15 Stars Whose 15 Minutes of Fame Are Already Up

Snooki

MTV caught lightning in a bottle with Jersey Shore, and Snooki became the biggest star of this unlikely group of guido reality jackasses whose catch phrases and promiscuous antics (usually in a drunken stupor) captured the heart and soul of a nation. No one enjoyed this unlikely rise to fame Snooki, who rode the show’s popularity harder than she rode Vinny in the smush room. There was an endearing charm to the diminutive, foul-mouthed Oompa Loompa slash Princess of Poughkeepsie, but her stardom quickly faded along with the series. She “enjoyed” a brief revivial into the headlines recently … but only due to husband Jionni LaValle being outed as an Ashley Madison user. Rough.

Octomom

It took a lot longer than expected, but Octomom Nadya Suleman is officially irrelevant. No one has heard from her in like two years, which is amazing considering she has 14 kids dragging around after her. Oh yes, she had six children BEFORE she became a national celebrity for giving birth to octuplets, which were implanted via IVF for kind of no reason at all. Really, did this woman need kids 7-14, and did we need to care as much as we did? We had little choice once she started committing welfare fraud, doing porn and duking it out in celebrity boxing, but still. It’s a valid question.

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag were once the biggest boobs on reality TV, and we’re not talking about the plastic surgery addiction she later developed (that makes for a good pun, however). The Gruesome Twosome redefined a genre by being the “villains” on MTV’s The Hills, where they generated record ratings as the two-headed foil for Lauren Conrad. Then they blew threw $10 million and everyone sort of started to hate them, and they were gone in a heartbeat. Sad.

Iggy Azalea

Did you blink? If so, you may have just missed Iggy Azalea’s career, which has taken a sharp nosedive from which it may never recover, despite having TWO chart-topping hit singles in “Fancy” and “Problem” just a single calendar year ago and being one of the hottest – and most buzzed-about – names in music.

Just a few years ago, “Somebody That I Used to Know” was one of the most overplayed, covered, memed and talked about songs in popular music. Now, ironically, it applies to the man who recorded it, Gotye.

Hide ya kids. Hide ya wife. Who could forget Antoine Dodson’s epic local news interview after a rapist got loose in his apartment complex? Actually, a lot of people, but for a brief period, this enigmatic weirdo was one of the biggest names on talk shows, entertainment sites and even legitimate news broadcasts.

In 2011, well before Kim Kardashian’s ass broke the Internet, Rebecca Black’s song “Friday” shattered the web as we knew it. Dubbed the “Worst Song Ever,” everyone in the world soon knew about it and the girl who sang it. But given that it was, you know, terrible – and likely a reflection of her lack of talent even if it was kind of tongue in cheek – Black’s attempts at an encore never quite took hold. At least we can still celebrate every “Friday” from now until the rest of our lives … and every “fried egg” we ever eat, because that’s what it sounds like she’s saying.

Ted Williams

Not to be confused with the legendary Boston Red Sox slugger, the homeless man with the Golden Voice, Ted Williams, became an overnight celebrity … until revelations about his past quickly made a lot of people in the news industry regret turning him into one.

Pippa Middleton

Queen of the Booty. Lord of the Arsetocracy. Kate Middleton’s younger sister Pippa will always have those titles as far as we’re concerned, but with that iconic Royal Wedding maid of honor dress now a distant memory, the general public has basically lost interest in the gorgeous royal in-law.

Norwegian duo Ylvis’ hit song “What Does the Fox Say,” in which they dressed up in animal costumes and made animal noises amidst a backdrop of lasers and Euro-style techno, was SO big (500 million views), it’s amazing just how quickly it was gone from our collective consciousness. But now that we bring it up, you know you wanna watch this and get it stuck in your head again.

Kris Humphries

At this point, the Kardashians have far exceeded any 15-minute time frames and have established themselves as bona fide celebrities, whether you like it or not. The same is not so for some of their exes, however. Kris Humphries’ 15 minues lasted 72 days (the span of his marriage to Kim Kardashian), but the point remains the same. He went from being part of the conversation for NBA Most Improved Player, to part of the most ridiculous celebrity sham marriage of all time, to … well, whatever he’s doing nowadays. Besides taking a cheap shot at Caitlyn Jenner on Twitter, has anyone seen or heard from this guy in years? Exactly. His NBA skills, once as promising as his reality TV paydays, have been less impressive in recent years as well.

Almost Everyone From American Idol

Kelly Clarkson. Chris Daughtry. Clay Aiken. Carrie Underwood. Adam Lambert. If your name isn’t one of those five, and you were on American Idol, chances are your contributions to that one-time television juggernaut have long been forgotten. Even if you were the annual WGWG who took home the crown in later seasons. Can you even name the winner above?! Exactly.

Need we say more? Heyyyyyyyyyyy, sexy lady! Whoop. Whoop, whoop whoop. Korean sensation PSY proves the old adage: If you’re going to be a one-hit wonder, at least have that one hit be the biggest video in the history of YouTube by a landslide.

Charlie Sheen

The Warlock is set for a life chock full of goddesses, porn, drugs and more money than he can spend. But his days in the limelight are dimming, if not dark, as not even vintage Charlie Sheen gets more than a moderate side-eye these days. His wild, crazy antics of 3-4 years ago may have simply set the bar too high.

The Duggars

Josh Duggar’s child molestation scandal may have torpedoed 19 Kids and Counting, but the famous reality TV family still enjoyed a reservoir of goodwill among their diehard fans. More recent revelations that he’s been cheating on Anna with porn stars and whomever else he can stalk online – all while publicly chastising the lack of “family values” in America – may have done in the Duggars for good, however.