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5 Famously Controversial Celebrity Halloween Costumes, Ranked

For all its spookiness, Halloween is one of the best days of the year. People celebrate by dressing up in silly costumes and eating tons of candy—it’s hard to think of anything bad about that. Celebrities do the former better than anyone, and always bring their A-game when it comes to incredible costumes.

For example, this year, Rita Ora probably won Halloween by dressing up as Post Malone:

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And Halsey was scary-hot as Poison Ivy:

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But sometimes, celebrity costumes aren’t too well thought out and become seriously controversial—and fans don’t let the offender live it down for years

With that said, what follows are five instances when celebrities wore famously controversial Halloween costumes, ranked by tastelessness.

5. Shaun White as Simple Jack from Tropic Thunder

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White dressed as Simple Jack from the movie Tropic Thunder, and was criticized by the Special Olympics for mocking people with disabilities.

White issued an apology in the form of a tweet, saying:

“I owe everyone in the Special Olympics community an apology for my poor choice of Halloween costume the other night. It was a last minute decision. It was the wrong one. The Special Olympics were right to call me out on it. They do great work supporting so many tremendous athletes and I am sorry for being insensitive. Lesson learned.”

4. Heidi Klum as the Goddess Kali

Supermodel and former Maxim cover girl Heidi Klum usually has amazing and intricate Halloween costumes, but in 2008, the model dressed up as Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction. 

And though the costume was undeniably really well-made, it offended Hindus, and Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed said the Goddess was “meant to be worshiped in temples and not to be used in clubs for publicity stunts.” According to Gawker, Hindu-American leaders demanded an apology.

Klum reportedly said,” I loved it because she’s so mean and killed all these different people and [had] fingers hanging off [her] and little shrunken heads everywhere.” 

3. Julianne Hough as Crazy Eyes from Orange is the New Black

Normally, it’s all fun and games to dress up as a movie or TV show character for Halloween, but it’s generally frowned upon when the costume involves blackface, as Julianne Hough’s 2013 costume as Crazy Eyes from the Netflix series Orange is the New Black did.

According to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, blackface is a take on Minstrelsy, or “comedic performances of ‘blackness’ by whites in exaggerated costumes and make-up,” where the main focus was to mock enslaved Africans, and would portray them as “lazy, ignorant, superstitious, hypersexual and prone to thievery and cowardice.”

The more you know!

2. Chris Brown as a Terrorist

Dressing up as a terrorist does not make for a very nice costume, considering the sheer amount of pain, death, and destruction they cause. But Chris Brown doesn’t care, and he dressed up as one for Halloween back in 2012.

However, unlike most celebrities who issue apologies when they’ve offended the public, Chris Brown issued a big old fuck you to anyone who didn’t appreciate his costume and told them to “get over it.”

In an interview on L.A.’s Power 106 radio he said:

It’s fucking Halloween! It’s a motherfucking pagan holiday! We dress our kids up as satans, demons, little goblins and all this other shit. Get over it, people! I was dressed as the people we killed… Bin Laden! And everybody who really mad about it: fuck y’all.

1. Prince Harry as a Nazi

I don’t even need to explain why dressing up as a Nazi is a bad idea. C’mon, Harry. Really?

Ford Unleashes Race-Ready 2019 GT Carbon Series Supercar

A new special edition GT is coming in 2019 and Ford is dubbing this one the Carbon Series, mostly because it’s decked out in exposed carbon fiber from wheels to hatch. Ford says this edition is specifically to accommodate well-heeled fans who have responded well to the carbon trim in previous models and want even more.

Those material changes have actually helped this edition of the 2019 Ford GT shed around 40 pounds of weight. The Carbon Series special edition also widens the GT to give it a lower center of gravity and better handling, on track or off.

That distinction seems to have been in the forefront of Ford’s mind when they were making changes to the 2019 model. Yes, this is a track car that will absolutely burn rubber and grip turns but a showpiece like the GT is meant to be driven, and, for most people, that means spending at least some time on local roads. 

Ford has actually outfitted the GT with their Sync system as a result of this but managed to doll up the interior with silver stitching and even more exposed carbon for this edition to keep it unique. 

Whether you’re driving for show or dough, this Carbon Series GT will certainly turn heads. Sharing the same devastatingly good-looking lines as every other modern GT since it was reintroduced a few years ago, the Carbon Series boasts much more exposed carbon fiber and specifically gives buyers the options to choose the colors for the side-view mirror accents, stripes and calipers.

Buyers looking to drop well into six-figures for one of these Ford GTs can apply to do so on Ford’s website starting on November 8th. 

The window for application will only stay open for 30 days afterwards, though it’s unlikely any will be left come December.