21 Celebs Who Spent A Little Too Much Time In La La Land And Lost Touch With Reality

1.In a wild recent example, Jojo Siwa declared she wanted to "start a new genre of music" called "gay pop." Not only has her music career itself fallen short of anything genre-creating, but "gay pop" is already very much a genre that has existed for quite a long time.

JoJo Siwa smiles in large sunglasses with a quote about creating "gay pop."

2.Zara Larsson said on the podcast The Diary Of A CEO that her dream was to have a number one album worldwide, a stadium tour, and a helicopter, and to be at a Beyoncé level of success. Joking that she truly wanted "world domination," Larsson said, "I think I'm a little entitled to success, and I think if I ever, let's say, get a Grammy, I won't feel like 'Oh my god, I can't believe this is happening' – it's more like 'Finally, it took long enough.'" She then said, "Since I first understood what fame was, I always said, 'I'm going to be more famous than Elvis Presley.'" However, she added that she'd changed her perspective now as fame is "a form of a prison."

Zara Larsson says, "I always said, I'm gonna be more famous than Elvis Presley, Whitney and Beyoncé." Interviewer replies, "Jesus Christ."
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3.After activist Harry Belafonte said high-profile artists like Jay Z had "turned their back on social responsibility," Jay Z defended himself by suggesting he was a symbol. "I'm offended by that because, first of all, and this is going to sound arrogant, but my presence is charity. Just who I am," he said. "Just like Obama's is. Obama provides hope. Whether he does anything, the hope that he provides for a nation, and outside of America is enough."

Jay-Z
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4.In perhaps one of the most delusional quotes on this list, Jason Derulo once claimed that he made TikTok "the app that it is today," saying it was just an app for posting videos of yourself dancing until he started "posting things that was more fun." He said he decided to be a leader and try something new on the app and thinks "it changed the app forever."

Jason Derulo
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5.After dealing with perceived backlash for his faith*, Chris Pratt once compared himself to Jesus. "That's nothing new, that's nothing new, you know?" he said of criticism, then quoted scripture. "'If I was of this world, they would love me just like that but as it is, I've chosen out of this world.' That's John 15:18 through 20. That's the way it is, nothing new, 2,000 years ago they hated him, too." Him being Jesus, of course.

Chris Pratt

6.In a post addressing backlash to her comments on Israel and Palestine, Amy Schumer also addressed critics who called her a "failed comic," writing, "I'm the most successful female comedian of all time." While Schumer certainly has enjoyed quite a lot of success in Hollywood, the claim garnered intense backlash from those pointing out the careers of famous female comics before Schumer.

Amy Schumer
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7.Nicki Minaj similarly once referred to herself as one of the top ten rappers of all time, male or female, dead or alive. Saying you're in the top ten now is one thing, but all time???

Minaj says "I'd definitely rate myself top ten!" and, "Top 10, dead or alive. Men and women."
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8.We can't make this list without including former president Donald Trump. My favorite is probably the time Trump claimed that his cameo helped Home Alone 2 do well. After director Chris Columbus claimed Trump had "bullied" his way onto the film (by only letting them film at his hotel, The Plaza, if he could make a cameo), Trump responded, "That cameo helped make the movie a success, but if they felt bullied, or didn't want me, why did they put me in, and keep me there, for over 30 years? Because I was, and still am, great for the movie, that's why! Just another Hollywood guy from the past looking for a quick fix of Trump publicity for himself!" He also claimed they'd begged him to be in it and that his "little cameo took off like a rocket."

Trump talking to Kevin in Home Alone 2

The first film was the second-highest-grossing film of the year and one of the most beloved Christmas films of all time, so it's a bit of a stretch to say Trump's few-second cameo made it a success.

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9.In another example, after Princess Diana died in 1997, Donald Trump went on the Howard Stern Show to say he thought he could've gotten Diana to sleep with him. He also appeared to suggest that if she'd been with him, he could've saved her from dying. "I know that tunnel in Paris. It's got, like, a 30-mile limit. If you look at this tunnel – and I really know that tunnel well, I've been through that tunnel many times – you can't go more than like 30, 40 miles an hour. If you're going 40 miles an hour through that tunnel you're going fast. These people had to be going at 120-something miles an hour." He then said that Dodi Fayed, Diana's then-partner who was in the car with her (but was not driving), was clearly not good for her.

Princess Diana

10.Trump also (falsely) bragged on 9/11 that he now had the tallest building in downtown Manhattan. Calling into a TV station to discuss the attacks, he said, "I mean, 40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan. And it was actually – before the World Trade Center – was the tallest. And then when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest, and now it's the tallest."

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This was untrue and also seemed an inappropriate brag – as well as a way to make the attacks about his own so-called achievements — on a day when thousands were killed.

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11.Speaking of 9/11, Mark Wahlberg once claimed that, "If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn't have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, 'OK, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.'"

Mark Wahlberg
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12.One more 9/11 one, just because celebs loved to make it about themselves — Sean Penn told Variety that if he were president at the time of 9/11, “I'd have let White House counsel know that they are on vacation. I'm not consulting with them. If I have to go to prison, I'll go, but I'm going to kill them. I'm killing everyone that did this," he said. Because apparently Penn is some sort of Liam Neeson–in–Taken–style vigilante.

Sean Penn
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13.He *may* have been joking, but Simone Biles' husband, Jonathan Owens, a safety for the Green Bay Packers, came off a little cocky when talking about dating Biles on a podcast. When asked if he was the catch in their relationship, Owens replied, "I always say that the men are the catch." He also said he didn't know who Biles was when they first matched on Raya, but that he saw that "she just had a bunch of followers. So in my mind, I'm like, 'OK, she's got to be good.'" Biles is the most decorated US Olympic gymnast and one of the greatest athletes of all time.

Interviewer asks, "How did you do that, bro?" Jonathan Owens replies, "It's really how she pulled me, man, that's the question."
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14.Speaking of the Olympics...we have to mention when Andy Cohen asked what Kendall Jenner would do if she weren't a model, and she said she'd be an Olympic horseback rider as if this were also an achievable, reasonable goal.

Kendall Jenner being interviewed. Interviewer asks what she would do if not modeling. Jenner says she'd probably be in the Olympics for horseback riding
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15.Ariana Grande once called herself "the hardest working 23 year old human being on earth" on Instagram, hashtagging the photo of herself "#cute #butalso #CEO #haventsleptinyears." She deleted the post after people online pointed out that those struggling to provide for their families in minimum-wage jobs were probably working harder.

Ariana Grande
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16.This isn't really her fault, but Meghan Markle once claimed that she was told by a South African cast member at The Lion King premiere that because of her royal wedding, people in South Africa "rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison.'" The only South African in the cast claimed to have never met Markle and said that in South Africa, Markle's wedding to Prince Harry was "no big deal."

Meghan and Harry

17.In an example of someone being delusional about their partner, Ben Affleck once called then-partner J.Lo "the greatest performer in the history of the world," calling her music "brilliant" and pointing to her acting skills as well. While J.Lo is certainly a strong performer, this statement seemed a bit of a stretch, especially as someone who has long faced accusations of lip-synching and having others sing on her records.

Ben and J.Lo
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18.Debby Ryan once appeared to vastly overestimate the impact of her Disney Channel show Jesse. Speaking about an upcoming episode of Jesse that was set to feature Jesse's wedding, Debby Ryan claimed that she was making history (as apparently no other Disney lead had gotten married onscreen...oddly, neither did Ryan's character, instead saying "no" at the altar).

Debby Ryan shares her ambition to make history at Disney Channel, speaking at an event, with the Teen Vogue backdrop behind her
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19.Patrick J. Adams similarly seemed to overestimate the impact of his show Suits, suggesting that the HBO mega-hit Succession was only so popular and celebrated because Suits existed first. "It's in New York, we're dealing with New York. Power brokers, people moving and shaking at the highest levels of New York society," he said, pointing out a couple of actors and one director/producer who worked on Succession. He called Suits a "predecessor" to Succession, saying of their massive Award show wins, "Yeah, well, they got to be the grown-up" to Suits' "PG version." Not only are the two shows vastly different, but Suits was really, really not up to par with Succession.

Adams on Suits
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20.In a wildly cringeworthy example, Kate Winslet refuses to try therapy again because she thinks she's smarter than therapists. "I tried therapy once and thought, 'Oh God, I could outsmart you, goodbye.' So I won't bother with that again," she told The EDIT by Net-a-Porter.

Kate Winslet
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21.And finally, we'll end on one of my favorite examples because it's just so random. Anyone else remember when Jeremy Renner decided to create his own app? This was something really only the Kardashians were doing around that time. Unsurprisingly, it wasn't a well-received move and was quickly brought down by trolls because it was super easy to impersonate people on it.

Jeremy Renner
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