14 Times Famous People Walked Out Of Interviews For Either Silly Or Serious Reasons
There are plenty of situations where it's just better to walk away. Other times, walking out is just the funnier option.
Here are 7 times celebs walked out on interviews as a joke:
1.In a recently resurfaced USA Today interview from 2023, Jennifer Aniston jokingly walked out on her three-time costar Adam Sandler after finding out that he gifted his previous costars luxury cars.
Here's the full video, with this part starting at the 0:46 mark:
2.In 2024, Michael Cera walked out of Bobbi Althoff's The Really Good Podcast as part of a running gag running up to his Super Bowl ad with CeraVe.
Here's the full video, with this part starting at the 7:45 mark:
3.In 2024, Kelly Clarkson walked off The Kelly Clarkson Show after accidentally making a sexual innuendo towards guest Henry Golding.
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4.In 2015, Little Mix pranked The Kyle & Jackie O Show by pretending to get upset at a question about Justin Bieber, with Jade Thirlwall leading a walk out.
After a break, the band members came back in and admitted that it was all a big prank Kyle put them up to.
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5.During a 2016 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Ryan Gosling sarcastically walked out as part of a bit with Russell Crowe.
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6.When David Cross appeared on The Late Show in 2018, he brought up his and Stephen Colbert's past experience writing for The Dana Carvey Sketch Show. When the host misremembered who wrote a specific sketch, David walked off.
Here's the full video, with this part starting at the 2:18 mark:
7.And Joan Rivers famously stormed out of a CNN interview in 2014, so when she later appeared on the Late Show, David Letterman walked out on her.
Here's the full clip, with this part starting at the 0:40 mark:
And here are 7 times celebs walked off interviewers because they were seemingly upset:
8.At the 2024 BAFTAs, a BBC red carpet reporter asked Andrew Scott about Barry Keoghan's naked dance scene at the end of Saltburn — a movie Andrew isn't even in. So, he excused himself.
Here's the full clip:
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9.Marc Summers walked off the 2024 docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV because they "did a bait and switch on" him. When he did the interview, he was unaware the documentary was intended to expose the "dark side" of Nickelodeon.
On the Elvis Duran Show, he said, "They asked me what I thought of Nick, and the first 10 to 12 seconds, from what I understand, in this documentary is me saying all these wonderful things. But they did a bait and switch on me. They ambushed me. They never told me what this documentary was really about. And so they showed me a video of something that I couldn't believe was on Nickelodeon. And I said, 'Well, let's stop the tape right here. What are we doing?'
I left. So I got a phone call about six weeks ago saying you're totally out of the show. And I went, 'Great.' Then they called me about four weeks ago and said, 'Well, you're in it, but you're only in the first part of it because you talked about the positive stuff of Nickelodeon,'" Summers says. "What they didn't tell me — and they lied to me about — was the fact that they put in that other thing where they had the camera on me when they ambushed me. And so, now we get into a whole situation about who's unethical."
10.In 2020, Joaquin Phoenix walked out of an interview with the Telegraph after the reporter asked if he was "worried that [Joker] might perversely end up inspiring exactly the kind of people its about, with potentially tragic results."
After the question was posed, Joaquin said, "Why Why would you…? No… no." Then he shook the reporter's hand and walked out.
After an hour of "peace-brokering with a Warner Bros PR," the actor returned and continued the interview. He asked, "Did you bug out?"
11.In 2019, Naomi Campbell reportedly declined to answer a red carpet reporter's questions about Liam Payne, whom she was rumored to be dating at the time, and walked away.
In lieu of an answer, she simply said, "Thank you so much."
12.In 2019, Adam Driver reportedly walked out of an NPR Fresh Air interview because he didn't like it when host Terry Gross played a clip of the actor singing "Being Alive" from Company (which Adam's character sings in Marriage Story).
A source told the Daily Beast that the show's team knew Adam disliked listening to himself on tape and advised him to take off his headphones when the clip was played.
In an email, executive producer Danny Miller told the outlet, "We don't really understand why he left. We were looking forward to the interview — Terry thinks he's a terrific actor; he was a great guest when he was on [Fresh Air] in 2015 — so we were disappointed that we didn't have a new interview to share with our listeners about Marriage Story."
NPR aired a rerun episode in place of Adam's botched interview.
13.During a 2013 appearance on Howard TV, Mel B endured a series of invasive questions about her sexuality from host Howard Stern. Then, when he tried to pressure her into coming out, she left the set.
Here's the clip, with this part starting at the 2:10 mark:
14.And finally, on the Spanish radio show Los 40 Principales, the hosts capped off an awkward interview with Justin Bieber by telling him they wanted to make a video to "break the internet." He agreed — but then walked off.
Here's the full video, with this part starting at the 7:40 mark:
