History Main / ContractualPurity

** Then again, AdultVideo Actresses have appeared in Tokusatsu, the reason why Blade caused a blackmark is because a lead was caught being in porn.

** NataliePortman has been playing non-family-friendly roles for most of her career, but because of her stint in ''StarWars'', her general avoidance of partying, and her Harvard degree, she is seen as a good role model for young girls. She then parodied this in the SNL sketch "Natalie's Rap", in which she reveals through rap that she drinks, does drugs, has promiscuous sex, enjoys killing and beating people (and dogs) for fun, and has a general disdain for her younger fans.

** Miley's latest video (for "Can't Be Tamed") appears to be an example of this trope striking again.

** Actually it was the writers for the show that came under fire rather then Hilary herself, and that controversy actually died down pretty quickly once the episode aired and it's been largely forgotten by now.

* There was a story a few months ago about a teacher who was fired for having pictures of her drinking wine on Facebook. Another, more saddening story was about a woman where either her insurance or disability payments were cut off because she had depression, but posted pictures of her having fun on Facebook.

* An entire episode of ''{{Monk}}'', "Mr. Monk's Favorite Show", revolves around this concept.

* One year after the second ''HomeAlone'' film came out, Macaulay Culkin was seen starring in the R-rated film ''TheGoodSon'' where he plays [[CreepyChild a 10 year old psychopath]]. Among the things Culkin's character does are killing a dog with a homemade nailgun, causing a highway crash by dropping a dummy off a bridge, attempting to kill his mother, and as it's later found out, [[spoiler:murdering his younger brother by drowning him in the bathtub.]] RogerEbert's review can be found [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19930924/REVIEWS/309240303/1023 here]] and the [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Nostalgia Critic's]] mute review can be seen [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/4548-good-son here]].

* A big furor was kicked up when BritneySpears' teenage sister Jamie-Lynn got pregnant. She was the star of {{Nickelodeon}}'s hit KidCom ''{{Zoey 101}}''. It is widely believed that the scandal was responsible for the show [[CutShort not getting a fifth season]].
** Britney herself began her career as a squeaky-clean virgin girl-next-door type (which was an act from Day 1, as she was in a relationship with JustinTimberlake at the time, sex and all). This may have been what caused her CreatorBreakdown when she later tried to break out of that image.
*** Averted by Britney's classic rival ChristinaAguilera, whose early material was always a little suggestive despite her youth, making her later, more sexually-mature stuff easier to accept.

* Famously ''Blue Peter'' presenter Richard Bacon was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blrj2JpuWMs sacked]] after it was revealed he had taken cocaine.

** On the other hand, Richard Bacon being sacked after being caught taking cocaine was pretty reasonable.

->''"I'm honoured that people would think of me as a role model. On the other hand, I think it's sort of dangerous to choose a person and lift them so high - because at one point, I'm going to play a role that somebody doesn't like!"''
-->-- '''Anika Noni Rose''', on her role in ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog''

When a young actor comes to public prominence in association with clean, wholesome family entertainment roles, the expectation of studios and audiences is that the actor's personal life will reflect the same upright morality of the character he or she plays.

* [[LizzieMcGuire Hilary Duff]] tried her best to avoid this for years. She kept a low profile in the press, doesn't publicly party, drink, or go out without underwear, and kept mostly to family-friendly roles like ''ACinderellaStory'' and ''RaiseYourVoice''. About the biggest scandal around her to date has been her relationship with 10-years-older Joel Madden, and once that was over, it was quickly forgotten. Fast forward a couple years, and she's on the ''Tonight Show'' promoting her role in ''War, Inc.'', where she plays a spoiled, slutty foreign pop star who gets the main character's attention by ''putting a live scorpion in her pants''. Strangely, this didn't cause much of a stir. It probably helped that her character in ''War Inc.'' was a tragic parody of a [[LampshadeHanging young oversexualized female pop star]], complete with a pimp who planned on having her "star" in a porn movie. Though when she had a menage a trois on ''GossipGirl'', she finally caught the ire of the MoralGuardians.

** Hudgens is also cast as Mimi in a Hollywood Bowl production of {{Rent}}, directed by {{Neil Patrick Harris}}

** Andrews attempted to break herself out of this with her role in a notable 1970 flop called ''Darling Lili'' (playing a MataHari {{Expy}}); ''S.O.B.'' is partly based on hers and Edward's experiences.

* To get out of her contract on ''SeventhHeaven'', Jessica Biel posed topless -- not frontal -- in ''Gear'' magazine. This was enough to get her character PutOnABus for a good while, returning only sparingly and practically evolving into TheGhost with her own entirely off-screen storylines.

* Pretty much subverted by Steve Burns of ''BluesClues'' fame -- he has explicitly stated that he has no desire to kill the image of Blue's Clues' Steve by doing anything terribly unseemly (he's even said that he has refused requests to have sex in the Blue's Clues 'Thinking Chair' that he was given, on the grounds that it would feel like a bunch of parents were watching him do it). He ''has'' more recently pursued a rock n' roll career and been photographed drinking, but this was long after he left the show.
** He did, however, take a role as a murderer in ''HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' during his tenure on ''BluesClues'', but no one really saw a problem since [[HomicideLifeOnTheStreet Homicide]] (shown at 10 o'clock on Friday nights) wasn't big with the under-sixers.

* There was some controversy when Keisha Castle-Hughes, who played Mary in ''{{The Nativity Story}}'', got pregnant while unmarried and sixteen years old.

** This movie being too horrific for THAT guy is a perfect example of the {{Even Evil Has Standards}} trope.

** She may be having more luck playing Joan Jett's former bandmate Cherie Currie in ''Runaways''.

* Rapper Nelly arguably ruined his mass appeal by making the infamous ''Tip Drill'' video. Nelly was being groomed to be like the next Will Smith (but with more street cred), as a rapper who had mass appeal and wasn't like the other hardcore gritty rappers in the mainstream. So now there's this huge backlash and Nelly's career seemed defined by that raunchy vid. It arguably sapped his career's momentum.

** Cerina Vincent (Maya from [[PowerRangersLostGalaxy Lost Galaxy]]) reappeared after Power Rangers in a NakedPeopleAreFunny role in ''NotAnotherTeenMovie''. She's also shown up, clothes-optional, in some B-grade horror films for the college set. Allegedly, she became concerned about being [[TypeCasting typecast]] for nudity and even haggled with a director over how many inches of her derrière would be revealed in a movie (which the director verified with a ruler).

* ''SesameStreet'' Muppeteer Carroll Spinney describes a bad encounter in his autobiography. One day, some moron drove onto his lawn, rolled down the window and yelled, [[WhatAnIdiot "Hey! You the Bird? Do the voice!"]] Spinney says [[MissedMomentOfAwesome he wished he could yell "Get the hell off my property!" in Oscar the Grouch's voice,]] but instead just silently went inside in case any of his young fans were watching.

* Kristen Stewart became a victim of this after photos of her smoking pot outside her house were published. She began as a child actor and then got her big break as Bella Swan in ''{{Twilight}}''.

** This may or may not be what Sean Astin (who of course played Sam) was going for when he showed up as [[TwentyFour CTU Los Angeles]]' [[JerkAss insufferable prick]] of a [[TheUmbridge new boss]].

* MadelineZima, best known as the little girl in ''The Hand That Rocks The Cradle'' and as the youngest daughter on ''TheNanny'', recently seen [[{{Heroes}} making out with Hayden Panettiere]] and [[{{Californication}} punching David Duchovny in the face while fucking him]].

* A second grade teacher who took a sick day, appeared on Howard Stern's show in a bikini, and returned to find herself out of a job due to violating a school morality code. [[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0627081jarry1.html She ended up suing the school district.]].

* There are some notable aversions, where the actor or actress' first role is in a decidedly non-kid friendly production; ie. JenniferConnelly, who made her screen debut at fifteen in DarioArgento's ''Phenomena'' making her roles in movies such as ''RequiemForADream'' not that drastic a change; or HeatherMatarazzo, who made ''her'' debut at thirteen in the ultra-dark cult classic ''WelcomeToTheDollhouse'', making her rather, ahem, [[{{Gorn}} disturbing]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent demise]] in ''{{Hostel}} Part II'' not quite as shocking. Still pretty messed up, though.
** Natalie Portman has been playing non-family-friendly roles for most of her career, but because of her stint in StarWars, her general avoidance of partying, and her Harvard degree, she is seen as a good role model for young girls. She then parodied this in the SNL sketch "Natalie's Rap", in which she reveals through rap that she drinks, does drugs, has promiscuous sex, enjoys killing and beating people (and dogs) for fun, and has a general disdain for her younger fans.

** Heck, Japanese fans do this to fictional characters too. Probably the most infamous example is ''{{Kannagi}}'', where one chapter of the manga hinted that Nagi had a boyfriend once (not that she had sex, just that she was romantic with a guy). Cue angry fans decrying the series and the author, saying "[[WallBanger I don't want a second-hand wife]]", and the author subsequently ending the series for health reasons, which most people believe is the stress she suffered from dealing with said fans.

* A Episode of ''{{Diagnosis Murder}}'' had the murder victim (the Executive Head of a PAX TV-style network) given a fatal heart attack by video clips sliced into a show she's reviewing that had images of a lookalike practicing Satanism (which she did in College), something that would ruin anyone's career, let alone hers.

*** As EddieIzzard said [[HilariousInHindsight eleven years earlier]]: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IzDbNFDdP4 "But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijana!" "Yes, but they're cheating. Everybody knows that marijuana is a drug enhancement that can help you on track and field to come in last in a team of eight million...eight million other runners who are all dead"]] (at about 2:10).
**** Still: marihuana ''is'' on the banned substance list in many sports and ''will'' get you a ban.

** Hudgens is also cast as Mimi in a Hollywood Bowl production of {[Rent}}, directed by {{Neil Patrick Harris}}

** Miley's latest video (for "Can't Be Tamed") appears to be an example of this trope striking again. At this rate, by this time next year she'll probably have her own sub-page for the trope.
*** At the very least, there should be a sub-page for {{Disney}} graduates. Miley's just following the likes of LindsayLohan and BritneySpears.
**** Done.

**Some people, ''including her own father'', disowned her when she came out of the closet and revealed her girlfriend, Samantha Ronson.

!RealLife Examples (in alphabetical order):

** A similar, more recent, and much bigger furor was kicked up when BritneySpears' teenage sister Jamie-Lynn got pregnant. She was the star of {{Nickelodeon}}'s hit KidCom ''{{Zoey 101}}''. It is widely believed that the scandal was responsible for the show [[CutShort not getting a fifth season]].
*** Britney herself began her career as a squeaky-clean virgin girl-next-door type (which was an act from Day 1, as she was in a relationship with JustinTimberlake at the time, sex and all). This may have been what caused her CreatorBreakdown when she later tried to break out of that image.
****Averted by Britney's classic rival ChristinaAguilera, whose early material was always a little suggestive despite her youth, making her later, more sexually-mature stuff easier to accept.

* MileyCyrus, Disney's ''HannahMontana'', was involved in a flap over a photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz that included "art shots" of the fifteen year old topless, though covered by a blanket.
** And just after she got over that, another photo scandal happened when someone hacked her phone and got photos of her in a wet T-shirt. And not much else.
** And now, there's her performance at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, which involved her wearing shorts that were [[{{Stripperiffic}} small enough to be considered panties]], surrounded by scantily-clad backup dancers, and ''dancing on a pole''. It can be argued that she was using that pole to keep from falling off the moving cart she was standing on, but that begs the question: why was she on that cart in the first place?
** Miley's latest video (for "Can't Be Tamed") appears to be an example of this trope striking again. At this rate, by this time next year she'll probably have her own sub-page for the trope.
*** At the very least, there should be a sub-page for {{Disney}} graduates. Miley's just following the likes of LindsayLohan and BritneySpears.
*[[LizzieMcGuire Hilary Duff]] tried her best to avoid this for years. She kept a low profile in the press, doesn't publicly party, drink, or go out without underwear, and kept mostly to family-friendly roles like ''ACinderellaStory'' and ''RaiseYourVoice''. About the biggest scandal around her to date has been her relationship with 10-years-older Joel Madden, and once that was over, it was quickly forgotten. Fast forward a couple years, and she's on the ''Tonight Show'' promoting her role in ''War, Inc.'', where she plays a spoiled, slutty foreign pop star who gets the main character's attention by ''putting a live scorpion in her pants''. Strangely, this didn't cause much of a stir. It probably helped that her character in ''War Inc.'' was a tragic parody of a [[LampshadeHanging young oversexualized female pop star]], complete with a pimp who planned on having her "star" in a porn movie. Though when she had a menage a trois on ''GossipGirl'', she finally caught the ire of the MoralGuardians.
** Actually it was the writers for the show that came under fire rather then Hilary herself, and that controversy actually died down pretty quickly once the episode aired and it's been largely forgotten by now.
*[[HighSchoolMusical Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens]], who are [[RomanceOnTheSet dating in real life]], have caught a bit of flak for such terrible things as making out on the beach and letting it be known that they're *gasp* possibly doing things of a [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean more intimate nature]]. Seeing as how they're pretty much a perfectly normal (and perfectly happy) couple in their mid-twenties, this is a little ridiculous. They have both politely but firmly explained this. Repeatedly.
**What about Hudgens' nude photos scandal, though?
***Last I checked, Vanessa was over eighteen. She can show off her body if she damn well feels like it.
***The Hudgens issue may have had more to do with the fact that she is in a kid-friendly franchise along with the concerns about Vanessa's age when the pictures were taken (Vanessa is in her early 20s currently but was [[JailBait around 17-18]] when the first ''HighSchoolMusical'' film came out).
**Hudgens is starring in the upcoming action movie ''SuckerPunch''. Judging by [[ZackSnyder its director]] (who has a penchant for hyper-stylized violence) and some of the promotional materials (including some very {{fanservice}}-y shots of her and her co-stars), it would be a surprise if this movie doesn't trigger a reaction from the MoralGuardians.

*Anne Hathaway was the target of an explosion of controversy when she appeared topless in the movie ''Havoc''. Her previous roles: both ''[[ThePrincessDiaries Princess Diaries]]'' movies and ''EllaEnchanted''. Since then, she's successfully graduated into doing more adult roles with no further controversy, including a recovering heroin addict in ''RachelGettingMarried''.

*Likewise, LindsayLohan, who owes her career to her early Disney films even more than Hathaway does.

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