Letterman's admission of affairs with staffers deserves a round of applause.
In the battle for late night talk show supremacy, David Letterman stuck it to the competition last Thursday. There really is no way to beat Dave's on-air admission that he'd had sex with several of his female staffers and that fellow CBS employee and 48 Hours Mystery producer Robert Joel Halderman had threatened to expose his affairs unless he forked over $2 million in hush money. Like a true player, the 62-year-old host straight up told the world that yes, he had been hosting the Late Show of Genitals with David Letterman. Not only did he get it in, he also got some self-deprecating jokes into his admission: "Would it be embarrassing if [the affairs] were made public? Yes, it would—especially for the women."
Obviously a sex scandal is embarrassing for any public figure, whether they're a TV host, an athlete, or a politician, but when shit hits the fan, you gotta say something. Here are our favorite admissions of guilty pleasure...
Hugh Grant, actor
When: July 1995
Scandal: Most guys would have killed to be banging Elizabeth Hurley in '95, but Hugh Grant isn't most guys. Her actor boyfriend fucked the whole thing up to get brains from a mildly attractive hooker "Divine Brown" on Sunset Boulevard. Like a true celebrity, he chose the most serious and dignified platform he could think of to speak about the incident for the first time: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Admission quote: "I think you know in life what's a good thing to do and what's a bad thing, and I did a bad thing." But damn those tonsils felt good!
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