# Most embarrassing ''I did it for the money'' appearance by a celebrity **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965 "2003-03-12T23:31:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/21 "2003-03-13T11:10:51Z")
We have Mr-T doing commercials for fly-by-night fringe banking companies offering ‘Wisconsin Title Loans’. You have a car, they give you money. I can only imagine what happens if you miss a payment… Also, take your pick of just about any of the long-distance/phone service commercials (10-10-220 in particular). Sad, pathetic, and the ultimate death-knell for any has-been to is-now… …unless, of course, you’re Catherine Zeta Jones, who’s complete and utter lack of dignity seems to be more of a blessing than anything. 😕 Yeesh. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/22 "2003-03-13T13:41:53Z")
I remember being absolutely mortified when I saw my pre-teen crush **Andy Gibb** hosting _Solid Gold_. He’d been out of the spotlight for years and this was his comeback? Pitiful. The worst moment came when he sang _Shadow Dancing_ 5 years after it had been a hit. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/23 "2003-03-13T13:56:50Z")
Jesse Ventura, Governor of Minnesota: Many of them but the worst were: The wrestling match The whole football thing [sub]These weren’t embarrassing for Jesse, just for us Minnesotans[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Convict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Convict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Convict)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/24 "2003-03-13T13:58:18Z")
Pete Rose appeared at Wrestlemania 14 and 16 (1998 and 2000). At one of them he came out dressed as the San Diego Chicken, and at both of them he was given the “Tombstone Piledriver” by a wrestler known as “Kane.” ---
**Author:** ![irkenDoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@irkenDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irkenDoom)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/25 "2003-03-13T14:10:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sampiro \* > \*\*The entire cast of FAMILY MATTERS (my sphincter contracted just watching them and feeling their shame) \*\* Jaimee Foxworth, who played Judy (the youngest daughter who went upstairs and never returned) was in [porn](http://members.tripod.com/~former_child_star/index-kids2.html) for a while. She has since quit. > [@](#): > > JAIMEE FOXWORTH (b. 1979) > (Judy Winslow, Family Matters) > Last seen: Spilling all to the National Enquirer (April 2002) about her: life as a porn star named Crave (credits include, Booty Talk #20); battle with alcohol; and, family bankruptcy that drained her Family Matters earnings. Other than that, things are just swell. (P.S.: Foxworth tells the tab she’s done with being Crave: “It’s all behind me now since I went back to my religion.”) ---
**Author:** ![irkenDoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@irkenDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irkenDoom)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/26 "2003-03-13T14:11:45Z")
Oh, by the way, the above link doesn’t go to any examples of her foray into porn. ---
**Author:** ![SadTomato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@SadTomato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SadTomato)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/27 "2003-03-13T16:19:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SolGrundy \* > \*\*Why’d you stop at Arnold, **SadTomato**? [The Japander website](http://www.japander.com/) has at least 50 answers to the OP. \*\* True, but I focused on Schwarzenegger–who’s talked about running for Governor of my fair state–because he’s arguably the biggest star selling the worst product–the Arinamin V drink (_“It contains nicotine among other stimulants and gets that heart rate right up there”_???). He also comes off maniacally insane in the ads–which _does_ make them fun to watch in a WTF sort of way. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/28 "2003-03-13T16:22:53Z")
Cris Judd - getting into J-Lo’s life as a dancer/choreagrapher, rebound romance (after Puff Daddy), banging - marrying and divorcing her, making about 10 million bucks in 9 months, not bad work, if you can get it. ---
**Author:** ![SadTomato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@SadTomato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SadTomato)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/29 "2003-03-13T16:31:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skip \* > \*\*Robert De Niro in **Rocky And Bullwinkle**. \*\* He _had_ to be in it–he was the producer. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/30 "2003-03-13T18:49:46Z")
I don’t know if money was involved, but perhaps the [episode](http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/tradingspaces/episode/season3/episode37/episode37.html) where [Slash](http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/news/shownews.php?newsid=646) of Guns ‘n’ Roses appears on Trading Spaces. If I recall correctly, he was shown sewing a pillow. ---
**Author:** ![Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bedrosian_Bixby)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/31 "2003-03-13T18:58:02Z")
Ron Jeremy selling penis extension pills on a late-night infomercial. Why, oh why Ron? You had such a sparkling career? ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/32 "2003-03-13T21:17:07Z")
I’m shocked no one has mentioned William Shatner and [Priceline.com](http://Priceline.com) commercials, no examples of which I have seen for months, thank heavens. ---
**Author:** ![marinwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@marinwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marinwood)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/33 "2003-03-14T00:38:10Z")
Cuba Gooding Jr. First _Snow Dogs_, now _Boat Trip_. Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/34 "2003-03-14T00:54:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pugluvr \* > \*\*I’m shocked no one has mentioned William Shatner and [Priceline.com](http://Priceline.com) commercials, no examples of which I have seen for months, thank heavens. \*\* I believe he still does them, but only as announcer. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/35 "2003-03-14T00:55:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pugluvr \* > \*\*I’m shocked no one has mentioned William Shatner and [Priceline.com](http://Priceline.com) commercials, no examples of which I have seen for months, thank heavens. \*\* i saw one last night. he just does voiceovers now, but is better than SJP was ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/36 "2003-03-14T01:47:59Z")
Yep, saw one this morning, and I hear him doing Priceline radio ads quite often. Alan Hale, Jr. (“Skipper” from _Gilligan’s Island_) as the sherriff in _The Great Spider Invasion_. Burgess Meredith, Robert Walker Jr., and Godfrey Cambridge in _Son Of The Blob_. Steven Bauer in a Spanish infomercial for psychic Walter Mercado. How he kept a straight face while on camera with this fraud, who looked like Ethel Merman in a Day-Glo house coat with a matching cape, I’ll never know. Those Lynyrd Skynyrd “reunion” tours with progressively fewer members as they die off and the ones left hate and resent each other and Van Zant’s widow. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/37 "2003-03-14T02:41:05Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by irkenDoom \* **Jaimee Foxworth, who played Judy (the youngest daughter who went upstairs and never returned) was in [porn](http://members.tripod.com/~former_child_star/index-kids2.html) for a while.** I wonder if they ever worked the line “Did I do thaat?” into one of the films. It might just be me, but I didn’t feel **Booty Talk 20** had anywhere near the production values of **Booty Talk 18** or the sublime **Booty Talk 14** , but then sequels are rarely as good. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/38 "2003-03-14T03:56:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pugluvr \* > \*\*I’m shocked no one has mentioned William Shatner and [Priceline.com](http://Priceline.com) commercials, no examples of which I have seen for months, thank heavens. \*\* He laughed all the way to the bank with this one. He was a major investor, sold his shares before the bottom dropped out. A friend used to work for Priceline, he told me that Shatner made TONS of bank from his relationship with them. I don’t think the commercials were embarrassing for him or for Priceline, they were funny, campy and memorable. ---
**Author:** ![torben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@torben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torben)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/39 "2003-03-14T10:59:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jimmmy \* > \*\*Embarassing in the they are at the end of the careers category > > Joan Crawford (drunk as a toad) having to take a boatload of crap from Lucy because she needed the money to appear on Lucy’s '67 ILL-knock-off TV show. > > [http://www.tvparty.com/lucy.html](http://www.tvparty.com/lucy.html) > > But, for me, the cast of “Celeb Boxing” made me the most embarassed for them. > Embarassing in the before they were famous category: > Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey in Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1994) > > Tom Hanks in He Knows You’re Alone(1980) > > Both,m tho embarassing now, make me glad they made it. \*\* Don’t forget Renee Zellweger’s equally embarrassing performance in **Love and a .45.** ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965/40 "2003-03-15T11:12:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hometownboy \* > \*\*On a far more local level, back in the 70s, Burt Ward (who, by the way, looks more than a wee bit hefty in the promo pix for the “Return to the Batcave” special) was so hungry for bucks that he made a personal appearance (in Robin uniform) at a…wait for it…car dealership in the hinterlands of Oregon (town of 11,000) and I have the pictures to prove it. BTW, he was a bit of a jerk at the time. Probably a self-image thing. \*\* Burt Ward is the king of personal appearances. Read his book, **Boy Wonder: My Life In Tights**. He probably earned more doing PAs than he would have if he’d continued acting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-i-did-it-for-the-money-appearance-by-a-celebrity/160965.md?page=3)