Anything can happen on live TV — and that includes guests and hosts alike walking off set! Sometimes, it's done as a joke, but more often than not, it's a surprisingly dramatic reaction!

Here are 18 times celebs walked off TV shows:

1. After Corey Feldman was eliminated from Dancing with the Stars Season 34, a viral TikTok from an audience member showed him walking off stage alone while the other cast members said their goodbyes.

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Many commenters felt sympathetic toward the actor.

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However, others were critical.

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On the show, Corey expressed regret over not being able to help his dance partner, Jenna Johnson, win the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy. He said, "I feel really terrible because she deserved better. She deserves to be the champ every year in my book."

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On Instagram, Jenna said, "Corey 💘 Our time together was cut short but I am SO grateful for the incredible weeks we did get to share!! Thank you for the giggles everyday in rehearsal, thank you for the hard work, and thank you for sharing your life lessons and memories with me! I'll cherish our friendship forever. Never stop dancing."

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Cory commented, "Thank U Jenna! U were an absolute joy to work with. Im so sorry for any negativity the media is using to give the false narrative that our time together was anything less than enjoyable. And U know as well as i do that i was there 7 days a week for the past 3 weeks, doing everything in my power to give U my best, even if the judges couldnt see it. God Bless your family. Keep dancing the dream. ❤️🙌"

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2. When Morgan Wallen was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live in early 2025, he abruptly walked off the stage at the end of the episode.

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Here's the clip:

Thank you, Mikey Madison and @MorganWallen! Goodnight! pic.twitter.com/FDlInhhHqb

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Afterwards, he posted a picture of a plane to his Instagram story with the caption, "Get me to God's country."

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Morgan faced a lot of criticism from viewers. Likewise, cast member Kenan Thompson told Entertainment Weekly, "I don't know what goes through people's minds when they decide to do stuff like that. I don't know if he understood the assignment or not, or if he was really feeling a certain kind of way... It's definitely a spike in the norm. We're so used to everybody just turning around and high-fiving us, everybody's saying, 'Good job, good job, good job.' So when there's a departure from that, it's like, hmm, I wonder what that's about?" He also said he "never met" the singer, but he "seems like a complicated individual."

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Sources told Variety that Morgan had a "good time" on SNL and didn't mean to slight anyone with his exit or his Instagram post. There were later reports that he refused to participate in a sketch and was replaced by Joe Jonas. Morgan later addressed the walk-off himself, telling Sundae Conversation with Caleb Pressley, "I was ready to go home. I'd been there all week."

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3. When Donald Trump appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien for the first time in 1997, Conan embarrassed him by making him reveal he had a condom in his pocket.

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Conan later told Rolling Stone, "He was pissed. He was really mad. I went to commercial. He stood up. I don't think he said goodbye to me, and he walked over to my producer and said, 'That's the last time I'm gonna be on this fucking show. He humiliated me in front of everybody.' He stormed out. Cut to me seven more times [over the years]: 'Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump!' He got over it, clearly. He would shoot bits for us: 'Can we get Nipsey Russell to come shoot something? He's not available? Well, then, try Donald Trump. Donald will do it.' Anyone who would do that, and then is the leader of the free world, is not going to make sense to me."

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Here's the clip, with this part starting at the 4:25 mark:

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4. In 2015, Joan Rivers walked out of a CNN interview after getting angry at Fredricka Whitfield. First, Joan got upset about the interviewer's questions regarding her negative comments on Fashion Police as well as several boundary-crossing jokes in her books (regarding Caylee Anthony's death and Princess Diana's dating life). However, her final straw was Fredricka bringing up the criticism Joan had faced for wearing fur on her book cover.

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Here's the full clip:

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5. Then, when Joan Rivers visited the Late Show with David Letterman, the host jokingly walked out on her, referencing the disastrous CNN interview.

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Watch the full clip below, with this part starting at the 0:40 mark:

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6. In late 2024, Is It Cake? host Mikey Day jokingly walked off Today in response to news that Hoda Kotb was leaving the show.

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Here's the full clip, with this part starting at the three-minute mark:

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7. Playing a game of "Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts" with Demi Moore on a 2019 episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, the host revealed that he was "disappointed" by former guest Rick Ross, who walked out after a sketch rehearsal.

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Here's the clip, with this part starting at the five-minute mark:

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8. When Crispin Glover infamously appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman in 1987, he behaved erratically. After he kicked extremely close to David's head, the host excused himself from the set.

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Here's the full interview, with the kick happening at the 3:25 mark:

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When the show came back from commercial, the actor was gone. Letterman said, "I think that's the first time that we've been doing this show that a guest actually tried to kick me... He came very close to denting my head with those giant shoes, so I thought, 'I don't need that. I'm 40. I went to college. That is not how I want my life ended, some goofball, some dork from wherever...'"

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Twenty-five years later, Crispin told HuffPost, "Well, the thing that I say in media, which we're in right now — what I always answer is, 'I neither confirm nor deny that I was ever on the David Letterman show.' Which, of course, there's a sense of humor to it — you can make what you want. When people ask me at my shows, I go into a lot of detail about anything. But, in media, that's what I always say... But, I mean, when I started acting, my concept about publicity...my interest was just to be an actor. I was never really that comfortable with publicity."

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9. During a 1989 roundtable discussion about comedy on The Late Show, Making Out actor Keith Allen argued with the other guests, made racially charged remarks to writer Farrukh Dhondy, shouted at a producer, then stormed off.

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Here's the full clip (warning: flashing screen):

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10. On a 1972 episode of The Dick Cavett Show, Lily Tomlin walked out after her fellow guest, Medical Center actor Chad Everett, made a sexist joke about his own wife.

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The full interview is below, with this part starting at the 6:34 mark:

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11. When the Bee Gees appeared on Clive Anderson All Talk in 1997, the host kept poking fun at their music. When he forgot one of their hit records, it was a breaking point for Barry Gibb, who led his brothers on a walkout.

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Here's the full video, with this part starting at the 5:23 mark:

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12. In 2007, Dr. Jan Adams — a plastic surgeon who famously operated on Kanye West's mother, Donda — ended his appearance on Larry King Live very quickly after explaining that the West family had sent him a letter asking him not to do the show.

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Here's the full clip:

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13. In 2015, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie walked off The Tonight Show after Jimmy Fallon interrupted his story to make a fat joke.

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Here's the full video, with this part starting at the 1:22 mark:

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When the governor returned, he said, "If I ever leave public life, you're going to have to hire two writers just to replace the garbage you say about me."

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14. In 1996, director Abel Ferrara ran off Late Night with Conan O'Brien before even taking the stage. Conan told Armchair Expert, "He was this wild eccentric. And he fled during the show before his segment. He ran away, got on the elevator, and was out on the street running away and [producer Frank Smiley] gave chase."

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The producer caught Abel and brought him back to set. Conan continued, "He came on camera against his will, came out, and...started yelling at me... It was like if you ate 15 cloves of garlic, you wouldn't say that was a great experience, but you'd remember it."

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You can watch Conan's interview below:

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15. On a 1998 episode of The Late Late Show, the amount of airtime that country singer Waylon Jennings was promised was cut by 2/3 as the first guest's interview ran over. So, he left the studio before his interview.

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Here's the full video, with this announcement happening at the 27:43 mark:

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16. On a 2018 episode of The Late Show, David Cross brought up his and Stephen Colbert's days in the Dana Carvey Show writers' room. When Stephen misremembered who wrote a specific sketch, David jokingly walked off the set. Stephen and the camera followed.

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Here's the full video, with this bit starting at the 2:18 mark:

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17. When Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe made a joint appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2016, Ryan walked off as part of a bit after joking that Russell wouldn't do The Nice Guys without him.

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Watch the full clip below, with this part starting at the 0:13 mark:

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18. And finally, when Husbands director John Cassavetes and actors Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara appeared on The Dick Cavett Show in 1970, their behavior was appalling. They lit up cigarettes, jumped and danced around, and threw themselves onto the floor repeatedly, among other things. One of them even took off a shoe and did the interview barefoot. When the trio threw themselves into a pile onto the floor, Dick had enough and walked off.

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Here's the full clip, with Dick walking out at the 10:50 mark:

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He told the New Yorker, "It was out of the blue. It was astonishing. I could not believe it, while it was happening... I had a mixed feeling as it was happening. I knew it would be entertaining in a certain way involving the word 'horror.' And that it would be talked about. And that it might be fun. But it's hard to deal with three people. When one person is being an ass, you can pretty much deal with him, or I can — and people who do what I do better be able to — but with three, the focus was so diffuse. I had no idea how long it was gonna go on, whether it was ever gonna stop. If they were ever gonna snap out of it."

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"Most people felt sorry for me, which kind of embarrasses me, because I remember sitting there thinking, I don't want to come off as the victim of this. The sad thing...is I could see the faces in the audience. And they were delighted, at first, and then the smiles disappeared. And then they looked just sort of grim and horrified and disapproving," he said.

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He also added that, after the interview, a producer grabbed the three guests and told them, "I really have to congratulate you. You probably unsold more tickets to this movie than most movies get." The trio later admitted that they'd been drinking before the interview.

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