Celebrities: a bunch of hypocrites! They all pay lip service to environmental issues like global warming. But most of them are heavy private jet users. They also engage in a smorgasboard of other environmental sins, from investing in oil companies (Madonna) to wasting water by demanding 120 bath towels at each appearance (Barbra Streisand) to various other transgressions you can read about here. But it's primarily the globetrotting use of gas-guzzling private planes that make their frequent entreaties to save the earth seem empty. So we're polling you, our readers, who have some of the most finely tuned hypocrisy detectors in the world: Which of these six "green" stars is the biggest environmental hypocrite? Cast your vote after the jump.
Which Celebrity Is The Biggest Environmental Hypocrite?
4:04 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
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If you haven't seen this, these are some photos of Travolta's home. OK, John. We get it. You're into planes. Fuck off.
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Al Gore isn't a celebrity?
At this point even the president can telecommute. Another globally warmed wave washed over New Orleans as he circled in Air Force One.
Celebrities are hypocrites? You don't say. This is my shocked face. I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
nothing like the scream of jet engines and the stench of fumes at the back yard barbecue.
Saving energy and resources is fine for "the little people" -- what else do we have to do?
@fiveinchtaint: Get out of my head, Taint!!
This is exactly what I was just coming to post.
Aw, hell. Here's another of what I'm sure are the same pictures.
If Travolta doesn't win this in a landslide, something's wrong.
(Also, my take is that celebrities definitely should be taking private planes, just 'cause I don't wanna be dealing with their nonsense in the airport when I take a commercial flight. But 5 planes? No one needs five planes.)
In her defense, Babs sweats like a Irishman at an AA meeting.
Ed Begly Jr. was captaining an oil tanker that ran aground in 1998.
Travolta gets environmental demerits for all those petroleum products that go into making the plastic pelt on his noggin.
They're all hypocrites, but I have a special, soul-searing hatred for Chris Martin.
@fiveinchtaint
: Wow. Why is that couple so scary? They make Cruise & Holmes look lovable and daffy.
Alan Alda sets tire fires.
It's got to be Chris Martin. Coldplay's music has been polluting the environment for years.
DiCaprio bathes seagulls in motor oil.
Don't forget the Governator.
He may use bio-fuels -- in his HUMMERS (I can hear the giant sucking sound in Iowa) -- he also jets home every night from Sacramento to Maria and the kids.
And in his spare time, he clubs baby seals with PVC pipe.
Debbie Reynolds flicks cigarette butts into the Amazon.
Alternate side of the street parking is a bitch with my Cessna.
George Clooney has invented a fossil fuel-burning machine that manufactures CFCs. He uses his nuclear-powered CFC dispensing device to emit the chemicals into the atmosphere, then he disposes of spent nuclear fuel in the homes of indigenous people living near the Arctic Circle.
@Sarcastro: ... in bed.
@MattGaymon: It's like when the next guy on the Price is Right goes "$601!"
I voted for Chris Martin, because his wife will not fly commercial and bleaches her hair with toxic chemicals.
Did not vote since Arnold isn't there. Starts the Hummer craze because he has a steriod-atrophied penis, then "balances" it out by converting his fleet of them to "biofuels", which end up razing the rain forests.
That's without getting into what he's done as Governor.
But if we could hook up Paul Rubens' mighty right arm to a turbine, we'd solve our energy problems by July.
@fiveinchtaint: Michael Eisner, is that you?
If Travolta has five planes, at least only one can be in the air at a time.
But Schwarzenegger JET-COMMUTES every day! What a prick.
You know, if you swapped the question to "which celebrity are you most sick of hearing about?" no one would no the difference. And the results would likely remain the same.
@richardmarxhatesmyhair: Everything I learn about her makes me hate her more.
Seriously, who the hell needs five planes. And isn't he a Scientologist? Shouldn't he have a spaceship or something?
@DorothyMantooth: while I don't want to deal with the celebrities, I do want to watch THEM deal with the TSA... finally, both sides get exactly what is coming to them... celebs going to the DMV in person is just as good though...
@Colonel Mustard: And you were worried that your post on The Hills would make you seem illiterate.
Al Gore,
isn't "johnny's" career in the departure lounge already?
I also find it quite annoying when celebrities show off about eco-friendly solar power and recycled tp in their 10,000 square foot houses.
MY vote is for Mecha-Streisand.
@fiveinchtaint: To be fair, from the pictures of his home, it also looks like he's into walls, and nice landscaping.
@4Cats: Thought someone might not refrain from the obvious. But really, you can't be serious.
@LoveHandles: That cool frog on his wall jut bought him a get out of jail-free card for life. That, and I like him.
@Colonel Mustard: Seriously, loathe her.
@richardmarxhatesmyhair: Agreed.
@richardmarxhatesmyhair: Totally agree, the frog is excellence. And if that gets him the Get Out of Jail Free Card, then An Inconvenient Truth, if not canceling out his private-jet-use, should at least win him permanent Free Parking.
@CopyofBlueboy: Not only that, but: politicians lie, the only guarantees in life are death and taxes, oh and Santa Clause is not real. Sorry.
@Ruutuu: HHAaaaaa! But in his defense, he was back-pedaling really hard and just couldn't brake in time.
@Carol Gardens: Seriously. Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk. No one should live that large, it's just ugly.
I voted for Leo, and not having any votes made him sad.
@4Cats: Is this pic at the house that used more energy than Bush?
They all seem equally bad, but I voted for Chris Martin because my hatred for him burns the hottest.
I sort of feel bad for Chris Martin because Coldplay is just one of those bands that's very easy for people to arbitrarily hate. I mean, some of those ditties are fairly catchy is all I'm sayin.
Plus his wife is a cold bitch.
@Priam: Of course! He's an environmental RAPIST
Didn't vote because Laurie David wasn't on there. So she's not a celebrity per se, but whatever celebrity she has, she's manufactured into eco-terrorism, oops, I mean eco-heroism. Ie. telling the little people not to use toilet paper while she hops from the heated swimming pool of one McMansion to the next on a private jet.
travolta's decor shows what happens when these celebrities live in a bubble...they think they are BRILLIANT.
Is using only the finest clubbed baby seal fur to wipe the mung off my hands after fist fucking a rain forest tribesman(preferably Yanomamo) using ambergris as lube bad for the enviroment?
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I believe we have found the category in which the Governator becomes Travolta's bitch.
I hear Travolta lost the lead in "Kindergarten Cop" to Ahnold. And now this?????
@LunaLaredo: Cheers to that! Was shocked she was not on the list to vote for, since she is about the biggest hypocrite walking: have heard she demands private jets to be whisked around for all the "green" speeches she gives. But you're right: she isn't really a celebrity, is she? Without her on the list, I would vote for Al Gore.
John Travolta hands down. Any one who ones a private jet, much less than 5, can't seriously be concerned about the environment.
Astos Green lasers rulz
@SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley: I don't like Gwyneth Paltrow either. She was so wooden at Iron Man.
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