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From intimate furniture relationships to porcine controversies, politics has given us some truly head-scratching moments. Join us as we count down the most jaw-dropping political scandals that left the public either laughing uncontrollably or gasping in disbelief! These aren't your typical corruption cases – these are the scandals so bizarre they sound like fiction.
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00:00Is this all crazy or what? Is this the worst allegation you've heard so far?
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most surprising, weirdest, and outrageous scandals involving political figures around the world.
00:13He says he was just horsing around, but pulling a woman's ponytail is proving highly embarrassing for the Prime Minister.
00:20Silvio Berlusconi's bunga bunga parties.
00:23In Italy, sex politics in Hollywood are taking center stage.
00:26The late Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was involved in plenty of scandals, gaffes, and controversies during and after his time in office.
00:35But one absurd and outrageous scandal looms large, and it can be summed up with the same word repeated twice – bunga bunga.
00:43Berlusconi was charged and convicted for having allegedly paid for sexual services for underage Moroccan prostitute Ruby Rubiquori, whom he also supposedly released from police custody.
00:54Ruby Rubiquori claimed that Berlusconi had invited her to sex parties where the participants engaged in African-inspired bunga bunga dances in the nude.
01:03Mr. Berlusconi always insisted that these were elegant parties in good taste, but certainly the details that have come out during this trial point to something quite the opposite.
01:16Although Berlusconi successfully appealed his sentence, the Italian press and the internet will never forget this headline-worthy scandal.
01:25Scott Morrison's alleged accident.
01:27Scott Morrison's office has put out a statement.
01:31Sometimes a rumor takes on a life of its own.
01:33Since 2018, an urban myth has sprung up about former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
01:39The story goes that, following the loss of the Cronulla Sharks rugby team in the grand final in 1997, Morrison defecated in his pants at a McDonald's restaurant, or Macca's, as they say down under.
01:51It is the biggest urban myth ever.
01:54So it's not even true.
01:55That you pooed your pants at the Engadine McDonald's?
01:57It's complete and utter rubbish.
01:59I found the whole thing incredibly amusing.
02:02The hilarious rumor spread faster than Vegemite on toast across Australia, and the Engadine Macca's in question even has a plaque to commemorate the event.
02:12However, both Morrison and the rumor's progenitor, musician Rowan Dix, aka Joyride, have denied any truth to the myth.
02:20He was just s**t-hosting.
02:22Um, quite literally.
02:24Tractorgate.
02:25Sheepish.
02:26Probably the best word to describe Neil Parrish.
02:28In 2022, British Conservative MP Neil Parrish was accused by a group of female colleagues of having watched pornography in the House of Commons.
02:37Initially, Parrish alleged that he may have viewed the erotica by mistake.
02:41Is this embarrassing?
02:42Of course it's embarrassing, and it's embarrassing for my wife and family.
02:47However, he later claimed to have reached the pornographic material after trying to view a site about tractors.
02:54Parrish eventually owned up to looking at the porn on purpose a second time.
02:58My biggest crime is that on another occasion I went in a second time.
03:04And that was deliberately?
03:05That was deliberate.
03:06And the resulting scandal led to his resignation.
03:09Mixing tractors of all things with a porn scandal was bound to pull everyone's attention.
03:15Spanish mayor done for drunk biting.
03:18The COVID-19 lockdowns drove everybody a little crazy, but this scandal was especially wild.
03:23During 2020, Spain imposed strict curfews to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
03:29Alex Pastor, mayor of Badalona, was arrested after violating the curfew in April.
03:34He also refused to take a breathalyzer test and bit one of the arresting officers.
03:39Naturally, Pastor was arrested for drunk driving and assault and resigned his position.
03:44The Spanish press had a field day with the incident, comparing Pastor to Hannibal Lecter.
03:49But that's hardly fair.
03:51To Hannibal, a drunk bite on the side of the road?
03:53The guy had more class than that.
03:55I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
04:03The Thorpe Affair.
04:05He was a man who wouldn't let anything stand in his way.
04:10Homosexuality was a contentious topic in the UK, namely because it was considered a criminal
04:14offense until 1967.
04:17That's why, when Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe became embroiled in this scandal and
04:21a subsequent trial, it was a massive deal.
04:24Norman Joseph, aka Norman Scott, alleged that he had been in a relationship with the married
04:29Thorpe during the 60s.
04:31Not only that, but Thorpe had apparently enacted a clumsy conspiracy to have Scott murdered to
04:36ensure his silence, with the hitman instead killing his dog.
04:40Despite Thorpe and his conspirators going to trial, an infamously less-than-objective judge
04:46and jury acquitted them all.
04:48Thorpe may have gone free, but his political career was effectively destroyed by the court
04:52of public opinion.
04:53The jury decided that he was not guilty.
04:56And those of us who'd worked with him could not do anything else but accept the jury's verdict.
05:01I mean, that's the way the system worked.
05:04John Key pulls ponies.
05:05He says he was just horsing around, but pulling a woman's ponytail is proving highly embarrassing
05:10for the Prime Minister.
05:11In 2015, New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key came under fire in this very unusual scandal.
05:18A waitress disclosed that Key had pulled her ponytail repeatedly, and by repeatedly we
05:22mean on many different occasions over several months.
05:25Key also tried to smooth things over with a gifted bottle of Pinot Noir.
05:30She said he told her her ponytail was tantalising.
05:33When I realised she took offence by that, I just immediately went back, gave her some
05:37wine, apologised to her, I was terribly sorry.
05:39Sure, Kiwis probably weren't too enthused that their head of government had the exact
05:44level of maturity as a schoolboy on a playground, but on behalf of the international community,
05:49we'd just like to say it's objectively funny.
05:52My conduct clearly upset the staff member in question.
05:55I sincerely apologised to her at the time.
05:58I became aware of that, and I've continued to do so publicly.
06:01J.D. Vance and the couch.
06:03I do not love humping couches.
06:06My meemaw would not approve.
06:07Look, 2024 was a rough year in politics for America, but one moment of levity happened beginning
06:13in July, when a tweet sparked an absolutely hysterical rumour.
06:17The story went that then-vice presidential candidate and later vice president J.D. Vance
06:22got intimate with a couch.
06:25An attempt to fact-check the rumour by the Associated Press, and later its retraction of that fact-check
06:31drew more attention to it.
06:33Vance's alleged furniture relations sparked widespread parodies on late-night and variety
06:38shows, and even his political opponents referenced it on the campaign trail.
06:42I can't wait to debate the guy.
06:45That is, if he's willing to get off the couch and show up.
06:49To paraphrase Stephen Colbert, it doesn't matter that it probably isn't true, because
06:54it was hilarious just how easy it is to imagine him doing it.
06:59We-we-we called his campaign office to ask him if he f***ed a couch, and they hung up
07:06on us, which isn't a no.
07:07John Stonehouse's disappearance.
07:09John was a new breed of politician, perfectly at home in front of the cameras.
07:14An ex-UK MP, John Stonehouse had many things to hide, including some creative accounting and
07:20the fact that he was a spy for Czechoslovakia.
07:23Stonehouse decided to start afresh by faking his own death.
07:26He did so by leaving some folded clothes behind on a beach in Miami, Florida.
07:31Initially, there was a certain element of disbelief, that in fact he had either drowned or had
07:37been taken by a shark.
07:40Stonehouse's plan to run off to Australia with his mistress and embezzled money hit a
07:45snag, when a bank teller alerted the Australian police about his using multiple names on his
07:50accounts.
07:51When Stonehouse was arrested, he had to drop his pants to prove he wasn't a different British
07:56politician, Lord Lucan, who'd also disappeared shortly before, following the murder of his
08:02kid's nanny.
08:03Lord Lucan was probably the most wanted man in the world, and it looked like he'd just
08:08turned up in Melbourne.
08:09Lucan had a thigh scar.
08:11It's less weird in context, but only slightly.
08:15Rob Ford in general.
08:17First, it was denial.
08:19I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict.
08:22Six months later.
08:24Confession.
08:25Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine.
08:27Imagine if Chris Farley had held elected office.
08:30Well, Rob Ford is like that times a thousand.
08:34Toronto, Canada's late former mayor was like a walking, talking parody, and the country,
08:38and indeed the world, could not look away.
08:41Ford's four years as mayor were rife with scandals.
08:44From domestic disturbances at his home, to the guy making lewd remarks about his own
08:48wife on camera.
08:50However, arguably, the coup de grace was the reveal of a video in 2013 of Ford doing crack
08:56cocaine.
08:57He would keep his silence, refusing to explain anything.
09:01Mayor Ford, is this?
09:03Is this all crazy or what?
09:07Is this the worst allegation you've heard so far?
09:09Ford was relieved of most of his duties as mayor for the rest of his term.
09:13But not before a second video of him doing crack emerged.
09:17People who say Canada is boring don't know what the hell they're talking about.
09:21These mistakes will never, ever, ever, happen again.
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09:43Hashtag Piggate.
09:48UK Prime Ministers have faced some scandalous accusations, but few reach this level of strangeness.
09:55In 2015, an unauthorized biography of former British Prime Minister David Cameron was released.
10:00The book contains an unsubstantiated anecdote that, during the initiation for a dining club,
10:06Cameron put his privates inside the mouth of a dead pig.
10:10I mean, what are the benefits of joining this club?
10:13I mean, what do you get?
10:14Ten percent of sports equipment?
10:15If that sounds weird enough to be an episode of Black Mirror, that's because it's basically
10:19the plot of that show's very first episode.
10:21While this is probably yet another example of a wild rumor taking on a life of its own,
10:26the alleged porcine necrophilia is both disturbing and funny enough that nobody could stop talking
10:32about it.
10:33Some newsreaders certainly tried and failed.
10:36There's plenty of these things and everyone goes around saying,
10:38oh, it's about a pig when he was 20.
10:41Well, how about being really appalling when he was 50?
10:44Is there a crazy political scandal we forgot?
10:47Pull your favorites in the comments.
10:49I just love a couch that you can sink into, you know?
10:53Platonically.
10:56I just love a couch that you can watch him.
10:59We've got the kids that you 한다 their way.
11:03We've got one.
11:05So here to be somebody who has a photo and you can go in?
11:10We just don't know anyone but you can figure the ninth by two when you fit an email.
11:16Bye bye bye.
11:18mesmo.
11:19I don't know anyone but you can sit in the chair.
11:22I'm out.
11:23I don't know whoever I am.
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