# 100 Where-Are-They-Now Former Stars To Book For The Surreal Life
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-where-are-they-now-former-stars-to-book-for-the-surreal-life/350800
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 1, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-where-are-they-now-former-stars-to-book-for-the-surreal-life/350800 "2006-04-01T02:20:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-where-are-they-now-former-stars-to-book-for-the-surreal-life/350800/1 "2006-04-01T02:20:06Z")
The rules for this one aren’t too complex. You can name only **one** candidate per post.
The candidate can be a TV or movie actor or actress, a musician of either sex, or some other celebrity of some type. The candidate can even be non-human.
The catch is that they cannot have been starring in a TV show or series or in a movie, actively producing music or touring, or doing whatever it is that brought them fame in the first place since the year 2000. In other words, they’ve done nothing but coast on their fame (or simply sank out of sight) since before this century began.
Commercials, talk show appearances, game show or reality show appearances don’t disqualify your candidate, but being dead does.
As a final twist, name someone who fits the above criteria **and** is someone you’d like to see on _The Surreal Life_.
My pick, to get the ball rolling, is [Martha Quinn](http://imdb.com/name/nm0703925/).
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### Author:  [@percussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percussion)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-where-are-they-now-former-stars-to-book-for-the-surreal-life/350800/2 "2006-04-01T03:03:58Z")
jimmy ray, who wants to know
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-where-are-they-now-former-stars-to-book-for-the-surreal-life/350800/3 "2006-04-01T03:05:44Z")
Squeaky Fromme.
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### Author:  [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-where-are-they-now-former-stars-to-book-for-the-surreal-life/350800/4 "2006-04-01T03:08:02Z")
Ray J. Johnson, Jr.
You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me RJ or you can call me Ray Jay…
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### Author:  [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-where-are-they-now-former-stars-to-book-for-the-surreal-life/350800/5 "2006-04-01T03:16:49Z")
Jill Clayburgh.
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### Author:  [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-where-are-they-now-former-stars-to-book-for-the-surreal-life/350800/6 "2006-04-01T04:30:21Z")
**Pat Harrington**
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-where-are-they-now-former-stars-to-book-for-the-surreal-life/350800/7 "2006-04-01T07:21:10Z")
**NicePete**
Raymond J Johnson Jr’s real name is Billy Saluga.
It appears he has done some work in the 21st century. I’ll leave it to other Dopers to see if this disqualifies him.
> **[Bill Saluga - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0759178/)**
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> Bill Saluga, Actor: The Great Buck Howard. One of those actors whom everyone has seen but no one knows his name, Bill Saluga, of the Ace Trucking Company comedy troupe, was seen all over television in the seventies and early eighties as an obnoxious...
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### Author:  [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-where-are-they-now-former-stars-to-book-for-the-surreal-life/350800/8 "2006-04-01T07:31:33Z")
Peter Ostrum
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### Author:  [@Soylent\_Gene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Gene)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-where-are-they-now-former-stars-to-book-for-the-surreal-life/350800/9 "2006-04-01T08:49:34Z")
The Unknown Comic
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### Author:  [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-where-are-they-now-former-stars-to-book-for-the-surreal-life/350800/10 "2006-04-01T16:11:49Z")
Kennedy
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-where-are-they-now-former-stars-to-book-for-the-surreal-life/350800/11 "2006-04-01T16:57:10Z")
Moderator intervenes: these “Name 100 wossname” threads are boring, post-padding, games … and, as such, are not appreciated. Waste of pixels.