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* Shortly before [[LovelyAssistant Vanna White]] joined ''Series/WheelOfFortune'', she posed for lingerie photos to make rent money. After the nighttime version of ''Wheel'' became a hit, the photos were sold to Hugh Hefner and published in Playboy, despite Hefner promising White not to do so. White attempted to sue Hefner and Playboy, but she dropped both cases.

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* Shortly before [[LovelyAssistant Vanna White]] joined ''Series/WheelOfFortune'', she posed for lingerie photos [[IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney to make rent money.money]]. After the nighttime version of ''Wheel'' became a hit, the photos were sold to Hugh Hefner and published in Playboy, despite Hefner promising White not to do so. White attempted to sue Hefner and Playboy, but she dropped both cases. She considers the photoshoot as one of her biggest regrets.
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*''Anime/IdolSingerYokosoYoko'' is about a group of girls becoming {{Idol Singer}}s (think of it as ''WebAnimation/HoloLive'' if it was a 90's anime). One girl, [[AlphaBitch Kyoko]], has to hide her boyfriend from the public as to avoid public controversy for her up-and-coming career.

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* Pretty much subverted by Steve Burns of ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' fame -- he has explicitly stated that he has no desire to kill the image of ''Blue's Clues''[='=] Steve by doing anything unseemly. He's even said that he has refused requests to have sex in the Blue's Clues 'Thinking Chair' that he was given because it would feel like a bunch of parents was watching him do it.[[note]]In a storytelling session at The Moth, Burns admitted that a Playboy Playmate gave him a lap dance in the chair while they were on a date, but once she asked him to sing the Mailtime Song, he told her to stop.[[/note]] He ''has'' more recently pursued a career as an indie rock singer/songwriter and has been photographed drinking, but this was long after he left the show. This came about partially because of a role he took on ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' during his tenure on ''Blue's Clues''. It was because a child saw him in that role that Burns made his public statement that he would not take on roles that might upset fans too young to understand that he wasn't Steve on ''Blue's Clues''. Also subverted by his successor Donovan Patton, who played Joe. Shortly after the spin-off ''Series/BluesRoom'' was cancelled, Patton appeared as a gay-bashing thug on ''Series/OneLifeToLive'' to zero controversy.

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* Pretty much subverted by Steve Burns of ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' fame -- he has explicitly stated that he has no desire to kill the image of ''Blue's Clues''[='=] Steve by doing anything unseemly. He's even said that he has refused requests to have sex in the Blue's Clues 'Thinking Chair' that he was given because it would feel like a bunch of parents was watching him do it.[[note]]In a storytelling session at The Moth, Burns admitted that a Playboy Playmate gave him a topless lap dance in the chair while they were on a date, chair, but once she asked him to sing the Mailtime Song, he told her to stop.[[/note]] He ''has'' more recently pursued a career as an indie rock singer/songwriter and has been photographed drinking, but this was long after he left the show. This came about partially because of a role he took on ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' during his tenure on ''Blue's Clues''. It was because a child saw him in that role that Burns made his public statement that he would not take on roles that might upset fans too young to understand that he wasn't Steve on ''Blue's Clues''. Also subverted by his successor Donovan Patton, who played Joe. Shortly after the spin-off ''Series/BluesRoom'' was cancelled, Patton appeared as a gay-bashing thug on ''Series/OneLifeToLive'' to zero controversy.



* Stevin John, who plays Blippi, made a rather infamous and not-safe-for-work video parodying the Harlem Shake prior to his fame as the character. The video became such an OldShame for Stevin that he sends cease and desist letters to those who repost it online, worrying that it will taint the wholesome image he has as Blippi.

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* Stevin John, who plays Blippi, made a rather infamous and not-safe-for-work video parodying the Harlem Shake prior to his fame as the character. The video became such an OldShame old shame for Stevin that he sends cease and desist letters to those who repost it online, worrying that it will taint the wholesome image he has as Blippi.Blippi.
* Shortly before [[LovelyAssistant Vanna White]] joined ''Series/WheelOfFortune'', she posed for lingerie photos to make rent money. After the nighttime version of ''Wheel'' became a hit, the photos were sold to Hugh Hefner and published in Playboy, despite Hefner promising White not to do so. White attempted to sue Hefner and Playboy, but she dropped both cases.
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* Pretty much subverted by Steve Burns of ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' fame -- he has explicitly stated that he has no desire to kill the image of ''Blue's Clues''[='=] Steve by doing anything unseemly. He's even said that he has refused requests to have sex in the Blue's Clues 'Thinking Chair' that he was given because it would feel like a bunch of parents was watching him do it.[[note]]In a storytelling session at The Moth, Burns admitted that a Playboy Playmate gave him a lap dance on the chair while they were on a date, but once she asked him to sing the Mailtime Song, he told her not to go any further.[[/note]] He ''has'' more recently pursued a career as an indie rock singer/songwriter and has been photographed drinking, but this was long after he left the show. This came about partially because of a role he took on ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' during his tenure on ''Blue's Clues''. It was because a child saw him in that role that Burns made his public statement that he would not take on roles that might upset fans too young to understand that he wasn't Steve on ''Blue's Clues''. Also averted by his successor Donovan Patton (Joe), who appeared as a gay-bashing thug on ''Series/OneLifeToLive'' shortly after ''Series/BluesRoom'' was cancelled to zero controversy.

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* Pretty much subverted by Steve Burns of ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' fame -- he has explicitly stated that he has no desire to kill the image of ''Blue's Clues''[='=] Steve by doing anything unseemly. He's even said that he has refused requests to have sex in the Blue's Clues 'Thinking Chair' that he was given because it would feel like a bunch of parents was watching him do it.[[note]]In a storytelling session at The Moth, Burns admitted that a Playboy Playmate gave him a lap dance on in the chair while they were on a date, but once she asked him to sing the Mailtime Song, he told her not to go any further.stop.[[/note]] He ''has'' more recently pursued a career as an indie rock singer/songwriter and has been photographed drinking, but this was long after he left the show. This came about partially because of a role he took on ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' during his tenure on ''Blue's Clues''. It was because a child saw him in that role that Burns made his public statement that he would not take on roles that might upset fans too young to understand that he wasn't Steve on ''Blue's Clues''. Also averted subverted by his successor Donovan Patton, who played Joe. Shortly after the spin-off ''Series/BluesRoom'' was cancelled, Patton (Joe), who appeared as a gay-bashing thug on ''Series/OneLifeToLive'' shortly after ''Series/BluesRoom'' was cancelled to zero controversy.
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* Pretty much subverted by Steve Burns of ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' fame -- he has explicitly stated that he has no desire to kill the image of ''Blue's Clues''[='=] Steve by doing anything unseemly. He's even said that he has refused requests to have sex in the Blue's Clues 'Thinking Chair' that he was given because it would feel like a bunch of parents was watching him do it. He ''has'' more recently pursued a career as an indie rock singer/songwriter and has been photographed drinking, but this was long after he left the show. This came about partially because of a role he took on ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' during his tenure on ''Blue's Clues''. It was because a child saw him in that role that Burns made his public statement that he would not take on roles that might upset fans too young to understand that he wasn't Steve on ''Blue's Clues''.

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* Pretty much subverted by Steve Burns of ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' fame -- he has explicitly stated that he has no desire to kill the image of ''Blue's Clues''[='=] Steve by doing anything unseemly. He's even said that he has refused requests to have sex in the Blue's Clues 'Thinking Chair' that he was given because it would feel like a bunch of parents was watching him do it. [[note]]In a storytelling session at The Moth, Burns admitted that a Playboy Playmate gave him a lap dance on the chair while they were on a date, but once she asked him to sing the Mailtime Song, he told her not to go any further.[[/note]] He ''has'' more recently pursued a career as an indie rock singer/songwriter and has been photographed drinking, but this was long after he left the show. This came about partially because of a role he took on ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' during his tenure on ''Blue's Clues''. It was because a child saw him in that role that Burns made his public statement that he would not take on roles that might upset fans too young to understand that he wasn't Steve on ''Blue's Clues''. Also averted by his successor Donovan Patton (Joe), who appeared as a gay-bashing thug on ''Series/OneLifeToLive'' shortly after ''Series/BluesRoom'' was cancelled to zero controversy.

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Removing examples that don't explain how contracts or fan backlash got them into trouble. Cutting out some natter.


* Peter Robbins, the original voice of [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]], got addicted to drugs and alcohol late in his life.



* Creator/FrankWelker, Hal Smith, Creator/JuneForay, and Allan Melvin, who worked in many Creator/HannaBarbera productions together, once did voice work in a pornographic animated film entitled ''Once Upon A Girl'' in which they can be heard swearing and using sexual slang while some of their characters engage in sexual activity. Some fans in later years were shocked to discover this.



* Several of the presenters of UK children's magazine show ''Series/BluePeter'' have fallen afoul of this, with BIG NEWS in the tabloids that some presenters have been caught on camera smoking (''shock!'') or drinking ('''''horror!''''').
** And Janet Ellis, who was ''allegedly'' sacked for being single and pregnant.
** Perhaps more reasonably, Richard Bacon was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blrj2JpuWMs sacked]] after being caught taking cocaine.
** And Peter Duncan was fired for having appeared in a soft porn film. Though in this case, the adult film role in question was one that he did ''before'' joining ''Blue Peter''; he was fired for not having revealed it to the BBC during his application (although had he done so, he would probably never have been made a presenter in the first place).
** [[TheSeventies Seventies]] presenter Lesley Judd leapt before she was pushed, knowing it was about to become public knowledge that her lover had left his wife for her. She didn't wait around for the inevitable sacking.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbf16bBaTdg Hilariously]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtF5L9bKfO8 parodied]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIkxhzejQfQ by]] ''Series/TheArmstrongAndMillerShow''.
** He was brought back for a second stint about a year later, though. His replacement in the meantime was Michael Sundin, whose brevity on the show was ''not'' due to having appeared in a gay porn film (he wasn't actually in any of the sex scenes). He wasn't offered a new contract for the simple reason that he wasn't very good at the job.
** Right at the very start in the late 1950s, the standards were even stricter: Blue Peter's first presenter Christopher Trace was fired simply because he was getting divorced. This was not seen as desirable ''at all'' for a member of a presenting team who were intended to be surrogate parents to the nation's children. This set the tone for Standards: Blue Peter presenters were held to notoriously high expectations for conduct and behaviour ever after.

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* Several of the presenters of on UK children's magazine show ''Series/BluePeter'' have fallen afoul been fired for misbehaviour of this, with BIG NEWS in different sorts, often exacerbated by the tabloids that some presenters have been caught on camera smoking (''shock!'') or drinking ('''''horror!''''').
** And Janet Ellis, who was ''allegedly'' sacked
amplifying the scandal for being single and pregnant.
** Perhaps more reasonably,
sales. This ranges from Richard Bacon Bacon, who was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blrj2JpuWMs sacked]] after being caught taking cocaine.
** And
cocaine, to Janet Ellis, who was allegedly sacked for an unwed pregnancy. Other notorious cases include Peter Duncan was Duncan, fired for having appeared in a soft porn film. Though in this case, the adult film role in question was one that he did ''before'' joining ''Blue Peter''; he was fired for and not having revealed it to letting the BBC during his application (although had he done so, he would probably never have been made a presenter in the first place).
** [[TheSeventies Seventies]] presenter
know, and Lesley Judd leapt before she was pushed, knowing Judd, who quit when it was about to become be made public knowledge that her lover had left his wife for her. She didn't wait around for It was even stricter when the inevitable sacking.
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show started in the late fifties: the first presenter Christopher Trace was fired simply because he was getting divorced. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbf16bBaTdg Hilariously]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtF5L9bKfO8 parodied]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIkxhzejQfQ by]] ''Series/TheArmstrongAndMillerShow''.
** He was brought back for a second stint about a year later, though. His replacement in the meantime was Michael Sundin, whose brevity on the show was ''not'' due to having appeared in a gay porn film (he wasn't actually in any of the sex scenes). He wasn't offered a new contract for the simple reason that he wasn't very good at the job.
** Right at the very start in the late 1950s, the standards were even stricter: Blue Peter's first presenter Christopher Trace was fired simply because he was getting divorced.
This was not seen as desirable ''at all'' for a member of a presenting team who were intended to be surrogate parents to the nation's children. This set the tone for Standards: Blue Peter presenters were held to notoriously high expectations for conduct and behaviour ever after. satirised]] by ''Series/TheArmstrongAndMillerShow''.



* [[http://notalwaysright.com/tit-for-tattoo/2955 This]] from Website/NotAlwaysRight -- as usual, with extra delicious HypocriticalHumor on top.



* Creator/JimHenson received flak at one point for...dating. Just dating. He was as baffled as you probably are right now, and it got dropped fast.
** If it was after he became famous for Franchise/TheMuppets and ''Series/SesameStreet'', the flak was probably because he was, you know, married. He and his wife separated for a time but never divorced. So the MoralGuardians may have had a point there. Where he really was frustrated was when he got flak for doing Muppet productions that were not necessarily family-friendly, as, ''Sesame Street'' aside, he had created the characters to produce ''adult'' shows. The first episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' is actually titled "Sex and Violence" (though it doesn't really have much of either.)

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* Creator/JimHenson received flak at one point for...dating. Just dating. He for dating, when he was as baffled as you probably are right now, and it got dropped fast.
** If it was after he became famous for Franchise/TheMuppets and ''Series/SesameStreet'', the flak was probably because he was, you know, married. He and his wife
separated for a time from his wife but never divorced. So the MoralGuardians may have had a point there.not divorced. Where he really was frustrated was when he got flak for doing Muppet productions that were not necessarily family-friendly, as, ''Sesame Street'' aside, he had created the characters to produce ''adult'' shows. The first episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' is actually titled "Sex and Violence" (though it doesn't really have much of either.)



* Back in the '20s and '30s, the Ford Motor Company enforced this for ''factory workers''. Ford had an army of {{private detective}}s to spy on employees and ensure that they were living morally clean, upstanding, good Christian lives, free of such sins as adultery, alcoholism, and atheism, under the belief that moral workers were more productive workers. (This is the same reason why big business generally rallied in support of alcohol prohibition at the time.) Failure to follow the Ford morality clause could get workers fired.
** This issue was one of the (many) problems that ultimately derailed Fordlândia, Ford's attempt to build a rubber plantation in the Amazon in order to reduce the company's dependence on rubber from British Malaya. The conservative American lifestyle that the company tried to enforce -- no women, no alcohol, no tobacco, no [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football]], and American food in the cafeterias -- was so alien to the ''Brazilian'' workforce that a settlement called the "Island of Innocence", filled with bars, nightclubs, and brothels, developed just five miles up the river to serve the increasingly-frustrated workers (who rioted in 1930).

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* Back in the '20s and '30s, the Ford Motor Company enforced this for ''factory workers''. Ford had an army of {{private detective}}s to spy on employees and ensure that they were living morally clean, upstanding, good Christian lives, free of such sins as adultery, alcoholism, and atheism, under the belief that moral workers were more productive workers. (This is the same reason why big business generally rallied in support of alcohol prohibition at the time.) Failure to follow the Ford morality clause could get workers fired.
**
fired. This issue was one of the (many) problems that ultimately derailed Fordlândia, Ford's attempt to build a rubber plantation in the Amazon in order to reduce the company's dependence on rubber from British Malaya. The conservative American lifestyle that the company tried to enforce -- no women, no alcohol, no tobacco, no [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football]], and American food in the cafeterias -- was so alien to the ''Brazilian'' workforce that a settlement called the "Island of Innocence", filled with bars, nightclubs, and brothels, developed just five miles up the river to serve the increasingly-frustrated workers (who rioted in 1930).

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* Anime Industry: Averted for the actors who worked for Creator/FourKidsEntertainment, which produces anime series that get {{Bowdlerised}} for younger audiences. Creator/AndrewRannells is currently starring in ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'' musical, Creator/JasonGriffith did a condom commercial, and most of the others (especially Creator/DanGreen) have done {{Hentai}} (animated pornography) at some point. Also, most of the actors that work for the company have dubbed earlier titles for older audiences, either for Creator/MediaBlasters (Creator/VeronicaTaylor doing ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'' comes to mind) or for Creator/CentralParkMedia.
** Similarly in the WesternAnimation world people would be surprised that Creator/FrankWelker, Hal Smith, Creator/JuneForay, and Allan Melvin who worked in many Creator/HannaBarbera productions together once did voice work in a pornographic animated film entitled ''Once Upon A Girl'' in which they can be heard swearing and using sexual slang while some of their characters engage in sexual activity.
* Creator/TimAllen toned down his stand-up after he noticed more and more families coming after he did ''Series/HomeImprovement'' and once apologized to for starting out with F-bombs in one act. Now post-''Franchise/ToyStory'', he asks venues to make concessions for families coming to see him.
** Tim also has a criminal record for transporting drugs in the '70s, even serving time in prison (he got a reduced sentence for passing on information about his supplier). Once he got out it was a sign to him he needed to get far away from that life and that's where he got into StandUpComedy. When ''Series/HomeImprovement'' was primed to air some news articles reported on his criminal history, especially since the show was supposed to be a family comedy, Tim and the producers responded immediately with their own side of the story. Later in the show run, they were contemplating doing [[VerySpecialEpisode an episode on drunk driving]] (previously doing an episode on marijuana use) but Tim had gotten a DUI during the summer break and the episode was canceled due to feeling it would be hypocritical to do so.
* Due to scheduling conflicts with ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'', Melissa Sue Anderson could not star in ''Film/TheBlueLagoon1980''.

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* Anime Industry: Averted for the actors who worked for Creator/FourKidsEntertainment, which produces anime series that get {{Bowdlerised}} for younger audiences. Creator/AndrewRannells is currently starring in ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'' musical, Creator/JasonGriffith did a condom commercial, and most of the others (especially Creator/DanGreen) have done {{Hentai}} (animated pornography) at some point. Also, most of the actors that work for the company have dubbed earlier titles for older audiences, either for Creator/MediaBlasters (Creator/VeronicaTaylor doing ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'' comes to mind) or for Creator/CentralParkMedia.
** Similarly in the WesternAnimation world people would be surprised that Creator/FrankWelker, Hal Smith, Creator/JuneForay, and Allan Melvin who worked in many Creator/HannaBarbera productions together once did voice work in a pornographic animated film entitled ''Once Upon A Girl'' in which they can be heard swearing and using sexual slang while some of their characters engage in sexual activity.
* Creator/TimAllen toned down his stand-up after he noticed more and more families coming after he did ''Series/HomeImprovement'' and once apologized to for starting out with F-bombs in one act. Now post-''Franchise/ToyStory'', he asks venues to make concessions for families coming to see him.
**
him. Tim also has a criminal record for transporting drugs in the '70s, even serving time in prison (he got a reduced sentence for passing on information about his supplier). Once he got out it was a sign to him he needed to get far away from that life and that's where he got into StandUpComedy. When ''Series/HomeImprovement'' was primed to air some news articles reported on his criminal history, especially since the show was supposed to be a family comedy, Tim and the producers responded immediately with their own side of the story. Later in the show run, they were contemplating doing [[VerySpecialEpisode an episode on drunk driving]] (previously doing an episode on marijuana use) but Tim had gotten a DUI during the summer break and the episode was canceled due to feeling it would be hypocritical to do so.
* Due to scheduling conflicts with ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'', Melissa Sue Anderson could not star in ''Film/TheBlueLagoon1980''.
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* Creator/IngridBergman, anyone? She first tried to get out of her goody-two-shoes image with ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'', but it didn't work. Later on, she destroyed the image quite accidentally by leaving her husband for director Creator/RobertoRossellini. The backlash was ''massive''. She was even denounced on the floor of the US Senate. How many victims of this trope can say that? That being said, her good girl image was vastly overblown by people who only associated her with playing Joan of Arc or a nun in ''Film/TheBellsOfStMarys''; forgetting that her most iconic role was as an adulteress in ''{{Film/Casablanca}}'', and she'd also played a rape victim in ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls'' and a disfigured criminal in ''Film/AWomansFace1938''. She refuted the narrative that she was blacklisted by Hollywood, as the reason she had the affair with Roberto Rossellini in the first place was that she had moved to Italy to do more European films. She would return to Hollywood to win an Oscar for ''{{Film/Anastasia}}''.
* The press had a frenzied field day when Creator/ElizabethBerkley, formerly well-known for playing a straight-laced, [[SoapboxSadie vocally feminist]] high schooler on ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', played a nude, bisexual stripper turned showgirl in, well, ''Film/{{Showgirls}}''. The flop of that [[StarDerailingRole killed her career]], though that probably had more to do with [[SoBadItsGood the quality of the film itself]] than her playing that sort of role.

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* Creator/IngridBergman, anyone? Creator/IngridBergman was an early example. She first tried to get out of her goody-two-shoes image with ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'', but it didn't work. Later on, she destroyed the image quite accidentally by leaving her husband for director Creator/RobertoRossellini. The backlash was ''massive''. She was even denounced on the floor of the US Senate. How many victims of this trope can say that? That being said, her good girl image was vastly overblown by people who only associated her with playing Joan of Arc or a nun in ''Film/TheBellsOfStMarys''; forgetting that her most iconic role was as an adulteress in ''{{Film/Casablanca}}'', and she'd also played a rape victim in ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls'' and a disfigured criminal in ''Film/AWomansFace1938''. She refuted the narrative that she was blacklisted by Hollywood, as the reason she had the affair with Roberto Rossellini in the first place was that she had moved to Italy to do more European films. She would return to Hollywood to win an Oscar for ''{{Film/Anastasia}}''.
* The press had a frenzied field day when Creator/ElizabethBerkley, formerly well-known for playing a straight-laced, [[SoapboxSadie vocally feminist]] high schooler on ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', played a nude, bisexual stripper turned showgirl in, well, ''Film/{{Showgirls}}''. The flop of that controversy, along with the film flopping, helped to [[StarDerailingRole killed kill her career]], though that probably had more to do with [[SoBadItsGood the quality of the film itself]] than her playing that sort of role.career]].



* Pretty much subverted by Steve Burns of ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' fame -- he has explicitly stated that he has no desire to kill the image of ''Blue's Clues''[='=] Steve by doing anything unseemly. He's even said that he has refused requests to have sex in the Blue's Clues 'Thinking Chair' that he was given because it would feel like a bunch of parents was watching him do it. He ''has'' more recently pursued a career as an indie rock singer/songwriter and has been photographed drinking, but this was long after he left the show.
** This comes up partially because of a role he took on ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' during his tenure on ''Blue's Clues''. It was because a child saw him in that role that Burns made his public statement that he would not take on roles that might upset fans too young to understand that he wasn't Steve on ''Blue's Clues''.

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* Pretty much subverted by Steve Burns of ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' fame -- he has explicitly stated that he has no desire to kill the image of ''Blue's Clues''[='=] Steve by doing anything unseemly. He's even said that he has refused requests to have sex in the Blue's Clues 'Thinking Chair' that he was given because it would feel like a bunch of parents was watching him do it. He ''has'' more recently pursued a career as an indie rock singer/songwriter and has been photographed drinking, but this was long after he left the show.
**
show. This comes up came about partially because of a role he took on ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' during his tenure on ''Blue's Clues''. It was because a child saw him in that role that Burns made his public statement that he would not take on roles that might upset fans too young to understand that he wasn't Steve on ''Blue's Clues''.



* One year after ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'' came out, Creator/MacaulayCulkin was seen starring in the R-rated film ''Film/TheGoodSon'' where he plays [[EnfantTerrible a 10-year-old psychopath]]. Among the things Culkin's character does are killing a dog with a homemade nailgun, causing a highway crash by dropping a dummy off a bridge, attempting to kill his mother, and as it's later found out, [[spoiler:murdering his younger brother by drowning him in the bathtub.]] Creator/RogerEbert's review can be found [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19930924/REVIEWS/309240303/1023 here]].
** ...and yet, he still was caught in the trope when, a ''full decade later'', he played Michael Alig, the controversial founder of Club Kids, in ''Film/PartyMonster''.
* Creator/DakotaFanning getting raped in ''Film/{{Hounddog}}'' caused controversy until the critics came out of the theater stating they were [[{{Narm}} laughing at that part]], and the overall effect was pretty minimal.
** She might have had more luck playing Music/JoanJett's former bandmate Cherie Currie in ''Film/TheRunaways''. However, this movie didn't have a chance to cause much controversy on account of getting [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed by the studio]].
** Right now, she has several projects (''Mississippi Wild'', ''Now is Good'', ''Very Good Girls'') where the character she plays ends up losing her virginity.
** Surprisingly, Creator/ElleFanning averted this trope with her acting career, not following in her older sister's footsteps. When the highly controversial ''Film/TheNeonDemon'' was released, pretty much any discourse about her career (which mostly consisted of relatively family-friendly roles up to that point) was given a backseat to the film's shocking content itself. That film's darkly satirical treatment of this trope might have helped.

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* One year after ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'' came out, Creator/MacaulayCulkin was seen starring in the R-rated film ''Film/TheGoodSon'' where he plays [[EnfantTerrible a 10-year-old psychopath]]. Among the things Culkin's character does are killing a dog with a homemade nailgun, causing a highway crash by dropping a dummy off a bridge, attempting to kill his mother, and as it's later found out, [[spoiler:murdering his younger brother by drowning him in the bathtub.]] Creator/RogerEbert's review can be found [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19930924/REVIEWS/309240303/1023 here]].
** ...and
]] This generated a large amount of controversy, especially from more conservative fans. And yet, he still was caught in the trope when, a ''full decade later'', he played Michael Alig, the controversial founder of Club Kids, in ''Film/PartyMonster''.
* Creator/DakotaFanning ran into this a few times. Her character getting raped in ''Film/{{Hounddog}}'' caused controversy until the critics came out of the theater stating they were [[{{Narm}} laughing at that part]], and the overall effect was pretty minimal.
**
minimal. She might tried to have had more better luck playing Music/JoanJett's former bandmate Cherie Currie in ''Film/TheRunaways''. However, this ''Film/TheRunaways'', but the movie didn't have a chance to cause much controversy on account of getting [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed by the studio]].
** Right now,
studio]]. At another point, she has had several projects lined up (''Mississippi Wild'', ''Now is Good'', ''Very Good Girls'') where the character she plays ends ended up losing her virginity.
** * Surprisingly, Creator/ElleFanning averted this trope with her acting career, not following in her older sister's footsteps. When the highly controversial ''Film/TheNeonDemon'' was released, pretty much any discourse about her career (which mostly consisted of relatively family-friendly roles up to that point) was given a backseat to the film's shocking content itself. That film's darkly satirical treatment of this trope might have helped.



* Creator/AlysonHannigan, sweet little Willow Rosenberg from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', managed to avoid this when she took on the role of kinky, foul-mouthed Michelle in ''Film/AmericanPie''. Perhaps the fact that Willow herself was allowed to grow up (and come out of the closet) may have had something to do with that.
** Or the fact that ''Buffy'' was never really aimed at the "corruptible" demographic to begin with.
** Michelle is also a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of this trope PlayedForLaughs. Throughout the movie, Jim and the audience are meant to think of Michelle as naive and irritating. Her infamous "band camp" story was meant to be a surprise, but [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil got ruined by the trailers]], and now it's [[ItWasHisSled what people associate most with the character]].

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* Creator/AlysonHannigan, sweet little Willow Rosenberg from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', managed to avoid this when she took on the role of kinky, foul-mouthed Michelle in ''Film/AmericanPie''. Perhaps the fact that Willow herself was allowed to grow up (and come out of the closet) may have had something to do with that.
** Or the fact that ''Buffy'' was never really aimed at the "corruptible" demographic to begin with.
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that. Michelle is also a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of this trope PlayedForLaughs. Throughout the movie, Jim and the audience are meant to think of Michelle as naive and irritating. Her infamous "band camp" story was meant to be a surprise, but [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil got ruined by the trailers]], and now it's [[ItWasHisSled what people associate most with the character]].



* Likewise, Saget's ''Series/FullHouse'' co-star Creator/JohnStamos was best known for his role on the show as Uncle Jesse. He grew tired of being in family-friendly TV shows and movies. So he decided to shed this image by auditioning for the raunchiest part he could: the MadeForTVMovie ''Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O'Hara Story'' in which he portrays Nick Pagan, a seemingly nice man who is actually a serial killer and later tries to burn his five-year-old son to death in the bathtub.

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* Likewise, Saget's ''Series/FullHouse'' co-star Creator/JohnStamos was best known for his role on the show ''Series/FullHouse'' as Uncle Jesse. He Jesse, but grew tired of being in family-friendly TV shows and movies. So he decided to shed this image by auditioning for the raunchiest part he could: the MadeForTVMovie ''Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O'Hara Story'' in which he portrays Nick Pagan, a seemingly nice man who is actually a serial killer and later tries to burn his five-year-old son to death in the bathtub.



* On the subject of ''Series/SesameStreet'' Muppeteers...

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* Creator/KristenStewart became a victim of this after photos of her smoking pot outside her house were published. She began as a child actor and then got her big break as Bella Swan in ''Film/{{Twilight}}''. Knowing how Kristen Stewart and Creator/RobertPattinson [[MoneyDearBoy feel about their roles as Bella and Edward]], it's entirely possible that the reason she didn't take that joint inside is that she was hoping on this trope coming into play. She and Pattinson have admitted that they don't go along with contractual purity because neither would see being dropped from the ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' series [[CreatorBacklash as such a bad thing]]. She was also probably smart enough to know that she and Pattinson were ''the'' faces of the franchise, and could do just about anything except murder or kiddie porn and still be asked back for the next one. Kristen faced similar accusations when rumours came out of an affair between her and the married director of ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman''. Both were dropped from the franchise after the first film, although Kristen herself claims she was still offered scripts and just turned them down. Since then, Kristen has come out as bisexual, embraced a {{butch|Lesbian}} [[TheLadette lad-ette]] image, and done mostly independent and foreign films (often with nude scenes), putting her days as the "good girl" Bella firmly behind her. She even got an Oscar nomination for her role in the Princess Diana biopic ''{{Film/Spencer}}''!

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* Creator/KristenStewart became a victim of this after photos of her smoking pot outside her house were published. She began as a child actor and then got her big break as Bella Swan in ''Film/{{Twilight}}''. Knowing how Kristen Stewart and Creator/RobertPattinson [[MoneyDearBoy feel about their roles as Bella and Edward]], it's entirely possible that the reason she didn't take that joint inside is that she was hoping on this trope coming into play. She and Pattinson have admitted that they don't go along with contractual purity because neither would see being dropped from the ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' series [[CreatorBacklash as such a bad thing]]. She was also probably smart enough to know that she and Pattinson were ''the'' faces of the franchise, and could do just about anything except murder or kiddie porn and still be asked back for the next one. Kristen faced similar accusations when rumours came out of an affair between her and the married director of ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman''. Both were dropped from the franchise after the first film, although Kristen herself claims she was still offered scripts and just turned them down. Since then, Kristen has come out as bisexual, embraced a {{butch|Lesbian}} [[TheLadette lad-ette]] image, and done mostly independent and foreign films (often with nude scenes), putting her days as the "good girl" Bella firmly behind her. She even got an Oscar nomination for her role in the Princess Diana biopic ''{{Film/Spencer}}''!''{{Film/Spencer}}''.


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* Averted for the actors who worked for Creator/FourKidsEntertainment, which was the poster child for the stigma surrounding {{bowdlerised}} anime dubs. Creator/AndrewRannells has had a handful of adult-oriented live-action roles since his tenure with the company, Creator/JasonGriffith did a condom commercial, and most of the others (especially Creator/DanGreen) have done {{Hentai}} (animated pornography) at some point. Also, most of the actors that work for the company have dubbed earlier titles for older audiences, either for Creator/MediaBlasters (Creator/VeronicaTaylor doing ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'' comes to mind) or for Creator/CentralParkMedia.
* Creator/FrankWelker, Hal Smith, Creator/JuneForay, and Allan Melvin, who worked in many Creator/HannaBarbera productions together, once did voice work in a pornographic animated film entitled ''Once Upon A Girl'' in which they can be heard swearing and using sexual slang while some of their characters engage in sexual activity. Some fans in later years were shocked to discover this.
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** She caused an uproar in the press when was seen drinking, which would've been shocking if not for the fact that she was in her mid-20s at the time. Then again, some states still had alcohol prohibition laws on the books, so this is also a case of ValuesDissonance. And speaking of...

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* The actresses of Creator/TakarazukaRevue are expected to adhere to the Music School's [[note]]the entity that trains them for the Revue[[/note]] "pure, proper, beautiful" motto. Besides the standards of this trope (think Disney but stricter), they can't openly be in a relationship or marry while in the troupe. While much of Zuka's bread and butter is homoerotic subtext and LGBT+ characters [[note]]''Theatre/{{Elisabeth}}'' and ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'' being two of their most popular offerings[[/note]], and young girls having crushes on ''seito'' (Zuka actresses, lit. "students") are considered normal, the founder believes that the fans should grow out of said crushes and the actresses should go on to be "good wives and wise mothers" after their graduation from the Revue.

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* The actresses of Creator/TakarazukaRevue are expected to adhere to the Music School's [[note]]the entity that trains them for the Revue[[/note]] "pure, proper, beautiful" motto. Besides the standards of this trope (think Disney but stricter), they can't openly be in a relationship or marry while in the troupe. While much of Zuka's bread and butter is homoerotic subtext and LGBT+ LGBTQIA+ characters [[note]]''Theatre/{{Elisabeth}}'' and ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'' being two of their most popular offerings[[/note]], and young girls having crushes on ''seito'' (Zuka actresses, lit. "students") are considered normal, the founder believes that the fans should grow out of said crushes and the actresses should go on to be "good wives and wise mothers" after their graduation from the Revue.



** To be fair, some versions of the commercial cut the second half, so it looks like he really is abdicating any responsibility without assigning it to the parents.



* Olympic swimming hero Michael Phelps had a photo of him partaking of a bong (which technically could have had something like tobacco... [[ImplausibleDeniability oh, who are we kidding]]?), was plastered all over the Internet. He was banned from national competition for three months and Kellogg's dropped him from their sponsorship list. He ''did'' dodge the big Olympic-sized bullet as the rules are only about "performance-'''enhancing'''" drugs[[note]] Marijuana could only be considered as such if there was a giant bag of Doritos at the end of the pool.[[/note]] ''during competition''.
** Also, he was in Ann Arbor, Michigan. You know, the city where the [[StrawmanU local campus]] hosts a "Hash Bash" every year on its central quad (the Diag), and where getting caught with marijuana is a civil infraction -- no worse than a ''parking ticket''.

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* Olympic swimming hero Michael Phelps had a photo of him partaking of a bong (which technically could have had something like tobacco... [[ImplausibleDeniability oh, who are we kidding]]?), was plastered all over the Internet. He was banned from national competition for three months and Kellogg's dropped him from their sponsorship list. He ''did'' dodge the big Olympic-sized bullet as the rules are only about "performance-'''enhancing'''" drugs[[note]] Marijuana could only be considered as such if there was a giant bag of Doritos at the end of the pool.[[/note]] drugs ''during competition''.
** Also, he was in Ann Arbor, Michigan. You know, the city where the [[StrawmanU local campus]] hosts a "Hash Bash" every year on its central quad (the Diag), and where getting caught with marijuana is a civil infraction -- no worse than a ''parking ticket''.
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* In an interesting aversion, baseball great Stan "The Man" Musial cultivated ContractualPurity when he started playing for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1940s and never broke it for the rest of his life. He stated that he ''did'' see himself as a role model and strove to be one. He was 92 years old at the time of death and St. Louisans still absolutely adore him -- so much that they campaigned for him to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom and he did receive it in January 2011. While this was wonderful for Stan, it's impossible for any other Cardinal (or any player) to live up to. Of course, it was probably easier to live life as a role model before the invasive modern celebrity culture had developed.

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* In an interesting aversion, baseball great Stan "The Man" Musial cultivated ContractualPurity contractual purity when he started playing for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1940s and never broke it for the rest of his life. He stated that he ''did'' see himself as a role model and strove to be one. He was 92 years old at the time of death and St. Louisans still absolutely adore him -- so much that they campaigned for him to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom and he did receive it in January 2011. While this was wonderful for Stan, it's impossible for any other Cardinal (or any player) to live up to. Of course, it was probably easier to live life as a role model before the invasive modern celebrity culture had developed.



** A less extreme but still notable example is Amy Grant, who garners a lot of flack from the Christian music scene for drinking and occasionally swearing.



* Rapper Music/{{Nelly}} arguably damaged his mainstream career by making the "Tip Drill" video. Before it came out, Nelly was being groomed to be like the next Creator/WillSmith (but with more street cred), as a rapper who had mass appeal and wasn't like the other hardcore gritty rappers in the mainstream. So now there's this huge backlash and Nelly's career seemed defined by that raunchy vid. It arguably sapped his career's momentum.

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* Rapper Music/{{Nelly}} arguably damaged his mainstream career by making the "Tip Drill" video. Before it came out, Nelly was being groomed to be like the next Creator/WillSmith (but with more street cred), as a rapper who had mass appeal and wasn't like the other hardcore gritty rappers in the mainstream. So now there's this huge backlash and Nelly's career seemed defined by that raunchy vid. It arguably Some argued that it sapped his career's momentum.



* Subverted with Music/JustinBieber, whose 2013-14 period of weird tabloid antics had gotten him flak from the MoralGuardians and late-night comedians alike. To wit: getting caught leaving a brothel in Rio de Janeiro; being filmed sleeping by a Brazilian prostitute he hired; constantly missing, canceling, or showing up hours late for shows and meet-and-greets with his young fans; getting caught spraying graffiti (graffiti showing his support of convicted felon and girlfriend-beater Music/ChrisBrown) in Colombia; abandoning his pet monkey in Germany; desecrating the Argentinian flag onstage (an offense punishable by imprisonment in Argentina); getting into a fight with a British paparazzo; smoking marijuana; reckless driving; public urination (while inexplicably shouting "FUCK BILL CLINTON"); writing that he hoped Anne Frank would have been a fan of his after visiting the Anne Frank House, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking showing up in baggy overalls and a baseball cap to meet the Prime Minister of Canada]]. Between all this and the fact that Bieber is coming of age and a [[Music/OneDirection new teen phenomenon]] from across the pond has already toppled him from his throne, it sounds like his career should be DeaderThanDead at this point. But he eventually shook this image off and experienced a CareerResurrection.
* Speaking of Music/OneDirection, MoralGuardians seem to be invoking this almost instantaneously over them following a newspaper's release of two of them smoking marijuana.

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* Subverted with Music/JustinBieber, whose 2013-14 period of weird tabloid antics had gotten him flak from the MoralGuardians and late-night comedians alike. To wit: getting caught leaving a brothel in Rio de Janeiro; being filmed sleeping by a Brazilian prostitute he hired; constantly missing, canceling, or showing up hours late for shows and meet-and-greets with his young fans; getting caught spraying graffiti (graffiti showing his support of convicted felon and girlfriend-beater Music/ChrisBrown) in Colombia; abandoning his pet monkey in Germany; desecrating the Argentinian flag onstage (an offense punishable by imprisonment in Argentina); getting into a fight with a British paparazzo; smoking marijuana; reckless driving; public urination (while inexplicably shouting "FUCK BILL CLINTON"); writing that he hoped Anne Frank would have been a fan of his after visiting the Anne Frank House, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking showing up in baggy overalls and a baseball cap to meet the Prime Minister of Canada]]. Between all this and the fact that Bieber is was coming of age and a [[Music/OneDirection new teen phenomenon]] from across the pond has had already toppled him from his throne, it sounds like his career should would be DeaderThanDead at this that point. But he eventually shook this image off and experienced a CareerResurrection.
* Speaking of Music/OneDirection, There was a brief scandal wherein MoralGuardians seem to be invoking this almost instantaneously over them following a newspaper's release decryed Music/OneDirection after newspaper released evidence of two of them the members smoking marijuana.



* Similar to her ex-boyfriend Jason Donovan, Music/KylieMinogue also used to be a clean-cut singer/actress, but then matured and gained a [[HotterAndSexier sexual image]], much to the dismay of her fans. Although, she has led a normal and decent life throughout the '90s, unlike Donovan.

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* Similar to her ex-boyfriend Jason Donovan, Music/KylieMinogue also used to be a clean-cut singer/actress, but then matured and gained a [[HotterAndSexier sexual image]], much to the dismay of some of her fans. Although, she has led a normal and decent life throughout the '90s, unlike Donovan.older fans.



* Because Music/AmyGrant is a Christian artist, she got in trouble for dressing in low-cut clothing and singing secular love songs, as well as defending her outfit choices by saying "Christians can be sexy." This caused a major uproar in the Christian music community, though since crossing over, she has continued to balance Christian and secular material.

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* Because Music/AmyGrant is a Christian artist, she got in trouble with conservative Christian audiences for dressing in low-cut clothing and singing secular love songs, as well as defending her outfit choices by saying "Christians can be sexy." This caused a major uproar in much of the Christian music community, though since crossing over, she has continued to balance Christian and secular material.



** Although LesYay and HoYay is an exception to the rule. A seiyuu or idol can almost admit they are homosexual or bisexual and [[DoubleStandard no one bats an eye at them]]. Creator/HitomiNabatame and Creator/ShizukaIto may be this, though both eventually got married outside the industry.

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* When ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' voice actor Creator/RodgerBumpass--who voiced Squidward--was arrested on suspected DUI charges, it was later revealed that the show's cast was under a "morals clause" where they had to set an example of themselves by not doing anything immoral likely so as not to alienate and scar their young fan base; fortunately for Squidward's VA, the DUI incident [[https://www.tmz.com/2016/01/25/spongebob-squarepants-squidward-dui-nickelodeon/ wasn't considered grounds for termination]] from the show.

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* When ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' voice actor Creator/RodgerBumpass--who voiced Creator/RodgerBumpass--the voice of Squidward--was arrested on suspected DUI charges, it was later revealed that the show's cast was under a "morals clause" where they had to set an example of themselves by not doing anything immoral likely so as not to alienate and scar their young fan base; fortunately for Squidward's VA, Bumpass, the DUI incident [[https://www.tmz.com/2016/01/25/spongebob-squarepants-squidward-dui-nickelodeon/ wasn't considered grounds for termination]] from the show.
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* Wrestling/HulkHogan was considered The AllAmericanFace of the WWF since the mid-1980s, telling children to train hard, eat their vitamins, say their prayers, and believe in themselves. In the early 1990s, Hogan was revealed to have taken steroids for at least fifteen years and was said to have been a [[ThePrimaDonna Prima Donna]] who buried other talents that he felt were a threat to his top spot. Then two decades later, he was caught using the N-word multiple times during a sex tape with another man's wife. Even though he got his revenge on the website that released the tape by suing them into bankruptcy, it was a PyrrhicVictory; his WWE Legends contract was terminated and Hogan himself was [[{{Unperson}} unpersoned]] in the process. Though he would eventually be re-personed three years later[[note]]At the behest of the Saudi royal family, who apparently stopped watching wrestling in 1992 and constantly ask for guys from the [[Wrestling/WWEGoldenAgeEra Hulkamania days]] for the ''Crown Jewel'' shows. They've also asked for Wrestling/UltimateWarrior and Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}}, who passed away in 2014 and '''2000''', respectively[[/note]].
* Wrestling/RomanReigns was all but anointed to succeed to Wrestling/JohnCena as the face of the company, much to the despair of the fans. And then he violated the Wellness Policy and got suspended. Obviously, the face of the company cannot have that kind of black mark on his record. He ate three cleans in the space of a month and suffered numerous humiliations -- Rollins took numerous shots at him during his suspension while building to the Shield Triple Threat on RAW, his cousins the Usos lifted Wrestling/DeanAmbrose, one of the men who pinned him clean, on their shoulders during Dean's celebration for his win, and Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon verbally eviscerated him live in front of the entire RAW roster for losing the title to [=SmackDown=]. It's fairly obvious the company is beginning to de-push him in favor of others, and that Reigns' chances of officially succeeding Cena have gone down immensely. For what it's worth, as of Late 2017, Reigns is well on his way to reclaiming his previous spot.

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* Wrestling/HulkHogan was considered The AllAmericanFace of the WWF since the mid-1980s, telling children to train hard, eat their vitamins, say their prayers, and believe in themselves. In the early 1990s, Hogan was revealed to have taken steroids for at least fifteen years and was said to have been a [[ThePrimaDonna Prima Donna]] who buried other talents that he felt were a threat to his top spot. Then two decades later, he was caught using the N-word multiple times during a sex tape with another man's wife. Even though he got his revenge on the website that released the tape by suing them into bankruptcy, it was a PyrrhicVictory; his WWE Legends contract was terminated and Hogan himself was [[{{Unperson}} unpersoned]] in the process. Though he would eventually be re-personed three years later[[note]]At later (appearently at the behest of the Saudi royal family, who apparently stopped watching wrestling in 1992 and constantly ask for guys from the wanted [[Wrestling/WWEGoldenAgeEra Hulkamania days]] Golden Age Era]] talent for the ''Crown Jewel'' shows. They've also asked for Wrestling/UltimateWarrior and Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}}, who passed away in 2014 and '''2000''', respectively[[/note]].
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* Wrestling/RomanReigns was all but anointed to succeed to Wrestling/JohnCena as the face of the company, much to the despair of the fans. And then he violated the Wellness Policy and got suspended. Obviously, the face of the company cannot have that kind of black mark on his record. He ate three cleans in the space of a month and suffered numerous humiliations -- Rollins took numerous shots at him during his suspension while building to the Shield Triple Threat on RAW, his cousins the Usos lifted Wrestling/DeanAmbrose, one of the men who pinned him clean, on their shoulders during Dean's celebration for his win, and Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon verbally eviscerated him live in front of the entire RAW roster for losing the title to [=SmackDown=]. It's fairly obvious the company is beginning to de-push him in favor of others, and that Reigns' chances of officially succeeding Cena have gone down immensely. For what it's worth, as of Late 2017, Since then, Reigns is well on his way to reclaiming his previous spot.has had better luck, especially after turning heel and adopting the "Tribal Chief" persona.
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* This trope dates back to the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent days]], at least. Creator/MaryPickford ("America's Sweetheart"), one of the biggest stars of the early cinema, was known for her [[TheIngenue ingenue]] roles and her long, flowing ringlets. After she cut off her curls and played an adult role -- at the age of ''37'' -- in ''Coquette'', she lost her popularity (despite winning an MediaNotes/AcademyAward), and retired from films shortly thereafter.

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* This trope dates back to the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood [[MediaNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent days]], at least. Creator/MaryPickford ("America's Sweetheart"), one of the biggest stars of the early cinema, was known for her [[TheIngenue ingenue]] roles and her long, flowing ringlets. After she cut off her curls and played an adult role -- at the age of ''37'' -- in ''Coquette'', she lost her popularity (despite winning an MediaNotes/AcademyAward), and retired from films shortly thereafter.
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There are some notable aversions and inversions, where the actor or actress's first role (or at least breakout role) is in a decidedly adult production, only for them to move onto more family-friendly fare. Compare BleachedUnderpants, RatedGForGangsta.

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There are some notable aversions and inversions, where the actor or actress's first role (or at least breakout role) is in a decidedly adult production, only for them to move onto more family-friendly fare. Compare BleachedUnderpants, SelfCensoredRelease, RatedGForGangsta.
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There are two sides to what happens with this controversy. First is that MoralGuardians really have no right to get upset that it is "corrupting our youth" because an individual of a certain age is well within their legal rights to smoke, drink, swear, have sex, etc. On the flip side, being a public figure, especially one who is popular and well-known amongst young people, carries a certain degree of responsibility for the influence one may have since they ''will'' be treated as a role model. [[Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman George "Superman" Reeves]], for example, took great pains to not smoke or be seen with his lady-friends in front of children. (He was also careful because kids wanted to see if he was as invulnerable as he was on TV.)

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There are two sides to what happens with this controversy. First is that MoralGuardians really have no right to get upset that it is "corrupting our youth" because an individual of a certain age is well within their legal rights to smoke, drink, swear, have sex, etc. On the flip side, being a public figure, especially one who is popular and well-known amongst young people, carries a certain degree of responsibility for the influence one may have since they ''will'' be treated as a role model. [[Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman George "Superman" Reeves]], for example, took great pains to not smoke or be seen with his lady-friends lady friends in front of children. (He was also careful because kids wanted to see if he was as invulnerable as he was on TV.)



* Mostly averted by Britney's classic rival and fellow ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'' alum Music/ChristinaAguilera, whose early material was always a little suggestive. And being a year older than Britney, she was legally an adult when her breakout hit "Genie In A Bottle" came out. This made her later, more sexually-mature material easier to accept. She still took heat for it though on account of her being very popular with teen and tween girls. ''The Jenny Jones Show'' actually did an episode in 2003 about young girls who were imitating her.

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* Mostly averted by Britney's classic rival and fellow ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'' alum Music/ChristinaAguilera, whose early material was always a little suggestive. And being a year older than Britney, she was legally an adult when her breakout hit "Genie In A Bottle" came out. This made her later, more sexually-mature sexually mature material easier to accept. She still took heat for it though on account of her being very popular with teen and tween girls. ''The Jenny Jones Show'' actually did an episode in 2003 about young girls who were imitating her.



* Likewise, Creator/LindsayLohan, who owes her career to her early Disney films even more than Hathaway does. Before Lindsay was cast in ''Film/MeanGirls'', it was written to be a racy R-rated affair with (to quote Creator/TinaFey) "wall to wall titties". As she was considered a family-friendly actress, it was changed to PG-13 and much of the racier content was cut. Lindsay also turned down an offer to pose for ''Playboy'' as she had a Disney film coming out and tried not to dress too skimpily in public out of fear of upsetting her younger fans. And it's precisely for this reason that her party girl antics and drug abuse was such big news.

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* Likewise, Creator/LindsayLohan, who owes her career to her early Disney films even more than Hathaway does. Before Lindsay was cast in ''Film/MeanGirls'', it was written to be a racy R-rated affair with (to quote Creator/TinaFey) "wall to wall "wall-to-wall titties". As she was considered a family-friendly actress, it was changed to PG-13 and much of the racier content was cut. Lindsay also turned down an offer to pose for ''Playboy'' as she had a Disney film coming out and tried not to dress too skimpily in public out of fear of upsetting her younger fans. And it's precisely for this reason that her party girl antics and drug abuse was were such big news.



* Creator/ZacEfron and Creator/VanessaHudgens of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', who [[RomanceOnTheSet dated in real life]], caught a bit of flak for such terrible things as making out on the beach and letting it be known that they were *gasp* doing things of a more intimate nature. A camera catching a condom falling out of Efron's pocket as he walked the red carpet led to a short-lived outcry. Seeing as how they were pretty much a perfectly-normal couple in their mid-twenties, it was all a little ridiculous. They have both politely but firmly explained this. Repeatedly. Given the fact they remained a steady couple for over three years despite being barely out of their teens, stayed together right at the height of their media frenzy rather than taking advantage of their new fame, were obviously practicing safe sex (see the alleged condom), guarded their private relationship fiercely and even post-breakup were genuinely amicable and never used the paparazzi to turn on each other, you'd think parents might see them as ''good'' example for teens (especially as they came off as more mature than a lot of Hollywood relationships), but apparently they had to be as squeaky clean as their high school counterparts.
** Hudgens' multiple nude photo scandals, however, are a far straighter example. On top of the usual outcry about a kid-friendly actress posing naked, there were also concerns about Vanessa's age when she took the pictures -- while she's an adult now, she was about 17 or 18 when the first ''High School Musical'' film came out, which is also around when some of the photos (at least the first batch of them) are believed to have been made. Of course, the fact that the photos weren't made for public consumption is pretty much lost on the MoralGuardians. In addition, the leaks of said photos probably [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools helped Hudgens break out of her Disney type casting]] more easily than her ''High School Musical'' co-stars -- she's since taken roles in films like ''Film/SuckerPunch'' and ''Film/SpringBreakers'' and the role of Mimi in a Hollywood Bowl production of ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'', all of which have her dressed in provocative outfits (and in the case of ''Spring Breakers'', doing nude scenes), and she's done several [[PublicExposure sexy photo shoots]] for fitness and fashion magazines. However she has declined offers to do nudity in films and says that the response to that is "but you've already done it" (as apparently pictures intended to be private are equivalent to a film that will be seen by the general public).
** Efron, too, has had troubles with this. He became known as a party animal after the ''High School Musical'' series wrapped up, with multiple short-lived stints in rehab, to the point where Creator/LeaMichele (whose boyfriend and ''Series/{{Glee}}'' co-star Creator/CoryMonteith died of a heroin/alcohol overdose) [[http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/04/09/lea-michele-zac-efron-seek-help-drugs-cory-monteith-death/ begged him]] to give it up. Like Hudgens, he too has embraced his "bad boy" image, playing a [[WackyFratboyHijinx drunken frat boy]] villain in ''Film/{{Neighbors|2014}}'' and none other than '''UsefulNotes/TedBundy''' in ''Film/ExtremelyWickedShockinglyEvilAndVile''. Although not so much purity, Efron was also asked by Disney to downplay some of his hobbies to the public, like playing VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft, reading Manga (especially Manga/DeathNote), and generally being something of a nerd.

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* Creator/ZacEfron and Creator/VanessaHudgens of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', who [[RomanceOnTheSet dated in real life]], caught a bit of flak for such terrible things as making out on the beach and letting it be known that they were *gasp* doing things of a more intimate nature. A camera catching a condom falling out of Efron's pocket as he walked the red carpet led to a short-lived outcry. Seeing as how they were pretty much a perfectly-normal perfectly normal couple in their mid-twenties, it was all a little ridiculous. They have both politely but firmly explained this. Repeatedly. Given the fact they remained a steady couple for over three years despite being barely out of their teens, stayed together right at the height of their media frenzy rather than taking advantage of their new fame, were obviously practicing safe sex (see the alleged condom), guarded their private relationship fiercely and even post-breakup were genuinely amicable and never used the paparazzi to turn on each other, you'd think parents might see them as ''good'' example for teens (especially as they came off as more mature than a lot of Hollywood relationships), but apparently they had to be as squeaky clean as their high school counterparts.
** Hudgens' multiple nude photo scandals, however, are a far straighter example. On top of the usual outcry about a kid-friendly actress posing naked, there were also concerns about Vanessa's age when she took the pictures -- while she's an adult now, she was about 17 or 18 when the first ''High School Musical'' film came out, which is also around when some of the photos (at least the first batch of them) are believed to have been made. Of course, the fact that the photos weren't made for public consumption is pretty much lost on the MoralGuardians. In addition, the leaks of said photos probably [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools helped Hudgens break out of her Disney type casting]] more easily than her ''High School Musical'' co-stars -- she's since taken roles in films like ''Film/SuckerPunch'' and ''Film/SpringBreakers'' and the role of Mimi in a Hollywood Bowl production of ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'', all of which have her dressed in provocative outfits (and in the case of ''Spring Breakers'', doing nude scenes), and she's done several [[PublicExposure sexy photo shoots]] for fitness and fashion magazines. However However, she has declined offers to do nudity in films and says that the response to that is "but you've already done it" (as apparently pictures intended to be private are equivalent to a film that will be seen by the general public).
** Efron, too, has had troubles trouble with this. He became known as a party animal after the ''High School Musical'' series wrapped up, with multiple short-lived stints in rehab, to the point where Creator/LeaMichele (whose boyfriend and ''Series/{{Glee}}'' co-star Creator/CoryMonteith died of a heroin/alcohol overdose) [[http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/04/09/lea-michele-zac-efron-seek-help-drugs-cory-monteith-death/ begged him]] to give it up. Like Hudgens, he too has embraced his "bad boy" image, playing a [[WackyFratboyHijinx drunken frat boy]] villain in ''Film/{{Neighbors|2014}}'' and none other than '''UsefulNotes/TedBundy''' in ''Film/ExtremelyWickedShockinglyEvilAndVile''. Although not so much purity, Efron was also asked by Disney to downplay some of his hobbies to the public, like playing VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft, ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', reading Manga (especially Manga/DeathNote), ''Manga/DeathNote''), and generally being something of a nerd.



* Adrienne Bailon has also been an enjoyable train wreck to watch since the Cheetah Girls group and movies ended. She hung around the Kardashians for a few years, and eventually staged a fake nude photo controversy cooked up by Bailon and a gossip blogger in an attempt to boost her career. Said controversy caused the group to back out of a planned UsefulNotes/MacysThanksgivingDayParade performance (to be replaced with Creator/MirandaCosgrove and Music/RickAstley), and the breakup of the group not long after.

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* Adrienne Bailon has also been an enjoyable train wreck to watch since the Cheetah Girls group and movies ended. She hung around the Kardashians for a few years, years and eventually staged a fake nude photo controversy cooked up by Bailon and a gossip blogger in an attempt to boost her career. Said controversy caused the group to back out of a planned UsefulNotes/MacysThanksgivingDayParade performance (to be replaced with Creator/MirandaCosgrove and Music/RickAstley), and the breakup of the group not long after.



* This happened back in the sixties to Creator/HayleyMills (star of the 1960 ''Film/{{Pollyanna|1960}}'' film and ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1961}}'') when she was considered for the titular role in the 1962 ''Film/{{Lolita}}'' and Disney told her to step away from the film. In fact, her first role that attempted to shake her goody-two-shoes image was ''The Trouble with Angels'', her first post-Disney role, where she played a mischevious Catholic schoolgirl. However, the only truly daring thing she actually does in ''Angels'' is smoking, which goes to show you how concerned Hollywood felt about shaking up Mills' image. It eventually ''did'' catch up with her in 1967 when she appeared in the British countercultural movie ''The Family Way'' (the same movie scored in part by Music/PaulMcCartney as his first venture outside Music/TheBeatles). In one scene, she was [[ToplessnessFromTheBack filmed from the rear naked]]. [[MayDecemberRomance She married the middle-aged director]] of the film, Roy Boulting, in 1971 (though they divorced in 1975). She also appeared topless in the film ''The Deadly Strangers''.

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* This happened back in the sixties to Creator/HayleyMills (star of the 1960 ''Film/{{Pollyanna|1960}}'' film and ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1961}}'') when she was considered for the titular role in the 1962 ''Film/{{Lolita}}'' and Disney told her to step away from the film. In fact, her first role that attempted to shake her goody-two-shoes image was ''The Trouble with Angels'', her first post-Disney role, where she played a mischevious mischievous Catholic schoolgirl. However, the only truly daring thing she actually does in ''Angels'' is smoking, which goes to show you how concerned Hollywood felt about shaking up Mills' image. It eventually ''did'' catch up with her in 1967 when she appeared in the British countercultural movie ''The Family Way'' (the same movie scored in part by Music/PaulMcCartney as his first venture outside Music/TheBeatles). In one scene, she was [[ToplessnessFromTheBack filmed from the rear naked]]. [[MayDecemberRomance She married the middle-aged director]] of the film, Roy Boulting, in 1971 (though they divorced in 1975). She also appeared topless in the film ''The Deadly Strangers''.



* Music/TheJonasBrothers faced many restrictions from Disney with regards to their infamous purity rings. The lyrics to their songs were constantly being policed, and they'd often be forced to change any lines that were deemed inappropriate. This included lines about being alone in a room with another person. Additionally the brothers were told to respond to potentially risque interview questions (about drugs, alcohol, sex etc) by "playing dumb" and veering off on other topics.
* Demi Lovato started on ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'' and then worked on many Disney Channel projects - with TV films like ''Film/CampRock'', ''Film/PrincessProtectionProgram'' and the show ''Series/SonnyWithAChance''. Wearing a purity ring for public scrutiny eventually led to CreatorBreakdown and addictions to cocaine before Demi even turned eighteen. Disney however public supported them for going to rehab, and featured them covering "Let It Go" for the ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen 2013}}'' end credits. Since then, Demi both came out as non-binary and embraced a more sexual image.

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* Music/TheJonasBrothers faced many restrictions from Disney with regards regard to their infamous purity rings. The lyrics to their songs were constantly being policed, and they'd often be forced to change any lines that were deemed inappropriate. This included lines about being alone in a room with another person. Additionally Additionally, the brothers were told to respond to potentially risque interview questions (about drugs, alcohol, sex sex, etc) by "playing dumb" and veering off on other topics.
* Demi Lovato started on ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'' and then worked on many Disney Channel projects - with TV films like ''Film/CampRock'', ''Film/PrincessProtectionProgram'' ''Film/PrincessProtectionProgram'', and the show ''Series/SonnyWithAChance''. Wearing a purity ring for public scrutiny eventually led to CreatorBreakdown and addictions to cocaine before Demi even turned eighteen. Disney however public publicly supported them for going to rehab, rehab and featured them covering "Let It Go" for the ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen 2013}}'' end credits. Since then, Demi both came out as non-binary and embraced a more sexual image.



* Creator/RossLynch mostly avoided this as during his time starring in the Disney series ''Series/AustinAndAlly'' and movie franchise ''Film/TeenBeachMovie''. He talked about the music he released while with Disney being very policed, though he was still able to do things like lightly swear and make reference to being hungover in his songs. He even released an entire song about being so hungover he can't even remember what happened the night before, with two separate music videos, one depicting him and the band hungover after partying and the other made specifically to air on the Creator/DisneyChannel which just showed the band playing a concert as Disney didn't think it would be appropriate to suggest that the star of one of their shows had been drinking. Immediately following the series finale of ''Austin & Ally'', he posted a full body nude photo of himself in the shower from behind, and went on to star in the 2017 film ''Film/MyFriendDahmer'' as the titular serial killer and the Netflix series ''Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina''. He's also generally become a sex symbol after leaving the Disney company.

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* Creator/RossLynch mostly avoided this as during his time starring in the Disney series ''Series/AustinAndAlly'' and movie franchise ''Film/TeenBeachMovie''. He talked about the music he released while with Disney being very policed, though he was still able to do things like lightly swear and make reference to being hungover in his songs. He even released an entire song about being so hungover he can't even remember what happened the night before, with two separate music videos, one depicting him and the band hungover after partying and the other made specifically to air on the Creator/DisneyChannel which just showed the band playing a concert as Disney didn't think it would be appropriate to suggest that the star of one of their shows had been drinking. Immediately following the series finale of ''Austin & Ally'', he posted a full body full-body nude photo of himself in the shower from behind, and went on to star in the 2017 film ''Film/MyFriendDahmer'' as the titular serial killer and the Netflix series ''Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina''. He's also generally become a sex symbol after leaving the Disney company.



** Tim also has a criminal record for transporting drugs in the 70's, even serving time in prison (he got a reduced sentence for passing on information about his supplier). Once he got out it was a sign to him he needed to get far away from that life and that's where he got into StandUpComedy. When ''Series/HomeImprovement'' was primed to air some news articles reported on his criminal history, especially since the show was supposed to be a family comedy, Tim and the producers responded immediately with their own side of the story. Later in the show run, they were contemplating doing [[VerySpecialEpisode an episode on drunk driving]] (previously doing an episode on marijuana use) but Tim had gotten a DUI during the summer break and the episode was canceled due to feeling it would be hypocritical to do so.

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** Tim also has a criminal record for transporting drugs in the 70's, '70s, even serving time in prison (he got a reduced sentence for passing on information about his supplier). Once he got out it was a sign to him he needed to get far away from that life and that's where he got into StandUpComedy. When ''Series/HomeImprovement'' was primed to air some news articles reported on his criminal history, especially since the show was supposed to be a family comedy, Tim and the producers responded immediately with their own side of the story. Later in the show run, they were contemplating doing [[VerySpecialEpisode an episode on drunk driving]] (previously doing an episode on marijuana use) but Tim had gotten a DUI during the summer break and the episode was canceled due to feeling it would be hypocritical to do so.



** When ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'' finished its run, Melissa was now an adult but her mother didn't want her to pursue DarkerAndEdgier roles - though this was apparently a business move to capitalize on her kid fan base. Thus her next project was the family sitcom ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''. She has said that once that was over, she found it hard to get cast, because people only [[IAmNotSpock saw her as a teenager]], even though she was in her late 20s when the show finished[[note]]Even within the context of the show, Sabrina became a college student in the fifth season and the producers wanted to just call the show ''Sabrina'', but faced resistance from Archie Comics[[/note]]. Thus people were startled at her playing a mother in ''Series/MelissaAndJoey''.

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** When ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'' finished its run, Melissa was now an adult but her mother didn't want her to pursue DarkerAndEdgier roles - though this was apparently a business move to capitalize on her kid fan base. Thus her next project was the family sitcom ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''. She has said that once that was over, she found it hard to get cast, cast because people only [[IAmNotSpock saw her as a teenager]], even though she was in her late 20s when the show finished[[note]]Even within the context of the show, Sabrina became a college student in the fifth season and the producers wanted to just call the show ''Sabrina'', but faced resistance from Archie Comics[[/note]]. Thus people were startled at her playing a mother in ''Series/MelissaAndJoey''.



* Possibly the most controversial example of all was Creator/AnissaJones of ''Series/FamilyAffair''. She was contractually obligated to make promotional appearances with her breasts bound, her hair in [[GirlishPigtails childish pigtails]], and clutching the Mrs. Beasley doll [[NotAllowedToGrowUp even as she grew into her teens]]. This is often cited as a major factor in her eventual death by drug overdose.

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* Possibly the most controversial example of all was Creator/AnissaJones of ''Series/FamilyAffair''. She was contractually obligated to make promotional appearances with [[SuppressedMammaries her breasts bound, bound]], her hair in [[GirlishPigtails childish pigtails]], and clutching the Mrs. Beasley doll [[NotAllowedToGrowUp even as she grew into her teens]]. This is often cited as a major factor in her eventual death by drug overdose.overdose in 1976.



* Creator/DeborahKerr was usually typecast as the EnglishRose (except the UK drama ''Film/BlackNarcissus'') until her appearance as depressed adulteress Karen in ''Literature/FromHereToEternity''. It's still considered one of her best roles of all time, even though she took the role only to shake up her image.

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* Creator/DeborahKerr was usually typecast as the EnglishRose (except in the UK drama ''Film/BlackNarcissus'') until her appearance as depressed adulteress Karen in ''Literature/FromHereToEternity''. It's still considered one of her best roles of all time, even though she took the role only to shake up her image.



* Defied by Creator/BetteDavis - who Warner Brothers were grooming to become "the next Creator/JeanHarlow" in the early 1930s. She hated their attempts to present her as a glamorous GirlNextDoor (the low point for her was a film called ''Fashions of 1934'', in which she was forced to wear a platinum blonde wig and false eyelashes). She was keen to play a role as an unsympathetic abuser who ends up as a {{Streetwalker}} in ''Literature/OfHumanBondage'' - which many of Hollywood's leading ladies had turned down. The studio tried to persuade her not to do it, terrified it would ruin her image. The film was a critical darling, and Bette got her first Oscar nomination from it.

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* Defied by Creator/BetteDavis - who Warner Brothers were grooming to become "the next Creator/JeanHarlow" in the early 1930s. She hated their attempts to present her as a glamorous GirlNextDoor (the low point for her was a film called ''Fashions of 1934'', in which she was forced to wear a platinum blonde wig and false eyelashes). She was keen to play a role as an unsympathetic abuser who ends up as a {{Streetwalker}} in ''Literature/OfHumanBondage'' - which many of Hollywood's leading ladies had turned down. The studio tried to persuade her not to do it, terrified it would ruin her image. The film was a critical darling, and Bette got her first Oscar nomination from for it.



** Also before ''Doctor Who'', Piper was also criticized in the press for being photographed partying around the time of her marriage to radio presenter Radio/ChrisEvans. At the time, she was known not for Rose Tyler, but being a former teen pop star once touted as the British answer to Britney Spears. In fairness, though, this was primarily due to the fact that she was a teenager and Chris Evans was in his mid-thirties, and when they got married, they'd only been dating for six months. Since Piper was in a period of limbo where her pop career had pretty much died (and her acting one was yet to take off) when she started dating Evans, and since he was an extremely wealthy radio and television presenter (worth an estimated £30million), it was as much about the unseemliness of the apparent "golddigger/dirty old man" dynamic as much as Piper being a role model for teenagers. Much was made in the press, for example, of Chris buying her a pricey sports car for her birthday when she hadn't even passed her driving test yet. By the time of their divorce six years later, Piper was in her mid-twenties and the 16 year age gap between them seemed less important. Whatever the case, she seems to get a lot more of the flak from the relationship than he does. Although it's most likely partly down to good old misogyny (she must be a gold-digging whore, he's a man who couldn't be expected to resist a young hottie), it seems like her contractual purity plays a part too.

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** Also before ''Doctor Who'', Piper was also criticized in the press for being photographed partying around the time of her marriage to radio presenter Radio/ChrisEvans. At the time, she was known not for Rose Tyler, but being a former teen pop star once touted as the British answer to Britney Spears. In fairness, though, this was primarily due to the fact that she was a teenager and Chris Evans was in his mid-thirties, and when they got married, they'd only been dating for six months. Since Piper was in a period of limbo where her pop career had pretty much died (and her acting one was yet to take off) when she started dating Evans, and since he was an extremely wealthy radio and television presenter (worth an estimated £30million), it was as much about the unseemliness of the apparent "golddigger/dirty old man" dynamic as much as Piper being a role model for teenagers. Much was made in the press, for example, of Chris buying her a pricey sports car for her birthday when she hadn't even passed her driving test yet. By the time of their divorce six years later, Piper was in her mid-twenties and the 16 year 16-year age gap between them seemed less important. Whatever the case, she seems to get a lot more of the flak from the relationship than he does. Although it's most likely partly down to good old misogyny (she must be a gold-digging whore, he's a man who couldn't be expected to resist a young hottie), it seems like her contractual purity plays a part too.



*** Frank also appeared on MTV's sex drama ''Undressed'' after leaving the franchise (but before returning for ''Dino Thunder''). Nobody really noticed, though that says more about the show than it does about Jason. Hilariously enough, the majority of his scenes were with actress Alyson Kiperman, who '''also''' became a Power Ranger (Yellow in ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce''). Ranger fans have been laughing their asses off since.

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*** Frank also appeared on MTV's sex drama ''Undressed'' after leaving the franchise (but before returning for ''Dino Thunder''). Nobody really noticed, noticed though that says more about the show than it does about Jason. Hilariously enough, the majority of his scenes were with actress Alyson Kiperman, who '''also''' became a Power Ranger (Yellow in ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce''). Ranger fans have been laughing their asses off since.



* Creator/PaulReubens, the man who played Pee-Wee Herman, was quite infamously hit with this. ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' was originally an AffectionateParody of '50's [[SubvertedKidsShow kiddie-show hosts]] created for a Groundlings comedy sketch, filled with {{double entendre}}s and [[{{Parental Bonus}} subliminal adult humor]]. However, the character [[MisaimedFandom was mistaken]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids for an actual kids' entertainer]] as he became successful, causing Reubens' act to get [[LighterAndSofter more family-friendly]] and his personal life to be taken over by the character. Thus, his arrest for masturbating in an adult theater, and his subsequent arrest for having pornography in his house (not child pornography, as rumored), came as a shock to those who weren't familiar with his older material. This caused comedian Creator/WandaSykes to remark, "Just where is Pee Wee allowed to masturbate?"
* Creator/MollyRingwald appeared nude in the film ''Malicious'', going against her "sweet teenage girl" image. However, the film wasn't really memorable, and she hadn't been a teenager for over a decade at that point, so the ripples were minor. Before that, Creator/DavidLynch offered her the role in ''Film/BlueVelvet'' that eventually went to Creator/LauraDern, but her parents refused to let her do it, worried that it would ruin her "sweet teenage girl" image.

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* Creator/PaulReubens, the man who played Pee-Wee Herman, was quite infamously hit with this. ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' was originally an AffectionateParody of '50's '50s [[SubvertedKidsShow kiddie-show hosts]] created for a Groundlings comedy sketch, filled with {{double entendre}}s and [[{{Parental Bonus}} subliminal adult humor]]. However, the character [[MisaimedFandom was mistaken]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids for an actual kids' entertainer]] as he became successful, causing Reubens' act to get [[LighterAndSofter more family-friendly]] and his personal life to be taken over by the character. Thus, his arrest for masturbating in an adult theater, and his subsequent arrest for having pornography in his house (not child pornography, as rumored), came as a shock to those who weren't familiar with his older material. This caused comedian Creator/WandaSykes to remark, "Just where is Pee Wee allowed to masturbate?"
* Creator/MollyRingwald appeared nude in the film ''Malicious'', going against her "sweet teenage girl" image. However, the film wasn't really memorable, and she hadn't been a teenager for over a decade at that point, so the ripples were minor. Before that, Creator/DavidLynch offered her the role in ''Film/BlueVelvet'' that which eventually went to Creator/LauraDern, Creator/LauraDern but her parents refused to let her do it, worried that it would ruin her "sweet teenage girl" image.



* Though not beginning as a child, Creator/BobSaget had this happen to him over a sixteen-year stretch divided between ''Series/FullHouse'' and ''Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos''. He attributed his profanity-overflowing, exceptionally dirty and rather mean-spirited stand-up routine in part to this, claiming, "That show gave me [[HollywoodTourettes Tourette's]]." In actuality, he was an exceptionally dirty comic even before ''Full House''. At Saget's Creator/ComedyCentral roast, Jeff Garlin (in the character of one of the producers of ''Full House'') mentioned an incredibly tasteless joke that Bob told that warmed the producer up to him. People who knew Saget in college also claimed he did dirty humor even back then. So while he may have attributed it to his family shows, Saget's dirty persona may have deeper roots than he let on. Unlike many cases here, however, Saget actually enjoyed the stigma that followed him, just for the shock that appeared on the faces of audience members who didn't know better.
* Likewise, Saget's ''Series/FullHouse'' co-star, Creator/JohnStamos, was best known for his role on the show as Uncle Jesse. He grew tired of being in family-friendly TV shows and movies. So he decided to shed this image by auditioning for the raunchiest part he could: the MadeForTVMovie ''Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O'Hara Story'' in which he portrays Nick Pagan, a seemingly nice man who is actually a serial killer and later tries to burn his five-year-old son to death in the bathtub.

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* Though not beginning as a child, Creator/BobSaget had this happen to him over a sixteen-year stretch divided between ''Series/FullHouse'' and ''Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos''. He attributed his profanity-overflowing, exceptionally dirty dirty, and rather mean-spirited stand-up routine in part to this, claiming, "That show gave me [[HollywoodTourettes Tourette's]]." In actuality, he was an exceptionally dirty comic even before ''Full House''. At Saget's Creator/ComedyCentral roast, Jeff Garlin (in the character of one of the producers of ''Full House'') mentioned an incredibly tasteless joke that Bob told that warmed the producer up to him. People who knew Saget in college also claimed he did dirty humor even back then. So while he may have attributed it to his family shows, Saget's dirty persona may have deeper roots than he let on. Unlike many cases here, however, Saget actually enjoyed the stigma that followed him, just for the shock that appeared on the faces of audience members who didn't know better.
* Likewise, Saget's ''Series/FullHouse'' co-star, Creator/JohnStamos, co-star Creator/JohnStamos was best known for his role on the show as Uncle Jesse. He grew tired of being in family-friendly TV shows and movies. So he decided to shed this image by auditioning for the raunchiest part he could: the MadeForTVMovie ''Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O'Hara Story'' in which he portrays Nick Pagan, a seemingly nice man who is actually a serial killer and later tries to burn his five-year-old son to death in the bathtub.



** She caused an uproar in the press when was seen drinking, which would've been shocking if not for the fact that she was in her mid 20's at the time. Then again, some states still had alcohol prohibition laws on the books, so this is also a case of ValuesDissonance. And speaking of...

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** She caused an uproar in the press when was seen drinking, which would've been shocking if not for the fact that she was in her mid 20's mid-20s at the time. Then again, some states still had alcohol prohibition laws on the books, so this is also a case of ValuesDissonance. And speaking of...



** Temple was also a chain smoker into her adulthood, which may have accounted for her death in 2014. She did however hide her smoking habit from the public as that wouldn't set a good example for her fans who might get alienated with the idea of a (former) child actress smoking. Not that there wasn't a scene where she smoked, though.

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** Temple was also a chain smoker into her adulthood, which may have accounted for her death in 2014. She did however hide her smoking habit from the public as that wouldn't set a good example for her fans who might get alienated with by the idea of a (former) child actress smoking. Not that there wasn't a scene where she smoked, though.



* Creator/MadelineZima, best known as the little girl in ''Film/TheHandThatRocksTheCradle'' and as youngest child, Grace, on ''Series/TheNanny'', later was [[Series/{{Heroes}} making out with]] Creator/HaydenPanettiere and [[Series/{{Californication}} punching David Duchovny in the face while fucking him]].
* H.B. Warner and Dorothy Cumming, who played Jesus and the Virgin Mary in the 1927 silent film ''The King Of Kings'', were forced by director Creator/CecilBDeMille to sign agreements stating that they wouldn't take any unsavory film roles during a five year period, in order to protect their "holy" screen images. In addition, [=DeMille=] also forbade them from [[FelonyMisdemeanor attending ball games, playing cards, going to night clubs, swimming, and riding in convertibles]] during filming. During filming, [=DeMille=] allegedly paid an anonymous woman to leave the country, as she was trying to blackmail Warner over some unknown scandal.
* Israeli [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arutz_HaYeladim Children Channel]] presenters are, according to their contract, not allowed to drink in public. This became a bit of a problem (just a bit, as it seems no-one really cared) once when one of them, [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2601667/ Dana Frieder]], did this a while back.

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* Creator/MadelineZima, best known as the little girl in ''Film/TheHandThatRocksTheCradle'' and as youngest child, Grace, child Grace on ''Series/TheNanny'', later was [[Series/{{Heroes}} making out with]] Creator/HaydenPanettiere and [[Series/{{Californication}} punching David Duchovny in the face while fucking him]].
* H.B. Warner and Dorothy Cumming, who played Jesus and the Virgin Mary in the 1927 silent film ''The King Of Kings'', were forced by director Creator/CecilBDeMille to sign agreements stating that they wouldn't take any unsavory film roles during a five year five-year period, in order to protect their "holy" screen images. In addition, [=DeMille=] also forbade them from [[FelonyMisdemeanor attending ball games, playing cards, going to night clubs, swimming, and riding in convertibles]] during filming. During filming, [=DeMille=] allegedly paid an anonymous woman to leave the country, as she was trying to blackmail Warner over some unknown scandal.
* Israeli [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arutz_HaYeladim Children Channel]] presenters are, according to their contract, not allowed to drink in public. This became a bit of a problem (just a bit, as it seems no-one no one really cared) once when one of them, [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2601667/ Dana Frieder]], did this a while back.



* Similarly Sean Connery lobbied for a role in Alfred Hitchcock's ''{{Film/Marnie}}'' - playing an obsessive borderline stalker who [[spoiler: rapes the titular Marnie on their wedding night]] - to break out of his James Bond good guy typecasting.
* Creator/JuliaRoberts ended up as America's wholesome good girl in the 90s (ironically after her StarMakingRole was a prostitute in ''Film/PrettyWoman''). In the film ''{{Film/Flatliners}}'' her character was originally supposed to have had an affair with a college professor and blackmailed him. But people were worried that it would harm Julia's wholesome image, so that plot point was dropped. She did attempt to do a less squeaky-clean role in ''Film/MaryReilly'' - which has repressed Victorian sexuality as a major theme (though is still quite tame when it comes to nudity) -- but it wasn't a great success. She did manage to play against type to critical acclaim in ''{{Film/Closer}}'' and as she became too old to be TheIngenue, this is less of a problem nowadays (she also played a VainSorceress in ''Film/MirrorMirror2012'').

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* Similarly Sean Connery Similarly, Creator/SeanConnery lobbied for a role in Alfred Hitchcock's Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''{{Film/Marnie}}'' - playing an obsessive borderline stalker who [[spoiler: rapes [[spoiler:rapes the titular Marnie on their wedding night]] - to break out of his James Bond good guy typecasting.
* Creator/JuliaRoberts ended up as America's wholesome good girl in the 90s '90s (ironically after her StarMakingRole was a prostitute in ''Film/PrettyWoman''). In the film ''{{Film/Flatliners}}'' ''{{Film/Flatliners}}'', her character was originally supposed to have had an affair with a college professor and blackmailed him. But people were worried that it would harm Julia's wholesome image, so that plot point was dropped. She did attempt to do a less squeaky-clean role in ''Film/MaryReilly'' - which has repressed Victorian sexuality as a major theme (though is still quite tame when it comes to nudity) -- but it wasn't a great success. She did manage to play against type to critical acclaim in ''{{Film/Closer}}'' and as she became too old to be TheIngenue, this is less of a problem nowadays (she also played a VainSorceress in ''Film/MirrorMirror2012'').



* Creator/NeveCampbell in the late 90s was typecast as a GirlNextDoor thanks to ''Series/PartyOfFive'' and, while she was also known for the ''{{Franchise/Scream}}'' franchise, it was as its resident FinalGirl. When the script for ''Film/WildThings'' came along, she did it specifically to get away from that wholesome image, despite her agents' apprehension. However, despite the nudity, she used a body double. She would later appear nude in another sexual role (''When Will I Be Loved?'') but it was long after her TeenIdol hype had died down and its arthouse nature meant not many people remember it.
* Dorothy Malone got fame in the 1940s and 50s for the on-screen person of (to quote the lady herself) "the all-American girl watching the all-American boy do all sorts of things". She opted to shed her good girl image in the middle of the 50s by dyeing her hair platinum blonde and playing a nymphomaniac in ''Written on the Wind''. It actually got her a Best Actress win at the Oscars, and led to more substantial parts.

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* Creator/NeveCampbell in the late 90s '90s was typecast as a GirlNextDoor thanks to ''Series/PartyOfFive'' and, while she was also known for the ''{{Franchise/Scream}}'' franchise, it was as its resident FinalGirl. When the script for ''Film/WildThings'' came along, she did it specifically to get away from that wholesome image, despite her agents' apprehension. However, despite the nudity, she used a body double. She would later appear nude in another sexual role (''When Will I Be Loved?'') but it was long after her TeenIdol hype had died down and its arthouse nature meant not many people remember it.
* Dorothy Malone Creator/DorothyMalone got fame famous in the 1940s and 50s '50s for the on-screen person of (to quote the lady herself) "the all-American girl watching the all-American boy do all sorts of things". She opted to shed her good girl image in the middle of the 50s '50s by dyeing her hair platinum blonde and playing a nymphomaniac in ''Written on the Wind''. ''Film/WrittenOnTheWind''. It actually got her a Best Supporting Actress win at the Oscars, Oscars and led to more substantial parts.



** This was a reason that Rogers didn't let Betty Aberlin star in ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}'', a film by his protégé Creator/GeorgeARomero, who had actually directed a segment for the show. Note that his personal protectiveness did not extent to the film itself; when Romero screened it to his mentor, the sweet, harmless Pennsylvania minister was delighted with his protégé's [[NightmareFetishist gory, nihilistic horror film and told Romero it was great fun]].

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** This was a reason that Rogers didn't let Betty Aberlin star in ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}'', a film by his protégé Creator/GeorgeARomero, who had actually directed a segment for the show. Note that his personal protectiveness did not extent extend to the film itself; when Romero screened it to his mentor, the sweet, harmless Pennsylvania minister was delighted with his protégé's [[NightmareFetishist gory, nihilistic horror film and told Romero it was great fun]].






* Creator/TallulahBankhead ran afoul of this in 1930s Hollywood. She was known for her HardDrinkingPartyGirl persona when she got fame for her stage work in the UK, and caused a minor scandal during her brief film career; in a magazine interview, she declared "I WANT A MAN! I told you, I haven't had an affair in six months". Backlash from the censorship office, the studio and even her own family led to her issuing a retraction (though no one believed it). While she was promoted as a sultry vamp like Creator/GretaGarbo or Creator/MarleneDietrich, it was noted that they were able to get away with much more because [[EuropeansAreKinky they were European]] and Tallulah was American. Disliking the politics of Hollywood and the filmmaking process, she returned to the stage to enjoy more success. She did however appear in a few films in the 1940s, most notably Alfred Hitchcock's ''{{Film/Lifeboat}}''.

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* Creator/TallulahBankhead ran afoul of this in 1930s Hollywood. She was known for her HardDrinkingPartyGirl persona when she got fame famous for her stage work in the UK, and caused a minor scandal during her brief film career; in a magazine interview, she declared "I WANT A MAN! I told you, I haven't had an affair in six months". Backlash from the censorship office, the studio studio, and even her own family led to her issuing a retraction (though no one believed it). While she was promoted as a sultry vamp like Creator/GretaGarbo or Creator/MarleneDietrich, it was noted that they were able to get away with much more because [[EuropeansAreKinky they were European]] and Tallulah was American. Disliking the politics of Hollywood and the filmmaking process, she returned to the stage to enjoy more success. She did however appear in a few films in the 1940s, most notably Alfred Hitchcock's ''{{Film/Lifeboat}}''.



%% * While the reason why ''Blade'' caused a blackmark is that a lead was caught being in porn. Japanese adult video actresses and minor protagonists have appeared in {{Toku}}satsu; who played ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' villains (actual humanoid villains rather PeopleInRubberSuits) was not uncommon from the '90s to late 2008 before the shift from human actors to Seiyuu who voices the rubber suit actor to ensure role reprisals and to reduce costs. Examples as Kaglessia from ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'', Lamie from ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' and Zonette from ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'' were well renowned AV actresses before their ''Sentai'' work.
* The actresses of Creator/TakarazukaRevue are expected to adhere to the Music School's [[note]]the entity that trains them for the Revue[[/note]] "pure, proper, beautiful" motto. Beside the standards of this trope (think Disney but stricter), they can't openly be in a relationship or marry while in the troupe. While much of Zuka's bread and butter is homoerotic subtext and LGBT+ characters [[note]]''Theatre/{{Elisabeth}}'' and ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'' being two of their most popular offerings[[/note]], and young girls having crushes on ''seito'' (Zuka actresses, lit. "students") are considered normal, the founder believes that the fans should grow out of said crushes and the actresses should go on to be "good wives and wise mothers" after their graduation from the Revue.
* Creator/JessicaBiel later inverted the trope after playing it straight (see above). In order to break out of MsFanservice or ActionGirl typecasting, she drove to an audition for ''Film/TheIllusionist2006'' in full 19th century costume and won the part of an Austrian ProperLady. She was later able to appear in the period piece ''Film/EasyVirtue''.

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%% * While the reason why ''Blade'' caused a blackmark is that a lead was caught being in porn. Japanese adult video actresses and minor protagonists have appeared in {{Toku}}satsu; who played ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' villains (actual humanoid villains rather PeopleInRubberSuits) was not uncommon from the '90s to late 2008 before the shift from human actors to Seiyuu who voices the rubber suit actor to ensure role reprisals and to reduce costs. Examples as Kaglessia from ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'', Lamie from ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' and Zonette from ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'' were well renowned well-renowned AV actresses before their ''Sentai'' work.
* The actresses of Creator/TakarazukaRevue are expected to adhere to the Music School's [[note]]the entity that trains them for the Revue[[/note]] "pure, proper, beautiful" motto. Beside Besides the standards of this trope (think Disney but stricter), they can't openly be in a relationship or marry while in the troupe. While much of Zuka's bread and butter is homoerotic subtext and LGBT+ characters [[note]]''Theatre/{{Elisabeth}}'' and ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'' being two of their most popular offerings[[/note]], and young girls having crushes on ''seito'' (Zuka actresses, lit. "students") are considered normal, the founder believes that the fans should grow out of said crushes and the actresses should go on to be "good wives and wise mothers" after their graduation from the Revue.
* Creator/JessicaBiel later inverted the trope after playing it straight (see above). In order to break out of MsFanservice or ActionGirl typecasting, she drove to an audition for ''Film/TheIllusionist2006'' in full 19th century 19th-century costume and won the part of an Austrian ProperLady. She was later able to appear in the period piece ''Film/EasyVirtue''.



** Albert Pujols was also the victim of this trope when he signed with the Los Angeles Angels for a 10-year $250 million contract. Fans had essentially determined that Albert was Stan's successor (and in a lot of ways he is/was: both are/were family men, philanthropists, etc.), and since Stan never left St. Louis, Albert is obviously the worst traitor in the history of traitors ever for doing so. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Some Cardinals fans burned their Pujols jerseys]] and others (mostly older fans) turned the whole thing into a morality play and immediately started going on about Stan and the good ol' days. A few people took the time to understand why the whole things actually happened, though.

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** Albert Pujols was also the victim of this trope when he signed with the Los Angeles Angels for a 10-year $250 million contract. Fans had essentially determined that Albert was Stan's successor (and in a lot of ways he is/was: both are/were family men, philanthropists, etc.), and since Stan never left St. Louis, Albert is obviously the worst traitor in the history of traitors ever for doing so. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Some Cardinals fans burned their Pujols jerseys]] and others (mostly older fans) turned the whole thing into a morality play and immediately started going on about Stan and the good ol' days. A few people took the time to understand why the whole things thing actually happened, though.



%%* During the 1980s and 1990s, Michael Gallagher wrote for Creator/MarvelComics, often contributing to squeaky-clean titles such as the comic versions of Series/{{ALF}} and Franchise/CareBears among others. He then moved to Archie and set the tone for the early ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' with many of the same tricks he used on his Marvel work: NoFourthWall, HurricaneOfPuns, and stock parodies. Come the mid-1990s, he moved over to ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'', where he performed a curious zig-zag. His early material was mainly ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' gags drawn by ''Sonic'' collaborator Dave Manak, but upon pairing up with artist Tom Bunk, Gallagher began writing horribly grotesque gags such as a boy popping a zit so large that he drowns in his own pus, or a mother saying that her kids "eat like a bird" before vomiting directly into their mouths. But when paired with any other artist, Gallagher generally continues to write relatively lighthearted fare.

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%%* During the 1980s and 1990s, Michael Gallagher wrote for Creator/MarvelComics, often contributing to squeaky-clean titles such as the comic versions of Series/{{ALF}} and Franchise/CareBears among others. He then moved to Archie and set the tone for the early ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' with many of the same tricks he used on in his Marvel work: NoFourthWall, HurricaneOfPuns, and stock parodies. Come the mid-1990s, he moved over to ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'', where he performed a curious zig-zag. His early material was mainly ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' gags drawn by ''Sonic'' collaborator Dave Manak, but upon pairing up with artist Tom Bunk, Gallagher began writing horribly grotesque gags such as a boy popping a zit so large that he drowns in his own pus, or a mother saying that her kids "eat like a bird" before vomiting directly into their mouths. But when paired with any other artist, Gallagher generally continues to write relatively lighthearted fare.



* Music/CharlotteChurch began her career aged 12 as a classical singer with a squeaky-clean image that played on her background from a Catholic family in Wales. As a teenager, she was photographed smoking, drinking and going to clubs; and stated repeatedly that she wanted to shed her "choir girl" image, to criticism from fans and the press. She also made offensive comments about Pope Benedict XVI, frequently swore in interviews and engaged in a public feud with the pop group Scooch. She did eventually release a moderately successful pop/rock album and is now better known as a TV presenter and the ex-girlfriend of rugby player Gavin Henson. Church addressed the problems of this trope herself in her statement to the Leveson Inquiry regarding phone-hacking by journalists.

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* Music/CharlotteChurch began her career aged at age 12 as a classical singer with a squeaky-clean image that played on her background from a Catholic family in Wales. As a teenager, she was photographed smoking, drinking drinking, and going to clubs; and stated repeatedly that she wanted to shed her "choir girl" image, to criticism from fans and the press. She also made offensive comments about Pope Benedict XVI, frequently swore in interviews interviews, and engaged in a public feud with the pop group Scooch. She did eventually release a moderately successful pop/rock album and is now better known as a TV presenter and the ex-girlfriend of rugby player Gavin Henson. Church addressed the problems of this trope herself in her statement to the Leveson Inquiry regarding phone-hacking phone hacking by journalists.



** The alternative band Adam Again garnered controversy in the Christian music world in the late 1980s, not because of the content of their lyrics, but because singer Riki Michele ''danced onstage'' during their concerts. Her dancing wasn't even suggestive, and was comparable to the kind of stage movements that secular alt-rockers like [[Music/TenThousandManiacs Natalie Merchant]] and [[Music/{{REM}} Michael Stipe]] were doing at the same time, but dancing ''at all'' was still considered controversial in some particularly conservative Christian circles.
* Believe it or not, Music/EltonJohn got hit with this in 1976, when he identified himself as bisexual in an interview with ''Rolling Stone'' magazine and basically sabotaged his status as a TeenIdol at the height of his fame. [[AvertedTrope Everything turned out okay, though]].

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** The alternative band Adam Again garnered controversy in the Christian music world in the late 1980s, not because of the content of their lyrics, but because singer Riki Michele ''danced onstage'' during their concerts. Her dancing wasn't even suggestive, suggestive and was comparable to the kind of stage movements that secular alt-rockers like [[Music/TenThousandManiacs Natalie Merchant]] and [[Music/{{REM}} Michael Stipe]] were doing at the same time, but dancing ''at all'' was still considered controversial in some particularly conservative Christian circles.
* Believe it or not, Music/EltonJohn got hit with this in 1976, 1976 when he identified himself as bisexual in an interview with ''Rolling Stone'' magazine and basically sabotaged his status as a TeenIdol at the height of his fame. [[AvertedTrope Everything turned out okay, though]].



* Jo O'Meara, formerly of the squeaky-clean pop group Music/SClub7, got this in 2007 when she appeared on ''Celebrity Series/BigBrother'' and was accused of racism towards fellow contestant Shilpa Shetty. Also happened to her bandmates Bradley [=McIntosh=], Jon Lee and Paul Cattermole while they were still in the band after they were cautioned for drug possession. Notably averted by Rachel Stevens, who has successfully moved onto her own pop career with a sexier image; and Creator/HannahSpearritt, now better known for TV's ''Series/{{Primeval}}''.

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* Jo O'Meara, formerly of the squeaky-clean pop group Music/SClub7, got this in 2007 when she appeared on ''Celebrity Series/BigBrother'' and was accused of racism towards fellow contestant Shilpa Shetty. Also happened to her bandmates Bradley [=McIntosh=], Jon Lee Lee, and Paul Cattermole while they were still in the band after they were cautioned for drug possession. Notably averted by Rachel Stevens, who has successfully moved onto her own pop career with a sexier image; and Creator/HannahSpearritt, now better known for TV's ''Series/{{Primeval}}''.



** In more recent times, though, Swift has garnered quite a bit of controversy for allegedly "dating too much," though this has died down as SlutShaming became less socially acceptable, and as she's settled into a long-term relationship with Joe Alwyn. Taylor herself lampshaded that she became "a national lightning rod for slut-shaming" for the crime of... going on a lot of dates in her twenties. The reputation gets even more ridiculous when you remember that a repeated claim of many of her ex-boyfriends is that she ''doesn't'' put out. ([[Music/OneDirection Harry Styles]] [[http://www.hollyscoop.com/taylor-swift/harry-styles-dumped-taylor-swift-for-being-a-prude went as far]] as to call her "an asexual prude.") Others ([[http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a292306/taylor-swift-has-basic-formula-for-songs.html such as]] Creator/ConanOBrien) have joked that the reason for her constant cycle of breakups is so she could have an endless stream of material to write sad songs about. Some fans, known as Gaylors, even believe she's a closeted lesbian and that all of her boyfriends are [[TheBeard beards]]. Outside of that, Swift managed to dodge the cleanliness bullet by sexing up her image so slowly that no one noticed it until it was done.

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** In more recent times, though, Swift has garnered quite a bit of controversy for allegedly "dating too much," though this has died down as SlutShaming became less socially acceptable, and as she's settled into a long-term relationship with Joe Alwyn.footballer Travis Kelce. Taylor herself lampshaded that she became "a national lightning rod for slut-shaming" for the crime of... going on a lot of dates in her twenties. The reputation gets even more ridiculous when you remember that a repeated claim of many of her ex-boyfriends is that she ''doesn't'' put out. ([[Music/OneDirection Harry Styles]] [[http://www.hollyscoop.com/taylor-swift/harry-styles-dumped-taylor-swift-for-being-a-prude went as far]] as to call her "an asexual prude.") Others ([[http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a292306/taylor-swift-has-basic-formula-for-songs.html such as]] Creator/ConanOBrien) have joked that the reason for her constant cycle of breakups is so she could have an endless stream of material to write sad songs about. Some fans, known as Gaylors, "Gaylors", even believe she's a closeted lesbian and that all of her boyfriends are [[TheBeard beards]]. Outside of that, Swift managed to dodge the cleanliness bullet by sexing up her image so slowly that no one noticed it until it was done.



* Subverted with Music/JustinBieber, whose 2013-14 period of weird tabloid antics had gotten him flak from the MoralGuardians and late night comedians alike. To wit: getting caught leaving a brothel in Rio de Janeiro; being filmed sleeping by a Brazilian prostitute he hired; constantly missing, canceling, or showing up hours late for shows and meet-and-greets with his young fans; getting caught spraying graffiti (graffiti showing his support of convicted felon and girlfriend-beater Music/ChrisBrown) in Colombia; abandoning his pet monkey in Germany; desecrating the Argentinian flag onstage (an offense punishable by imprisonment in Argentina); getting into a fight with a British paparazzo; smoking marijuana; reckless driving; public urination (while inexplicably shouting "FUCK BILL CLINTON"); writing that he hoped Anne Frank would have been a fan of his after visiting the Anne Frank House, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking showing up in baggy overalls and a baseball cap to meet the Prime Minister of Canada]]. Between all this and the fact that Bieber is coming of age and a [[Music/OneDirection new teen phenomenon]] from across the pond has already toppled him from his throne, it sounds like his career should be DeaderThanDead at this point. But he eventually shook this image off and experienced a CareerResurrection.

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* Subverted with Music/JustinBieber, whose 2013-14 period of weird tabloid antics had gotten him flak from the MoralGuardians and late night late-night comedians alike. To wit: getting caught leaving a brothel in Rio de Janeiro; being filmed sleeping by a Brazilian prostitute he hired; constantly missing, canceling, or showing up hours late for shows and meet-and-greets with his young fans; getting caught spraying graffiti (graffiti showing his support of convicted felon and girlfriend-beater Music/ChrisBrown) in Colombia; abandoning his pet monkey in Germany; desecrating the Argentinian flag onstage (an offense punishable by imprisonment in Argentina); getting into a fight with a British paparazzo; smoking marijuana; reckless driving; public urination (while inexplicably shouting "FUCK BILL CLINTON"); writing that he hoped Anne Frank would have been a fan of his after visiting the Anne Frank House, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking showing up in baggy overalls and a baseball cap to meet the Prime Minister of Canada]]. Between all this and the fact that Bieber is coming of age and a [[Music/OneDirection new teen phenomenon]] from across the pond has already toppled him from his throne, it sounds like his career should be DeaderThanDead at this point. But he eventually shook this image off and experienced a CareerResurrection.



* This applies to most [[KoreanPopMusic Korean]] and [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese]] pop idol groups and {{idol singer}}s, mostly as regards to girls but can also apply to guys. The entire point of the "idol" (アイドル, ''aidoru'') phenomenon is to present an image of innocence, purity, and ''availability'', so as to play to their fans' fantasies. Ironically this means idols are meant to be naive and pure but at the same time are sexualized for these very traits. It also means a great outcry usually follows whenever an idol gets caught doing anything that breaks that ideal, from smoking to even just ''dating''. The discovery that an idol has a boyfriend can end their career. This is also why anyone who does a sexy or rebellious concept often gets much flack from both fans and the public. Some idols get to grow out of it without much criticism, others are expected to remain pure their whole careers (even when they are in their ''20s or near 30s'').

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* This applies to most [[KoreanPopMusic Korean]] and [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese]] pop idol groups and {{idol singer}}s, mostly as regards in regard to girls but can also apply to guys. The entire point of the "idol" (アイドル, ''aidoru'') phenomenon is to present an image of innocence, purity, and ''availability'', so as to play to their fans' fantasies. Ironically this means idols are meant to be naive and pure but at the same time are sexualized for these very traits. It also means a great outcry usually follows whenever an idol gets caught doing anything that breaks that ideal, from smoking to even just ''dating''. The discovery that an idol has a boyfriend can end their career. This is also why anyone who does a sexy or rebellious concept often gets much flack from both fans and the public. Some idols get to grow out of it without much criticism, others are expected to remain pure their whole careers (even when they are in their ''20s or near 30s'').



* Australian singer/actor Music/JasonDonovan suffered from this trope. He first was a clean-cut actor/singer who was loved by a lot of teenage girls across the world (mostly in the UK) and "[[TeenIdol Jasonmania]]" began to rise. He was squeaky clean throughout his career, until 1992, when he realised that he was going too far with his innocence when he actually wanted to be "cool", and he ended up getting into a drug addiction and decided to become [[DarkerAndEdgier a mature singer]] by making and releasing his fourth album with Polydor called "All Around the World". To make a long story short, fans that were used to his clean image didn't like his new image. It didn't help that he sued a magazine months later for accusing him of lying about his sexuality and being a hypocrite (he was actually right,the accusations were actually untrue), thus making a majority of his fans undeservingly turn their backs at him.Thankfully, the encounter between him and his wife and the birth of his first daughter let him have a chance to clean himself up again and lead a normal and decent life.
* Similar to her ex-boyfriend Jason Donovan, Music/KylieMinogue also used to be a clean-cut singer/actress, but then matured and gained a [[HotterAndSexier sexual image]], much to the dismay of her fans. Although, she has lead a normal and decent life throughout the 90's, unlike Donovan.
* Music/BillieEilish gained fame in TheNewTens for her modest image, known for baggy clothes and a {{Tomboy}}ish appearance. Naturally MoralGuardians held her up as a 'better' role model for young girls in comparison to pop stars with more sexual images (never mind that her songs can be quite dark and not necessarily appropriate for children). In 2021, she caused a sensation by appearing on the cover of ''Vogue'', [[OfCorsetHurts wearing a corset]] and with a GirlinessUpgrade. British tabloid ''The Daily Mail'' ran a headline about her "selling out", but were swiftly refuted as Billie outlined that she was regaining autonomy of her own body.
--> "Suddenly, you're a hypocrite if you want to show your skin, and you're easy, and you're a slut."

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* Australian singer/actor Music/JasonDonovan suffered from this trope. He first was a clean-cut actor/singer who was loved by a lot of teenage girls across the world (mostly in the UK) and "[[TeenIdol Jasonmania]]" began to rise. He was squeaky clean throughout his career, career until 1992, 1992 when he realised that he was going too far with his innocence when he actually wanted to be "cool", and he ended up getting into a drug addiction and decided to become [[DarkerAndEdgier a mature singer]] by making and releasing his fourth album with Polydor called "All Around the World". To make a long story short, fans that who were used to his clean image didn't like his new image. It didn't help that he sued a magazine months later for accusing him of lying about his sexuality and being a hypocrite (he was actually right,the right, the accusations were actually untrue), thus making a majority of his fans undeservingly turn their backs at him.on him. Thankfully, the encounter between him and his wife and the birth of his first daughter let him have a chance to clean himself up again and lead a normal and decent life.
* Similar to her ex-boyfriend Jason Donovan, Music/KylieMinogue also used to be a clean-cut singer/actress, but then matured and gained a [[HotterAndSexier sexual image]], much to the dismay of her fans. Although, she has lead led a normal and decent life throughout the 90's, '90s, unlike Donovan.
* Music/BillieEilish gained fame in TheNewTens for her modest image, known for baggy clothes and a {{Tomboy}}ish appearance. Naturally MoralGuardians held her up as a 'better' role model for young girls in comparison to pop stars with more sexual images (never mind that her songs can be quite dark and not necessarily appropriate for children). In 2021, she caused a sensation by appearing on the cover of ''Vogue'', [[OfCorsetHurts wearing a corset]] and with a GirlinessUpgrade. British tabloid ''The Daily Mail'' ran a headline about her "selling out", out" but were swiftly refuted as Billie outlined that she was regaining autonomy of her own body.
--> "Suddenly, -->"Suddenly, you're a hypocrite if you want to show your skin, and you're easy, and you're a slut."



* While laughable to think of now, Music/{{Eminem}} had a small following in Detroit for his earthy but upbeat raps about going through the hardships of life with your family, friends and Christianity to keep you going. After realising it was a creative dead end, having a CreatorBreakdown, and channelling it into a new {{Horrorcore}} image and songs about doing smack and [[BlackComedyRape raping women]], this small following mostly abandoned him, resulting in a lot of weird and silly diss tracks from Christian rappers in Detroit accusing him of being claimed by Satan. He was, however, able to attract a much, ''much'' larger following of people who had thought the old material was overly earnest and wack. As in, "biggest selling recording artist of the 21st Century" larger.
* Canadian singer Music/SkyeSweetnam first emerged in the 2000s as a TeenPop singer performing the kind of PopPunk made for the Creator/DisneyChannel and {{teen drama}}s. After hitting adulthood and outgrowing teen pop, she set out to record a more mature third album, only for her and her writing partner Matt Drake to realize that her lyrics had gotten a lot darker than they expected. As a result, she pivoted hard into a much more [[DarkerAndEdgier hard-edged]] sound and HotterAndSexier image, becoming the frontwoman of the metal band Music/SumoCyco with the stage name "Sever". She only rarely acknowledges her old solo career, and even recorded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOD_LHwVZ-4 a video]] in which Sever kidnaps Skye.

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* While laughable to think of now, Music/{{Eminem}} had a small following in Detroit for his earthy but upbeat raps about going through the hardships of life with your family, friends friends, and Christianity to keep you going. After realising it was a creative dead end, having a CreatorBreakdown, and channelling it into a new {{Horrorcore}} image and songs about doing smack and [[BlackComedyRape raping women]], this small following mostly abandoned him, resulting in a lot of weird and silly diss tracks from Christian rappers in Detroit accusing him of being claimed by Satan. He was, however, able to attract a much, ''much'' larger following of people who had thought the old material was overly earnest and wack. As in, "biggest selling recording artist of the 21st Century" larger.
* Canadian singer Music/SkyeSweetnam first emerged in the 2000s as a TeenPop singer performing the kind of PopPunk made for the Creator/DisneyChannel and {{teen drama}}s. After hitting adulthood and outgrowing teen pop, she set out to record a more mature third album, only for her and her writing partner Matt Drake to realize that her lyrics had gotten a lot darker than they expected. As a result, she pivoted hard into a much more [[DarkerAndEdgier hard-edged]] sound and HotterAndSexier image, becoming the frontwoman of the metal band Music/SumoCyco with the stage name "Sever". She only rarely acknowledges her old solo career, career and even recorded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOD_LHwVZ-4 a video]] in which Sever kidnaps Skye.



* Wrestling/{{Lita}} similarly may have had this trope in mind. She said one of the reasons she refused to pose for ''Playboy'' was because she had so many young girls as fans. Indeed many of the next generation WWE Divas cite Lita as their idol when they were younger and she reportedly would receive so many presents from fans at events that she wouldn't be able to take all them with her -- so she may have had a point. Of course, she still had no problem with going out on TV with her thong showing and removing her top during matches so it's likely she wasn't that concerned with purity per se. When she turned heel on TV and became HotterAndSexier (including a live sex celebration on ''Raw'') the majority of fans [[XPacHeat hated her guts in real life]] so it wouldn't have mattered what she did. The live sex celebration however, was something she was forced into and didn't want to do.

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* Wrestling/{{Lita}} similarly may have had this trope in mind. She said one of the reasons she refused to pose for ''Playboy'' was because she had so many young girls as fans. Indeed many of the next generation WWE Divas cite Lita as their idol when they were younger and she reportedly would receive so many presents from fans at events that she wouldn't be able to take all them with her -- so she may have had a point. Of course, she still had no problem with going out on TV with her thong showing and removing her top during matches so it's likely she wasn't that concerned with purity per se. When she turned heel on TV and became HotterAndSexier (including a live sex celebration on ''Raw'') the majority of fans [[XPacHeat hated her guts in real life]] so it wouldn't have mattered what she did. The live sex celebration celebration, however, was something she was forced into and didn't want to do.



* It was widely speculated before being flat out stated by Wrestling/TripleH himself that the main reason why Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was long kept out of the Hall of Fame, and wasn't asked to do one-off appearances, was because of her porn career, rather than her frosty relationship with the [=McMahons=] (especially with Stephanie, Hunter's wife). In fact, many HOF inductees don't have the best relationship with them (i.e. Wrestling/BrunoSammartino), but Chyna was such a train wreck that not even Vince, who is always willing to put aside a grudge for the sake of entertainment, would let her anywhere near the WWE in any capacity. [[PosthumousPopularityPotential After she passed away, WWE seemed open to letting her into the Hall of Fame]], and she would ultimately be inducted in 2019 as part of Wrestling/{{D|GenerationX}}X.

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* It was widely speculated before being flat out flat-out stated by Wrestling/TripleH himself that the main reason why Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was long kept out of the Hall of Fame, and wasn't asked to do one-off appearances, was because of her porn career, rather than her frosty relationship with the [=McMahons=] (especially with Stephanie, Hunter's wife). In fact, many HOF inductees don't have the best relationship with them (i.e. Wrestling/BrunoSammartino), but Chyna was such a train wreck that not even Vince, who is always willing to put aside a grudge for the sake of entertainment, would let her anywhere near the WWE in any capacity. [[PosthumousPopularityPotential After she passed away, WWE seemed open to letting her into the Hall of Fame]], and she would ultimately be inducted in 2019 as part of Wrestling/{{D|GenerationX}}X.



* WWE implemented a policy around 2006-2007 stating that no talent under the age of 21 was allowed to be called up to the main roster. This was primarily in response to the antics of both Wrestling/KellyKelly and Kenny Dykstra (19 and 20, respectively), both of whom were avid partiers at the time. While this was before the transition to PG, it nonetheless did no favors for the company's image or their characters on TV. Thus, the policy was to ensure that the talent on the road had the general maturity to rein it in and keep these things in mind. About a decade later, WWE amended the policy, stating that no talent under the age of 21 was allowed to be ''signed''. No official reasoning was given for the change, but it's speculated that this was in response to several older call-ups who were signed young that displayed immature behavior on the road (such as Wrestling/{{Paige}} and Wrestling/BoDallas). Any talent that was already signed that technically broke the rule was grandfathered.

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* WWE implemented a policy around 2006-2007 stating that no talent under the age of 21 was allowed to be called up to the main roster. This was primarily in response to the antics of both Wrestling/KellyKelly and Kenny Dykstra (19 and 20, respectively), both of whom were avid partiers at the time. While this was before the transition to PG, it nonetheless did no favors for the company's image or their characters on TV. Thus, the policy was to ensure that the talent on the road had the general maturity to rein it in and keep these things in mind. About a decade later, WWE amended the policy, stating that no talent under the age of 21 was allowed to be ''signed''. No official reasoning was given for the change, but it's speculated that this was in response to several older call-ups who were signed young that and displayed immature behavior on the road (such as Wrestling/{{Paige}} and Wrestling/BoDallas). Any talent that was already signed that technically broke the rule was grandfathered.



* Wrestling/HulkHogan was considered The AllAmericanFace of the WWF since the mid-1980s, telling children to train hard, eat their vitamins, say their prayers and believe in themselves. In the early 1990s, Hogan was revealed to have taken steroids for at least fifteen years, and was said to have been a [[ThePrimaDonna Prima Donna]] who buried other talents that he felt were a threat to his top spot. Then two decades later, he was caught using the N-word multiple times during a sex tape with another man's wife. Even though he got his revenge on the website that released the tape by suing them into bankruptcy, it was a PyrrhicVictory; his WWE Legends contract was terminated and Hogan himself was [[{{Unperson}} unpersoned]] in the process. Though he would eventually be re-personed three years later[[note]]At the behest of the Saudi royal family, who apparently stopped watching wrestling in 1992 and constantly ask for guys from the [[Wrestling/WWEGoldenAgeEra Hulkamania days]] for the ''Crown Jewel'' shows. They've also asked for Wrestling/UltimateWarrior and Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}}, who passed away in 2014 and '''2000''', respectively[[/note]].

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* Wrestling/HulkHogan was considered The AllAmericanFace of the WWF since the mid-1980s, telling children to train hard, eat their vitamins, say their prayers prayers, and believe in themselves. In the early 1990s, Hogan was revealed to have taken steroids for at least fifteen years, years and was said to have been a [[ThePrimaDonna Prima Donna]] who buried other talents that he felt were a threat to his top spot. Then two decades later, he was caught using the N-word multiple times during a sex tape with another man's wife. Even though he got his revenge on the website that released the tape by suing them into bankruptcy, it was a PyrrhicVictory; his WWE Legends contract was terminated and Hogan himself was [[{{Unperson}} unpersoned]] in the process. Though he would eventually be re-personed three years later[[note]]At the behest of the Saudi royal family, who apparently stopped watching wrestling in 1992 and constantly ask for guys from the [[Wrestling/WWEGoldenAgeEra Hulkamania days]] for the ''Crown Jewel'' shows. They've also asked for Wrestling/UltimateWarrior and Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}}, who passed away in 2014 and '''2000''', respectively[[/note]].



* Averted with [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]]. While she has never gone as far to pose nude, she was a well-known MsFanservice in her pre-WWE days, being a Gravure model, releasing a few [=DVDs=] and ''more than a few'' pictures, portraying a PsychoLesbian, kissing her fellow female wrestlers, allowing male wrestlers to grope her and even once added a stipulation to a match against Lin Bairon that the loser would have to [[ShamefulStrip remove her top and bare their breasts to the audience]][[note]]She won but only only got as far as pulling down Lin's bra-strap before she managed to run off[[/note]]. None of this has stopped her becoming arguably the most dominant female wrestler in WWE history.

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* Averted with [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]]. While she has never gone as far to pose nude, she was a well-known MsFanservice in her pre-WWE days, being a Gravure model, releasing a few [=DVDs=] and ''more than a few'' pictures, portraying a PsychoLesbian, kissing her fellow female wrestlers, allowing male wrestlers to grope her and even once added a stipulation to a match against Lin Bairon that the loser would have to [[ShamefulStrip remove her top and bare their breasts to the audience]][[note]]She won but only only got as far as pulling down Lin's bra-strap before she managed to run off[[/note]]. None of this has stopped her from becoming arguably the most dominant female wrestler in WWE history.



* Lest you think this is purely an [[{{Eagleland}} American]] trope, try following any TeenIdol in Japan (even those [[NotAllowedToGrowUp grown into their twenties]]!) and you'll see this in spades. If a girl kisses, goes on a date, or heaven forbid, admits to having sex, she is torn apart by rabid fans who are apparently so lonely and hopeless, they can only imagine younger girls as a [[{{Moe}} pristine virginal fantasy]] and the companies also enforce rules forbidding romantic relationships whatsoever. Anything that shatters that illusion brings on their vicious ire. Yeah, you think America's MoralGuardians are bad, they're still [[YearsTooEarly way behind]] hardcore Japanese {{Otaku}}.
** An even more extreme example is that when voice actresses were once gravure or porn actresses. The best they could receive is to have no or little future roles. On worst, it would be ''outright ban'' from the voice acting industry, like former voice actress Eriko Ishihara (who played Atsuko in ''Anime/DiamondDaydreams''); she was banned from the voice acting industry in 2004 when news broke that she also was an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV_idol AV idol]] while doing voice acting.
** Creator/EmiNitta was attacked on the Internet, many netizens accused her of starring in [=AV=] which caused many 'fans' to burn merchandise of her and her character [[Franchise/LoveLive Honoka]]. While the allegations were proven to be un-true, it was said that this scandal took a hit on her career.

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* Lest you think this is purely an [[{{Eagleland}} American]] trope, try following any TeenIdol in Japan (even those [[NotAllowedToGrowUp grown into their twenties]]!) and you'll see this in spades. If a girl kisses, goes on a date, or heaven forbid, admits to having sex, she is torn apart by rabid fans who are apparently so lonely and hopeless, hopeless that they can only imagine younger girls as a [[{{Moe}} pristine virginal fantasy]] and the companies also enforce rules forbidding romantic relationships whatsoever. Anything that shatters that illusion brings on their vicious ire. Yeah, you think America's MoralGuardians are bad, they're still [[YearsTooEarly way behind]] hardcore Japanese {{Otaku}}.
** An even more extreme example is that when voice actresses were once gravure or porn actresses. The best they could receive is to have no or little future roles. On At worst, it would be an ''outright ban'' from the voice acting industry, like former voice actress Eriko Ishihara (who played Atsuko in ''Anime/DiamondDaydreams''); she was banned from the voice acting industry in 2004 when news broke that she also was an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV_idol AV idol]] while doing voice acting.
** Creator/EmiNitta was attacked on the Internet, many netizens accused her of starring in [=AV=] which caused many 'fans' to burn merchandise of her and her character [[Franchise/LoveLive Honoka]]. While the allegations were proven to be un-true, untrue, it was said that this scandal took a hit on her career.



** Although LesYay and HoYay is an exception to the rule. A seiyuu or idol can almost admit they are homosexual or bisexual and [[DoubleStandard no one bats an eye at them]]. Creator/HitomiNabatame and Creator/ShizukaIto may be this, though both eventually gotten married outside the industry.

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** Although LesYay and HoYay is an exception to the rule. A seiyuu or idol can almost admit they are homosexual or bisexual and [[DoubleStandard no one bats an eye at them]]. Creator/HitomiNabatame and Creator/ShizukaIto may be this, though both eventually gotten got married outside the industry.



** Right at the very start in the late 1950's, the standards were even stricter: Blue Peter's first presenter Christopher Trace was fired simply because he was getting divorced. This was not seen as desirable ''at all'' for a member of a presenting team who were intended to be surrogate parents to the nation's children. This set the tone for Standards: Blue Peter presenters were held to notoriously high expectations for conduct and behaviour ever after.
* This even happens with ''buildings''. Several years ago one blogger posted pictures he'd taken of the house from ''Film/AChristmasStory'' and complained about how the owners had made several exterior renovations to the house. The house was auctioned off on eBay in 2004, and the new owners restored the house to the way it looked in the movie and [[http://www.AChristmasStoryhouse.com/ turned it into a museum]]. In the last few years, the company formed to look after the house [[https://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/stay/even allows guests to stay the night]], and the interior has been meticulously designed to be a perfect match to its appearance in the film.
* This is subject to ValuesDissonance. Take Argentina, where they have former nude models or actresses hosting children shows, like [[http://www.yosoypanam.net/ Laura Franco (AKA Panam)]], and they don't mind. It helps attract more viewers, like the fathers that watch the show with their children for the ParentService.

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** Right at the very start in the late 1950's, 1950s, the standards were even stricter: Blue Peter's first presenter Christopher Trace was fired simply because he was getting divorced. This was not seen as desirable ''at all'' for a member of a presenting team who were intended to be surrogate parents to the nation's children. This set the tone for Standards: Blue Peter presenters were held to notoriously high expectations for conduct and behaviour ever after.
* This even happens with ''buildings''. Several years ago ago, one blogger posted pictures he'd taken of the house from ''Film/AChristmasStory'' and complained about how the owners had made several exterior renovations to the house. The house was auctioned off on eBay in 2004, and the new owners restored the house to the way it looked in the movie and [[http://www.AChristmasStoryhouse.com/ turned it into a museum]]. In the last few years, the company formed to look after the house [[https://www.achristmasstoryhouse.com/stay/even allows guests to stay the night]], and the interior has been meticulously designed to be a perfect match to its appearance in the film.
* This is subject to ValuesDissonance. Take Argentina, where they have former nude models or actresses hosting children children's shows, like [[http://www.yosoypanam.net/ Laura Franco (AKA Panam)]], and they don't mind. It helps attract more viewers, like the fathers that watch the show with their children for the ParentService.



* Lauren Conrad of ''Series/LagunaBeach'' and ''Series/TheHills''. Throughout the "Orange County" franchise, Lauren is characterized as a squeaky-clean aspiring designer who's caught in an innocent and chaste LoveTriangle between Jason Wahler (the "bad boy" on the show) and Stephen Colletti (who is the "saint" of the series). In actuality, though, Lauren caught a serious amount of flack from viewers and the media during the third season of ''The Hills'' when it was alleged that she made a sex tape with Jason. This happened despite the fact that she was a mid-20's woman at that point, who had grown out of her teenage years. The negative press that spiraled out of this revelation (and the interest by the paparazzi) may have been part of the reason why she eventually left the show.
* Creator/JimHenson received flak at one point for... dating. Just dating. He was as baffled as you probably are right now, and it got dropped fast.

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* Lauren Conrad of ''Series/LagunaBeach'' and ''Series/TheHills''. Throughout the "Orange County" franchise, Lauren is characterized as a squeaky-clean aspiring designer who's caught in an innocent and chaste LoveTriangle between Jason Wahler (the "bad boy" on the show) and Stephen Colletti (who is the "saint" of the series). In actuality, though, Lauren caught a serious amount of flack from viewers and the media during the third season of ''The Hills'' when it was alleged that she made a sex tape with Jason. This happened despite the fact that she was a mid-20's woman in her mid-20s at that point, who point and had grown out of her teenage years. The negative press that spiraled out of this revelation (and the interest by of the paparazzi) may have been part of the reason why she eventually left the show.
* Creator/JimHenson received flak at one point for... dating. Just dating. He was as baffled as you probably are right now, and it got dropped fast.



* Often a problem seen on the resumes of female {{seiyuu}}, expect to see a lot of fake names for female seiyuu in HGame works and some like Creator/YuuAsakawa erased her records of working in hentai when she married. Male seiyuus, however, are unabashedly allowed to admit they do Hentai, let it be regular hentai or BoysLove. But God forbid a popular male seiyuu gets married and have children, as poor Creator/MamoruMiyano found out.

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* Often a problem seen on the resumes of female {{seiyuu}}, expect to see a lot of fake names for female seiyuu in HGame works and some like Creator/YuuAsakawa erased her records of working in hentai when she married. Male seiyuus, however, are unabashedly allowed to admit they do Hentai, let it be regular hentai or BoysLove. But God forbid a popular male seiyuu gets get married and have children, as poor Creator/MamoruMiyano found out.



* In 1983, Vanessa L. Williams was crowned as Miss America. 10 months after winning the crown, several nude photos of her (which had been taken before she became Miss America) were sold to ''Penthouse'' magazine, who then published them. The resulting scandal was huge and Williams herself became the target of death threats and hate mail. Eventually, she was convinced to resign as Miss America and title instead went to the runner-up. This was finally averted in 2015 when the Miss America organization apologized to Williams for caving in to outside pressure and making her resign her title. The scandal did not stop Williams from following a successful career as a singer and actress and she is one of the few Miss Americas to remain in the public eye after her victory.
* Zig-zagged on ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''. While it doesn't matter if a contestant acted in porn ''before'' appearing on the show, contestants are forbidden from doing so afterwards for as long as they're under the ''Drag Race'' contract (usually a period of five years since their last appearance on the show). Canada Season 1 contestant Ilona Varley spoke candidely about becoming homeless during the Covid pandemic when she couldn't perform onstage yet wasn't allowed to run an [=OnlyFans=] page for income.

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* In 1983, Vanessa L. Williams was crowned as Miss America. 10 months after winning the crown, several nude photos of her (which had been taken before she became Miss America) were sold to ''Penthouse'' magazine, who which then published them. The resulting scandal was huge and Williams herself became the target of death threats and hate mail. Eventually, she was convinced to resign as Miss America and title instead went to the runner-up. This was finally averted in 2015 when the Miss America organization apologized to Williams for caving in to outside pressure and making her resign her title. The scandal did not stop Williams from following a successful career as a singer and actress and she is one of the few Miss Americas to remain in the public eye after her victory.
* Zig-zagged on ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''. While it doesn't matter if a contestant acted in porn ''before'' appearing on the show, contestants are forbidden from doing so afterwards for as long as they're under the ''Drag Race'' contract (usually a period of five years since their last appearance on the show). Canada Season 1 contestant Ilona Varley spoke candidely candidly about becoming homeless during the Covid COVID pandemic when she couldn't perform onstage yet wasn't allowed to run an [=OnlyFans=] page for income.



* A really disgusting example occurred in Scotland in 2009, when the ''Sunday Express'' newspaper printed a [[https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Express_Dunblane_controversy front-page attack piece]] on some survivors of the Dunblane school massacre, which had happened thirteen years before, for allegedly insulting the memory of their dead schoolmates by talking about [[FelonyMisdemeanor drinking, fighting and sex]] on social networking sites. It was suspected that the story was inspired purely by the fact that they had reached 18 and were no longer protected by Press Complaints Commission rules about intrusion into their private lives.

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* A really disgusting example occurred in Scotland in 2009, when the ''Sunday Express'' newspaper printed a [[https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Express_Dunblane_controversy front-page attack piece]] on some survivors of the Dunblane school massacre, which had happened thirteen years before, for allegedly insulting the memory of their dead schoolmates by talking about [[FelonyMisdemeanor drinking, fighting fighting, and sex]] on social networking sites. It was suspected that the story was inspired purely by the fact that they had reached 18 and were no longer protected by Press Complaints Commission rules about intrusion into their private lives.



* For many jobs in general, you're always told that you're the face of the company that you work for, even when you're not at work. Getting into trouble with the law, doing unsavory acts, developing a substance abuse problem or even going behind the company's back to bad mouth them on social media is a quick way of getting fired.

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* For many jobs in general, you're always told that you're the face of the company that you work for, even when you're not at work. Getting into trouble with the law, doing unsavory acts, developing a substance abuse problem problem, or even going behind the company's back to bad mouth them on social media is a quick way of getting fired.



** Second, in the late '00s his Website/{{Twitter}} account was filled with the sort of offensive BlackComedy one might expect from him given his background (jokes about AIDS and pedophilia, for example). He cleaned up his act and apologized for his older tweets once he was hired by Creator/{{Disney}} to work on the ''Guardians'' films, but in 2018, these tweets were dug up once more in a campaign to get him fired. Disney obliged, removing him from any future Disney projects such as ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3''. The backlash against Disney was swift, largely because many people saw the campaign to get Gunn fired as a hit job driven by people with questionable political motives.[[labelnote:Specifically...]]It was driven mainly by far-right activists led by the infamous troll Mike Cernovich, motivated largely by Gunn's criticism of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and a belief that Disney was being hypocritical in firing Creator/RoseanneBarr from [[Series/{{Roseanne}} her eponymous show]] for similar tweets, as well as an attempt to promote conspiracy theories tying Democrats and liberal activists more broadly to pedophilia. The difference between Gunn and Barr was that Barr's tweets were made as her show was on the air rather than years ago, they were part of a long, recent trend of controversial statements that didn't seem like just edgy trolling, and her apology came off to many as insincere. What's more, Cernovich himself had not only also tweeted similar rape jokes, he had actually been charged with sexual assault in the past, making him look like a hypocrite himself, while no one came forward to accuse Gunn of the same things after the tweets resurfaced even at the height of the #[=MeToo=] movement when many victims of celebrity predators were coming forward with their stories.[[/labelnote]] It wasn't until several months later when Disney and Gunn began patching things up. In the end, the campaign backfired. Not only did Disney rehire Gunn (a decision that was actually made months before they officially announced it), but in the meantime, Gunn was also hired to write and direct the 2021 film ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', largely on the strength of his fanbase pushing for other studios to hire him. Everything seems to have worked out for him in the long run thanks to his handling of the controversy in a mature and professional fashion (swiftly apologizing and accepting full responsibility for the consequences of his [[OldShame past tweets]], and not criticizing either his former employers or the trolls who attacked him), his critics' only accomplishment being to make him look like the victim of a malicious slander campaign and actually ''[[{{Irony}} double]]'' [[{{Irony}} the number of big-budget superhero movies he was working on]].
* Girls in UsefulNotes/{{Tanzania}} are subjected to routine pregnancy testing in school. If any of the girls are found to be pregnant, they are ''automatically'' expelled, on the grounds that a [[TeenPregnancy pregnant teenager]] is a "bad example" for the other students. This has drawn ire both in Tanzania and abroad, because kicking a student out of school jeopardizes their future by keeping them in poverty, and because it can be seen as a violation of privacy, or a policing of girls' sex lives [[DoubleStandard (boys who father children out of wedlock are not kicked out of school for it)]]. Nor does it make any exception for girls who become pregnant as a result of [[ChildByRape rape or incest]], or [[OldManMarryingAChild early and forced marriage]]; they are all kicked out of school and blamed for becoming pregnant.

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** Second, in the late '00s his Website/{{Twitter}} account was filled with the sort of offensive BlackComedy one might expect from him given his background (jokes about AIDS and pedophilia, for example). He cleaned up his act and apologized for his older tweets once he was hired by Creator/{{Disney}} to work on the ''Guardians'' films, but in 2018, these tweets were dug up once more in a campaign to get him fired. Disney obliged, removing him from any future Disney projects such as ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3''. The backlash against Disney was swift, largely because many people saw the campaign to get Gunn fired as a hit job driven by people with questionable political motives.[[labelnote:Specifically...]]It was driven mainly by far-right activists led by the infamous troll Mike Cernovich, motivated largely by Gunn's criticism of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and a belief that Disney was being hypocritical in firing Creator/RoseanneBarr from [[Series/{{Roseanne}} her eponymous show]] for similar tweets, as well as an attempt to promote conspiracy theories tying Democrats and liberal activists more broadly to pedophilia. The difference between Gunn and Barr was that Barr's tweets were made as her show was on the air rather than years ago, they were part of a long, recent trend of controversial statements that didn't seem like just edgy trolling, and her apology came off to many as insincere. What's more, Cernovich himself had not only also tweeted similar rape jokes, he had actually been charged with sexual assault in the past, making him look like a hypocrite himself, while no one came forward to accuse Gunn of the same things after the tweets resurfaced even at the height of the #[=MeToo=] movement when many victims of celebrity predators were coming forward with their stories.[[/labelnote]] It wasn't until several months later when that Disney and Gunn began patching things up. In the end, the campaign backfired. Not only did Disney rehire Gunn (a decision that was actually made months before they officially announced it), but in the meantime, Gunn was also hired to write and direct the 2021 film ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', largely on the strength of his fanbase pushing for other studios to hire him. Everything seems to have worked out for him in the long run thanks to his handling of the controversy in a mature and professional fashion (swiftly apologizing and accepting full responsibility for the consequences of his [[OldShame past tweets]], and not criticizing either his former employers or the trolls who attacked him), his critics' only accomplishment being to make him look like the victim of a malicious slander campaign and actually ''[[{{Irony}} double]]'' [[{{Irony}} the number of big-budget superhero movies he was working on]].
* Girls in UsefulNotes/{{Tanzania}} are subjected to routine pregnancy testing in school. If any of the girls are found to be pregnant, they are ''automatically'' expelled, on the grounds that a [[TeenPregnancy pregnant teenager]] is a "bad example" for the other students. This has drawn ire both in Tanzania and abroad, abroad because kicking a student out of school jeopardizes their future by keeping them in poverty, and because it can be seen as a violation of privacy, privacy or a policing of girls' sex lives [[DoubleStandard (boys who father children out of wedlock are not kicked out of school for it)]]. Nor does it make any exception for girls who become pregnant as a result of [[ChildByRape rape or incest]], or [[OldManMarryingAChild early and forced marriage]]; they are all kicked out of school and blamed for becoming pregnant.



%% * A bigger example came from Mano Aloe, who accidentally doxxed herself during a test stream and was likewise suspended. Unfortunately this lead to trolls and anti-fans harassing not just her, but her family and a man who was believed to be her real-life boyfriend, with some indication that the harassment happened because she had exhibited "un-idol-like" behavior (such as making sexual jokes) on one of her pre-hololive video accounts. After the suspension period ended, it was announced that Aloe would be leaving the group because of the harassment, though the one faint silver lining was that Cover Corp (the heads of hololive) announced that they would be more aggressive in protecting their employees from harassment from then on.

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%% * A bigger example came from Mano Aloe, who accidentally doxxed herself during a test stream and was likewise suspended. Unfortunately this lead led to trolls and anti-fans harassing not just her, her but her family and a man who was believed to be her real-life boyfriend, with some indication that the harassment happened because she had exhibited "un-idol-like" behavior (such as making sexual jokes) on one of her pre-hololive video accounts. After the suspension period ended, it was announced that Aloe would be leaving the group because of the harassment, though the one faint silver lining was that Cover Corp (the heads of hololive) announced that they would be more aggressive in protecting their employees from harassment from then on.



* Stevin John, who plays Blippi, made a rather infamous and not safe for work video parodying the Harlem Shake prior to his fame as the character. The video became such an OldShame for Stevin that he sends cease and desist letters to those who repost it online, worrying that it will taint the wholesome image he has as Blippi.

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* Stevin John, who plays Blippi, made a rather infamous and not safe for work not-safe-for-work video parodying the Harlem Shake prior to his fame as the character. The video became such an OldShame for Stevin that he sends cease and desist letters to those who repost it online, worrying that it will taint the wholesome image he has as Blippi.



* The plot of ''Manga/OshiNoKo'' is kicked off when Ai Hoshino, a popular teenage idol, gets pregnant with twins and has to give birth and raise her children in secret, because if the truth gets out her career would be done and the production studio itself would also collapse. They take every measure they can for secrecy's sake, but one mistake costs them dearly, [[spoiler:as a fan of hers discovers the truth and murders not only Ai's doctor but Ai herself as well.]]

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* The plot of ''Manga/OshiNoKo'' is kicked off when Ai Hoshino, a popular teenage idol, gets pregnant with twins and has to give birth and raise her children in secret, secret because if the truth gets out out, her career would be done and the production studio itself would also collapse. They take every measure they can for secrecy's sake, but one mistake costs them dearly, [[spoiler:as a fan of hers discovers the truth and murders not only Ai's doctor but Ai herself as well.]]



* In ''Film/ErnestSavesChristmas'', a famous children's show host wanted to break out of the kid scene and have a more serious role, but backed out of it when his role required him to swear. It's played with in that the character (who's a send-up to Mr. Rogers) clearly doesn't ''want'' to make the switch and still prefers working with children but his career as an actor had taken a big hit and he felt this was the only way to start getting roles again.

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* In ''Film/ErnestSavesChristmas'', a famous children's show host wanted to break out of the kid scene and have a more serious role, role but backed out of it when his role required him to swear. It's played with in that the character (who's a send-up to Mr. Rogers) clearly doesn't ''want'' to make the switch and still prefers working with children but his career as an actor had taken a big hit and he felt this was the only way to start getting roles again.



* This is Carla Naples' problem in the 1958 Creator/JerryLewis film ''Film/RockAByeBaby''. She's maintained a clean, wholesome image (the word "virgin" is used a lot), never having affairs, drinking, smoking or attending wild parties. On an impulse, she secretly marries her friend, a Mexican bullfighter, but he is killed the next day, leaving her pregnant -- and she's so upset she tears up her marriage license. She and her manager employ a number of screwball-comedy schemes to avoid a career-ending scandal, and thereby hangs the tale.

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* This is Carla Naples' problem in the 1958 Creator/JerryLewis film ''Film/RockAByeBaby''. She's maintained a clean, wholesome image (the word "virgin" is used a lot), never having affairs, drinking, smoking smoking, or attending wild parties. On an impulse, she secretly marries her friend, a Mexican bullfighter, but he is killed the next day, leaving her pregnant -- and she's so upset she tears up her marriage license. She and her manager employ a number of screwball-comedy schemes to avoid a career-ending scandal, scandal and thereby hangs the tale.



** There is another story arc where Vince becomes romantically involved with actress/singer Mandy Moore when the two of them are cast in the ''Aquaman'' film together. When Mandy's handlers find out about the relationship, they attempt to force an end to it because they fear that Mandy's squeaky-clean, good girl image will be damaged if the public learns that she's involved with Vincent Chase, who has a reputation as a womanizing party animal.

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** There is another story arc where Vince becomes romantically involved with actress/singer Mandy Moore when the two of them are cast in the ''Aquaman'' film together. When Mandy's handlers find out about the relationship, they attempt to force an end to it because they fear that Mandy's squeaky-clean, good girl good-girl image will be damaged if the public learns that she's involved with Vincent Chase, who has a reputation as a womanizing party animal.



* An interesting example happened in the 12th season of the Spanish series ''Series/CuentameComoPaso''. Back in the first season, six-year-old Ricardo Gomez was cast as 8-year-old Carlitos, and since the series has been on air for over 10 years, the now 16-year-old actor is playing an 18-year-old character who had to become sexually active as it was necessary for the series to reflect the Spanish "destape" age. A few people in Spain thought it scandalous when Carlitos and his girlfriend had sex. The scene was filmed overhead, so the nudity was minimal, but some people admitted to being uncomfortable watching the children they had seen grow up on TV having sex. However, the controversy in Spain was still relatively small compared to what one can imagine would have been the MoralGuardians outrage if something like this had happened in the US.

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* An interesting example happened in the 12th season of the Spanish series ''Series/CuentameComoPaso''. Back in the first season, six-year-old Ricardo Gomez was cast as 8-year-old Carlitos, and since the series has been on air for over 10 years, the now 16-year-old now-16-year-old actor is playing an 18-year-old character who had to become sexually active as it was necessary for the series to reflect the Spanish "destape" age. A few people in Spain thought it scandalous when Carlitos and his girlfriend had sex. The scene was filmed overhead, so the nudity was minimal, but some people admitted to being uncomfortable watching the children they had seen grow up on TV having sex. However, the controversy in Spain was still relatively small compared to what one can imagine would have been the MoralGuardians outrage if something like this had happened in the US.



* In an episode of ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', Drew wins a functional [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batmobile]] in a contest, and is forced to give it back once he has sex in it, violating the morals clause.

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* In an episode of ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', Drew wins a functional [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batmobile]] in a contest, contest and is forced to give it back once he has sex in it, violating the morals clause.



* Paz in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' is something of a parody of this treatment towards Japanese pop idols. She has blond hair, is ThePollyanna and is voiced (in the Japanese version) by a Japanese pop star, who even contributes an ImageSong for her for the soundtrack. [[spoiler: But Paz herself is a BitchInSheepsClothing, who is a lot older than she says she is and hates her false identity more than anything else on Earth.]]

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* Paz in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' is something of a parody of this treatment towards Japanese pop idols. She has blond hair, is ThePollyanna ThePollyanna, and is voiced (in the Japanese version) by a Japanese pop star, who even contributes an ImageSong for her for the soundtrack. [[spoiler: But Paz herself is a BitchInSheepsClothing, who is a lot older than she says she is and hates her false identity more than anything else on Earth.]]



* In ''VisualNovel/ShiningSongStarnova'', Mr. Producer discusses this trope during one of his internal monologues. He notes that talent agencies have morality clauses which allow them to terminate an idol's employment if she's caught dating someone, a fact which forces idols to keep their relationships (and other vices) secret for fear of being fired. Mr. Producer himself nearly fires Julie after discovering that she engages in CompensatedDating, only for her to talk him out of it.

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* In ''VisualNovel/ShiningSongStarnova'', Mr. Producer discusses this trope during one of his internal monologues. He notes that talent agencies have morality clauses which that allow them to terminate an idol's employment if she's caught dating someone, a fact which forces idols to keep their relationships (and other vices) secret for fear of being fired. Mr. Producer himself nearly fires Julie after discovering that she engages in CompensatedDating, only for her to talk him out of it.



* ''{{VideoGame/Yakuza 5}}'': This trope ripples through the entire plot. Mirei's idol career was strangled in the cradle by the fact that she was married and pregnant, and the fact that she had a divorce [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion and an abortion]] she didn't quite managed to keep secret in an attempt to salvage her career only made things worse. Meanwhile, Haruka, whose foster-father is an ex-con and retired yakuza, has to keep everything about her family secret, or the scandal would destroy her career. Of course, that very few producers are above suggesting the CastingCouch, and that literally everyone Haruka works with has even stronger ties to the yakuza [[{{Hypocrite}} is overlooked]].
* ''VideoGame/IdolManager'': The game puts the player in charge of an IdolSinger agency and lets them choose how to run it. Shuch choices include the agency's official stance about the idols dating and what to actually do if one of the idols starts dating.

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* ''{{VideoGame/Yakuza 5}}'': This trope ripples through the entire plot. Mirei's idol career was strangled in the cradle by the fact that she was married and pregnant, and the fact that she had a divorce [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion and an abortion]] she didn't quite managed manage to keep secret in an attempt to salvage her career only made things worse. Meanwhile, Haruka, whose foster-father foster father is an ex-con and retired yakuza, has to keep everything about her family secret, or the scandal would destroy her career. Of course, that very few producers are above suggesting the CastingCouch, and that literally everyone Haruka works with has even stronger ties to the yakuza [[{{Hypocrite}} is overlooked]].
* ''VideoGame/IdolManager'': The game puts the player in charge of an IdolSinger agency and lets them choose how to run it. Shuch Such choices include the agency's official stance about the idols dating and what to actually do if one of the idols starts dating.



* In ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'', Erika reveals that she once had a pregnancy scare that could have ruined her IdolSinger career, and her boyfriend broke up with her so that it couldn't happen again and she would be safe. This only made her hate her job for destroying her relationship, disappear from the public eye and become the snarky BrokenBird we know and love. ''Then'' she discovered that boyfriend was a big fat liar.

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* In ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'', Erika reveals that she once had a pregnancy scare {{pregnancy scare}} that could have ruined her IdolSinger career, and her boyfriend broke up with her so that it couldn't happen again and she would be safe. This only made her hate her job for destroying her relationship, disappear from the public eye eye, and become the snarky BrokenBird we know and love. ''Then'' she discovered that her boyfriend was a big fat liar.



* The major characters of ''Webcomic/LoveMeNice'' all need to maintain squeaky clean public personas to protect the image of the popular children's' show they work for, to the point where one of them getting a boob job is cause for a minor crisis because it might make her look too mature and sexual for the part she plays on the show.
* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': The [[MagicalGirlWarrior magical girls]] that protect the city are treated like celebrities or idols by the non-magic population, leading to some pressure along these lines. As a result, the official bodies governing them keep it secret that [[spoiler:pregnant magical girls lose their magic upon giving birth to daughters, who in turn inherit unsually strong magical potential]]. Heartful Punch, [[spoiler:a child from such circumstances]], believes it's covered up because [[spoiler:a pregnant teenager]] would not only tarnish the reputation of the warriors, but ''humanize'' them and show they have lives outside of fighting (and dying) for others.

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* The major characters of ''Webcomic/LoveMeNice'' all need to maintain squeaky clean public personas to protect the image of the popular children's' children's show they work for, to the point where one of them getting a boob job is cause for a minor crisis because it might make her look too mature and sexual for the part she plays on the show.
* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': The [[MagicalGirlWarrior magical girls]] that protect the city are treated like celebrities or idols by the non-magic population, leading to some pressure along these lines. As a result, the official bodies governing them keep it secret that [[spoiler:pregnant magical girls lose their magic upon giving birth to daughters, who in turn inherit unsually strong magical potential]]. Heartful Punch, [[spoiler:a child from such circumstances]], believes it's covered up because [[spoiler:a pregnant teenager]] would not only tarnish the reputation of the warriors, warriors but ''humanize'' them and show they have lives outside of fighting (and dying) for others.
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* Stevin John, who plays Blippi, made a rather infamous and not safe for work video parodying the Harlem Shake prior to his fame as the character. The video became such an OldShame for Stevin that he sends cease and desist letters to those who repost it online, worrying that it will taint the wholesome image he has as Blippi.
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* Creator/{{Zendaya}} managed to avoid this. She started her career with the Creator/DisneyChannel, first on ''Series/ShakeItUp'' (co-starring the aforementioned Creator/BellaThorne) and then on ''Series/KCUndercover'', and her breakout in film was in another family-friendly role, MJ in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''. Then she was cast as the lead on ''Series/{{Euphoria}}'', a dark Creator/{{HBO}} teen drama that was immediately controversial for its ''very'' R-rated content. Whatever shock might have come from seeing Rocky Blue or K.C. Cooper as a teenage drug addict was quickly wiped away when her performance won her two MediaNotes/{{Emmy|Award}}s for [[MediaNotes/PrimetimeEmmyAwardForOutstandingLeadActressInADramaSeries Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series]] (making her the youngest person to ever win the award) and established her as one of the most talented actors of her generation. It helps that, while her ''roles'' may be edgy, her public persona is clean-cut. She even [[https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/03/zendaya-giuliana-rancic-dreadlocks-comment-oscars-2015-w-magazine pushed back]] in 2015 when Giuliana Rancic critiqued the dreadlocks she wore to the MediaNotes/{{Academy Award}}s (a hairstyle that's widely [[DreadlockRasta stereotyped]] outside the Black community but has deep roots within it) and claimed that she "smells like patchouli oil or weed," stating in hindsight that the incident made her realize her potential power as a role model for young girls and people of color.
* Creator/RossLynch mostly avoided this as during his time starring in the Disney series Series/AustinAndAlly and movie franchise Film/TeenBeachMovie. He talked about the music he released while with Disney being very policed but he was still able to do things like lightly swear and make reference to being hungover in his songs. In fact he released an entire song about being so hungover you can't even remember what happened the night before. The song even had two separate Music Videos one depicting him and the band hungover after partying and the other made specifically to air on the Creator/DisneyChannel which just showed the band playing a concert as Disney didn't think it would be appropriate suggest that the star of one of their shows had been drinking. immediately following the series finale of Austin & Ally he posted a full body nude photo of himself in the shower from behind and went on to star in the 2017 film Film/MyFriendDahmer as the titular serial killer and the Netflix series Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina. He's also generally become a sex symbol after leaving the Disney company.

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* Creator/{{Zendaya}} managed to avoid this. She started her career with the Creator/DisneyChannel, first on ''Series/ShakeItUp'' (co-starring the aforementioned Creator/BellaThorne) and then on ''Series/KCUndercover'', and her breakout in film was in another family-friendly role, MJ in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''. Then she was cast as the lead on ''Series/{{Euphoria}}'', a dark Creator/{{HBO}} teen drama that was immediately controversial for its ''very'' R-rated content. Whatever shock might have come from seeing Rocky Blue or K.C. Cooper as a teenage drug addict was quickly wiped away when her performance won her two MediaNotes/{{Emmy|Award}}s for [[MediaNotes/PrimetimeEmmyAwardForOutstandingLeadActressInADramaSeries Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series]] (making her the youngest person to ever win the award) and established her as one of the most talented actors of her generation. It helps that, while her ''roles'' may be edgy, edgy and her red-carpet looks often trend towards the risque, her public persona is clean-cut. She even [[https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/03/zendaya-giuliana-rancic-dreadlocks-comment-oscars-2015-w-magazine pushed back]] in 2015 when Giuliana Rancic critiqued the dreadlocks she wore to the MediaNotes/{{Academy Award}}s (a hairstyle that's widely [[DreadlockRasta stereotyped]] outside the Black community but has deep roots within it) and claimed that she "smells like patchouli oil or weed," stating in hindsight that the incident made her realize her potential power as a role model for young girls and people of color.
* Creator/RossLynch mostly avoided this as during his time starring in the Disney series Series/AustinAndAlly ''Series/AustinAndAlly'' and movie franchise Film/TeenBeachMovie. ''Film/TeenBeachMovie''. He talked about the music he released while with Disney being very policed but policed, though he was still able to do things like lightly swear and make reference to being hungover in his songs. In fact he He even released an entire song about being so hungover you he can't even remember what happened the night before. The song even had before, with two separate Music Videos music videos, one depicting him and the band hungover after partying and the other made specifically to air on the Creator/DisneyChannel which just showed the band playing a concert as Disney didn't think it would be appropriate to suggest that the star of one of their shows had been drinking. immediately Immediately following the series finale of Austin ''Austin & Ally Ally'', he posted a full body nude photo of himself in the shower from behind behind, and went on to star in the 2017 film Film/MyFriendDahmer ''Film/MyFriendDahmer'' as the titular serial killer and the Netflix series Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina.''Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina''. He's also generally become a sex symbol after leaving the Disney company.
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* Creator/RossLynch mostly avoided this as during his time starring in the Disney series Series/AustinAndAlly and movie franchise Film/TeenBeachMovie. He talked about the music he released while with Disney being very policed but he was still able to do things like lightly swear and make reference to being hungover in his songs. In fact he released an entire song about being so hungover you can't even remember what happened the night before. The song even had two separate Music Videos one depicting him and the band hungover after partying and the other made specifically to air on the Creator/DisneyChannel which just showed the band playing a concert as Disney didn't think it would be appropriate suggest that the star of one of their shows had been drinking. immediately following the series finale of Austin & Ally he posted a full body nude photo of himself in the shower from behind and went on to star in the 2017 film Film/MyFriendDahmer as the titular serial killer and the Netflix series Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina. He's also generally become a sex symbol after leaving the Disney company.
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* Creator/JuliaRoberts ended up as America's wholesome good girl in the 90s (ironically after her StarMakingRole was a prostitute in ''Film/PrettyWoman''). In the film ''{{Film/Flatliners}}'' her character was originally supposed to have had an affair with a college professor and blackmailed him. But people were worried that it would harm Julia's wholesome image, so that plot point was dropped. She did attempt to do a less squeaky-clean role in ''Film/MaryReilly'' - which has repressed Victorian sexuality as a major theme (though is still quite tame when it comes to nudity) - but it wasn't a great success. She did manage to play against type to critical acclaim in ''{{Film/Closer}}'' and as she became too old to be TheIngenue, this is less of a problem nowadays (she also played a VainSorceress in ''Film/MirrorMirror'').

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* Creator/JuliaRoberts ended up as America's wholesome good girl in the 90s (ironically after her StarMakingRole was a prostitute in ''Film/PrettyWoman''). In the film ''{{Film/Flatliners}}'' her character was originally supposed to have had an affair with a college professor and blackmailed him. But people were worried that it would harm Julia's wholesome image, so that plot point was dropped. She did attempt to do a less squeaky-clean role in ''Film/MaryReilly'' - which has repressed Victorian sexuality as a major theme (though is still quite tame when it comes to nudity) - -- but it wasn't a great success. She did manage to play against type to critical acclaim in ''{{Film/Closer}}'' and as she became too old to be TheIngenue, this is less of a problem nowadays (she also played a VainSorceress in ''Film/MirrorMirror'').''Film/MirrorMirror2012'').
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** Second, in the late '00s his Website/{{Twitter}} account was filled with the sort of offensive BlackComedy one might expect from him given his background (jokes about AIDS and pedophilia, for example). He cleaned up his act and apologized for his older tweets once he was hired by Creator/{{Disney}} to work on the ''Guardians'' films, but in 2018, these tweets were dug up once more in a campaign to get him fired. Disney obliged, removing him from any future Disney projects such as ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3''. The backlash against Disney was swift, largely because many people saw the campaign to get Gunn fired as a hit job driven by people with questionable political motives.[[labelnote:Specifically...]]It was driven mainly by far-right activists led by the infamous troll Mike Cernovich, motivated largely by Gunn's criticism of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and a belief that Disney was being hypocritical in firing Creator/RoseanneBarr from [[Series/{{Roseanne}} her eponymous show]] for similar tweets, as well as an attempt to promote conspiracy theories tying Democrats and liberal activists more broadly to pedophilia. The difference between Gunn and Barr was that Barr's tweets were made as her show was on the air rather than years ago, they were part of a long, recent trend of controversial statements that didn't seem like just edgy trolling, and her apology came off to many as insincere. What's more, Cernovich himself had not only also tweeted similar rape jokes, he had actually been charged with sexual assault in the past, making him look like a hypocrite himself, while no one came forward to accuse Gunn of the same things after the tweets resurfaced even at the height of the #[=MeToo=] movement when many victims of celebrity predators were coming forward with their stories.[[/labelnote]] It wasn't until several months later when Disney and Gunn began patching things up. In the end, the campaign backfired. Not only did Disney rehire Gunn (a decision that was actually made months before they officially announced it), but in the meantime, Gunn was also hired to write the 2021 film ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', largely on the strength of his fanbase pushing for other studios to hire him. Everything seems to have worked out for him in the long run thanks to his handling of the controversy in a mature and professional fashion (swiftly apologizing and accepting full responsibility for the consequences of his [[OldShame past tweets]], and not criticizing either his former employers or the trolls who attacked him), his critics' only accomplishment being to make him look like the victim of a malicious slander campaign and actually ''[[{{Irony}} double]]'' [[{{Irony}} the number of big-budget superhero movies he was working on]].

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** Second, in the late '00s his Website/{{Twitter}} account was filled with the sort of offensive BlackComedy one might expect from him given his background (jokes about AIDS and pedophilia, for example). He cleaned up his act and apologized for his older tweets once he was hired by Creator/{{Disney}} to work on the ''Guardians'' films, but in 2018, these tweets were dug up once more in a campaign to get him fired. Disney obliged, removing him from any future Disney projects such as ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3''. The backlash against Disney was swift, largely because many people saw the campaign to get Gunn fired as a hit job driven by people with questionable political motives.[[labelnote:Specifically...]]It was driven mainly by far-right activists led by the infamous troll Mike Cernovich, motivated largely by Gunn's criticism of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and a belief that Disney was being hypocritical in firing Creator/RoseanneBarr from [[Series/{{Roseanne}} her eponymous show]] for similar tweets, as well as an attempt to promote conspiracy theories tying Democrats and liberal activists more broadly to pedophilia. The difference between Gunn and Barr was that Barr's tweets were made as her show was on the air rather than years ago, they were part of a long, recent trend of controversial statements that didn't seem like just edgy trolling, and her apology came off to many as insincere. What's more, Cernovich himself had not only also tweeted similar rape jokes, he had actually been charged with sexual assault in the past, making him look like a hypocrite himself, while no one came forward to accuse Gunn of the same things after the tweets resurfaced even at the height of the #[=MeToo=] movement when many victims of celebrity predators were coming forward with their stories.[[/labelnote]] It wasn't until several months later when Disney and Gunn began patching things up. In the end, the campaign backfired. Not only did Disney rehire Gunn (a decision that was actually made months before they officially announced it), but in the meantime, Gunn was also hired to write and direct the 2021 film ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', largely on the strength of his fanbase pushing for other studios to hire him. Everything seems to have worked out for him in the long run thanks to his handling of the controversy in a mature and professional fashion (swiftly apologizing and accepting full responsibility for the consequences of his [[OldShame past tweets]], and not criticizing either his former employers or the trolls who attacked him), his critics' only accomplishment being to make him look like the victim of a malicious slander campaign and actually ''[[{{Irony}} double]]'' [[{{Irony}} the number of big-budget superhero movies he was working on]].
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* Creator/JamesGunn, before he made the ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' films, was a notoriously R-rated horror-comedy filmmaker who cut his teeth working for Creator/{{Troma}} before moving on to films like ''Film/{{Slither}}'' and ''Film/{{Super}}'', as well as writing the script for ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004''. This has followed him in two ways.

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* Creator/JamesGunn, before he made the ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' films, was a notoriously R-rated horror-comedy HorrorComedy filmmaker who cut his teeth working for Creator/{{Troma}} before moving on to films like ''Film/{{Slither}}'' and ''Film/{{Super}}'', as well as writing the script for ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004''. This has followed him in two ways.



** Second, in the late '00s his Website/{{Twitter}} account was filled with the sort of offensive BlackComedy one might expect from him given his background (jokes about AIDS and pedophilia, for example). He cleaned up his act and apologized for his older tweets once he was hired by Creator/{{Disney}} to work on the ''Guardians'' films, but in 2018, these tweets were dug up once more in a campaign to get him fired. Disney obliged, removing him from any future Disney projects such as ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3''. The backlash against Disney was swift, largely because many people saw the campaign to get Gunn fired as a hit job driven by people with questionable political motives. It was driven mainly by far-right activists led by the infamous troll Mike Cernovich, motivated largely by Gunn's criticism of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and a belief that Disney was being hypocritical in firing Roseanne Barr from [[Series/{{Roseanne}} her eponymous show]] for similar tweets (though Roseanne's were made as her show was on the air rather than years ago, they were part of a long, recent trend of controversial statements that didn't seem like just edgy trolling, and her apology came off to many as insincere) as well as using it to promote conspiracy theories tying Democrats to pedophilia. It wasn't until several months later did Disney and Gunn began patching things up. In the end, the campaign backfired; not only did Disney rehire Gunn (a decision that was actually made months before they officially announced it), but in the meantime, Gunn was also hired to write the second ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' movie, largely on the strength of his fanbase pushing for other studios to hire him. Everything seems to have worked out for him in the long run, thanks to Gunn's handling of the controversy in a mature and professional fashion (swiftly apologizing and accepting full responsibility for the consequences of his [[OldShame past tweets]], and not criticizing either his former employers or the trolls who attacked him), all Cernovich and company ultimately achieved was making Gunn look like the victim of a malicious slander campaign (and exposed Cernovich as the ''real'' hypocrite since he also tweeted rape jokes in the past, and was actually charged with sexual assault, while no one came forward to accuse Gunn of the same things after the tweets resurfaced, especially since the #[=MeToo=] movement made it easier for victims to come forward with their stories) and actually ''[[{{Irony}} doubling]]'' [[{{Irony}} the number of big-budget superhero productions he was working on.]]

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** Second, in the late '00s his Website/{{Twitter}} account was filled with the sort of offensive BlackComedy one might expect from him given his background (jokes about AIDS and pedophilia, for example). He cleaned up his act and apologized for his older tweets once he was hired by Creator/{{Disney}} to work on the ''Guardians'' films, but in 2018, these tweets were dug up once more in a campaign to get him fired. Disney obliged, removing him from any future Disney projects such as ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3''. The backlash against Disney was swift, largely because many people saw the campaign to get Gunn fired as a hit job driven by people with questionable political motives. It [[labelnote:Specifically...]]It was driven mainly by far-right activists led by the infamous troll Mike Cernovich, motivated largely by Gunn's criticism of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and a belief that Disney was being hypocritical in firing Roseanne Barr Creator/RoseanneBarr from [[Series/{{Roseanne}} her eponymous show]] for similar tweets, as well as an attempt to promote conspiracy theories tying Democrats and liberal activists more broadly to pedophilia. The difference between Gunn and Barr was that Barr's tweets (though Roseanne's were made as her show was on the air rather than years ago, they were part of a long, recent trend of controversial statements that didn't seem like just edgy trolling, and her apology came off to many as insincere) as well as using it insincere. What's more, Cernovich himself had not only also tweeted similar rape jokes, he had actually been charged with sexual assault in the past, making him look like a hypocrite himself, while no one came forward to promote conspiracy theories tying Democrats to pedophilia. accuse Gunn of the same things after the tweets resurfaced even at the height of the #[=MeToo=] movement when many victims of celebrity predators were coming forward with their stories.[[/labelnote]] It wasn't until several months later did when Disney and Gunn began patching things up. In the end, the campaign backfired; not backfired. Not only did Disney rehire Gunn (a decision that was actually made months before they officially announced it), but in the meantime, Gunn was also hired to write the second ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' movie, 2021 film ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', largely on the strength of his fanbase pushing for other studios to hire him. Everything seems to have worked out for him in the long run, run thanks to Gunn's his handling of the controversy in a mature and professional fashion (swiftly apologizing and accepting full responsibility for the consequences of his [[OldShame past tweets]], and not criticizing either his former employers or the trolls who attacked him), all Cernovich and company ultimately achieved was making Gunn his critics' only accomplishment being to make him look like the victim of a malicious slander campaign (and exposed Cernovich as the ''real'' hypocrite since he also tweeted rape jokes in the past, and was actually charged with sexual assault, while no one came forward to accuse Gunn of the same things after the tweets resurfaced, especially since the #[=MeToo=] movement made it easier for victims to come forward with their stories) and actually ''[[{{Irony}} doubling]]'' double]]'' [[{{Irony}} the number of big-budget superhero productions movies he was working on.]]on]].
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* Creator/ChristinaRicci began life as a child actress of ''{{Film/Mermaids}}'', ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'' and ''{{Film/Casper}}'' fame. As she entered her teen years, she grew sick of doing children's films and starred in three very dark projects to break that image: ''Film/TheIceStorm'' (where she has a threesome), ''Film/Buffalo66'' (which has her providing {{Male Gaze}}y Fanservice) and ''Film/TheOppositeOfSex'' (where she's an outright FilleFatale who pulls off TheBabyTrap and steals the ashes of her brother's boyfriend). It worked and helped her transition to serious roles.
* Creator/DevonSawa (who starred alongside Creator/ChristinaRicci in ''Film/NowAndThen'' and ''{{Film/Casper}}'' in the 90s) became a teen heartthrob and said it was hard to transition out of those roles - so he opted to take 'weird' roles just to shake it off. Among those included ''Film/IdleHands'', ''Film/FinalDestination'' and the {{Music/Eminem}} video for "Stan" (where he plays the titular LoonyFan ).

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* Creator/ChristinaRicci began life as a child actress of ''{{Film/Mermaids}}'', ''Film/{{Mermaids|1990}}'', ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'' and ''{{Film/Casper}}'' ''Film/{{Casper}}'' fame. As she entered her teen years, she grew sick of doing children's films and starred in three very dark projects to break that image: ''Film/TheIceStorm'' (where she has a threesome), ''Film/Buffalo66'' (which has her providing {{Male Gaze}}y Fanservice) and ''Film/TheOppositeOfSex'' (where she's an outright FilleFatale who pulls off TheBabyTrap and steals the ashes of her brother's boyfriend). It worked and helped her transition to serious roles.
* Creator/DevonSawa (who starred alongside Creator/ChristinaRicci in ''Film/NowAndThen'' and ''{{Film/Casper}}'' ''Film/{{Casper}}'' in the 90s) became a teen heartthrob and said it was hard to transition out of those roles - so he opted to take 'weird' roles just to shake it off. Among those included ''Film/IdleHands'', ''Film/FinalDestination'' and the {{Music/Eminem}} video for "Stan" (where he plays the titular LoonyFan ).
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* Creator/{{Zendaya}} managed to avoid this. She started her career with the Creator/DisneyChannel, first on ''Series/ShakeItUp'' (co-starring the aforementioned Creator/BellaThorne) and then on ''Series/KCUndercover'', and her breakout in film was in another family-friendly role, MJ in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''. Then she was cast as the lead on ''Series/{{Euphoria}}'', a dark Creator/{{HBO}} teen drama that was immediately controversial for its ''very'' R-rated content. Whatever shock might have come from seeing Rocky Blue or K.C. Cooper as a teenage drug addict was quickly wiped away when her performance won her two MediaNotes/{{Emmy|Award}}s for [[UsefulNotes/PrimetimeEmmyAwardForOutstandingLeadActressInADramaSeries Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series]] (making her the youngest person to ever win the award) and established her as one of the most talented actors of her generation. It helps that, while her ''roles'' may be edgy, her public persona is clean-cut. She even [[https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/03/zendaya-giuliana-rancic-dreadlocks-comment-oscars-2015-w-magazine pushed back]] in 2015 when Giuliana Rancic critiqued the dreadlocks she wore to the MediaNotes/{{Academy Award}}s (a hairstyle that's widely [[DreadlockRasta stereotyped]] outside the Black community but has deep roots within it) and claimed that she "smells like patchouli oil or weed," stating in hindsight that the incident made her realize her potential power as a role model for young girls and people of color.

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* Creator/{{Zendaya}} managed to avoid this. She started her career with the Creator/DisneyChannel, first on ''Series/ShakeItUp'' (co-starring the aforementioned Creator/BellaThorne) and then on ''Series/KCUndercover'', and her breakout in film was in another family-friendly role, MJ in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''. Then she was cast as the lead on ''Series/{{Euphoria}}'', a dark Creator/{{HBO}} teen drama that was immediately controversial for its ''very'' R-rated content. Whatever shock might have come from seeing Rocky Blue or K.C. Cooper as a teenage drug addict was quickly wiped away when her performance won her two MediaNotes/{{Emmy|Award}}s for [[UsefulNotes/PrimetimeEmmyAwardForOutstandingLeadActressInADramaSeries [[MediaNotes/PrimetimeEmmyAwardForOutstandingLeadActressInADramaSeries Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series]] (making her the youngest person to ever win the award) and established her as one of the most talented actors of her generation. It helps that, while her ''roles'' may be edgy, her public persona is clean-cut. She even [[https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/03/zendaya-giuliana-rancic-dreadlocks-comment-oscars-2015-w-magazine pushed back]] in 2015 when Giuliana Rancic critiqued the dreadlocks she wore to the MediaNotes/{{Academy Award}}s (a hairstyle that's widely [[DreadlockRasta stereotyped]] outside the Black community but has deep roots within it) and claimed that she "smells like patchouli oil or weed," stating in hindsight that the incident made her realize her potential power as a role model for young girls and people of color.
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* Creator/DoveCameron is an interesting case, as before she was on Disney, she was on the ''very'' non-Disney show ''Series/ShamelessUS'' playing a hyper-sexual "bad girl" (while underage, mind). However, she got cast for ''Series/LivAndMaddie'' at 17, and later starred in ''Film/{{Descendants}}'' and several Marvel productions (playing ComicBook/SpiderGwen in ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'' and ''WesternAnimation/MarvelRising''), which gave her Disney cred. This didn't effect her career too much, as she's had no trouble starring in racier works like ''Film/BarelyLethal'', PlayingAgainstType as [[TheSociopath Ruby]] [[DarkActionGirl Hale]] in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (which, while Marvel, and as such Disney, was a much more adult-aimed production with considerably darker content), and posing in bikinis on her Instagram page. However, she ''has'' gotten quite a bit of harassment from trolls on social media over this. She's bitten back about this, pointing out that she isn't ''owned'' by Disney and is free to do whatever roles she wants.

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* Creator/DoveCameron is an interesting case, as before she was on Disney, she was on the ''very'' non-Disney show ''Series/ShamelessUS'' playing a hyper-sexual "bad girl" (while underage, mind). However, she got cast for ''Series/LivAndMaddie'' at 17, and later starred in ''Film/{{Descendants}}'' and several Marvel productions (playing ComicBook/SpiderGwen in ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'' and ''WesternAnimation/MarvelRising''), which gave her Disney cred. This didn't effect affect her career too much, as she's had no trouble starring in racier works like ''Film/BarelyLethal'', PlayingAgainstType as [[TheSociopath Ruby]] [[DarkActionGirl Hale]] in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (which, while Marvel, and as such Disney, was a much more adult-aimed production with considerably darker content), and posing in bikinis on her Instagram page. However, she ''has'' gotten quite a bit of harassment from trolls on social media over this. She's bitten back about this, pointing out that she isn't ''owned'' by Disney and is free to do whatever roles she wants.
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* Creator/{{Zendaya}} managed to avoid this. She started her career with the Creator/DisneyChannel, first on ''Series/ShakeItUp'' (co-starring the aforementioned Creator/BellaThorne) and then on ''Series/KCUndercover'', and her breakout in film was in another family-friendly role, MJ in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''. Then she was cast as the lead on ''Series/{{Euphoria}}'', a dark Creator/{{HBO}} teen drama that was immediately controversial for its ''very'' R-rated content. Whatever shock might have come from seeing Rocky Blue or K.C. Cooper as a teenage drug addict was quickly wiped away when her performance won her two UsefulNotes/{{Emmy|Award}}s for [[UsefulNotes/PrimetimeEmmyAwardForOutstandingLeadActressInADramaSeries Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series]] (making her the youngest person to ever win the award) and established her as one of the most talented actors of her generation. It helps that, while her ''roles'' may be edgy, her public persona is clean-cut. She even [[https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/03/zendaya-giuliana-rancic-dreadlocks-comment-oscars-2015-w-magazine pushed back]] in 2015 when Giuliana Rancic critiqued the dreadlocks she wore to the UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s (a hairstyle that's widely [[DreadlockRasta stereotyped]] outside the Black community but has deep roots within it) and claimed that she "smells like patchouli oil or weed," stating in hindsight that the incident made her realize her potential power as a role model for young girls and people of color.

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* Creator/{{Zendaya}} managed to avoid this. She started her career with the Creator/DisneyChannel, first on ''Series/ShakeItUp'' (co-starring the aforementioned Creator/BellaThorne) and then on ''Series/KCUndercover'', and her breakout in film was in another family-friendly role, MJ in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''. Then she was cast as the lead on ''Series/{{Euphoria}}'', a dark Creator/{{HBO}} teen drama that was immediately controversial for its ''very'' R-rated content. Whatever shock might have come from seeing Rocky Blue or K.C. Cooper as a teenage drug addict was quickly wiped away when her performance won her two UsefulNotes/{{Emmy|Award}}s MediaNotes/{{Emmy|Award}}s for [[UsefulNotes/PrimetimeEmmyAwardForOutstandingLeadActressInADramaSeries Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series]] (making her the youngest person to ever win the award) and established her as one of the most talented actors of her generation. It helps that, while her ''roles'' may be edgy, her public persona is clean-cut. She even [[https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/03/zendaya-giuliana-rancic-dreadlocks-comment-oscars-2015-w-magazine pushed back]] in 2015 when Giuliana Rancic critiqued the dreadlocks she wore to the UsefulNotes/{{Academy MediaNotes/{{Academy Award}}s (a hairstyle that's widely [[DreadlockRasta stereotyped]] outside the Black community but has deep roots within it) and claimed that she "smells like patchouli oil or weed," stating in hindsight that the incident made her realize her potential power as a role model for young girls and people of color.



* This trope dates back to the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent days]], at least. Creator/MaryPickford ("America's Sweetheart"), one of the biggest stars of the early cinema, was known for her [[TheIngenue ingenue]] roles and her long, flowing ringlets. After she cut off her curls and played an adult role -- at the age of ''37'' -- in ''Coquette'', she lost her popularity (despite winning an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward), and retired from films shortly thereafter.

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* This trope dates back to the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood silent days]], at least. Creator/MaryPickford ("America's Sweetheart"), one of the biggest stars of the early cinema, was known for her [[TheIngenue ingenue]] roles and her long, flowing ringlets. After she cut off her curls and played an adult role -- at the age of ''37'' -- in ''Coquette'', she lost her popularity (despite winning an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward), MediaNotes/AcademyAward), and retired from films shortly thereafter.

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