When you’re famous, you’re under constant scrutiny and surveillance, by fans and paparazzi. Your every move is documented and dissected. Sometimes celebrities are caught in the act of exactly what media is looking for: cheating. These celebs were just that unlucky and had their lyin’ ways outed by the media.
Famous Celebrities Who Were Outed As Cheaters By The Media
#1 Britney Spears
According to “sources,” her surprise romance and eventual marriage to backup dancer Keven Federline, was almost entirely based on sex. The couple had two kids together before that well ran dry and she’s managed to steer clear of any public meltdowns for a while now, so maybe this is just gossip.
#2 Kristen Stewart
In July of 2012, photos surfaced showing Kristen and Rupert, 44, getting a little too close and personal; the images, which made headlines around the world, showed the pair kissing and embracing during a day out in Los Angeles.
At the time, Rupert was married to model Liberty Ross, with whom he has two children, and Kristen was in a years-long relationship with British actor Robert Pattinson, 29, While the scandal - and the ensuing dissolution of both Kristen and Rupert's relationships - were tabloid fodder for months, the actress claims now that she didn't let the incident destroy her.
After pulling back from the spotlight for a little while, she says that these days she can more easily find perspective.
#3 David Boreanaz
The Bones star admitted to being unfaithful to his wife of 10 years, Jaime Bergman, with an unspecified woman.Pictures surfaced of Boreanaz and Uchitel, along with a series of text messages.
Boreanaz’s wife of 10 years, Jaime Bergman, was pregnant with their second child at the time when photos and text messages of her husband’s infidelity first surfaced.
"In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive," the actor, who also starred in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel told TV Week.
#4 Josh Duggar
The Ashley Madison hack claimed its first high-profile victim with Josh Duggar. Duggar allegedly had an account with the site, created to help married individuals find people with whom they could have affairs.
JOSH DUGGAR ALLEGED SEXUAL WISH LIST
- Conventional Sex
- Experimenting with Sex Toys
- One-Night Stands
- Open to Experimentation
- Gentleness
- Good With Your Hands
- Sensual Massage
- Extended Foreplay/Teasing
- Bubble Bath for 2
- Likes to Give Oral Sex
- Likes to Receive Oral Sex
- Someone I Can Teach
- Someone Who Can Teach Me
- Kissing
- Cuddling & Hugging
- Sharing Fantasies
- Sex Talk
One of the accounts was closed around the same time it was first reported that Josh, 27, had molested four of his siblings as a teenager.
The revelation came hours after users of the infidelity site were sent scrambling to control the damage - and save their marriages - after hackers exposed personal data from the controversial seduction forum used by 37 million worldwide.
#5 Jason Aldean
It started with a kiss at The Den and ended at an alter Country mega-star Jason Aldean and former "American Idol" contestant Brittany Kerr got hitched in Mexico.
Aldean and his ex-wife split after make-out pics of Jason and Brittany surfaced in 2012. Aldean said at the time it was a one time deal -- a drunken mistake -- and he took a taxi home alone. Jason Aldean is now married to Brittany Kerr so maybe he just found love at an inconvenient time? Poor Jessica though. No one, let alone the mother of someone’s children, deserves to be humiliated in that way.
No matter what the circumstances were, it was definitely not acceptable.
#6 Katharine McPhee
The "Smash" actress came clean to Ocean Drive magazine about her headline-making love life, where she cheated on her husband with the married director of the series, Michael Morris.
McPhee married her husband Nick Cokas, who is 19 years her senior, back in 2008 and the two split in 2014 after news broke that the singer was having an affair with her "Smash" boss Morris.
Morris is married to actress Mary McCormack and they have two children together, while McPhee and Cokas officially divorced in February 2016.
"I don't have any regrets. All of the choices I made I learned from in a really deep way," McPhee told the magazine.
#7 Lamar Odom
Khloe Kardashian was (and is?) such a super wife to Lamar Odom. She really is the ultimate ride or die chick. She took care of her man and kept his private life private for as long as she could. Then a video surfaced on the internet of a seemingly not sober Lamar Odom rapping and bragging about cheating on Khloe.
With a new lease on life, the former NBA player opens up about his past drug use and cheating on Khloe Kardashian in Us Weekly. Recalling the night he was found comatose in a Las Vegas brothel, Odom admits the details are a bit fuzzy.
"I was home by myself. Bored. I wanted to get out and have a good time. Looking back, I might have had a drink to get the mood started, but was I drunk or on drugs? Not at all. I remember lying in bed. Two women were in bed and then I fell asleep. That's all," the 37-year-old basketball player insists. "When I woke up four days later, I was trying to pull the tubes out of my mouth."
At the time, Khloe flew to Las Vegas to be Lamar's side—much to his surprise. After he was transferred to LA, she remained by his bedside as he learned to walk again.
#8 Scott Disick
The reality TV star has been snapped looking way too cozy with a brunette beauty who ISN’T the mother of his three children Kourtney Kardashian.
Disick and the woman, who has been revealed as none other than his ex-girlfriend Chloe Bartoli, were spotted lounging around on Monte Carlo beach in Monaco. The pair appeared to be having the time of their lives, relaxing poolside on a lounge chair together in the South of France.
At one point Bartoli even fed Disick food off her plate and tipped water into his mouth from a wine glass. He was also photographed draping his arms over Bartoli’s shoulders and repeatedly touching the small of her back.
The fans, along with Kourtney herself, were completely blindsided, and the couple broke up. There’s only so much a person can take and it was just too tough for Kourtney to deal with the public nature of the betrayal. The fans still have hope that these two can reconcile somehow, but they have a lot to overcome.
#9 Jessica Simpson
The Chateau Marmont has always been a hub of clandestine Hollywood hookups, but the windows of the famed hotel must be fogging up with all the amorous action there lately.
Our spy swears Jessica Simpson took a break from partying with Kirsten Dunst the other night to disappear into Maroon 5 man-whore Adam Levine's room - and didn't emerge until the next morning.
"She was picked up by her best friend, Cacee Cobb, that morning," our snitch tattled. Simpson's rep has steadfastly shot down rumors of a romance with the skirt-chasing singer in the past.
So it was pretty shocking when paparazzi photographed a married Jessica Simpson leaving the hotel where Adam Levine was staying in the shirt he was wearing the night before. It was an extremely blatant walk of shame and no matter what was going on with their marriage, it had to hurt Nick Lachey for that infidelity to play out publicly.
#10 Hugh Grant
In 1995, the British actor was arrested in Los Angeles with a sex worker, Divine Brown, for their ‘lewd conduct’ in a public place.
Grant was having his mugshot taken in a Los Angeles police station after being arrested for having sex in his car with Divine Brown. After their arrest, both were released to have their cases heard later.
What they got from Brown was a blow-by-blow account and a line from her claiming that Grant told her: “I always wanted to sleep with a black woman. That’s my fantasy.”
Grant, the long-term partner of British actor and model Liz Hurley, was quick to release a statement of regret: “Last night I did something completely insane,” he said. “I have hurt people I love and embarrassed people I work with. For both things, I am sorrier than I can ever possibly say.”
