What are some of the most pathetic ways a celeb tried to regain relevance?

They appeared on Love Boat, Fantasy Island and Battle of the Network Stars.

"Dancing" With The "Stars".

transitioning

- Bruce Jenner

Coming out as gay

Hinting at bombshell stories about producers abusing child actors, but never delivering.

Jennifer Lawrence marrying that chauvinist art gallery director. What is it like three pap strolls per week in the Daily Mail? They look miserable together.

"Coming out" as queer, non-binary, bisexual, etc. but NOT gay.

Adopting children.

Kevin Spacey recently blending his enforced retreat with that experienced by millions in lockdown. 'I've suffered this in my way just like all you ordinary people, so we're sort of in this together' being the none-too subtle subtext.

Jussie Smollett

@r8, Adopting children they really don't want is the cruelest form of attention grabbing I can think of

Getting elected President in an attempt to destroy democracy.

"Reuniting" with your bloated, alcoholic, stripper-loving ex from almost 20 years ago, and having the media push this as THE romance of the century.

Dating Ben Affleck

R6 where do you hear he's a chauvinist?

Yelling a lot about sugar free muffins.

Instagram

R2 relevant video

Tweeting videos of themselves refusing to follow CDC guidelines.

Cameo

Ashton Kutcher speaking to Congress on human trafficking.

Showing my tits for the 19,000th time.

R7 So bi people shouldn't come out? Even when they are dating the person of the same sex? Only gay people should? Good to know.

*stares at Madonna's tits*

Yep, still gay.

I could regale you for hours.

And will if given half a chance.

A cooking show once the acting jobs dry up.

Appearing in the Friends reunion when you never appeared in any of the 200+ episodes.

What a stupid thread. Celebrities do no such thing!

Selling Tupperware!

Spouting outrageous horrific lies and profiting from it. Then TOURING on it.

Church pap walks with messy looking children .

Post threads about themselves on Datalounge.

Twerking at the Oscars.

This fucking shit

I fought the fuck back!

The Drew Barrymore Show

Running for president. Thanks, Ronnie!

This goddamned fucking cunt.

Talking up your young child’s gender identity issues.

Instagram live chats with politicians. Nothing reveals their ignorance more.

Dancing with the stars...that masked singer show...celebrity big brother.

Ah yes, and these oldies, celebrity wife swap. celebrity marriage/family boot camp.

Accusing the new in-laws of being racists .

The British Monarchy practically invented racism for fucks sake.

Announcing new pronouns.

Twerking.

DaButt. daButt.

Ethel Merman’s disco turn.

Murder.

Pose nude for Playboy

Launch a fourth sitcom at age 75 years old.

He thought "Life With Lucy" took place in a prison.

Get a show on Food Network.

OnlyFans

Talk about mental illness and mental health. Make the topic all about your own privileged lifestyle. Also, confuse others by equating your own inability to cope with life events or normal feelings of distress with mental health disorders.

This

Claim election was stolen for you.

Madonna; her acquisition of four African children and her constant attempts to affirm she is forever young and beautiful and desirable. She does this by showing off her aging face and tits and ass.

^^^ from you

A podcast with your lying wife.

Stevie Nicks getting slut dropped by Harry Styles.

I AM big! It's the GOVERNMENT that got small!

Do something tasteful, stunning and brave.

YouTube channel. Have the acting jobs dried up for Brie Larson because apparently this is all she does now?

R63 is she reversing?

R10 wins. Jussie Smollrtt owns this thread.

For me, existing.

No one ever mentions "Circus Of The Stars" (which as a gayling I looked forward to every year), but then again, they would only cast then-current performers & personalities.

Marie “The Body” McDonald faking her own kidnapping.

Sex Tape Fakes Pap Walks Cameo Adding new things to your PTSD inducing incident ‘before I was famous’ to garner more sympathy Anything JHo does to prove she’s “desired sexually” Being (fake) assaulted due to your race (Jussie we’re looking at you and your Louis Vuitton Noose)

A late-night drive from Biloxi to New Orleans.

R71, uh, "wins".

Posting a photo on your Instagram that looks like you're taking a dump in a field

Bringing out a “tell all” autobiography.

As soon as they do that, you know they’re one step from the trash pile.

My favorite example is “When All the Laughter Died in Sorrow,” the tell-all by that football player that liked to expose himself to little girls. Almost hilarious....

Accidental dick pics

I have to admit the phrase "washed-up has-been" made me laugh, but then I felt compassion. So I just refer you to IMDB and the latest unfortunate Oscar disaster and something about "twerking." Rather sad, those desperate attention grabs and stunt casting, although I know that for some it's the only way to cling to the business.

M sucking and fucking her way to an oscar.

Posting would-be thirst trap photos with their legs spread wide apart on Instagram.

Here's my brother's winning formula: Reality show with family, then Dancing With the Stars, followed by facial tattoos and culminating with homemade porn.

"Accidentally" getting caught making out or holding hands with another celebrity on a boat, in a pool, on a beach or all of the above in the same year.

Obsessively posting on Instagram to the point that your social media manager has to move into your house for months during lockdown.

Having your miscarriage captured in tasteful b&w and hitting the jackpot when the photographer captured a single tear glistening, mid-roll, on your great big fat cheek.

Thanks for sharing that appalling clip, R56. What a bizarre slice of the 70s that was. Between the costumes, the dance moves, and the song itself, I felt second-hand embarrassment just watching every poor soul involved.

Ye gods, R73! That reminds me of a Neanderthal representation from a dusty small town museum exhibit. And I fucking laughed out loud.

Trans their kids

I don't know what you could be referring to, OP. Who on earth would ever stoop that low and resort to such desperate behavior? A superstar like me has never had to do anything that vulgar, thank God.

Besides I am far too busy to have any time for desperate publicity stunts. Take today for instance. I've got a nude photoshoot outdoors followed by a four hour sex session with my husband. Then I'll be working on the sequel to my Broadway smash "The Blonde in the Thunderbird" and then selling my bowel movements and used tampons on QVC. I am so busy I haven't even been able to return calls from John Ritter's widow who has been begging me to forgive John.

Aging leading man or action hero teams up with wildly popular hot young rising star. Both benefit - the old one from gaining audiences, the young one from legitimizing their career by working with a critically acclaimed legend.

Too many examples to name, but here are a few:

Newman and Cruise

Fonda and López

Fonda and Lohan

Brando and Pacino

Streep and Hathaway

Davis and Baxter

Willis and Cavill

and...

Swanson and Holden , in a film that actually addressed the subject.

There could be a whole thread made about the subject in r87

Join forces with J.C. Penny

Pretending to be a sex crazed cannibal Daddy.

New Kids on the Block trying to go gangsta Rap:

Make a vagina scented candle. By the way, they explode in their own box.

R60, you know it!

Times Up. I could get behind Me Too but Times Up was just an excuse for these old hags to get relevant again after the roles dried up and the checks stopped coming.

Paying to be in the Daily Mail every single day.

Only the first one, R77. And no fucking.

I suppose you never heard what Sally Field did to get the second one.

And you, R77, let it be known what YOU would do for an Oscar. But no one wanted it, dear.

Pity.

Become a conservative and become a FOX News regular.

Take a picture of what’s inside your pantry.

Take a picture of the Port Authority Bus Station wall.

Take a trip to Cabo.

Make an ass of yourself on a boat in Capri.

Plastic surgery.

It never looks good.

You'll always be a monster now.

You are disgusting.

Oh, I dunno, maybe constantly returning to increasingly gamy and beefy, deliberately impromptu nude photo layouts in weeds and highway ditches?! Girl's gotta eat and hold onto that spotlight..

Suzanne at R100, you seem to be our most popular choice on this thread.

Whoever said doing Cameo was absolutely right. The lowest of the low

Put your 8th grade education to use by taking a year off from acting to fix democracy. Also, run into the middle of the street and scream with joy after Biden wins the election.

become a DJ

Marrying a beard.

getting lap band surgery

Vanilla Ice's home improvement show

Hosting a game show.

Dying. I know my backup girls Flo and Mary both tried it in a desperate attempt to get publicity.

[quote]What are some of the most pathetic ways a celeb tried to regain relevance?

When I read OP's thread title two names immediately came to my mind. Caitlin Jenner just even being alive and Tom Hiddleston because of that repulsive Taylor Swift thing.

A ‘Friends’ reunion…….

Good one R111.

Boxing matches.

R97 - good one. Yep - going on Fox and saying they are speaking out for the repressed majority of conservatives in Hollywood. And that they'll probably suffer in their career because of it.

Nah honey, no one has checked for you in over 10 years. THIS is your only career option left.

Trying to get on Oprah like that John Legend's wife

I haven't been trending in a while. Who should I tell the world I was raped by today?

Your beloved horse dies, your dogs are dognapped, you have PTSD, you have Fibromyalgia, yada, yada, yada....

I would say a lifestyle brand, but some of those bitches make big bucks that way. Look at Jessica Simpson, who's a billion times more successful and the face of a shoe brand than she ever was as an entertainer.