Oh, celebrities: they suck, yet we can't stop thinking about them. But who is truly the world's most worthless celebrity? Here at Heavy, we use science to answer these questions. Using a complex series of algorithms that monitor blog mentions, videos, and other Internet and media traffic, we have distilled the world's celebrities into an orderly list of 100 attention-seeking douchebags. Every day, we'll debut another entry on the list, counting down to the ultimate celebrity trainwreck.
Today’s trainwreck anchors one of the most successful shows on television, a tricky action series with a unique gimmick that has inspired hosts of imitators. A second-generation actor, he got his first big break in Stand By Me before appearing in nearly 70 films. Since 2001, however, he’s played Jack Bauer, one of the most complex and interesting characters on prime-time TV, on Fox’s 24. Bauer has wrestled with drug addiction, loyalty issues and women. Kiefer Sutherland has wrestled with all of the same things – plus Christmas trees.
As together as Jack Bauer has it, that’s exactly how out of control Kiefer Sutherland is. The actor has a nearly unstoppable appetite for hooch, and reports of his insanely drunken behavior are legion. Episodes of 24 have been rewritten to incorporate injuries the actor sustained while partying. In 2009, he headbutted Proenza Schouler co-founder Jack McCollough for daring to interrupt a conversation he was having with Brooke Shields. Recently, with the announcement that 24 would be ending, Sutherland has amped up his boozing to titanic levels, getting thrown out of a London strip club at four o’clock in the morning by a quartet of gigantic bouncers. And, of course, the following clip, of a blitzed Sutherland body-checking a Christmas tree in a hotel lobby because… “he’s a pirate.”
