1.After country star Morgan Wallen was caught using the n-word, fellow country singer Maren Morris called him out on X (formerly Twitter) while responding to a tweet about the use of the slur not representing country music. “It actually IS representative of our town because this isn’t his first ‘scuffle’ and he just demolished a huge streaming record last month regardless,” Wallen wrote. “We all know it wasn’t his first time using that word. We keep them rich and protected at all costs with no recourse.”
2.This isn’t the only time Morris has made her thoughts clear on another in the industry. After Jason Aldean’s wife Brittany wrote on Instagram, “I’d really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase. I love this girly life,” Singer Cassadee Pope called out Brittany’s comments on X, writing, “You’d think celebs with beauty brands would see the positives in including LGBTQ+ people in their messaging. But instead here we are, hearing someone compare their ‘tomboy phase’ to someone wanting to transition. Real nice.” Also on X, Morris weighed in, replying to Pope’s tweet to call out Brittany as well. “It’s so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie,” she wrote to Brittany.
3.Elon Musk has consistently misgendered his own daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, who is trans, and otherwise made wildly problematic remarks, including saying she was dead and “slightly autistic.” In one tweet, he claimed she was “born gay” and recalled her liking musicals and picking out clothes for him to wear that she’d call “fabulous.” Vivian called him out on Threads, writing, “This is entirely fake. Like, literally none of this ever happened. Ever. I don’t even know where he got this from. My best guess is that he went to the Milo Yiannopoulis school of gay stereotypes, just picked some at random and said ‘eh- good enough’ in a last-ditch attempt to garner sympathy points when he is so obviously in the wrong even in his own fucking story.”
“He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there, and in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness,” she continued. “I don’t concern myself with the opinions of those who are below me. Obviously Elon can’t say the same because in a ketamine-fueled haze, he’s desperate for attention and validation from an army of degenerate red-pilled incels and pick-mes who are quick to give it to him.”
4.In another example of someone in Elon’s life publicly challenging him online, his on-again, off-again partner (and mother of two of his children), the musician Grimes, called Musk out after he tweeted, “pronouns suck.” Grimes tweeted back that she loved him, but he needed to turn off his phone and call her. “I cannot support hate. Please stop this. I know this isn’t your heart,” she wrote. She later deleted the tweet.
5.In another clapback to anti-trans comments, Marlon Wayans was NOT shy about calling out Soulja Boy on X. Wayans had initially called out the rapper for performing at an inauguration event for Donald Trump, leading to Soulja Boy making a bunch of anti-trans comments about Wayans’ child on X. Wayans replied, “If @souljaboy had a career he could get cancelled for this type of slander. Luckily he ain’t been relevant since 2007.”
6.This summer, MyKayla Skinner claimed America’s current gymnasts don’t work as hard as they used to in a now-deleted YouTube video, saying, “Besides Simone, I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t like what it used to be.” Simone Biles then wrote on Threads, “not everyone needs a mic and a platform,” seemingly in reply to Skinner. She then further called out Skinner on Instagram in her photo of Team USA after winning gold at the Summer Olympics, captioning it, “lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions .”
7.Don Lemon once called out Jonah Hill for being “a tool” after an interaction with him at a hotel where Lemon said it seemed like Hill thought he was a “bellman.” He finished the tweet, “A lesson to always be kind.” However, this didn’t go over well with Hill, who tweeted back (and later deleted), “@DonLemonCNN I said hi what do you want me to do move in with you? I was in a hurry. Didn’t realize you were a 12 year old girl. Peace.”
8.Azealia Banks has never been shy about calling out celebrities on social media for all kinds of things. In one famous example, after Lana Del Rey criticized Kanye West for his support of Donald Trump, Banks wrote on Twitter, “Wow okay Lana, this would be cute if you were consistent with your outrage and refused to collab with ASAP rocky who has physically assaulted women too. To me this just looks like the typical White woman taking using a weakened target to ‘pretend’ to be an ally.” A$AP Rocky had been accused of slapping a fan and charged with misdemeanor simple assault, though the case did not move forward.
9.Dylan Sprouse once randomly called out Jared Leto, writing on Twitter, “Yo @JaredLeto now that you’ve slid into the dm’s of every female model aged 18-25, what would you say your success rate is?” Leto did not reply to the tweet.
10.On her Instagram, Bebe Rexha posted a photo of messages asking if she was interested in “shooting social content” with G-Eazy, tagging G-Eazy and writing, “You have my number. Why don’t you text me and ask me yourself you stuck up ungrateful loser. You’re lucky people are liking you again. Cause I could go in on all the shitty things you’ve done and how you treated me after giving you your only real hit. Btw the answer is no. Hope you good.”
11.In early 2023, Britney Spears reposted a screenshot of an about six-week-old tweet from Alyssa Milano on Instagram. The tweet read, “Someone please go check on Britney Spears.” Over the screenshot, Spears wrote, “It saddens me to see things about me from people who don’t know me !!! This definitely feels like a form of bullying !!! Ladies, we are supposed to be rooting for one another not pulling one another down !!!” Milano reportedly later apologized to Spears.
12.Chloë Grace Moretz once called out Kim Kardashian for posting a nude photo on X, writing, “I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than our bodies.” However, Mortetz faced a lot of backlash for her perceived slut-shaming. She later claimed her comment was “misconstrued,” writing, “I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind… I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn’t be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things.”
13.A more valid callout of Kim came after she revealed that she had lost 16 pounds to fit into Marilyn Monroe’s old dress for the Met Gala. Riverdale star Lili Reinhart appeared to call out Kardashian’s comments on Instagram, writing in a story, “So wrong. So fucked on 100s of levels. To openly admit to starving yourself for the sake of the Met Gala. When you know very well that millions of young men and women are looking up to you and listening to your every word.” “The ignorance is other-worldly and disgusting,” she wrote. “Please stop supporting these stupid, harmful celebrities whose entire image revolves around their bodies.”
14.Jameela Jamil similarly called out Khloé Kardashian for promoting weight loss shakes. “If you’re too irresponsible to a) own up to the fact that you have a personal trainer, nutritionist, probable chef and a surgeon to achieve your aesthetic, rather than this laxative product … and b) tell them the side effects of this non-FDA-approved product, that most doctors are saying [isn’t] healthy. Side effects such as: Possible Flat Tummy Tea side effects are cramping, stomach pains, diarrhea and dehydration… Then I guess I have to,” she wrote on Instagram. “It’s incredibly awful that this industry bullied you until you became this fixated on your appearance. That’s the media’s fault. But now please don’t put that back into the world, and hurt other girls, the way you have been hurt. You’re a smart woman. Be smarter than this.”
15.Jamil also criticized Cardi B for peddling weight loss tea, tweeting, “They got Cardi B on the laxative nonsense ‘detox’ tea. GOD I hope all these celebrities all shit their pants in public, the way the poor women who buy this nonsense upon their recommendation do. Not that they actually take this shit. They just flog it because they need MORE MONEY.”
16.Jamil is certainly not shy when it comes to calling out celebrities. After Emile Hirsch — who pleaded guilty to assault in 2015 for choking a Sundance exec, which he claimed he did not remember due to being drunk — was cast in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, she tweeted, “Emile Hirsch strangled my tiny female best friend until she blacked out at a party in front of dozens of witnesses at Sundance Film Festival (and was convicted) but Tarantino just cast him in a movie. INTENSE case of rich white male privilege eh? Cool. Cool. Cool.”
17.After a fan tweeted at Dominic Monaghan asking him to encourage Lost costar Matthew Fox to join Twitter, Monaghan replied, “He beats women. No thanks.” In response to a follow-up asking about Monaghan and Fox having “good times,” Monaghan replied, “How do you know we ever did? You don’t know either of us. He beats women. Not isolated incidents. Often. Not interested.”
18.Kim Cattrall has similarly made a few public call-outs about her former Sex and the City costar Sarah Jessica Parker’s behavior. “I think she could’ve been nicer. I really think she could’ve been nicer. I don’t know what her issue is,” she said in 2017, pointing out that none of her costars called her when it was rumored she was having contract issues with Sex and the City 2. But she really put Parker on blast after her brother died, and Parker told Extra TV that she had sent condolences and love to Cattrall.
In response, Cattrall posted on Instagram: “I don’t need your love or support at this tragic time @sarahjessicaparker” and followed it up with: “Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now. Let me make this VERY clear. (If I haven’t already) You are not my family. You are not my friend. So I’m writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your ‘nice girl’ persona.”
19.Drake Bell also called out a former costar: in his case, Josh Peck, who he had starred with on the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh years prior. After Peck didn’t invite Bell to his 2017 wedding, Bell tweeted, “When you’re not invited to the wedding the message is clear…. True colors have come out today. Message is loud and clear. Ties are officially cut. I’ll miss you brotha.” He later deleted the tweets.
20.While shooting Fate of the Furious together with Vin Diesel, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson appeared to call out costar Vin Diesel, writing on Instagram, “There’s no other franchise that gets my blood boiling more than this one. My female costars are always amazing and I love ’em. My male costars, however, are a different story,” he wrote. “Some conduct themselves as stand-up men and true professionals, while others don’t. The ones that don’t are too chicken [shit] to do anything about it anyway. Candy asses.”
While Johnson never named Diesel, many assumed he was speaking about him in light of Diesel’s response, which was, “I think some things may be blown out of proportion. I don’t think that was his intention. I know he appreciates how much I work this franchise.” Diesel also referred to himself as Johnson’s big brother, to which Johnson replied that he wasn’t.
21.After Lea Michele tweeted in support of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, former Glee costar Samantha Ware replied on Twitter, “LMAO REMEMBER WHEN YOU MADE MY FIRST [TELEVISION] GIG A LIVING HELL?!?! CAUSE ILL NEVER FORGET. I BELIEVE YOU TOLD EVERYONE THAT IF YOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY YOU WOULD ‘SH*T IN MY WIG!’ AMONGST OTHER TRAUMATIC MICROAGRESSIONS THAT MADE ME QUESTION A CAREER IN HOLLYWOOD.”
22.One more costar example…T.J. Miller’s Silicon Valley costar Alice Wetterlund once tweeted that he was a “bully and petulant brat,” describing working with him as “kind of a nightmare” and saying his male costars enabled him. “They can f— off forever,” she wrote on the platform, calling her experience on the show a “nightmare.” Miller had left the show at this point, in what was said to be a mutual decision. He later claimed, “It was not my experience that anyone was bullying her or being mean to her,” and stated that it was actually Wetterlund who was difficult to work with.
23.Zayn Malik also called out a former collaborator — in his case, former One Direction bandmate Louis Tomlinson. After Malik left the band, he made disparaging comments about the music he’d recorded with the band. Then-current member Louis Tomlinson took to Twitter to shade Malik’s collaborator, Naughty Boy, and, by extension, Zayn. Zayn then called out Tomlinson for his words, writing on Twitter, “Remember when you had a life and stopped making bitchy comments about mine?”
24.Some of the biggest celebrity callouts come from exes. After Pete Davidson mocked his engagement to ex Ariana Grande in an SNL promo, Grande called him out on Twitter, writing, “for someone who hates relevancy you sure love clinging to it,” though she later deleted the tweet.
25.In another ex callout, Dove Cameron replied to a fan who brought up her ex Ryan McCartan in the comments of a photo with another man, responding to the fan’s “Ryan” with the finisher “was terrible to me.”
26.One more: Iggy Azalea publicly accused her ex, Nick Young, of cheating on her, writing on X, “I broke up with Nick because I found out he had brought other women into our home while I was away and caught them on the security footage.”
27.In a series of tweets, former Zoey 101 star Alexa Nikolas called out Justin Long for being friends with a man who she said was “sleeping [with] *aka assaulting a minor*” and having underage girls over to his house late at night in the 2000s.
28.She also claimed Jonah Hill “slammed me to the door and shoved his tongue down my throat.”
29.Finally, she called out “creepy” Seth McFarlene for having “utter predatory disrespect for professional boundaries,” saying he “mysteriously offered” her a role on Family Guy when she was 18, despite the fact that she’d never done voice work before.
30.Back in 2015, Nicki Minaj took to Twitter to complain that her video for “Anaconda” was not nominated for a VMA for Best Video, writing on Twitter, “When the ‘other’ girls drop a video that breaks records and impacts culture they get that nomination” and “if your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year.” Taylor Swift, whose video for “Bad Blood” was nominated, called out Nicki for her comments, writing on Twitter, “I’ve done nothing but love & support you. It’s unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot.”
31.And finally, let’s end on a silly example: when Doja Cat called out then-17-year-old Noah Schnapp after he posted messages from her asking him to tell his Stranger Things costar Joseph Quinn to hit her up. Doja then called Schnapp a “borderline snake” and “so unbelievably socially unaware and wack” on TikTok. Schnapp later revealed he’d apologized, and the two were good. Oh, and Doja and Joseph appear to be dating now.
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