Seinfeld star Michael Richards committed career suicide at a Hollywood comedy club, when he said to two black audience members during a stand-up set: “Fifty years ago, we’d have you upside down with a fucking fork up your ass.You can talk, you can talk, you’re brave now motherf****r. Throw his ass out. He’s a n****r! He’s a n****r! He’s a n****r! A n****r, look, there’s a n****r!”

Duane “Dog” Chapman was captured spewing foul-mouthed racist slurs on a tape. The star of the A&E reality show Dog, The Bounty Hunter directed his racist hatred at his son Tucker’s girlfriend Monique Shinnery, who is black, in a filthy bigoted attack, littered with the N-word and other disgusting racial insults.

Mel Gibson tells his baby mama Oksana Grigorieva she could get “raped by a pack of n***ers.” He later referred to a Latino worker as a “wetback” during an argument with his ex.

John Mayer used the N-word in an interview with Playboy. He said, “Someone asked me the other day, ‘What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?’ And by the way, it’s sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a n**** pass.” After the article came out, Mayer frantically apologized on his Twitter account.

John Wayne was quoted as saying, “I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t feel guilty about the fact that five or ten generations ago these people were slaves”, in a 1971 interview with Playboy magazine.

Charlie Sheen left a voice message for his ex-wife Denise Richards, in 2008, saying: “I hope you rot in f****n’ hell. You’re a piece of s***, f***in’ liar. … I hope I never f******’ talk to you again you f****ng c***. You’re a coward and a liar and a f****ng n*****.” Denise is white. He later issued an apology for his “choice of words.”

Amy Winehouse was videoed in a drugged-up state by her husband Blake Fielder-Civil in 2007. The clip shows her and a friend singing: “Blacks, Pakis, Gooks and Nips, Gooks and Nips,” to the tune of children’s song “Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.”

“Our little Paki friend,” said Prince Harry, during a video diary of an Asian member of his army platoon.