Bizzarre Celebrity Firings

George Michael was sacked from his Saturday job at British Home Stores for not wearing a shirt and tie in the stockroom.

Madonna was fired from New York fast-food restaurant Dunkin' Donuts for squirting jam at a customer.

Mickey Rourke lost his job as a cinema usher after getting into a brawl with a colleague.

Boy George was sacked from his job as a shelf-stacker at Tesco for wearing the store's carrier bags. Tesco deemed his appearance 'disturbing.'

Roseanne Barr got fired from her job as a salad lady at Chuckarama in Salt Lake City for refusing to enter the walk-in freezer after a painful visit to the dentist.

Eric Sykes lost his job at a cotton mill for singing Bing Crosby's 'In the Blue of the Night' with an empty bucket on his head.

Dusty Springfield was fired from his sales job at Bentalls for making a mess of a demonstration and fusing the store's entire lighting system.

Peter Finch was sacked as copyboy on the Sun, Sydney's leading newspaper of the 1930s, for emptying a jug of water over the editor's head.

Sidney Poitier was fired from his job parking cars because he couldn't drive. He got first gear mixed up with reverse and crashed into another car.

There's tonnes more at one of my oldest link-buddies, The Goose.