The Coal List: M&C looks at the clunkers of 2010

Posted by April MacIntyre Dec 23, 2010, 20:18 GMT

There was a lot of bad bad news in 2010. Part of the problem, not the solution- Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian - Z100's Jingle Ball 2010 Presented by H&M - Press Room - Madison Square Garden - New York City, NY, USA © Charles Norfleet / PR Photos

Part of the problem, not the solution- Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian - Z100's Jingle Ball 2010 Presented by H&M - Press Room - Madison Square Garden - New York City, NY, USA © Charles Norfleet / PR PhotosEnvironmental disasters, unwise career moves, horrid food and pork-laden legislation compounded by bad behaviors at award shows and life, in general.Here is our favorites "Horribles Parade" list for the bad of 2010:

The Lamia has nothing on Lohan's parents

Lindsay Lohan

She should be white hot in her career, but has let ego and bad baggage (her entire family = Lamia) star in a Long Island version of "Drag Me to Hell," just like in that Sam Raimi film. Lohan has aged herself prematurely with her indulgent lifestyle choices, and has allowed herself to become the butt of jokes and speculation in an Industry that is brimming with bright young faces eager to toss her off a fame cliff. "This year's girl" is an expression born of reality: Lohan's days are numbered if a miracle doesn't occur.

Paris Hilton

Hilton © Bob Charlotte / PR Photos

The tabloid spinster pushing 30 has eeked out whatever headline dregs she can muster by saddling up on a motorcycle in white boots, or getting on planes with concealed knives. Sad. (See Lohan notes above). Her old BFF Kim Kardashian still is smoking her for lucrative product deals and Google indexing. And Kardashian's fame stepping stone was being peed on in a sex tape starring her and Brandy Norwood's brother Ray J. Extra sad.

Bed Bugs

No hotel is immune, and New York, just like Mick Jagger sang way back in the day, is full of them "Up Town," These gross teeny tiny exoskeltor hitchhikers have put a crimp in many a hotel's bottom line, and the bites are extra disgusting to look at. The eradication of them is a major pain in the ass too, like head lice.

The BP Oil Spill

Bp Oil Spill . EPA/ERIK S. LESSER

Where did all the oil go? Many speculate it is sitting at the bottom of the Gulf, disrupting the warm Gulf Stream which normally wends its way up the Atlantic, keeping Britain temperate in the winter. Have you seen the news? The UK resembles the Arctic. The livelihood of so many was disrupted and the sea life, birds, crabs, fish, all destroyed by one company's great idea (forced out to deep sea by Government regulations) to drill out in the open ocean. Big mistake.Oh, and meet the 11 men who died on this doomed rig: Their families suffer this Christmas while BP stock is soaring once again.

Jesse James

Married to a gorgeous, talented, rich, kind, well-liked woman who is both a girl next door type and a sexy actress, James pulled a classic male-enhanced blunder and went slumming with a tatty biker chick who is on the Gloria Allred kiss-and-tell retirement path. Sort of.James screwed the pooch and showed no matter how lovely the woman, there's a dumb dude ready to blow it all up thanks to a wandering indiscriminate Johnson. Sad story, but Bullock kept it classy on her end and will thrive.

Tiger Woods

What do you say at this point? See entry above, and add to the fact you (Tiger) were once the pinnacle of success and admiration, and in a series of bad personal decisions, you became a sight gag, no matter how many expensive crisis PR gurus you hire. Lesson learned: Do not marry and start a family if you haven't gotten the dating and sleeping around bug worked out of your system. Especially if you are super famous and loaded.

Mel Gibson

Mel was once a favorite, but years of bad personal decisions fueled by boozy tirades revealing his true heart have made this one time A-lister a creepy, sad story in the Tinseltown of Schadenfreude, California. He has his own Opus Dei-like Orthodox Catholic Church out in the Agoura/ Calabasas Hills, and a Russian baby mama he tossed over his wife and seven children for in a relationship more volatile than Hugo Chavez on a bender.Wayne Rooney & The World Cup (Ian Cullen reporting from Manchester UK)Here in England our national team proved yet again that the English seem to only be good at losing the plot when national pride is at stake.In perhaps our most abysmal performance at a world cup competition ever, Wayne Rooney, who has been going nothing but down in my estimation as a human being, proves himself to be an even bigger arse than we initially believed by verbally attacking the English supporters after a game which he played like a total bollock in.Yet, mere months later he proved to be an even bigger twat! When he threatens to leave Manchester United Football club unless his demands are met. Add to this the fact that he was frequenting a brothel when his wife was graven with child. If there was an award for dickhead of the year, this guy would get it with Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg running a very close second.

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