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10 “Evil” Celebs Who Are Actually VERY NICE

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The list of Hollywood “villains” turns out to be a lot shorter on actual villainy than the tabloids let on.

TheThings Celebrity built an entire countdown around a simple idea: the public persona a celebrity gets stuck with rarely matches who they actually are once the cameras stop rolling. “10 ‘Evil’ Celebs Who Are Actually VERY NICE” runs through ten figures who picked up reputations as bullies, divas, or full-blown villains, then digs into the charity work, generosity toward staff, and warm fan interactions that never made the highlight reel. The headline entry is Dennis Rodman, whose eccentric off-court antics somehow led to an actual friendship with Kim Jong Un.

• Dennis Rodman kicked a courtside photographer in 1997 and wore a wedding dress in 1996 to promote his memoir Bad As I Wanna Be, cementing his reputation as basketball’s most unpredictable personality.
• Rodman traveled to Pyongyang in February 2013 with members of the Harlem Globetrotters and Vice Media, and afterward called Kim Jong Un a “friend for life.”
• The countdown extends the same before-and-after treatment to other notorious personalities, including abrasive TV celebrity chefs and sharp-tongued entertainment figures known for scripted villain personas.

The Persona Rodman Built On Purpose

Nobody stumbled into Dennis Rodman’s public image by accident. The tattoos, the piercings, the rotating hair colors, and the willingness to say anything on camera were all part of a brand he cultivated deliberately during his NBA career. The 1997 incident where he kicked a courtside photographer became one of the defining images of that persona — a five-time NBA champion behaving like the last person you’d want sitting next to you at a game.

Then there was the wedding dress. In 1996, promoting his memoir Bad As I Wanna Be, Rodman showed up dressed as a bride and staged a mock marriage to himself, a stunt built purely to generate headlines. It worked. Decades later, that single image still gets recycled every time his name comes up, which is exactly the reputation problem the video sets out to dismantle.

The Unlikely Friendship With Kim Jong Un

The video’s strongest evidence for Rodman’s real personality is also its strangest example. In February 2013, Rodman traveled to Pyongyang alongside members of the Harlem Globetrotters and a Vice Media crew for a basketball exhibition trip. What was supposed to be a novelty documentary assignment turned into something closer to a genuine relationship between Rodman and the North Korean leader.

Rodman came back from Pyongyang calling Kim Jong Un a “friend for life.”

It’s the kind of line that sums up why Rodman keeps showing up on lists like this one. A player once known for combativeness and shock value ended up building rapport with one of the most closed-off leaders on the planet — not through calculation, but through the same disarming, unguarded personality that made him a magnet for controversy in the first place.

The Pattern Repeats Across The List

Rodman isn’t presented as an outlier. TheThings Celebrity frames the same contrast around other entries on the countdown — TV celebrity chefs whose on-air explosions became their entire brand, and entertainment figures whose tabloid reputations for being difficult rarely squared with how they treated crew members or fans in person. The pattern the video keeps returning to: a manufactured or misunderstood public image doing most of the heavy lifting, while the private behavior tells a different story entirely.

That gap between scripted persona and real-life conduct has become its own genre of celebrity coverage — the flip side of lists like Celebs Who Treat Their Employees Like Trash, which catalogs the opposite phenomenon, or Movie Stars Who Treat Their Fans Like Trash, which shows how quickly a warm public image can curdle once cameras aren’t rolling. Rodman’s countdown entry runs the tape in reverse.

Of everything the video runs through, the Rodman-Kim relationship is still the one nobody saw coming — a former Bulls and Pistons enforcer who once got fined and suspended for a courtside kick, ending up on a first-name basis with a head of state. Whatever else is on that top-ten list, that’s the entry people remember first.