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When Megan Fox’s controversies caused a storm on the internet

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When Megan Fox’s controversies caused a storm on the internet

Megan Fox, the Hollywood diva, had a promising career that began with the Olsen twins’ Holiday in the Sun. She rose to fame after starring in Michael Bay’s 2007 box office smash Transformers and went on to become one of the industry’s most desirable women until her infamous stance against the Transformers director put an end to it all. Megan’s career has had its share of highs and lows since then, but her unapologetic statements have frequently sparked debate. Now that Megan has turned a year older, here are a few times when she drew everyone’s attention with highly debated moves.

Megan missed out on returning to Transformers: Dark of the Moon due to the success of the first and second films. During a 2009 interview, she made the comparison between director Micheal Bay and Hitler. Micheal “wants to create this insane, infamous mad man reputation,” she told Wonderland Magazine, describing him as “a nightmare to work with.” It was the lowest point in her career, she says.

Megan accused Micheal of exploiting her during the Transformers auditions after taking the hit. She later opened up about why she refused to talk about it after receiving backlash for it, telling the New York Times, “People couldn’t understand it because it was ahead of its time. Instead, I was turned down due to characteristics that are now being praised in other women who have come forward.” Megan was not given a fair chance to say her piece and was ‘cancelled’ for no fault of her own, the world learned much later.

Megan was caught shoplifting cosmetics at a Walmart store before making her film debut. “I don’t know if the ban was for life,” she told Express, “but I was caught and convicted of stealing Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen cosmetics from a Walmart when I was 14 or 15.”

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Megan’s good looks occasionally sparked rumours of cosmetic surgery. To put an end to it, she posted a series of photos with the caption ‘Things You Can’t Do with Your Face When You Have Botox.’ Megan was reportedly photographed with various facial expressions in order to dispel rumours about her frozen face.

Megan got engaged to Machine Gun Kelly, a singer-rapper, and their blood proposal video made headlines. After the proposal, the couple claimed they drank each other’s blood, dividing social media users. “I guess to drink each other’s blood might mislead people or people are imagining us with goblets and we’re like Game of Thrones, drinking each other’s blood,” she later clarified to Glamour Magazine. Although it’s only a few drops, we do consume each other’s blood on occasion for ritual purposes.”

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KL Rahul dangerously close to Laxman territory; to be perished for Sarfaraz Khan and Shubman Gill

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KL Rahul dangerously close to Laxman territory; to be perished for Sarfaraz Khan and Shubman Gill

To accommodate both Sarfaraz and Gill and stick with their five-bowler formula, a batter from the Bengaluru Test must make way. Ergo Rahul and the predicted axe

VVS Laxman went through the first half of his illustrious 15-and-a-half-year international career with the proverbial axe hanging over him. Despite his magical stroke-play and a well-founded reputation for rallying the lower order to bat above itself, he was forever the first name that sprang to the decision-makers’ minds when they had to drop someone to accommodate someone else. It wasn’t until the second half of his stint with the national team that he had ‘job security’, which automatically manifested itself in an array of glorious, match-turning knocks and earmarked him as one for a crisis.

KL Rahul is now dangerously close to approaching the Laxman territory, though at least in this instance, a case can be made out, perhaps, for why he often seems to be playing for his place. Almost a decade after his Test debut in Australia in December 2014, he has yet to nail down a permanent spot, a result of glaring inconsistency and repeated dalliances with injuries that have left him with a modest average of 33.87 from 53 Test appearances.

Unlike Laxman, who was thrust to the opener’s position for three years from 1997, successive team managements have worked overtime to create space for Rahul. He started off in the middle order in Melbourne against Australia, opened in the next Test in Sydney when he made a sparkling century, continued in that position for a good nine years – around the large pockets when either injuries or lack of form relegated him to the sidelines – and now seems to have found his calling in the middle order, where he was tried out in an almost last throw of the dice in South Africa last December.

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In his limited time at the No. 6 position, Rahul has been a revelation. On a spiteful surface in Centurion in his first innings back in the middle order, the classy right-hander made a marvellous 101 – Virat Kohli’s 38 was the next highest score – in India’s 245 all out. Two Tests later, against England in Hyderabad, he waltzed to 86 of the best until a hamstring strain kept him out of the last four Tests.

On his comeback last month against Bangladesh, Rahul showed why he is rated so highly, and therefore why he so frustrates when he chooses to shackle himself mentally, with uninhibited shot-making when India were pressing for a declaration (Chennai) and looking to make up for lost time with a frenetic batting approach (Kanpur) in the two Tests. Kanpur was especially mesmeric, 68 flowing off his bat in a mere 43 deliveries. It was the best of Rahul.

Axe hangs over Rahul’s head for India vs New Zealand 2nd Test

And yet here we are, two innings later, wondering whether he will, or should, feature in the playing XI in Pune, where India take on New Zealand in a must-win second Test from Thursday.

Shubman Gill, him of three centuries in his last six Tests, missed the Bengaluru defeat to the Kiwis with a stiff neck. Replacement batter Sarfaraz Khan made the most of own good fortune with a delectable 150, which makes it near impossible to drop him now that Gill is fully fit. To accommodate both Sarfaraz and Gill and stick with their five-bowler formula which has worked beautifully in the last few years, a batter from the Bengaluru Test must make way. Ergo Rahul and the predicted axe.

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One of the few men to have led India in all three formats internationally, Rahul didn’t help his cause with scores of 0 and 12 at his home ground, the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. In the first innings, he was strangled down leg-side by William O’Rourke while in the second, he received a peach from the same paceman operating with the second new ball and was again caught behind. Rahul was one of 11 failures in India’s first-innings 46 and one of seven wickets to fall in 93 deliveries to the second new cherry, but failures past and the logjam created by Gill’s availability have combined to identify him as the most susceptible to the axe.

It’s a cross impossible to bear, but also impossible to ignore just because it is so heavy, so overarching. Rahul is beyond gifted and makes batting appear oh-so-simple, but his struggles to embrace sustained run-making can’t be wished away. He is the eternal team man, much like his celebrated namesake also from Karnataka – both kept wickets admirably in 50-over World Cups 21 years apart, both made attractive and impactful runs during the tournament and both tasted bitter defeat at the hands of Australia in the final – but ‘eternal team man’ can sometimes be an euphemism for the ‘most dispensable’ and Rahul can be excused for thinking that those two lines have blurred beyond repair. Of course, if he is brutally honest to himself, he will acknowledge at least to himself that he too must bear culpability for the blurring of the lines.

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