15 Celebs We Didn’t Know Got Banned From Other Countries

My word do we enjoy writing about celebrities (just look at our archives!). If there’s one thing we like more than that though, it’s writing about celebrities behaving badly. Fortunately they give us a lot of material to work with.

Some people are big in Japan, other people are banned in Japan. Like our mom always said: if you can’t go big, you better go home, and if you’re going to go home anyway, you may as well get banned. She was so smart. It looks like some of these celebrities may have met our mom (don’t you say it…) because they sure as heck whacked by the ol’ ban hammer and hard.

Turns out, finding out that you got banned from a country is basically an occupational hazard for celebrities. It’s also way easier than we thought–and believe me, we’ve tried. C’mon Sri Lanka, lighten up, let Akon in! Check out these 15 examples: