Celebrities Big A Decade Ago But Now Forgotten

OP I think you could say Judge Judy and most people would know who you were talking about but certainly that's not true for Perez Hilton.; he was never big.

Bai Ling; Lorde; Tila Tequila; Daniel Tosh; Liam Lynch

He was huge if you’re millineal @R1

Mischa Barton, Freddie Prinz Jr, Chad Michael Murray

Enrique Iglesias

R4 10 years ago was 2015.

Those people were long gone by 2015.

Robin Thicke.

Robin had a pretty successful career as a lowkey R&B act who sold pretty well inside the R&B fanbase. He was like a modern Jon B. And then “Blurred Lines” came out and he completely spiraled.

Madonna

R2 Lorde is still popular to Gen Z.

Ashanti

Oprah, Madonna, and George Clooney lost their star power in the 2010s. Although they’re not erased or have disappeared, they’ve certainly been forgotten on a cultural relevance scale.

George Clooney got old. OLD.

OP suffers from recency bias.

Garrison Keillor

Gabourey Sidibe; Lily Collins; Emile Hirsch; Joseph Gordon Levitt; Ellen Page; Danny Masterson; Aston Kutcher...

R15's got it. Those are perfect.

R6 nails the challenge for the crypt dwelling ancient DLers for whom time has collapsed.

LOL @R17!

Yes, the years do start to blur.

Not even a decade ago: Michael Avenatti

George Clooney just scored a huge critical and financial hit on Broadway and got a Tony nomination. He's hardly forgotten. But I still don't like him.

[quote] Not even a decade ago: Michael Avenatti

Remember when he flirted with a campaign for the presidential nomination?

R20 He’s doing Broadway.

Lorde has a new album out which is critically and commercially successful.

It absolutely is not successful, but I would agree she does not qualify.

Julia Roberts.

Kate McKinnon.

Honestly most of her SNL cast members from the era just sort of flamed out.

Aziz Ansari

Game of Thrones ended in 2015. I thought we’d see others from that cast in big roles elsewhere.

Pedro Pascal and Jason Mamoa, in minor but memorable roles, would not have been my guesses for who we’d still be talking about today.

What is all this forgotten shit? Celebrities are meant to be forgotten and replaced by new ones.

Johnny Galecki

Beck Bennett

Lorde is still in it. New album in June. #1 UK, #2 US. No single yet.

[quote] that's not true for Perez Hilton.; he was never big.

I AM "big"!

It's the other internet gossip columnists with Olmec heads that got small...

I wouldn’t say that Jennifer Lawrence is in any way forgotten, but truly, no one is excited about about her newest acting performances. She’s failed at producing on a scale whereas Margot Robbie and Emma Stone have not.

R32, she just sold her latest film's global distribution rights at Canne for a record-breaking $24M. As for her performance, she's a front-runner for a Lead Actress nom for Die, My Love.

If you're going to make a comment as if it were fact, provide some actual facts.

Perez Hilton made a name for himself as a gossip "news" reporter shortly after the internet started gaining traction, and we're talking about the AOL days. As the scene exploded, he couldn't keep up and he became a relic. I read that he moved to Vegas which will further hasten his obsolescence. But there was a time when he was all over TV and the internet.

One Direction

RuPaul

Craig Ferguson

Kellyanne Conway - at least 8 years

Robert Downey Jr

Susan Boyle

Cameron Diaz

Adam Sandler

Hillary Clinton

Bill O’Reilly

Jim Carrey

Nicholas Cage

Jack Nicholson

1/2 my famous gentleman callers have already died.

Flash-in-the-pan songstresses Rachel (“Fight Song”) Platten and Andy Grammer.

Yolanda Hadid Foster Hadid

…oh, and Tove Lo.

Jennifer Lawrence

… and once-inescapable, marginally talented Cali beach-vibe singers Colbie Caillat and Jack Johnson

[quote]As for her performance, she's a front-runner for a Lead Actress nom for Die, My Love.

[quote]If you're going to make a comment as if it were fact, provide some actual facts.

And yet you yourself are stating your comment that she's a front-runner for a Lead Actress nom as if it were a fact, and yet you have provided nothing to substantiate that claim.

Katy Perry. And ontinuously losing traction: the Kardashians.

[quote]Tila Tequila

Decided to start hanging out with the far right, so she immediately booted herself out of any future reality projects. She could have been like Tiffany Pollard, who makes a living doing that.

[quote]Gabourey Sidibe; Lily Collins

The first one had twins and doesn't seem to do much other than voice over work now, Lily was on Emily in Paris for years. It just ended in 2024.

I'd add Stacey Dash to this list. Another one that went right wing (but not far right) and pissed off the people who were supporting her.

Matt Drudge

Logan Lerman

Daniel Tosh spoke out against circumcision and thus his career was ended. Tila Tequila ruined her career(life) with a child.

R33: Mubi vastly overpaid for this. This is going to be one huge bomb. It’s about a mother who develops postpartum depression and psychosis. Basically it’s mother! 2.0. Not to mention the overexposed Robert Pattinson isn’t exactly a huge draw lately.

Chelsea Handler. Her show ended in 2014. She's had some Netflix shows but seems pretty washed-up and irrelevant in 2025.

R19 / R22 - That took me back! Talk about fly-by-night infamy.

I remember boning hard for him when he was Stormy's lawyer. I just read his Wiki page and can't believe he imploded so quickly. Corrupt AF.

oops, I meant R19 / R21

Farrah Abraham

Courtney Stodden

[quote]Ellen Page

Who?

I couldn't stand Chelsea Handler.

R48 - Oh, honey...no one's watching Emily in Paris.

R46, here's a list of noms from Variety. The article was written on June 30, 2025.

2026 Oscar Predictions: Best Actress Variety Awards Circuit: Predicted Nominees

Actress Film Studio

Jessie Buckley Hamnet Focus Features

Cynthia Erivo Wicked: For Good Universal Pictures

Jennifer Lawrence Die, My Love Mubi

Renate Reinsve Sentimental Value Neon

Julia Roberts After the Hunt Amazon MGM Studios

R2 For God's sake, you asshole, call the police and get me down from here!

[quote] [R46], here's a list of noms from Variety. The article was written on June 30, 2025.

Better late than neverd, but you didn't provide the course originally. My point was that you committed the exact same fault you complained that r32 had committed.

Joan Rivers HATED Chelsea Handler. She said that Chelsea had ZERO talent and blew her way to success. I agree. Absolutely no talent.

Joan always disliked comediennes who were prettier than she was, which was most of them.

Taylor Kitsch.

Malin Akerman.

Kellan Lutz.

Has anyone said Abe Vigoda yet?

Malin Åkerman just starred in "The Hunting Wives" on Netflix, R66. It's a pretty popular show.

[quote]Kellyanne Conway - at least 8 years

She's all over Fox News and sometimes fills in for Sean Hannity. Hardly forgotten.

R23 barely. She has yet to live up to the hype of "Royals". The reviews are favorable enough but hardly glowing.

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter was washed up in 2015. She's a Bush era figure.

Rosamund Pike. Come back!

Fox News falafel lover Bill O'Reilly

Matt Lauer, Bianca Jagger, Joel Osment

Several of the young male "promises" in Hollywood from the early 2010s. In part cause they were nothing but hopelessly boring white straight dudes: Logan Lerman, Ryan Kwanten, Alex Pettyfer, Kellan Lutz.

I will also include Taylor Kitsch (even though he pings a lot to me).

Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie

Robert Mueller

Hot Chelle Rae

The Ready Set

fun.

Gotye

Carly Rae Jepsen

Zac Efron

R64

Joan Rivers told some story to Howard Stern about how she shared a green room with Chelsea Handler for some event and how Handler rolled her eyes at Rivers when she walked over and introduced herself. Rivers thought it was really tacky and rude.

Zayn Malik

That chubby comedian with the ugly face who made jokes about things like her period. She was blonde

Amy Schumer?

The most forgotten, Dane Cook.

Pete Davidson

It pains me to say it, because I like him…

Channing Tatum

Julia Roberts

Perez tried to be nice for awhile and it didn’t work. Do you mean Joel Osteen or Haley Joel osnent r75? Osment has struggled with alcohol addiction, but is a solid character actor.

[quote]Osment has struggled with alcohol addiction, but is a solid character actor.

Solid is a very good way to describe Osment.

[quote] she just sold her latest film's global distribution rights at Canne for a record-breaking $24M.

Hopefully JLaw was more diligent as a producer than she was with Causeway, which she delayed for a year mid-production to plan her wedding.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Amanda Bynes

Frankie Muniz

Taylor Lautner

Iggy Azalea

Travie McCoy

Taio Cruz

James Franco

Amerie

People wrongly assume JLaw's career decline was because of Weinstein's cancellation and incarceration. The primary reason her career stalled is because her non-IP films flopped and her quote was and still is $20-25M. Her putting her foot in her mouth didn't help either. They sold her as the next Julia Roberts but with the acting prowess of Meryl Streep. The tripping at award shows, scolding the reporter in the press room at the Golden Globes, claiming she was the first female action star - overtime people didn't buy the girl you'd wanna have a beer with persona.

Tripping at awards show? You really think most people cared about that?

There's something unlikable about Jennifer Lawrence.

How do you make money after you age into obscurity? If you were known for something like a blog (Drudge, Hilton) and then displaced by newer forms of media and celebrity. It must be awful to have been clever ten years ago but broke today.

Alicia Silverstone is worth 20 million, let's ask her, since she hasn't been relevant for decades.

R102, she's worth $20M (as in, her total assets/net worth) or she still commands that kind of salary?

R103 I don't know, I assume worth. Why don't you do some research?

[quote] Joan Rivers told some story to Howard Stern about how she shared a green room with Chelsea Handler for some event and how Handler rolled her eyes at Rivers when she walked over and introduced herself. Rivers thought it was really tacky and rude.

For someone who made an entire career out of being mean to other celebrities on stage, Joan was ridiculously oversensitive.

[quote]Several of the young male "promises" in Hollywood from the early 2010s. In part cause they were nothing but hopelessly boring white straight dudes: Logan Lerman, Ryan Kwanten, Alex Pettyfer, Kellan Lutz.

I wouldn't say, Logan Lerman, is "forgotten." He had the Hunters series with Al Pachino for a couple of years. He's on next season of "Only Murders..." and has been doing press for the indie movie he just did. For years social would lose its mind whenever his girlfriend/soon to be wife would post a picture of him to remind people he existed. He just only seems to work when he feels like it.

The others, not so much. Kwanten got older and does b movies overseas that seem kinda shitty. Pettyfer was an ass and ruined his career. He also pissed off Channing Tatum. Kellan disappeared completely the past couple of years.

[quote]Rosamund Pike. Come back!

She's been on Amazon's Wheel of Time for a couple of years. (It just got cancelled.) She produced it so it centered on her character.

I don't know if these people are so much "forgotten" as they are on shows/doing projects that are for a demographic that you [the general you] may not be part of.

They're not exactly well known.

[quote] [R102], she's worth $20M (as in, her total assets/net worth) or she still commands that kind of salary?

I somehow don't think Alicia Silverstone commands $20 million per project

Does she have any projects?

I just didn't know from where R102 pulled that number.

R110 Oh, my GOD. I Googled it. It was the first thing that came up. I didn't think there would be a quiz.

If you dispute it, then do your won research and report back.

*own

[quote] Lorde has a new album out which is critically and commercially successful.

Lorde is counting her dollars on the train to the party...she's cater waitering.

Michael Cera

Giovanni Ribisi

R89 I meant Haley Joel Osment!

PewDiePie

Alexandra Daddario

Amanda Palmer

Who’d probably prefer to be forgotten these days…

[quote]Lorde has a new album out which is critically and commercially successful.

No, it wasn't. It was a big flop. She was a one-hit wonder.

Remember Lorde's sister, Indy Yelich? Even more forgotten.

I wonder how old many of you are. Ashanti? Perez Hilton? These people were popular 20 years ago, not 10. Ashanti is becoming back popular again due to millenial nostalgia as we are approaching 40. She and her husband. Yall haven’t noticed Millenial nostalgia is being cooked into pop culture like crazy lately. Even the youngest millennials were grown adult ten years ago. Many of the people named here were has beens or washed up, even if they still had money in the bank. It really is true that people forget time as they age. They like mix up decades.

R120 It's pretty hard to say exactly who was popular exactly a decade ago. And which of them are not popular any more. I'm not surprised people mix it up. It's very specific. Yall.

R98 I think it’s a more simple explanation. She got popular starring in big budget movies that half the populace went to see. She also was very attractive, tall, with some sexy ass legs. She had a self deprecating personality along with a tad of Californian girl next door. That all worked well with the rise in social media, quick late night bites, YouTube, instagram etc. However that doesn’t make money, at least not for her or any Hollywood studio, not in any substantial way. The films she would make, the 2010s version of a Roberts or Bullock film, people no longer went to see in THEATERS. All Lawrence’s comedies that flopped were big hits on streaming, particularly Netflix. I mean you are right in a way. I wouldn’t say she is less popular. She just isn’t popular in a way that produces millions of dollars for a studio. With streaming will the superstars be the actors or the content producers and writers?

Notice that all the big standup comedians that get big ratings on Netflix are now household names as it pertains to pop culture. They dominant streaming and the water cooler conversation. Outside of that, the show or movie is always bigger than the star in it. I couldn’t name one Game of Thrones actor by first and last name.

Shakira

R122: She's not hideous or painful to look at but I wouldn't say she was very attractive. Definitely no great beauty.

Miranda Cosgrove.

I did see her in an almost unseen movie called North Hollywood (2021) that I liked a lot. She was in the iCarly revival. But in some ways, forgotten.

[quote]They're not exactly well known.

People forget the "to me" portion of these statements. I could ask if someone knows who Jackson Wang (he is overseas) or Amelia Dimoldenberg (everyone gets booked on her show these days) and they may not know who they are but they are important to a large group of people.

Some of this stuff is locked into generation and age group. There are people who have been forgotten, period. Then there are people who aren't as big as they were but still around.

R98, Jennifer Lawrence was on WTF with Marc Maron years ago and came across as funny and intelligent. It was the first time I actually liked her. She had a lot of self-awareness. She said that if the movie she was promoting flopped she was done for. She talked about how her past few films had done that, and made it clear she knows how that works. It was sad, but at least she was prepared for it. I got the sense she knew it was going to flop.

Well, the thread title does specify "big a decade ago."

But I have also mentioned some people who were not very big.

R124 She may not be a great beauty but I’m talking simple human nature. Men find her highly attractive; women wouldn’t mind looking like her. She’s tall, slim but not too skinny, with a nice rack and long legs. Her features aren’t so classic Hollywood beautiful. I thought that from day one. Also it seem like towards the end of the aughts every big female star was a former Disney or child star. Lawrence was always a grown woman from day 1 even at only 19 or 20. That helped her sex appeal in ways in wouldn’t had she been a teen star. I’m bisexual btw.

Maybe not quite forgotten, but...

Tyler Posey

R129 now, HE definitely fits this bill. His “white boy white boy” costar became bigger than him, and had a somewhat A list leading man stint for a short while. Good call on that one.

R120, we like, TOTALLY do!

January Jones and much of the cast of Mad Men.

Jillian Michaels, the lesbian trainer on Biggest Loser.

Kate Upton.

Does anyone read Judith Krantz anymore?

I fear not. And she only died five years ago!

Jerry Springer was still on TV in 2015. He'll probably never be forgotten but he's "forgotten."

(i. e. people I know who are in their 20s probably don't know who he is.)

A lot of TV news people.

R11 Bitch please. Clooney is the reason we had our first black female presidential candidate on a mainstream ticket. Oprah as a singular person the public wants to see is diminished sure, but she forever changed media and pop culture. Things that we take as the norm is built our public conscious now. She introduced the concept of having doctors and psychiatrists on daytime tv, now even with their own talk shows. She introduced the idea of a mainstream woman’s book club, where celebrities impact the sale of a book. She introduced the concept of pop culture being married to everyday life especially as it pertains to domestic life for women and raising children. Joe Rogan needs to thank Oprah. She was the first to do a pop culture take on every aspect of life.

[quote]r10 Ashanti

Played by the divine Beverly Johnson.

[quote] She introduced the concept of having doctors and psychiatrists on daytime tv.

I seem to remember seeing Dr. Benjamin Spock on TV when I was a kid in the 60s. Also Dr. Lendon Smith. And of course there was Dr. Joyce Brothers (not a medical doctor, but she was a psychologist).

Rachel Ray

Bruce Willis

Amanda Plummer owns this thread. She was an A-list actress a decade ago, but now mostly forgotten.

She was never A list R144

Nor was she big a decade ago.

Katy Perry

Russell Brand

[quote]Amelia Dimoldenberg (everyone gets booked on her show these days) and they may not know who they are but they are important to a large group of people

“She,” OP. “She.”

Taylor Kitsch is extremely hot to me.

Haley Joel Osment looks like Chaz Bono (or vice versa).

Amanda Plummer won Tony for Agnes of God. She also starred in "Pulp Fiction," "The Fisher King," and "So I Married an Axe Murderer".

She was definitely A-list. Plus, her father is Hollywood Royalty.

This woman was never popular. She is what you called a working actress. I mean yes she was somewhat popular but not popular popular. She was never even more popular than say a Parker Posey. For one she is borderline fugly so all those big flicks she was in, she was never going to get Maxim or People magazine features.

[quote]Yall haven’t noticed Millenial nostalgia is being cooked into pop culture like crazy lately. Even the youngest millennials were grown adult ten years ago. Many of the people named here were has beens or washed up, even if they still had money in the bank. It really is true that people forget time as they age. They like mix up decades.

Don't imagine it won't happen to you, because it will.

p.s. -- Mafuckin'!

Colton Haynes

Lucky Blue Smith

R153 I don’t think it will happen to me because I’m always real about shit in real time. Perhaps If I get dementia. I’m not saying these folks have dementia, they’re just out of touch which makes them misremember recent history.

Willy Cartier and Jon Kortajarena.

Paul Walker.

Avril Lavigne

Jessica and Ashley Simpson

Jane Lynch

Barak Obama

R162 Not just Lynch, the entire Glee cast.

Bret Michaels and Holly Robinson Pete.

[quote] Joan Rivers HATED Chelsea Handler. She said that Chelsea had ZERO talent and blew her way to success.

But it was Joan who died while a man was probing her throat.

Flavor Flav

Joan could be mean but Chelsea Handler is not funny. She was entertaining for “a blonde that straight guys would find hot saying crude shit” but not funny funny. You either have it or you don’t. Bitch didn’t have it.

Mike Pence.

Amy Schumer isn't exactly forgotten, unfortunately, but her profile is much lower than it was a decade ago.

Zooey Deschanel

Maybe not forgotten but Charlie Puth had a higher profile 10 years ago.

Itchy and Scratchy!

My dad knew two brothers—French Canadien—who were given those names by the Irish kids in the neighborhood…1940s Boston.

Oops

R39 All the celebrities reached a level of fame where they will always exist outside of their eras. Maybe Cameron Diaz but even she was too famous for too long to ever truly be forgotten so soon.

We’re almost 200 comments in and no mention of this person. He actually owns this thread.

Andy fucking Samberg

Clay Aiken

Nikki Reed

Zoe Saldana better thank that trans film and her Oscar because she would have been the female owner of this thread alongside Samberg.

Zach Galaki… I don’t know. Don’t feel like googling but yall know who I’m talking bout.

Gus Van Sant

Jonah Hill

Robin Thicke

R1 to r5 mentions people ive never heard of and I was a teenager in 2015

Tina Fey

[Quote] [R1] to [R5] mentions people I've never heard of and I was a teenager in 2015

and your point is?

Drake

R187 shit after Taylor Swift Drake might be the biggest artist in the world right now. Beyonce is bigger but she is a legacy act at this point. She will never not be famous. But Drake is definitely one of the biggest contemporary stars in their prime.

snooze to me R188

John Mayer

Billy Eicher

Justin Timberlake is poised to join this list imminently.

Andy Grammer. Had some hits, then a huge hit, Honey I'm Good in around 2015. Had another hit single in 2016--but haven't heard of him for a while, His Thanksgiving halftime show for the Detroit Lions-Minnesota Vikings game in 2016 was ripped to shreds.

Eva Longoria

Whitey Bulger

R151 I saw Agnes of God, it is still memorable all these years later.

She’s no Meg Tilly. Or Maryann Plunkett.

Jessica Alba

R151 - ok but that was all like 30 years ago, not ten.

R151 she 'starred' in Pulp Fiction. She was in one scene. She never had a starring role in a film that I know of. There are numerous Tony winners that most people have never heard of including me and I attended Broadway shows fairly often back in the day and saw Agnes of God and Pygmalion with Peter O'Toole and Amanda Plummer.

Elijah Woods

Amanda Plummer appeared on Letterman 3 times, so not exactly unknown in the heartland. Won 3 Emmys. Was in numerous TV shows and movies. Not exactly obscure.

R202 She was also in The World According to Garp. She played Ellen James, the girl who had her tongue cut out.

The Amanda Plummer Js A-list Troll is certainly one of the more unique and deluded trolls of recent memory.

R201 really drives the point home considering the actor's name is Elijah WOOD

R203 She was in one scene in Garp

^^^ and had no lines😅😂🤣

Plummer is a rarity a nepo baby with talent. she works when she wants to and doesn’t care about fame I wouldn’t be surprised if she won a late in career Oscar, but she’s never had a desire to be A list.

Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen

Brie Larsen

They were big a decade ago, r209?

R211 they launched their Nirvana Black and Nirvana White perfumes in 2013. In 2016 they added Bourbon and Rose and then French Grey in 2017. I think the line was discontinued in 2019. It was very popular for a while. I guess because I'm into fragrance this is what I remembered. I don't think they have ever gone away as household names but they don't do much. The most press they got was the Mary Kate and Heath Ledger thing.

[Quote] Plummer is a rarity a nepo baby with talent. she works when she wants to and doesn’t care about fame I wouldn’t be surprised if she won a late in career Oscar, but she’s never had a desire to be A list.

Is it that she works when she wants, or she doesn't really get many offers. She's never been iA-list, she's never been a household name, and she's never carried a movie on her own. She's rather odd looking and a particular type and can be effective in the right part

Amanda was the best thing about Ratched.

R206… arp!

R210 daddy Camembert?

Kanye West.

R211, R212, they may no longer be front and center in the public eye but as they aged out of the kiddie roles, they chose to go behind the scenes. They own The Row clothing line which has a $1 billion valuation. You've probably seen various celebs wearing their clothes.

Everyone is aware of The Row, r218. The topic is fame, not business success. They haven't been big name actors since about 2005.

Did Iggy Azalea get deported back to Australia or is she dead?

I thought Iggy made like a zillion dollars on OF and is set for life?

I can't believe no one has mentioned Kevin Spacey. He had one of the biggest shows on Netflix (House of Cards and Orange is the New Black put Netflix on the map in producing original content). He was nominated five consecutive times for Outstanding Lead Actor in Drama Series.

Now, he's completely forgotten, and no film or television production in Hollywood will touch him with a ten-foot pole due to his sexual misconduct scandal.

Jon Hamm Sandwich

Jessica Biel

Allison Janney

Adele.

Delilah-Judith was the name on everyone’s keyboard here just a few short years ago.

Now it’s as if she never happened.

Elvira

Carrot Top

Andy Dick

Lisa Lampanelli

Former living VPs

Harvey Weinstein

Whatever happened to him?

Ansel Elgort

Cameron Dallas

R226 I shouldn't bother, but listen, do you really live in a crypt? Is it a maths or reading issue? A decade ago was 2015. Elvira was big in the 1980s and 1990s.

Matt Dallas

Also, Lisa Lampanelli and Andy Dick were more famous 20 years ago not 10.

Believe it or not it's hard to remember everything that was happening 10 years ago in show business.