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* When [[Margaret Cho]] appeared on ''[[Dancing With the Stars]]'', some tabloid ran an article about how the stars were scandalous backstage, and she was included. But since this is ''[[Anything That Moves|Margaret]] [[Ethical Slut|Cho]]'' we're talking about, the effect wasn't really the same.
* [[Chris Brown]] is managing to pull his career back together after his arrest for assaulting then-girlfriend [[Rihanna]] and his sentence to five years probation. His image is not completely as clean as it was before, but he definitely still has a fanbase (with some fans even blaming Rihanna for the abuse).
* [[Charlie Sheen]] has proven to be incredibly resilient to bad press and controversy. What would kill most other actors' careers dead just made Sheen a greater celebrity. To note: his first run-in with drug issues came in the '90s, when his father [[Martin Sheen]] had to hold a live press conference to beg his son to stop using. Many people thought he was burned-out...and then he came back with a vengeance on ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'', where he essentially played a caricature of himself (and wound up become one of the highest-paid actors on television). Then he went on a tear by sleeping with hookers, hiring two porn stars to live with him as his "goddesses", took potshots at [[CBS]] and TAAHM creator Chuck Lorre (which got him fired) and generally went batshit crazy (so much so that he was a media punchline). The end result of that was CBS paying him an incredibly handsome sum of money for the unproduced episodes of his show, Sheen becoming an internet hero thanks to his first televised interview after his meltdown, praise from fellow celebrities and fans, and a lucrative deal with the FX Network to develop a series based on the 2003 film ''[[Anger Management]]''. Apparently, it's good to be Charlie Sheen. This would finally end when it was shown he was HIV positive and intentionally spread the disease, causing his excommunication from production circles.
* Mario Lopez has continued to host numerous TV shows (such as ''Extra'') since his ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' days ended even though he infamously cheated (if not well throughout the relationship) on his wife Ali Landry virtually a day after their wedding (the marriage was annulled shortly thereafter).
* Tom Brady didn't suffer any effects to his squeaky-clean image after he cheated on his pregnant girlfriend and then left that girlfriend for the other woman. Some fans even congratulated him for it.
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