Very true, however they were all people in the public eye who had - not exactly role model status - but a tacit responsibility to act accordingly to their visibility and influence. Even if the only people in danger of being influenced by the likes of Kim Kardashian were over-impressionable teenage girls.
ALL restrictions? Of course not. But the guidelines are very subjective, there are plenty of perfectly legal things that could be argued to bring a teacher "into disrepute" depending on how judgmental we're being: having a couple too many at the local pub, lighting up a roll-up cigarette in public, getting a reputation for enjoying casual sex, being a divorcee... see where this could lead?
Perhaps this topic has touched a nerve for me as I used to be in education, but we have to remember these aren't members of the clergy, they're real people, who work long hours in a stressful job, on criminally low salaries. If anybody ought to be able to blow off steam outside of work, with the legal substances or activities of their choosing, it's teachers.
Can you link to where the likes of Kim Kardashian signed a contract of employment with the condition that a certain standard of behaviour is expected? if not what so called 'celebrities' do or the effect they have on others has no relevance here. The only responsibility they have is to themselves how famous they can make themselves and how much money they can make and they will do anything to achieve that aim without any consideration for others.
The fact is she chose to be a teacher, she signed a contract of employment with certain stipulations regarding expected conduct, she
chose to take a chance and ignore her conditions of employment, she resigned and as a result was barred from teaching.
We are not the ones judging her, she had a hearing in front of the Teaching Regulation Agency who decided, after considering all the facts, barred her from teaching for 5 years. They are the one's judging her.
The main point is she did not adhere to her terms of employment and that is why she was barred from the job.
BTW there aren't that many careers that you can be barred from, teaching is one of them.