Many celebrities are able to fund their lavish lifestyle thanks, in large part, to paid endorsement contracts. All kinds of businesses recruit the help of famous names and faces to sell their product or service. However, many a celebrity has learned the hard way that their fame does not make the invincible. When they break a law, or even just do something a company deems unacceptable, celebrities are vulnerable to losing their spokesperson status and a portion of their income.

Here are several examples of where bad decisions or poor judgement cost celebrities their endorsement contracts.

Tiger Woods and Gatorade, AT&T, and Accenture

There are few people who don’t remember Tiger Woods’ recent problems. The golf super star’s affairs were made public earlier this year by media everywhere, and hard-core fans and even people who didn’t know a thing about golf, were shocked to find out Woods’ wholesome, role-model image wasn’t all it was thought to be. Although Woods apologized, he lost endorsement deals (or was not given the opportunity to resign them) with Gatorade and AT&T, and Accenture had to scrap an entire campaign based around Woods.

Procter & Gamble’s Gillette, Tag Heuer, and LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton didn’t completely drop Tiger, but they did shift the focus of their campaigns away from him. Nike and Electronic Arts Inc. continued to include Woods in their campaigns. It is estimated that Woods lost about $12 billion after his affairs hit the news.

Kobe Bryant and Nutella and McDonalds

When Kobe Bryant got in trouble with the law, he damaged not just his image, but two major endorsement deals. In 2003, Nutella, made by Ferrero, let the basketball hero’s contract expire when a hotel maid in Colorado accused Bryant of sexual assault. Then, in 2004, Bryant’s contract with McDonald’s was not renewed. Although Bryant made a public apology and settled the assault case out of court, he lost endorsement agreements with two major businesses.

Madonna and Pepsi

In 1989 Madonna came out with her infamous music video for “Like a Prayer” that offended many with its controversial religious imagery, including burning crosses, and lost her chance to advertise for Pepsi. The popular soda company cancelled its television commercials featuring Madonna after viewers were confusing the spot with the music video and were upset with Pepsi’s apparent approval of its contents. In fact, The American Family Association started a boycott of Pepsi products, but later ended it.

Michael Phelps and Kelloggs

U.S. Olympian and hero to many in the swimming world, Michael Phelps had an excellent reputation. Fans were glued to their television sets as they watched him swim laps up and down pools and win 14 Olympic gold medals, more than any other Olympian. However, America’s love affair with Phelps cooled down when pictures of the athlete smoking a marijuana pipe hit the press. Kellogg’s had an endorsement deal with the star, but decided not to extend it, most likely due to Phelp’s drug issues.

After the incident, Phelps was not given financial support from USA Swimming, or allowed to compete, for three months due, not to a violation of rules, but because the organization didn’t believe Phelps was fit to be a role model. However, Speedo, Omega, and Visa all continued their relationship with Phelps.

O.J. Simpson and Hertz

Most people remember the O.J. Simpson trial, full of car chases and gloves. The well-known football player and broadcaster was almost equally as well known for the Hertz commercials he stared in, beginning in the 70’s. When Simpson was accused of domestic abuse, Hertz ended their contract with him in 1992.

Two years later, Simpson was tried for murdering his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The trial was drawn out and the country was fascinated by the details of the case and the often controversial developments. Hertz was probably grateful it no longer had a contract with Simpson when he was tried for double murder.

Kate Moss and Chanel, Burberry, and H&M

Kate Moss, the extremely well-known English beauty, is a successful model who has been featured on more than 300 magazine covers. Making millions every year, Moss has been in lots of advertising campaigns and is known for her relationships with other famous people. However, even money and connections can’t save a celebrity caught snorting cocaine.

In 2005, the Daily Mirror printed pictures of Moss using the drug with her former boyfriend. When the story came out, Chanel decided not to renew its endorsement contract with the model after it was scheduled to end a month later and Burberry cancelled a planned ad campaign that featured Moss. H&M originally stood by Moss when she apologized to its marketing chief, but later ended the relationship over fears the fall out would harm their image as a company that supports drug prevention and who works with the Mentor Foundation.

Martina Hingis and Tacchini

When tennis player Martina Hingis sued Tacchini in 2001 (an Italian shoe and tennis gear business) she came out on the bottom both when the case was dismissed and she lost her endorsement deal with the company. The extremely accomplished Swiss athlete wore Tacchini shoes for four years as the company’s main celebrity endorser, then filed a lawsuit against the same company, claiming the shoes caused chronic foot problems.

What’s a company to do when it is sued by one of it’s endorsers? Drop the celebrity of course. Tacchini filed for bankruptcy in 2007 and then a year later, the remaining parts of the business where bought by a businessman in Hong Kong.

Michael Vick and Nike, AirTran Airways, Coca-Cola, and Kraft Foods

Animal rights activists and football enthusiasts alike were disappointed in Michael Vick when he was accused of conspiring to run an interstate dog-fighting operation in 2007. The day after the iconic player pleaded not guilty to the charges, Nike stopped selling Vick-centric merchandise (as did Reebok) and suspended his contract without pay. When Vick eventually pleaded guilty Nike ended the endorsement deal. Interestingly enough, after Vick served a 20-month sentence, Nike picked him up as a celebrity endorser again in 2009.

But wasn’t all the football star had to deal with. Also in 2007, Airtran Airways didn’t renew Vick’s endorsement contract when it expired. It’s unclear whether the relationship came to an end over the dog-fighting incident or one of Vick’s other questionable situations like when he made obscene gestures to fans or when airport security found suspicious material in a water bottle.

After Vick’s scrape with the law, Coca-Cola also chose not to renew their contract with the athlete but stated the decision to end the PowerAde campaign featuring Vick was made a few years before the incident occurred. Kraft Foods also didn’t renew their endorsement contract with Vick, for unknown reasons.

Chris Brown and Doublemint

If you were to ask Brown “Got Endorsements?” The answer would be no.  In 2009, the singing sensation Chris Brown was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend and fellow singer Rihanna. This prompted the Milk Processor Education Program to discontinue their Chris Brown “Got Milk?” ads and a radio station in Cleveland stopped playing his tunes. While Wrigley did say Brown deserved due process in the proceedings, they stopped running their Doubleming ads featuring the R&B artist.

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OK, we’ll put you out of your not inconsiderable misery. Perhaps it’s little surprise to find out that Katie Price has been cracking the whip in the direction of hubby Alex Reid. Alex was booked to do a photo shoot for a top-flight gay mag – to further his career, y’unnerstan – but when Katie found out he wasn’t being paid for his time she wasn’t having a bar of it. La Price stormed round and dragged a cowed Alex home after a mere two shots had been snapped. Bad boy! Now go fetch the money.

The self-abuser is of course Col… no, not really, it’s Kerry Katona, who’s “finally” (because, like, we’ve all been on tenterhooks) spilled the beans on the sordid reality of her life for the last couple of years. “I’d take so much coke I’d have a fit,” she told the News of the World. “Then I’d come round and do another line, trying to shock him into showing he cared.” The “him”, as we know, is hubby Mark Croft, whom Kezza turfed out a few weeks ago. Well rid, says we.

Which leaves ever-fragrant Coleen Rooney, who showed up at Aintree sans hubby Wayne for the Grand National at the weekend, dressed in something that looked like nothing more like a giant placenta. She topped off the, ahem, maternity-wear with a gigantic pair of gold earrings, perhaps to distract the eye away from that pooch’s soup of a dress. Take a leaf out of fellow Aintree attendee (and wife of Steven Gerrard) Alex Curran’s book, Col – she looked grand, if a little Star Trek with those crazy shoulder pads…

Meanwhile in neighbouring Germany, Cheryl Cole was wowing all comers with a sterling performance at a music awards show – and apparently using everything she’s learned from Victoria Beckham insodoing. No, we don’t mean she didn’t actually sing, we’re referring to one reflective UK tabloid’s insistence that our Chezza wouldn’t know one end of a Louboutin pump from the other were it not for Posh’s tutelage. Unconvinced, we are.

Talking of style icons, the rumour mill’s been pumping out all manner of tittle-tattle relating to the Sex and the City girls… sorry, ladies. If we’re to believe the latest round of groundless hearsay, the makers of the SatC movies (the second one’s pretty much finished, by all accounts) are anxious to get a third flick in the can as soon as possible – because Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis will soon be too long in the tooth to convince us as sophisticated girls-about-town.

We reckon the sadly fictional New Yorkers could teach real-life fashion icons a thing or two, though. Back at Paris Fashion Week, Kate Moss turned up to promote the new line of bags she’s designed for posho label Longchamp and support her mate Stella McCartney. And if our eyes don’t deceive us, La Moss is finally starting to look like she’s in her mid-30s – a blessed relief for those of us who’ve looked 42 since we were about 17…

But first, Katie Price. Perhaps surprisingly, the model/relentless self-publicist wasn’t clad in a show-stopping dress when she showed up for an interview on This Morning. But she did apparently leave her mental faculties at home, somehow referring to new husband Alex Reid as “Pete” live on air. Now, we’ve no idea who this Pete fella is – he must be camera-shy or something – but no doubt Alex won’t have been pleased at the slip-up.

Enough of that, anyway. To the dresses! Mere mention of the phrase “Sex and the City” conjures up instantaneous images of couture galore, and sure enough three of the four SatC girls – sorry, ladies (let’s not pretend anymore) – showed up in Las Vegas for the ShoreWest film convention. Sarah Jessica Parker wowed ‘em all in a gravity-defying noirish number, while Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis also chose black (didn’t they ring each other first?). The threesome actually wore more colourful frocks that same afternoon, but the sight of all three in a row gave us a migraine.

Meanwhile back in Blighty, the Olivier Awards prompted various retina-scorching explosions of colour (wrapped around varied thesps, TV stars and the odd popstrel, of course) to turn up at the Grosvenor House Hotel. Melanie Chisholm caused a stir by wearing a dress once made vaguely famous for about 10 minutes by her former Spice Girls bandmate Victoria Beckham, while Keira Knightley wore a cat-sickly Erdem gown and Rachel Weisz lost a Tiffany earring while posing in her Narciso Rodriguez number. Some people just can’t be trusted when there’s jewellery around.

Meanwhile on planet pop, Cheryl Cole’s taken to wearing her wedding ring again, sparking enthused rumours that, umm, she just doesn’t wear it all the time. Nothing to see here, folks! We all know Ashley’s a cad of the first water, but hey, if she can forgive him then I am sure we can too.  I mean, he must be good at something.. oh that’s right he is a footballer so we have to give him some credit.

If you’re hankering after some proper hardcore jewellery, though, look no further than Paula Abdul’s fairly insane bracelet/bangle/glove/whatever-it-is at the American Music Awards. Sadly Nicole Kidman, Leona Lewis and even Rihanna let the side down in comparison, wearing a net curtain, a bin liner and a small child’s paper sculpture, respectively.

Thanks heavens, then, for Jedward, who will no doubt be capitalising on their recent X Factor “success” (they got voted out over the weekend) by appearing on absolutely anything offered to them for a few weeks. Chaps – I can see a little sunshine, go make some hay now! I would certainly watch out for them in the New Year.  If the Cheeky Girls can release an album after being booted off Popstars The Rivals early on in the show, then I am sure there is a singing/acting career ready for Jedward.

Why? Only Elena Di Cioccio (for the “handy” presenter was she) knows, but all we can say is that’s definitely not award-winning behaviour and we can’t imagine any UK chat show hosts trying a similar trick. In fact, groping guests was no doubt far from Ant & Dec’s minds during the Britain’s Got Talent auditions in Manchester…

Also keeping their hands to themselves (in public, at least) at the Manchester auditions were Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan, who both fended off the advances of amorous auditionees by, um, looking extremely drab. Only Amanda Holden bothered to glitz it up a bit, and even she looked a bit like a box of tissues…

And we can’t let the biggest alleged “news” of the CENTURY – or “not really news at all, to be honest, but we’re nosy”, depending where you’re standing – go by without comment. Have Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie really split up? Should Bradley get back with Jennifer Aniston? Was Brangelina’s entire relationship really, as one Orange commenter suggests, “a work fling that got out of hand”? And won’t somebody think of the children? Is it any of our frickin’ business either way? We need a lie down after all this speculation…