Worst Celebrity Halloween Costumes You’ll Wish You Could Unsee

Celebs have the money, glamorous entourages, and access to movie-grade prosthetics. All that power could be used to make the best Halloween costumes, but alas, so many of them still default to boring “sexy” clichés or ambitious ideas that crash into the uncanny valley. Sure, there are celebrities who go all-in, like Heidi Klum, who practically turned October into her personal Met Gala of spooky but fashionable outfits. But for every jaw-dropping transformation, there’s a costume that makes you wish your eyeballs had a “reset and forget” button.

From haunted morning shows to toys that never should’ve left the ’90s, here are the celebrity looks that prove spooky season doesn’t always mean stylish season.

Megyn Kelly’s MAGA Trash Bag

For the 2024 Halloween Megyn Kelly posted “Happy Halloween, Garbage People!” while dressed literally as a bag of trash topped with a MAGA hat, heavily hinting at something or other. It’s rare to see a costume that’s both low-effort and can annoy half the population of your country. Was the joke the bag? The hat? The caption? The answer is yes. If the goal was “viral, but make it cringe,” mission accomplished.

Colton Haynes’s Miss Piggy

If Miss Piggy fell victim to the Mar-a-Lago face trend, this is what she might look like. In felt puppet form, Miss Piggy always looks fab, but “Teen Wolf” star Colton Haynes’ cosmetically corrupted take on her iconic look almost feels like an insult. The blend of human, hog, overstuffed lips, and generously enhanced “assets” also makes for one downright disturbing Halloween costume mix. At least now we know that the world doesn’t need a “The Muppets Take Mar-a-Lago” movie.

“Today” Show’s Peanuts

Morning TV tried 2015 cosplay and summoned sleep paralysis demons because what the heck, man? Hoda as Snoopy, Kathie Lee as Woodstock, Meredith Vieira as Pig-Pen, and Al Roker as Charlie Brown should have been cute, but instead, the oversized heads, tiny ears, and that scribble of Charlie’s hair turned beloved comic strip characters into uncanny freaks. It was less of a “yikes” and more of a “dear god, make them stop!”

Elon Musk’s Iron Man From Hell

At Heidi’s 2022 bash, Elon arrived in deep-red armor, looking sort of like RDJ’s legally distinct Iron Man. The most significant difference is the breastplate featuring Baphomet, and the official label dubbing it “Devil’s Champion.” Tech-bro cosplay meets Hot Topic CEO. If you squinted, you could almost see all the people around him rolling their eyes. Musk had those cheesy super-villain vibes minus the self-awareness that makes comic book baddies fun.