Top ten disgraced celebrities

3. Pete Doherty
Celebrity drug addict Pete Doherty was once, fleetingly, known for being a singer. His former band The Libertines were touted as the Next Big Thing, and Doherty himself was the fresh-faced darling of the NME. Then all that crack and heroin really began messing things up, and Doherty was soon stealing from his bandmates, fleeing from rehab clinics, falling in love with Kate Moss, doing time in jail and looking really, really sweaty all the time. The only shocking thing he could do now is have a shower and keep out of the headlines for longer than a week.

2. Paris Hilton
There's nothing like a scrappy home-made porn film to turn you into a global phenomenon, as Paris Hilton discovered when some fuzzy footage of her having sex was leaked to the internet. It swiftly became the talk of the universe, humiliating the eminent Hilton family but making a bona fide star of the heiress herself. And she wasn't the only one to benefit from the 'exposure'. Her co-star in the film, Rick Solomon, became a millionaire overnight from sales of the official video. Nice work, if you can get it.

1. Hugh Grant
A-listers are often brought low by lust, but what makes this the daddy of scandals is that it was just so unlikely. Hugh Grant was the foppish, floppy-haired darling of the British acting establishment when, one evening in 1995, he left his pampered universe to explore the seedy side of LA. He was duly arrested for soliciting the streetwalking strumpet Divine Brown, and the most unflattering mugshot in the world was the woeful result. Mr Grant, we salute you!