Celebrity status can be one of the greatest gifts ever. You have the fame, the fortune and all the success you could wish for. But when you start to get a little tidy, the fans get a little tired of your antics, and you find that you just don’t have the staying power for Hollywood, you’re left a little, well, broke. And this minilist is a tribute to those celebrities who have achieved it, but with the help of some forgetfulness, bad attitudes, bad luck and worse acting, have fallen back to earth.
You don’t have to go far back in your memory to conjure up images and names of those who have been graced with fame and fortune, but somehow struggled to keep it. Among them are:
– Steven Seagal: We cannot deny that Steven Seagal is an aikido master. But all his brilliance doesn’t excuse his behavior. Ever since he rose to fame with ‘Under Siege,’ Seagal has been known more for his huge waist, his toughness with stuntmen and his overall bad attitude than any sort of theatrical talent. Tsk, tsk.
– Vanilla Ice: Falls from grace do not usually occur in such monumental proportions as this. After his hit ‘Ice Ice Baby’, the sky seemed to be the limit for Robert Van Winkle aka Vanilla Ice. But after his record as an alleged gang member from a bad neighborhood was proven to be false, his career could not be resurrected. Which for music fans is more than a good thing.
– Jeremy Jackson: After becoming famous for playing the son of David Hasselhoff in ‘Baywatch’, Jeremy Jackson was ready to take on the world. But after a series of drug-related incidents and a failed stint on social media, we’re all left wondering: what went wrong?
It’s good to tip our hats from time to time to those who almost made it, but failed for one reason or another. It’s very difficult when the media capitalize on every one of your failures.