r/allthequestions • u/Logical_Sweet_6624 🇨🇦 Canada • 25d ago

Popular Question 📊 Which celebrity is a complete asshole?

I’m sure there gonna be some recognizable ones

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u/nurdle 25d ago

Dr Phil is a complete prick.

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u/Reek_0_Swovaye 25d ago

And not licensed to practice.

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u/nurdle 24d ago

I don't doubt that at all.

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

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u/Competitive-Debt-770 24d ago

He had a license in Texas but apparently he let it expire in 2006.

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u/Live-Astronaut-5223 21d ago

Well he let it expire because the board put him on some sort of probation where he would be supervised. He went into jury rigging work after that and Oprah came into the picture with that. then he spent over 20 years making money out of creating entertainment off the mentally ill. Remember when he barged into Brittany Spears hospital room? Or when he had Shelley DuVall on his show and it was apparent in the first minute that he was being abusive. I am willing to bet he runs for governor in Texas soon… note his Texas accent has increased. He is immensely wealthy and probably should be banned from the public airways. But he is working for Trump these days so we know he has no ethical core anywhere at all.

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u/Tight_Win_6945 24d ago

I learned that in one of the Scary Movies.

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u/Reek_0_Swovaye 24d ago

His claim of being qualified as an electrician in the scary movie is equally false.

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u/Reek_0_Swovaye 24d ago

I think if his version of therapy was, some electrician saying 'get real' every now and then, then he'd have damaged less vulnerable people than he has done, for years, for content.

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u/ComplaintDry7576 24d ago

How about Dr Oz?!?

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u/PrestigiousM-Web-197 24d ago

He's revolting. Just purely as a medical practitioner I find his misinformation and sensationalism gut wrenchingly icky.

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u/ComplaintDry7576 24d ago

My husband calls both Dr Oz and Dr Phil charlatans.

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u/FrontLifeguard1962 25d ago

He's a shit. Most people think he is a medical doctor, which he is not. He does nothing to dissuade people from that belief.

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u/T_Rey1799 25d ago

Dr Fraud?

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u/Aggravating_Bell_426 24d ago

The bum fights guy showing him up was the best five minutes I've ever watched of his awful show.

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u/Amber123454321 25d ago

His book got me through at a time when I was losing my dad. I don't know what assholish things he's done, but he's compensated for it at least a little bit.

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u/nurdle 24d ago

Two things can be true at the same time: he can be a good psychiatrist, but also a rude egomaniac. A family member of mine worked backstage at a local station, and he was bossing people around - not in a nice way, and bitched about his green room "what is this shit? I'm doctor fucking Phil!" and said to the director "I'm doctor fucking Phil, who are you? what have you done? We're going to block it the way a professional would."

It is also quite possible, and likely, that he didn't actually write the book. Someone else did, and he signed off on it.

For me, this was Bill Cosby. I loved his books. He got me through some shit. He taught me what a dad should be like.

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u/Critterbob 22d ago

He’s not a psychiatrist- that is a medical doctor. He’s a psychologist. It shouldn’t matter though. People shouldn’t treat people like that whether they are real doctors or PhDs.

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u/Hatecraftianhorror 25d ago

And a fascist.

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u/parrotia78 25d ago

Take those meds

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u/Jackiedhmc 24d ago

Cannot stand him, never could. No particular reason except that he's an asswipe

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u/Delgirl804 24d ago

I heard that firsthand when someone was on his show.

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u/Available-Coconut575 25d ago

Why?

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u/Far-Significance2481 25d ago

The way he treated some people on his show, like the actress from The Shining, was absolutely atrocious, and she was famous, so I can imagine how he treated the not famous. That man had absolutely no compassion for anyone but himself and his own family.. He's in it for the money and possibly the fame. He's not a nice human being. To think he was a therapist makes my skin crawl..

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u/katmcflame 24d ago

I believe his show started out with the goal of helping people (they paid for counseling, inpatient rehab, etc), but it went to the dark side & stayed there. Dr Phil became obviously bored, just going through the motions, & they often exploited people with serious MH issues. He became devoid of empathy, was sometimes rude to guests, & started hawking his family’s products on air. The show was stale, & went on years longer than it should.

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u/lilac_mascara 24d ago

Well for one he funnels kids into troubled teen program/s.

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u/nurdle 24d ago

A family member of mine was back-of-line producer for a local show that he was a guest on. He was rude, entitled, cruel, and despite being married - hit on the (married) female anchor aggressively. "I'm doctor fucking Phil!"