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Tour de France champion, cancer survivor, and overall cycling extraordinaire Lance Armstrong had everything to go down in history as a cycling legend. If it wasn't for the fact that he cheated...
Recalling his covering of the Iraq war in 2003, the journalist distorted the facts. At one point, he said his helicopter was hit by enemy fire and forced down, when in fact this happened to the chopper if front of his.
Kanye West's 2016 song 'Famous' had controversial lyrics about Taylor Swift. The singer's spokespeople said that the lyrics had never been approved by Swift.
After years of claiming to be a drug-free athlete, Armstrong confessed to the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Paris Hilton denied that she had taken any drugs. She did so on 'Larry King Live' after being released from jail.
Shortly after, photos of the socialite smoking weed emerged. Years later, she was arrested for cocaine possession.
However, just a few months after the divorce, the actress announced that she was carrying Pitt’s child. It is now known that Brangelina started way earlier.
Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus were huge in the '80s, until it transpired that they were actually lip-synching.
The scandalous news broke after one of the real singers, Charles Shaw (right) came forward. Milli Vanilli had to relinquish their Grammy and a number of lawsuits followed.
During Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's divorce proceedings, Jolie claimed that there hadn't been adultery.
Fast forward a few months and it turns out there was a tape! "I apologize for not publicly being honest, but no one wants to hope that that's the truth and you hope that will never come out so I felt like at the time that's all that I could have said," Kardashian stated.
Jenner claimed that her fuller lips were achieved by the way she applied her makeup. That is, until she confessed that she had temporary lip fillers.
Malik said he had left One Direction because he wanted a break from the spotlight and just to have a normal life.
But he wrote his first solo song just one week after leaving the boy band. And not long after, he had a successful solo album out. How's that for a regular life?
The actor lied about being in the World Trade Center on 9/11. "I was not at the Trade Center on that day. I don't know why I said this. This was inexcusable. I am truly, truly sorry," he later said.
During a game show in 2008, the rapper said he was from the Valley (an area in LA). In fact, Tyga is actually from Compton (another area in LA).
Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were the "it" couple of 1999 when they started dating. Spears was just 19 years old and under immense pressure to maintain a public image that was both sexy and innocent. This was difficult when every TV and radio interviewer was asking her if she and Timberlake were sexually active. "The virginity issue. It's a personal decision and it reflects how I feel right now about myself. There are so many emotions involved that I would like to be able to wait until I know I'm with the right person and I'm married," she told the Daily Star.
Remember when Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes claimed they were siblings? Well, they were not!
Jack and Meg were in fact married. According to Jack White, the reason why they lied was because they believed people would be more interested in the music and less in the relationship if they thought the duo were brother and sister and not involved romantically.
But it turns out the song was a rip-off of Marvin Gaye's 'Got to Give It Up.' Though Thicke was not the first artist to be accused of plagiarism.
"We literally wrote the song in about a half hour and recorded it," Thicke told GQ about his 2012 controversial hit 'Blurred Lines.'
Who can forget the former US President in 1998 saying on TV that he "did not have sexual relations with that woman?" Except he did.
However, later a video of a phone call between the two surfaced on the internet, and it looks like Swift was well aware of the song and not phased by it...
"I have temporary lip fillers, it's just an insecurity of mine and it's what I wanted to do ... I want to admit to the lips, but people are so quick to judge me on everything, so I might have tiptoed around the truth, but I didn't lie," she said.
Famed musician and composer Jonny Greenwood revealed that, when he first joined Radiohead, he would turn his keyboard off and pretend to play during rehearsals. "Thom [Yorke]’s band had a keyboard player—[whom] I think they didn’t get on with because he played his keyboard so loud. And so when I got the chance to play with them, the first thing I did was make sure my keyboard was turned off," he admitted. "They made quite a racket, quite a noise. It was all guitars and distortion—and so I would pretend to play for weeks on end and Thom would say, ‘I can’t quite hear what you’re doing, but I think you’re adding a really interesting texture because I can tell when you’re not playing,'” he said. “And I’m thinking, ‘No, you can’t, because I’m really not playing.’ And I’d go home in the evening and work out how to actually play chords and cautiously over the next few months, I would start turning this keyboard up. And that’s how I started in with Radiohead."
Suki Waterhouse only harmed a few heads when she lied about using Coca-Cola to wash her luscious blonde locks. Speaking to Us Weekly in 2015, the British model and singer said, "I rinse my hair with Coca-Cola sometimes." She added, "I don't like my hair when it's washed—it's fine and limp—but Coca-Cola makes it tousled, like I've gone through the Amazon or something."
The hot tip apparently stuck in some fans' minds, as one asked Waterhouse on November 4 whether she still prefers soda over shampoo. The star decided, seven years after the fact, to come out with the truth. "Ok.. i have to be honest, i got bored doing hair interviews and said this. i have never done this ma'am [sic]," she tweeted. She also subsequently shared a screenshot of a Bustle article written by Jessica Booth in which she described how she tried Waterhouse's cola method. "I did Jessica dirty," the 30-year-old confessed.
The rapper lied in court about the involvement of her co-manager and bodyguard in a shootout, and witnessing it. However, security camera footage showed otherwise. She ended up serving about a year in prison.
Like many other stars, including Jennifer Lopez, the rapper lied about her age.
Sources: (Bustle) (WatchMojo) (Associated Press)
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Timberlake, however, didn't have as much at stake, and revealed that they had in fact been sexually active. Spears addressed his confession years later, saying, "It was two years into my relationship with Justin. And I thought he was the one. But I was wrong. I didn't think he was gonna go on Barbara Walters and sell me out."
Stewart once lied to federal investigators about why she sold ImClone shares right before the stock price plummeted. She did so because she obtained information beforehand that the product wasn't approved by the FDA. Stewart ended up going to jail.
In a 2007 interview, Kardashian denied the existence of an intimate tape. "There is no (...) tape! Ray J's not the kind of guy who would do something for revenge. There is no amount of money that could ever convince me to release any tape, even if I had one. I don't need the money," she told Complex.
We all tell lies—it's just part of being human. And, of course, celebrities are no exception. Some of their lies, however, do have a much bigger impact, because they obviously reach (and often affect) a lot more people. And while lying about your temporary lip fillers might not be a big deal, lying about drug use, plagiarism, and adultery might just be a bit more serious!
In this gallery, we bring you some of the biggest lies ever told by celebrities. Click through to find out what exactly they were.
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We all tell lies—it's just part of being human. And, of course, celebrities are no exception. Some of their lies, however, do have a much bigger impact, because they obviously reach (and often affect) a lot more people. And while lying about your temporary lip fillers might not be a big deal, lying about drug use, plagiarism, and adultery might just be a bit more serious!
In this gallery, we bring you some of the biggest lies ever told by celebrities. Click through to find out what exactly they were.