You know who they are. Just think who would be the second guest on Kilborn (sadly, sometimes he has a third-tier as his first guest).
Daisy Fuentes: What is she? “TV personality”? I know she was a VJ about ten years ago or so but what is she doing now? Why is she famous? I dunno.
Courtney Thorne-Smith: She’s famous and all but I can’t see her ever blowing up. She’ll be stuck in that role forever I think.
You guys can think up the rest.
She started out as a model, moved over to MTV, then to the second coming of America’s Funniest Home Videos, and now does the occasional Radio Shack commercial.
Isn’t Craig Kilborn himself a third tier celebrity?
I was going to be cutesy and say anyone who appears on “The Weakest Link”, or appears on “Hollywood Squares” every day.
But Courtney Thorne-Smith seems to indicate that the third tier is a bit higher than I thought. And Daisy Fuentes…come on…she can’t even walk down the street in South America!
So having said that…
Brett Butler
Tom Arnold (slipping into 4th tier territory)
Tim Meadows (you’d think being on SNL for a decade wouldl make you more thoroughly famous)
Engelbert Humperdinck
Kevin Costner
Anyone see last night’s “celebrity” Fear Factor? I think that’s a pretty good description of 3rd tier.
I once saw 1940s starlet Conchita Montenegro referred to as “The Poor Man’s Lupe Velez.”
Since Lupe Velez was The Poor Man’s Dolores Del Rio, and Dolores Del Rio was The Poor Man’s Greta Garbo, by the time you reached Conchita Montenegro you were pretty far down the food chain. Can you imagine the chagrin of the starlet referred to as The Poor Man’s Conchita Montenegro?
Wasn’t there a recent “Weakest link” advertised that had Donna Conger(sp), Tony Harding, Kato Kaelin(sp) and a couple of other “celebrities”? Sounded pretty 3rd-tier, if not lower.