8 Celebrities Who Got “Cancelled” In 2025

Fame might seem easy on the outside, but 2025 showed that celebrity life is not just rainbows and puppies. Some scandals burn up in a week, while others smolder slowly, releasing all sorts of noxious gases. This year had a mix of everything: courtroom dramas, embarrassing social media moments, tone-deaf displays by wealthy people, and PR choices that make you question if anyone in the room thought twice about doing something stupid.

1. Leonardo DiCaprio

Being a climate activist is challenging when you (partially) own a luxurious hotel in Tel Aviv. Not only is it bad for DiCaprio’s karma to have a stake in a huge, juicy money magnet like that, but he’s also basically indirectly throwing his voice into the whole Israel/Palestine situation. A lot of his fans found it quite tone-deaf. Then, he attended Bezos’s Venice wedding in a freaking jet of all things, which resulted in his “climate activist club” card being shredded to pieces.

2. Rachel Zegler

Disney’s live-action Snow White was a flop, but for some reason, Disney was acting like people were dumb for hating on it. Zegler faced backlash from multiple directions, including casting complaints and criticism of the 1937 original. Then she cracked her knuckles and started saying all sorts of things on social media, including a Trump diss, and showing support for Palestinians. When the film flopped like a dead fish, it was clear that it was not what a $270 million remake is supposed to look like. Bad remake aside, it’s weird how technically being right can still tank your popularity if you start shouting at people on Twitter.

3. Blake Lively

If 2025 had a “Most Likely To Be Settled And Somehow Got Worse” award, Blake Lively’s legal saga would’ve been the only nominee. Her lawsuit against Justin Baldoni carried over from 2024, and Baldoni’s January 2025 countersuit basically argued that both of these knucklehead stars used their influence to seize control of a project, then tried to play dumb when things went sour. Then came yet another lawsuit, plus some other stuff, and in the middle of it all, she still landed a Time “most influential” nod, and publicly kept her comments short. You can tell she was trying not to ruin everything by saying too much.