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While getting a statue made of someone seems like one of the most honorable ways to immortalize them, that's not always the case: Here are statues of famous people that turned out looking much worse than the person they represent.
Lucille Ball is an outdoor sculpture of the American actress and comedian of the same name, originally
sculpted by David Poulin and installed in Lucille Ball Memorial Park in Celoron, New York in 2009. When
this statue of Lucille Ball showed up, fans were so outraged that they signed a petition to get it
remade; It was deemed "scary" by residents, earning it nickname Scary Lucy. In 2016, the statue was
replaced by one created by Carolyn Palmer and is known officially as New Lucy and colloquially as Lovely
Lucy. Since Scary Lucy became a local tourist attraction after receiving media attention, it was placed
75 yards from its original location so visitors could visit both statues. Locals had started a Facebook
group in the hopes of getting rid of the statue sculpted by Dave Poulin, at the time calling a
“nightmare”. We Love Lucy - and we got our new statue/Facebook/Evening Standard/Stringer
“It’s been a long battle for terrified locals and fans of the TV star”.
On the left The Lucille Ball statue in Celoron, New York, depicting the climactic scene from "Lucy Does a TV Commercial".
Cristiano Ronaldo is the world's most famous athlete and one of the most handsome as well. However, a
bronze Ronaldo bust is seriously creeping people out.
Ronaldo is viewed as a hero in his hometown of Funchal, located on the Madeira Islands of Portugal. The
city decided to honor him by renaming their local airport the Cristiano Ronaldo Madeira International
Airport, but the Ronaldo sculpture that they unveiled at the rebranding ceremony was definitely less
than honorable. This bust did not stand a chance against social media. Within hours of its unveiling,
Twitter was on fire with comments, reactions, and memes of the bust.
“The eyes of great paintings follow you around a room, but his can’t seem to focus”.
The Cristiano Ronaldo statue in Portugal’s Madeira International Airport Cristiano Ronaldo.
When UK resident Ben Bennett discovered two giant terracotta and grass-haired busts of Queen Elizabeth
and Prince Philip at a house clearance, he decided they'd be a fit for the front lawn of his home.
They've been there for several years, attracting tourists and perhaps even the Queen herself, Bennet
told The Telegraph. Whether or not she found a resemblace is impossible to say.Giant terracota busts of
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are displayed in the garden of Fifield House Farm near
Windsor on April 20, 2020
Head sculptures of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh
Oscar Wilde was one of the most popular playwrights and poets in London in the 1890’s. In contrary to
the career he built, the statue they made for him was a complete failure ! It actually looks as if the
mermaid from the Starbucks logo got sick and had to rise up out of the ocean to ask someone for help. It
is a truly unfortunate portrayal of the otherwise handsome Irish poet and writer.
The Oscar Wilde statue in London.
James Byron Dean was an American actor who died in 1955. He was always remembered as a cultural icon of
teenage disillusionment and social estrangement.
Located outside the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, this statue is...melted-looking and a little
soulless. With green-hued hair, an expression of inner turmoil, and a lack of eyeballs, James Dean's
bust looks nothing like the famous actor. What's interesting is that I never knew James Dean didn't have
eyes! “OMG..Really ugly James Dean bust’”
The James Dean statue outside the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California.
A bronze statue of the late rap legend Tupac Shakur erected in Stone Mountain outside the Tupac Amaru
Shakur Centre for the Arts. It says this is Tupac, but I am having a hard time believing that... The
statue was in fact in Georgia until Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur who founded the centre in 1997 sold it
five years ago for $1.2 million and had the Tupac statue removed from its location. She died the
following year from a heart attack. The statue was built to go alongside the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center
for the Arts in Atlanta. It closed in 2015, and the statue disappeared not long after that. Despite the
belief of many of the statue's critics, “Tupac did indeed rock many suits in his short lifetime”. "Looks
like this was the template photo but they failed terribly ....Whom ever did the statue......we need a
refund."
The statue was meant to portray the All Eyez on Me rapper. However, social media wasn't buying it.
Twitter users were quick to point out the inconsistencies between the rapper and the statue's facial
features.
Bronze Tupac life-size, the centerpiece of the Peace Garden at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts
This 18-karat gold sculpture, created by artist Marc Quinn is the largest gold statue made by a man
since Egyptian times, calling Moss "a modern day Aphrodite” which is kind of baffling. She posed for him
to make sure the face was correct, as well as the proportions of the body, hands, and feet, but it was
an experienced yoga instructor who contorted herself into the Dwipada Sirsasana position. People called
it the “pretzelstatue” which is the surprising position Quinn decided to immortalize her in. It was sold
for $900,000. “It is doing the weirdest and un-Kate Moss pose I've ever seen”.
The Kate Moss statue at the British Museum in London, UK
Outside of Jerusalem, sits a 15-foot statue of The King that entices people to visit the Elvis Inn, a
café and souvenir shop.
The statue is ... rudimentary to say the least. Luckily, the music icon has plenty of other statues of
himself to make up for it.
The Elvis Presley statue near Jerusalem, Israel
Alfred Hitchcock was an English film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is one of the most
influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema. He filmed various movies at
London's Gainsborough Studios, which is why his larger-than-life head is featured there. Too bad it
looks like a melting Buddha.
Alfred Hitchcock's head statue outside of Gainsborough Studios in London, UK.
The statue was created to commemorate the 1996 filming of Jackson's music video for "They Don't Care
About Us" in the neighborhood of Santa Marta in Rio. It was unveiled in 2010, one year after his death,
according to The Rio Times. The statue's pose might have been one of Jackson's signatures, but it still
looks awkward immortalized in such a way.
Michael Jackson’s statue located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In January 2010, Serbian film director Emir Kusturica unveiled a lifesize statue of actor Johnny Depp
during the local Kustendorf Film and Music Festival to honor him. The statue is supposed to be a
likeness of Depps's character Axel Blackmar in the 1993 film "Arizona Dream," but looks more like a
lifeless older man than a young New Yorker. All though many people think that the statue doesn’t look
like Depp at all, the movie star himself made it clear that he liked it.
Johnny Depp stands next to a life-sized statue of himself during the Kustendorf Film and Music Festival in Mokra Gora, Serbia, in January 2010.
Sir Andrew Barron Murray OBE is a British professional tennis player from Scotland. When Andy Murray
won the Shanghai Rolex Masters in 2011, he was presented with a terracotta statue of himself. The only
thing Murray received was a warrior sculpture that even the master of ceremonies suggested looked more
like Isaac Newton’s or even like Colin Firth in "The King's Speech". Some fans later joked about this
statue of Murray, saying that he might have lost the final on purpose.
Andy Murray's terracotta warrior in Shanghai, China.
The wood carving was commissioned by Brad Downey, an American artist living in Berlin. "The sculptor
worked a long time on this, I think it took him three days to make it," one man said to Reuters. "He did
it all using a chainsaw, and that's what made it hard to make it — and she does not look as beautiful as
she normally is."
While it may not have been immediately obvious that the statue was a homage to the first lady, it did
bear the pale blue coat that Melania wore at Donald Trump's inauguration. The sculpture's commissioner
said he understood why some people would think the sculpture "falls short as a description of her
physical appearance" but maintained that it was still "absolutely beautiful."
Wooden sculpture of US first lady Melania Trump unveiled in Rozno, near her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia, July 5, 2019.