Fall from grace: Celebrities who have been stripped of their awards

DISGRACED entertainer Rolf Harris has rightly been stripped of his ARIA Hall of Fame induction. It’s not the first time a star has been docked of an award.

THE inevitable has been confirmed for disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris, who was officially stripped of his ARIA Hall of Fame induction on Tuesday.

Following his conviction on 12 counts of indecent assul this week, the 84-year-old also had his BAFTA Fellowship annulled and stands to lose a string of other honours including his OBE, handed to him by the Queen.

The once much-loved entertainer was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2008.

Harris joins an ignoble list of celebrities who’ve had their honours received and then taken away over the years. Turns out it’s not all that common:

R&B pop duo Milli Vanilli

Robert Pilatus (l) with Fab Morvan from pop band Milli Vanilli holding Grammy awards. band/milli/vanilli

In 1990, pop duo Milli Vanilli (a.k.a Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus) ­won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist for their album Girl You Know It’s True. It was later revealed that the only roles the pair had played in the creation of the hit album were appearing on the cover and lip-synching along to studio musicians in the video.

The duo was stripped of the award and eventually disappeared from the spotlight.

Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus accepts the award for best song from a movie for "The Climb" featured in "Hannah Montana: The Movie" at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday May 31, 2009, in Universal City, Calif. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

Miley Cyrus was nominated for Best Song Written for a Soundtrack at the Grammys in 2009. The nod was for her hit song The Climb from Hannah Montana: The Movie, but she was disqualified just days after being nominated because the song was not originally penned for the film.

The Climb, while performed by a then-17-year-old Cyrus, was actually written by Jon Mabe and Jessi Alexander, who shopped the number around to other country music artists before it landed in Cyrus’s movie.

Alone Yet Not Alone

Movie poster for Alone Yet Not Alone. Picture: Supplied

Small budget Christian movie Alone Yet Not Alone made headlines earlier this year when it was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song and later disqualified.

The film, which will be released on June 13, had the nomination yanked by the Motion Picture Academy after it discovered composer Bruce Broughton violated the rules by emailing voters and asking them to give it a listen.

Rihanna

Singers Rihanna and Chris Brown perform at the Z100 Jingle Ball 2008 at Madison Square Garden on Friday, Dec. 12, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

Now, this one is awkward. Chris Brown won a total of five awards at the BET Awards in 2011 but one was accidentally awarded to ex-girlfriend Rihanna.

Luckily, RiRi wasn’t present to accept the award and Drake accepted it on her behalf. At the end of the show, host Kevin Hart announced that Brown had actually won the award.

Kelsey Martinovich

The moment host Sarah Murdoch (R) discovers she has announced the wrong winner on the reality TV show 'Australia's Next Top Model'. Kelsey Martinovich (C) is still under the impression she has won while Amanda Ware (L) was the real winner

When Kelsey Martinovich was crowned Australia’s Next Top Model, it was a live-TV stuff-up of the highest order.

The trouble with Kelsey’s win, you might remember, is that host Sarah Murdoch had actually named the wrong girl. It was the other beautiful finalist, Amanda Ware, who’d earned the title.

“I feel sick,” Murdoch said upon realising the gaffe.

While Martinovich’s reign only lasted a few fleeting moments, at least the cringiness of the situation made us feel like we were enduring it in slow motion.

Originally published as Fall from grace: Celebrities who have been stripped of their awards