Dumbest celebrities ever?

98% of them are.

98% of them are controlled by agents and scriptwriters.

Britney Spears

Cher and John Travolta

Kyle Richards

Jessica Simpson

Trump

Beyonce

Justin Bieber

Ryan Lochte

Herschel Walker

Brendad Ickson

Liv Tyler is supposedly not the brightest bulb.

I've met Bo Derek twice and she is definitely IQ challenged. She is also one of the sweetest, most caring person I've ever met. She literally glows.

January Jones

I thought she was so smokin' hot in Mad Men -- and then I heard her interviewed on some show. Dumb as a box of hair. I still like her look in MM, but I stopped imagining sleeping with her.

Prince Harry

Mika Brezenski and Joe Scarbourough are shockingly stupid and venal. I find Brezenskis idiocy actually jaw dropping. She is one of the worst current examples of nepotism. She's as stupid as Megan McCain , only she manages not to go into insane rages on television.

R11 wins.

Anna Nicole Smith. I still felt sad when she died, though.

[quote] Mika Brezenski and Joe Scarbourough are shockingly stupid and venal.

One may even say that Joe has such a stunningly superficial knowledge that it's almost embarrassing to listen to him.

Mark Ruffalo always seems a bit slow to me.

He does, R16. He was the first person I ever heard use the word “woke” in its currently-popular sense.

Wolf Blitzer bombed on Celebrity Jeopardy.

Jennifer Lawrence

Timothee Chalamet.

Joey Lawrence is also down there.

Trump is a fart in human form.

Kellyanne, Sarah Palin, most republicans, et. al.

any of the contestants on the celebrity wheel of fortune

I knew Britney would be one of the first people mentioned. I've said it before and I'll say it again - she's obviously uneducated, severely bipolar, probably personality-disordered on top of it, and emotionally stunted - but I don't necessarily think she's dumb. I'm a linguist and former speech language pathologist, and imo her grammar, spelling and vocabulary are nowhere near as bad as people make them out to be. She IS capable of writing coherently and discussing somewhat complex ideas - what makes her sound incoherent/nonsensical a lot of the time are symptoms of mania such as flight of ideas and loose associations.

She's probably not exactly an intellectual heavyweight, but not borderline retarded either. I think she's a woman of average intelligence, just sadly severely mentally ill and emotionally stunted.

Ryan Lochte

My cooter itches, y’all.

Jessica Simpson

R26 = R7.

Cardi B

Teresa Giudice

Lourdes Leon

Kourtney Kardashian

Jaden Smith

Chrissy Teigen

Agree with the Mark Ruffalo poster. I have heard from people who worked with him that he is struggle bus.

Very progressive views but it’s difficult to get a coherent thought from him. What I heard

Jussie Smollett

All of the ones I've met. Shockingly dumb.

Lindsey Lohan

Leslie Jones

Struggle bus?

Mariah Carey. When she sang ( I mean Lip-synched) for New Years. She asked when the ball dropped.

Jessica Chastain

R12 Mika is so stupid that when Joe was out this week there was a full panel covering her ass.

Ricki Lake

When she hosted her talk show she LITERALLY read cue cards the whole time.

R45 Well, at least she can read cue cards.

All Kartrash

Kanye

Canadian tennis player Denis Shapovalov may not be the dumbest celebrity player, but he is probably the dumbest current professional tennis player.

Fred “Rerun” Berry

Rerun had to continuously repeat all of his classes during summer school.

R25 What do you think her favorite book is?

Liz Truss

Kate Bosworth and her decade younger replacement Halston Sage.

I read an interview with Debra Winger in the very late 1980s. She mentioned seeing Michelle Pfeiffer on a flight. She said Michelle was reading a novel and also had a dictionary with her and every page or so she would stop reading to presumably look up a word from the novel in the dictionary. Winger tried to position it as how impressed she was that an A-list movie star would continue to educate herself—and maybe she was—but she came across as a cunt and it was a bitchy story to share.

Ruffalo had a brain tumor removed 20 or so years ago and it left him deaf in one ear.

I don't think his "struggle" is about being stupid.

In fact, when I started thinking about stupid celebrities, I have to remind myself that a lot of these people have substance abuse issues if not mental health problems.

Of course, there are the MAGAT celebrities like Chachi. Are they stupid or just venal?

Not that those are mutually exclusive terms.

R56 speaking of magat Chachi, I think magat Antonio Sabato Jr. is definitely very dumb.

Sherri Sheperd. So fucking dumb.

Someone did an analysis of Britney Spears v. Lohan v. (I think) Paris Hilton. Compared their writing. Britney came out on top.

I’ve read Britney’s tweets in DL threads and there are no misspellings, no glaring bad grammar.

No mention of Brendad?

Ed.win Mon.tan.ez Jr.

Kyrie Irving

[quote] She's probably not exactly an intellectual heavyweight, but not borderline retarded either.

No.; Britney is flat-out retarded. Just look at her instagram videos.

R60, see R8.

Current Mayor of NYC

R9 Isn't she a republican and a homophobe?

R36 Maybe he's just shy or not talkative. Maybe he's on a spectrum. Doesn't mean he is dumb.

Justin Bieber. He's definitely not reading books after canceling concerts. Brandy always came across as cognitively disadvantaged as well.

I’ve always thought Mark Ruffalo seemed like one of the most intelligent and thoughtful actors of the current crop.

I worked in costume and fashion research in LA for a few years. Almost every actor I worked with was a complete fucking idiot. I doubt most of them know how to wipe their own asses.

R69, are there any celebs who stand out to you as being not stupid?

RuPaul is a complete moron.

I used to listen to Ru and Michelle's podcast, and at times it was a train wreck of stupidity. Ru would start a conversation and then forget what he was talking about halfway through. Michelle would inevitably save the day and intervene to redirect the conversation. Ru would mix up facts and use one word or phrase when he meant another. I was astounded by how much Michele propped Ru up throughout the podcast. And she did it with a friendly chuckle, an easy, friendly elan that never made the listener feel awkward.

The gurl knows who signs her paycheck!

Shelley Winters

When Beyoncé talks, she does sound stupid. Wendy Williams said that she needs to turn on closed captioning to understand Beyoncé.

Patti LuPone

Beyonce once walked into an Italian restaurant where I worked and wanted fried catfish.

R55, I am blown away by your post. I was on that flight!!! I never knew there was an interview mentioning it. I remember it very clearly, because I had never seen movie stars IRL before, and suddenly, there were TWO of them. I was sitting next to Michelle, she was not really a big star yet, I knew her, of course, but Debra, accross the aisle, got all the attention. I don't remember any interaction between the two of them. Michelle was indeed reading during the entire flight, and she had a tiny dictionary. She was reading FRENCH. I was very impressed, and muttered something about it, and she was very gracious. She told me she was scheduled to appear in a movie based on an old french novel, and that she wanted to get the real flow and feeling of it. She was lovely.

Jenny McCarthy

Kamala

Who said Cher upthread? 😠

Yeah, she's dumb all the way to the bank even if she does get lost on the way 🙄

^ Favorite dumb Cher joke. Kathy Griffin was visiting Cher one evening, since the staff was all off for the night they decided to order a pizza. When the pizza guy asked Cher her address she didn't know it. She started to freak saying she had people who took care of things like her address and they weren't there. Finally the pizza guy says, "Is this Cher?" She responded, "Yes". The pizza guy continues, "Don't worry we know where you live"

Cher and Kathy got their pizza 😌

Doesn't Cher regularly call into CSPAN? That's not something a complete idiot would do.

^ Actually Cher is pretty damn smart, her dyslexia betrays her intellect

I don't think that Cher is smart or intelligent, but it's incrediible what she's done with what little talent she had. She's a rather inadequate singer, can't act much, and isn't much to look at, and look at her. She knows out to work the business , and who to cater to. I don't think she's happy either, and the way her daughter turned must be eating her, but she sure made it in the biz. Sony really was a pygmalion

R71, you make it sound like RuPaul is the modern day Larry King. Otherwise I would put Gym Jordan, Cawthorn, MTG and Boebert right up at the Pantheon of stupidity. Gaetz seems just a step below.

R15 that's hilarious that even his father in law knew what a dumbass he is!

Dubya was as dumb as a box of hair.

Katy Perry. One of the luckiest celebrities on Earth. She even looks dumb.

R87 Numbers...

Believe it or not Gayle King. She was on Celeb Wheel of Fortune and Jesus Christ they had to give her a win, you could tell she was pissed she went on the show because it made her look stupid..

R89 She sounds smart on her show or in interviews.

Probably just reading off a paper or prompter. I mean there was one puzzle with only on letter left and she could not get it.

I don't think Mae Murray was a really bright bulb, but she did OK for herself in her heyday.

Every single person named Biden.

^ Which Biden are you?... Obviously not the one with the big dick 😏

De Niro. Borderline mentally retarded.

Demi Lovato

R76 That is wild! I almost didn’t post r55 but now I’m glad I did. I’m pretty sure it was Interview Magazine but I’m not 100% sure because there were—and I read—so many magazines back then. I cannot imagine Winger’s comment about Michelle not blowing up had it been stars of today.

As far as reading in French…that blows MY mind. That crucial fact was left out (not noticed?) by Winger and completely changes the tenor of her story. I guess we can assume she was reading Les Liaisons Dangereuses? That certainly worked out well for her!

Ben Affleck- years ago I watched this DUMMY on Bill Mahr's Show- he was unable to keep up with the conversation which wasn't that intellectual to begin with.

Has anyone mentioned Gio Benitez?

To the person who said they've read Britney's twitter and there are no glaring grammatical errors or misspellings...a hearty belly laugh I'm aiming in your direction. Her instagram is full of word salad, incomplete sentences, nonsensical, half-formed thoughts and she doesn't even know the proper words for things. She claimed when she was committed and taken from her home (while she was locked in the bathroom with her kids and a knife, claiming she wanted to give them a BATH when it was time for them to go back to K-Fed), she was strapped to a "gurner. When she gave her speech in court asking for her conservatorship to be dissolved, she referred to her IUD - TWICE (at least) - as an "ID." When she claimed that she had to give blood for testing weekly, she claimed she gave "gallons" of blood. She claimed this not once, but several times on her stupid insta posts.

She definitely probably tests in the 80s IQ range. She's the opposite of smart.

R70 Believe it or not, Jennifer Coolidge. Smart, funny, and super sweet!

Jessica Simpson and Ryan Lochte consistently demonstrate how dumb they are.

How Simpson was able to create a business mini empire is beyond me. She's lucky someone smart who isn't out to cheat her is on her side.

Is Eve a celebrity?

Has no mentioned Madona?

Didn't Harry fly helicopters in the military? How dim could he be if he was able to do that?

No, his brother was a helicopter pilot.

No, says here he actually served and flew helicopters.

I’m surprised, and still only 90% convinced. From Quora:

[quote] “No, he is not. Harry tried to become certified as a helicopter pilot, but after training for three years to become an Army Air Corps Pilot, Harry gave up on being a pilot. Harry later qualified to be an Apache helicopter commander, which does sound impressive, but it means he was a co-pilot gunner. Harry is not qualified to fly a helicopter. Harry can be a co-pilot, but that is completely different. His older brother is definitely qualified to be a helicopter pilot, and sometimes people confuse the two. Prince William can fly many different types of helicopters. Harry cannot.

The cnn article implies he is a pilot, but doesn’t directly contradict the claims made by the quora poster.

R55 Wow, that if so fucking mean to say.

R31 beat me to it, but today at a friend’s house I saw an episode of the Andi Coen Programme and Teresa Giudice was one of the guests. Wow, what a complete moron. Ego Nwodim from SNL was the other guest and she seemed pretty flabbergasted by Teresa’s stupidity.

Madonna is as dumb as a box of wigs.

Terry Schiavo

R89 you’re a zero. Gayle King is not dumb

Debra Winger is a heinous cunt.

R16 To me, it's part of his charm. His slow-witted expressions are endearing.

R112 Was she though?

'Judge' Jeanine Pirro. Both crazy and stupid. And mostly drunk

No A list celebrity is/was as dumb as Britney Spears. She owns this thread. There is no serious competition.

Antonio Sabato Jr

Billy Dee Williams.

Shelley Winters

Regis Philbin

J-Lo

Lens Dunham

Madonna

Tonya Pinkins

Beyonce

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I don't think JLo or Lens are dumb, at all. Ridiculous, yes.

George Lopez and his daughter Mayan are both as dumb rocks and fail to understand that the terms Latino/Hispanic are ethnic terms and not racial terms.

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