suspicions, either: "I don't care what they think. They can think anything they want."
Poster Comment:
One time at the Illinois State Highways yard I farted so loudly in the toilet the whole place went. "WHOAAA"!
Another time were wore working Northwestern Football games in Evanston, Illinois. I cut a stinky fart and this girl in the stands was waving her hand in front of her face. My partner told me, "Eat some more beans." LOL