From red carpets to press tours promoting their upcoming projects, celebrities have been busy, engaged, and sharing their two cents on the microphones for much of this year. And if you're anything like me, you'll eat it up. Whether it's a podcast or a 20-minute episode of my favorite celebrity eating increasingly spicy wings and answering questions, I will be determined, you better believe.
However, sometimes things don't go as planned and the awkward moment is caught on camera (and in turn immortalized as a joke on Twitter). From the most talked about flops of the year to the ones I personally can't get out of my head, here are the 18 most embarrassing celebrity interview moments of 2025:
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When Allison Williams casually mentioned that Botox was a guest on The Kelly Clarkson Show and noticed Kelly looking at her forehead, trying to figure out if she had injected herself there:
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When These Grammys Red Carpet Interviewers Rudely Interrupted Babyface to Try to Talk to Chappell Roan instead of:
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When Hilaria and Alex Baldwin were asked about the second season of their reality show, Baldwinsand seemed to give us all the drama of the episode in one short interview:
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When Kieran Culkin threw cue cards to an interviewer on the Golden Globes red carpet:
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When Bobbie Althoff asked Nick Cannon to name all 12 of his children, and it went as well as you'd think:
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When Sydney Sweeney addressed the American Eagle jeans ad scandal in an interview with GQ… which only caused more controversy and backlash:
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When Keira Knightley was caught laughing during a very unfunny question about fans' dissatisfaction with her participation in Harry Potter audiobooks, given author JK Rowling's consistent and harmful attacks on transgender people:
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The Handmaid's Tale star and executive producer Elisabeth Moss continued Jimmy Kimmel Live! and revealed that an anonymous crew member asked for a pair of the underwear she wore on the show… and Jimmy couldn't hide his visceral reaction:
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When Law Roach was interviewed on the Met Gala red carpet, it was at that very moment that he realized that Anna Sawai was wearing almost the same outfit as Zendaya, who he styled, and his lively reaction was caught on camera:
For reference, here's an image of Zendaya next to Anna:
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When Claire responded to a question on the Grammys red carpet about bisexual men in Brooklyn who considered themselves her target audience:
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When Julia Fox interrupted Marlon Wayans again… and again… and AGAIN when he tried to answer a question about real men during the press tour for their film, TO HIM:
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When Jennifer Lopez was asked about Watch what happens live O Rejoicing star Heather Morris states that Jennifer excused people from auditioning for her tour simply because they were Virgos… and did her best to answer convincingly:
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In May, Jennifer Hudson was criticized online for apparently not listening to Eddie Murphy's story on her talk show. The Jennifer Hudson Showwhere he spoke of his son's secret marriage to Martin Lawrence's daughter:
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When KATSEYE was given a personalized Labubus on the VMAs red carpet, the reaction was… mixed, to say the least.
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When an interviewer asked former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick (73) about how he met his girlfriend Jordon Hudson (24), she immediately offered her opinion behind the scenes:
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