Celebrity mullets that should have been given the chop: George Clooney mention

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Celebrity mullets that should have been given the chop

By JO SAYER
Published: 24th August 2012

COUNTRY singer Billy Ray Cyrus has launched a bizarre competition to find the world's worst mullet haircut. The hairstyle - which Billy-ray was famous for in the 80s - is often described as 'business at the front and a party at the back'.

Miley's dad has lunched the hunt after Twitter followers inundated him with compliments about his famous barnet when he told them he was celebrating 20 years of his single Achy Breaky Heart.

Now he's challenged them to send in pictures of their own mullets - past and present - with the winner receiving four tickets to the musical Chicago.

He might be one of the pioneers of the look, but it Achy Breaks our hearts to see how many of our favourite stars embraced the trend when it was around.

Celebrity mullets that should have been given the chop

Worst offenders ... Clooney, Johansson and Cryrus
By JO SAYER
Published: 24th August 2012
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COUNTRY singer Billy Ray Cyrus has launched a bizarre competition to find the world's worst mullet haircut.
The hairstyle - which Billy-ray was famous for in the 80s - is often described as 'business at the front and a party at the back'.

Miley's dad has lunched the hunt after Twitter followers inundated him with compliments about his famous barnet when he told them he was celebrating 20 years of his single Achy Breaky Heart.

Now he's challenged them to send in pictures of their own mullets - past and present - with the winner receiving four tickets to the musical Chicago.

He might be one of the pioneers of the look, but it Achy Breaks our hearts to see how many of our favourite stars embraced the trend when it was around.

Michael Bolton
American singer Bolton was almost as famous for his flowing locks as he was his singing career. But the messy mane didn't stop thousands of women lusting after him, and when he had the lot chopped off in the 90s it made headline news.

Andre Agassi
Tennis legend Agassi was always courting attention with his lion's mane of blonde hair. But he confessed in his 2009 autobiography 'Open' it was actually a wig - worn to hide his premature baldness. His then wife actress Brooke Shields convinced him to shave his head after the wigs kept falling apart. And it was a case of hair today, gone tomorrow for the former World No.1.

David Bowie
There was always something a little Oddity about David Bowie's look, and he - along with his fellow rock stars - embraced the trend for a spiky mullet throughout most of the 70s. As he catapulted to fame on his Ziggy Stardust tour and dyed his mullet red the look became so cool it started to go mainstream.

Mel Gibson
Mad Max ... Mel Gibson makes the Max-imum of his long locks with a mullet
Gibson would stop criminals in their tracks - howling with laughter - if he sported that bouffant do these days. But the Lethal Weapon star's long hair wasn't short of admirers in the 80s.

George Clooney

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Locks terrible .. George Clooney cuts a cheesy figure with his 80s mullet

Movie star George Clooney is considered a hearthrob worldwide, but with this hair-larious mullet of ringlets it's hard to take him seriously.

Sorry George, this is one for the Cutting Room Floor.