Celebrity status can be one of the greatest gifts ever. You have the fame, the fortune and all the success you could ever crave for. But when you start to grow a little order, the fans get a little sick of your antics and you discover that you just don’t have the staying power for Hollywood, you get a little, well, washed up. And this mini-list is a tribute to those celebrities who have made it, but with the help of some screw-ups, bad attitudes, bad luck and worse acting, have fallen back to earth again.
You don’t have to reach far back into your memory to conjure up images and names of those who have been graced with fame an fortune but somehow struggled to keep it up. Among them are:
- Steven Seagal: We can’t take away that Steven Seagal is one master of aikido. But all his brilliance doesn’t excuse his behavior. Ever since he shot to fame with the ‘Under Siege’ Seagal has been known more for his huge waistline, his rudeness towards stuntmen, and his general bad attitude than any sort of thespic talent. Tsk, tsk.
- Vanilla Ice: Falls from grace don’t 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 background as a supposed gangsta from a rough neighborhood was proven to be false, there was no resurrecting his career. Which for music fans is more of a good thing.
- Jeremy Jackson: After becoming famous for portraying David Hasselhoff’s son in ‘Baywatch’, Jeremy Jackson was ready to take on the world. But after a series of drug related incidents and a failed social networking stint, we would all ask: what went wrong?
