Pictured: Britney Spears and friends in 2004 throwing milkshakes at the paps in alien masks
What’s your favorite moment of celebs getting back at paparazzi
Let’s Discuss 👀🙊Jennifer Aniston did this a lot as well. Always the same pants and t-shirt to try and devalue and disincentivize the paps from following them. Not sure it really worked but 'A' for effort.
It probably feels just like a petty little victory over being papped all the time. I can’t say I blame them for doing it!
Yeah, even if they are still getting papped I'm sure there is some satisfaction knowing the pics won't sell as well and for less money
Just saw this pic of her flipping off a photographer and it was somehow shocking and endearing to me.
That's just my regular poorass
Lol, I'm sitting here thinking 'is it normal to wear the same thing for 6 months?'
I remember they said this is why Angelina always wore black.
Tom Hiddleston tends to wear the same as well, but I don’t know if it’s a fashion choice, a style choice (as in, he likes to dress the same way to avoid having to decide each day), or if it’s to deter paps
That was some commitment. His face and hair were also mostly the same.
I had no idea he did this. I already loved Dan but this just gives me another +1 to love him more
Some celebs have sued paparazzi and won. Jennifer Aniston sued the head of X17 agency when he trespassed at her home and took photos of her in her property and then again sued another pap who tried to sell photos of her in her own house that he used a telephoto lens to take from a long distance away. Kate Middleton had the same thing happen to her and sued. George Clooney also had this happen at his Lake Como house.
It's one thing to be accosted on a public street, but it's a whole other game to have people taking pics of you in your house and on your property. You don't see that as much now but it was not uncommon through the 90s and 2000s.
Jesus that is psycho behavior. Why do we allow this in our culture?
That’s what I’m saying. Like the media endorses this and it’s bullshit.
The right photo could literally sell for millions of dollars.
It’s not ok that paps did it, but I kinda get why. Be enough of an asshole = become millionaire overnight is a really strong incentive. Shitty that media outlets participate(d) in these stunts.
We need better laws around this. Some of them straight-up harass and stalk people.
idk if it's still the case, but I remember when Paris Hilton was really famous paparazzi would take upskirt shots, and it was perfectly legal. Same thing happened to Emma Watson on her 18th birthday in the UK. idk if either country's law has changed.
i used to love flipping through my grandma's gossip magazines as a kid, but looking back paparazzi were brutal – them hacking sienna miller's phone was insane
Omg me too it was always the national enquirer
this would absolutely send me into a spiral and be so paranoid 24/7, how disgusting. i still wish paps would’ve been held accountable for what they did to britney. the image of her crying in a restaurant holding her baby breaks my fucking heart. she fled to the place to hide from pics but people inside kept taking her picture and laughing 😭
I thought this was when she was running from them and they wouldn’t leave her alone so she ran into the restaurant to seek some reprieve and help.
They would fly over the celebs' homes and take pictures of them in their backyards. When Britney Spears went to the hospital in an ambulance (before she was put in a conservatorship), they took video of the entire ride from above. And let's not forget the way cameras were shoved underneath dresses to get a "crotch shot."
Not sure what laws they have in place now, but back then, if you were a "public figure," you had no protection.
A lot of these celebs didn't have security back then either. Paps would get right up into their space and yell stuff at them. You see a lot more celebs now with security on a regular basis which at least put's some space between the paps and celeb
These win. That glare!!!
He seems like he’d be a good laugh
The one of him behind that thin metal pole - winner!! 🏆
This one’s so wholesome
You can always tell a Milford man!
Oh, he sure does.
Hey, thanks for this. It's perfect.
Oooooo you move QUICK I see that avatar change 🤣🤣
It was just so perfect 💯 I couldn't resist Leo DiStustigo.
Leo when he sees a 26 year old woman
the first image is an edit of Shia LaBeouf's bag on Leo's body
The grey hat one looks like he's wearing a nappy round his face 🤣
Jackie Kennedy used a Judo move on a paparrazo, flipping him over and onto the ground!
She walked so Bjork could run
Is that Ron Gallela? She haaaated him.
Do you have more context? I need the story here!
Galella confessed to an obsession with Onassis in the 2010 documentary “Smash His Camera,” directed by by Leon Gast. “I had no girlfriend,” he said. “She was my girlfriend, in a way.”
Ew
Same dude who wore a helmet around Brando cuz he broke his fuckin jaw once, right?
And knocked out five teeth apparently
I see you know your judo well.
All while dressed in French chic. Yes gawd 💅
Every thing I learn about Jackie Kennedy makes me love her more
I was looking for this one!
Lmao obsessed with this
when an alien scolds you
The pointing is giving
I need this on a t-shirt STAT
Lmao she was amazing😭
Who’s behind the masks?
Britney Spears and her friends
why does this go so hard
Kanye sucks but him yelling at the the paps in his driveway “shut the f up it’s 4 in the morning” always makes me chuckle
Was just about to post this
"You're outside of my house at 4am talking about hows it going" lmao
Blood sucking mosquito hahahha
"you blood sucking mosquitoes" is 100% being added to my insult log 🤣
He should have turned the fucking hose on them, they were trespassing.
i hate kanye but i felt him on that lmfao. who walks up to someones house with a flashing camera at 4am going HEY HOWS IT GOIN MAN
"Just relax"
I would lose it.
“heyyy good morning kanye” i quote this video all the time hahaha
“did you just stop my garage?”
I have never related more to celebrity more in my life lol. If someone was outside my house at 4 am talking shit to me I would lose it
He’s a broken clock but he’s right twice a day lol
An excerpt from an article in the Herald-Journal in October,1960: "Anita Ekberg shot arrows at free-lance photographers who followed her home early Thursday from a round of night clubs.
It was a chilly night. The actress wore a clinging black dress and had kicked off her shoes. Quinto said she shouted: "Give me those pictures!" Then, said Quinto, Miss Ekberg let fly with the arrows. He said one hit him on the left forearm and two struck another photographed in the back."
someone slap a “parental advisory” sticker on this thing, and you got a fire album cover
I aspire to looking this good when I inevitably lose my shit.
That's why I always look good, honey 💅
Ah my love - that’s brilliant.
My hope is I get some sort of ‘sign’ & plan ahead.
Covid made me lazy AF & I’m not wearing a LBT to work or events let alone to shout in the street…
If this was a papped pic of me, no one could tell me nothing
Damn I need this as a poster
Seriously, I can’t believe I’ve never seen this before. How rad.
The fact that nothing has changed in 66 years is insane to me.
just hunted them down lol
WHAT A BADDIE, NO NOTES
By struck like, bounced off or like, pierced?? This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen
Queen shit
I had to scroll too damn far for this one, it's iconic and the level of "no fucks left to give" is off the charts.
@ celebs: make this the norm please
Holy shit. That’s amazing.
Between this and Dan Radcliffe's above, I think we might have found the gold standards here folks lol
She was a OG..
Leonardo DiCaprio’s various attempts to try to hide from the paparazzi
Wait no not a Tesco carrier bag 😭
Hiyallright intensifies
Fuck your Honda Civic I’ve a horse outside!
I'm at Amanda's wedding...
He could probably just walk with a woman his own age and people wouldn’t recognize him
lol at the umbrella with costumes written on it
I never realised he had a distinct walk before, but you can still tell it's him under the sheet from his foot placement.
Imagine THE Tony Soprano storming towards you pissed af... that paparazzi probably peed himself and I love that for him.
I love how the pap keeps telling him to relax. Here's an idea - how about you fucking stop harassing him when he's with his son?
I was about to say the same thing! That’s the go-to phrase for someone who knows they fucked around and are about to find out
“Jim.. Jim don’t!” in the background lol his wife/whoever that was KNEW
Per other comments, it sounds like she went right on ahead and did shoot them
These are so funny bc someone could tell me these were pictures of kids I went to high school with and I would believe them
Yeah I think it’s a mix of the shorts and the sonic cups
The soffees!
Soffees?
That’s the brand name of the blue shorts with the white waist band. Created I think for cheer, but we all wore them under our school uniform skirts.
I was just thinking this is how we really dressed back then, like just regular young woman clothes. Lol.
Björk beating up that “journalist” in the airport after being followed by them and having to deal with them directing questions to her child will always be one of my favorite moments of a celeb getting back at paparazzi.
I have never been more upset about a "video not available in your region" message
Finally a more appropriate use for this gif. Lucille being proud of another woman's questionable choice
She threw those hands HARD!
Omggg I didn’t think I could love her more, or that she had that in her!!
God can you imagine getting off a loooong flight to Thailand dealing with a small child and then having to face a media gauntlet? I kinda don’t blame her.
She was stalked by mutiple people who then also targeted her child. It's scary stuff.
The video says she was pestering her for FOUR days. Smh
I’m team Björk.
Fuck those dudes.
This is my fave too
I loved that they did this but the video for these pics is insane. They’re followed for so many blocks but they wouldn’t leave them alone and they’re getting mad at Andrew and Emma for the signs.
Let me guess, the paps were screaming "remove the sign" at them, yeah?
It’s not really getting back at the paparazzi, but I love this video of Joel McHale joking with the paparazzi and telling them to go find a real celebrity to follow. Joel McHale jokes with the paparazzi
That was charismatic
Even his shadow!
Keanu Reeves just straight up stealing a camera from one.
I've seen the photos you're talking about, but I believe they were taking during the filming of a scene in the movie "Generation Um"(2012)
He does look gloriously happy running away with a camera, though.
He did? I need the details on this.
Paris and her anti-paparazzi scarf .
I genuinely love this. It looks nice and the photographers don’t realize their pictures are blown until after the fact.
Wait what is going on here?
It's super reflective with a flash and messes up cameras meters
The highly reflective material on the scarf causes the camera’s automatic sensor to overexpose everything in the image except for the scarf.
EDIT - when using a flash. Obviously it doesn’t work if you aren’t using a flash, per the image on the left.
He's not quite getting back at them, but honestly I'll just never pass up an opportunity to share this paps + Zach Quinto + dog + falling + bizarre steak extravaganza because it's iconic and hilarious, but also because I have a personal vendetta against him 🤷♀️
“NOBODY MOVE” what the fuck lol
That's the best part!! He definitely is trying to make sure no one steps on his sunglasses (been there, especially with my prescription sunglasses, like oh god they got knocked off and I cannot see without them!!), but the STEAK needing to freeze is so fucking funny
He didn’t want his glasses stepped on! That voice was like activating a latent power lol
I lost it at going back to help free the guy in the steak costume! Just a normal stroll on the sidewalk and getting stuck between a fence and a pole b/c you didn't turn sideways.
May I inquire as to why you have a personal vendetta against Quinto?
It just keeps giving and giving.
So it's not personal personal, but around the time he rose to fame is around the time I was being cheated on by the ex that looks just fucking like this guy. They are irrevocably intertwined!
Ok, I get that. He can't help it but .... ehhhhh... neither can you.
There's a band called Roam whose music I actually quite like but their singer looks exactly fucking like a shitty abusive ex of mine and I just can't.
Basically yeah.. I can relate.
What is happening here lmaooo
Dude I don't even know. I've been laughing at it for over a decade and I still can't decide which part is funniest.
Like what was the purpose? The thought process? Like what is happpening?? 😂😂 LOL thank you for posting this I have no comprehensive thoughts.
It's from this bunch of skits him and his friends made called buddy n Andy
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL021DBCD4B3C01F82&si=_st6Rlh1ZF2lZR2A
Always makes me chuckle.
This photo of Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas lives rent free in my head.
Of course he just wanted to talk to him “like a real person.” Aw.
That’s all Andrew wants
Not really “getting back at” but the “was Taylor hiding in a giant trunk to hide from the paps?” needs an honourable mention
My claustrophobia could never, god
ForREAL. And her limbs are so long, I can’t imagine trying to get into one of those.
or trusting they won’t drop you? She could’ve gotten so hurt!
I used be a tour manager and I 100% had one of my artists hide in a suitcase and had the crew carry them to the bus because there was no way to exit the venue that wasn’t public 🤣🙈 so I 100% believe that Taylor would hide in a trunk for the same reason.
She did get transported to stage in a cleaners trolley so I'm choosing to believe this one no matter how unhinged that makes me.
at the very least the purple one is true bc who carries a normal suitcase like that? or needs two ppl?
I remember them saying she got into the Super Bowl in a popcorn delivery
welcome to bangkok!
Heath Ledger had a few. I can’t remember the details of the water pistol incident - did the paps spray him and he retaliated, or the reverse? Either way, he fucken hated them.
Omg is that Michelle Williams? She looks like a little girl!!!
its not really getting back at them. but there was time some celebrities wore those reflective scarfs that reflected all the light from flash and the whole picture was dark because of it. why arent people wearingt that?
Because scarves as fashion accessories haven’t come back in yet but I’m sure they will soon since all the kids keep recycling the very trends they made fun of 2 years ago lol
Does Grant Gustin count
This made me smile. I needed that. He seems like such a cool person.
He’s got tons of great pap troll shots 😂
Oh damn, i didn't know these were from pap shots. That's such a funny thing to do, just troll the paps when you see them. I was already a fan of his, now even more so after seeing these. Thank you for sharing these.
Kylie Minogue, late 80’s or early 90’s throwing bread rolls at them annoying her in Paris.
Avril Lavigne spitting on a paparazzi
It's been a long time, but I remember Alec Baldwin punching, or attempting to punch, a photographer as Alec and Kim Basinger were living the hospital with their newborn, Ireland. I don't know that I blame him.
I remember he sprayed shaving cream on the windshield of the pap’s car to try and get the dude to go away.
This needs no caption
Not really getting back at, but I love the way Tom Cruise handles this guy with nothing but utter disappointment
He pulled the "I'm not mad I'm just disappointed"
who is that and what is the context? i’m crying omfg that’s iconic
Pretty sure that’s Taylor Momsen from The Pretty Reckless (rock band) and Gossip Girl!
Unfortunately as cool as this is, I'm pretty sure it was actually an advert for some shoes.
Beyonce getting her camera and taking pictures of the paparazzi.
Anita Ekberg threatening paparazzi with her bow and arrows
Some paparazzi were harassing her as she walked home at night and were touching her so she got her bow and arrows and scared the piss out of them.
Danzig buying cat litter
Paps are bold fucking with Danzig
Taylor swift being carried around in trunks when she lived in New York will never not be funny to me
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Daniel Radcliffe wearing the same outfit in public for six months always makes me cackle