Celeb Couples Who Think They're Still Famous, But Aren't
Whether their fame came from reality TV, music, sports, acting, or straight up celebrity gossip, these stars had their sights set on being power couples. But it doesn't seem to be working out for them.
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00:00Whether their fame came from reality TV, music, sports, acting, or straight-up celebrity gossip,
00:08these stars had their sights set on being power couples, but it doesn't seem to be working
00:13out for them.
00:15Despite her previous success in reality TV, Nicole Richie's Candidly Nicole reportedly
00:20got low ratings and ended after two seasons in 2015. Her musical 2020 comedy series Nikki
00:28Fresh on Quibi also didn't last long.
00:31As for Richie's husband, Joel Madden of Good Charlotte, his last charting track as of the
00:36making of this video was 2016's Life Can't Get Much Better. Then there's Joel's brother
00:42Benji Madden, whose wife Cameron Diaz famously retired from acting to focus more on her personal
00:49life.
00:50She launched her wine brand Avalene in 2020. While both couples seemed to be enjoying life
00:55out of the spotlight, insiders alleged to Radar in 2018 that Richie and Diaz had pushed
01:01the brothers to go on tour again and release another album, but the guys are worried they're
01:06going to be a laughingstock.
01:08Good Charlotte was reportedly having trouble selling tickets at most venues, but life otherwise
01:14seems to be good for both brothers and their wives.
01:17Joel and Richie shared two kids together and quietly celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary
01:22in December 2022. The following month, Benji shared a sweet Instagram post to mark eight
01:29years of marriage with Diaz. They welcomed a daughter via surrogate in 2019.
01:35In her memoir, Storytelling, Tori Spelling admitted that her producer father, Aaron Spelling,
01:41helped her get cast in Beverly Hills' 90210. The series kept Tori gainfully employed for
01:4710 seasons. She hasn't replicated her early acting success, but when she met actor Dean
01:53McDermott while filming the 2005 made-for-TV movie Mind Over Murder, their affair kept
02:00her in the spotlight.
02:01The co-stars were both married to other people, creating a real-life soap opera plotline.
02:07Their story also made them ideal reality TV candidates. They embraced the format wholeheartedly,
02:14appearing in the Oxygen series Tori & Dean, Home Sweet Hollywood, from 2007 to 2012.
02:21Their 2014 Lifetime series, True Tori, followed the fallout from McDermott being unfaithful,
02:28and the couple's claim to fame became their seemingly never-ending marital woes. However,
02:33Tori's relationship drama wasn't enough to get her cast on The Real Housewives of Beverly
02:38Hills.
02:39In a 2022 appearance on Bethany Frankel's Rewives podcast, Tori revealed that she was
02:44desperate to become a housewife, but Andy Cohen himself told her he didn't see her
02:50as a fit. Spelling recalled a conversation with former 90210 co-star Jenny Garth,
02:55"...I really went ballistic, in my head, when Jenny said, oh yeah, they offered it
03:00to me one year."
03:02In 2023, The Sun reported that Tori allegedly owed over $1 million in back taxes.
03:10After six seasons of playing both a human and her undead doppelganger on The Vampire
03:15Diaries, Nina Dobrev decided that she wanted to do something else with her life. In 2019,
03:21she started dating professional snowboarder Shaun White. Although he was a five-time Olympian
03:27with a collection of three gold medals, he told People that he soon learned that Dobrev
03:32was the more famous of the two when they went out to eat and other diners clamored for photos
03:37with his date.
03:38White's competitive career ended with his retirement in 2022. Months later, he was joking
03:44about babysitting for money in an Instagram story. As for Dobrev, she unfortunately failed
03:50to secure another long role on television when her CBS series Fam was canceled after
03:55one season in 2019. She's also appeared in a handful of films. However, her career definitely
04:02wasn't on the upswing in 2022, when her only credit was in the critically panned faith-based
04:07romance Redeeming Love.
04:11In a 2012 interview with Details, Adam Levine admitted that he became a judge on The Voice
04:16because his Grammy-winning band Maroon 5 was seemingly falling out of favor with fans.
04:22Details of their third album were disappointing, and Levine saw the reality competition as
04:27an opportunity to show a different side of himself. Levine remained on The Voice for
04:32eight years before deciding to leave. In a 2019 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show,
04:38he quipped,
04:39"...Now I'm just a stay-at-home dad. I just stay at home and do very little."
04:43His wife, Victoria's Secret model Bahati Prinsloo, also put the brakes on her career for almost
04:49three years after giving birth to two children. She returned to the spotlight with an appearance
04:54in the 2021 Savage Fenty show, but the following year, she was again pregnant with the couple's
05:01third child. That same year, multiple women accused Levine of spending some of his newfound
05:06free time flirting with them online. He denied any infidelity, but confessed to screwing
05:12up in a post on his Instagram story.
05:15By 2023, interest in the cheating scandal had subsided. At Vanity Fair's Oscars afterparty,
05:22Entertainment Tonight was more interested in talking to Levine about Blake Shelton leaving
05:26The Voice than his own career.
05:28Hey Adam, what about Blake leaving The Voice, man?
05:31About time.
05:33Meanwhile, Prinsloo was apparently just happy to have something to do. She wrote on Instagram,
05:39Fans of Little People, Big World watched Jeremy Roloff grow up on the TLC series. By the time
05:48he was ready to end his reality career in 2018, he had a wife, Audrey Roloff. He wrote
05:55on Instagram,
05:56We're not disappearing. We have a lot of exciting stuff in the works and are eager to continue
06:01the work that the Lord has called us to.
06:03In 2019, the couple released the best-selling book A Love Letter Life, which chronicles
06:09their love story and offers relationship advice. Audrey also used her robust social media following
06:15to launch a multi-level marketing business. Her product of choice was Young Living Oils,
06:21and her three cute kids are often featured in her promotional Instagram posts. But the
06:26couple's fading reality fame doesn't buoy every business venture that they experiment
06:31with.
06:32In 2022, The Sun reported that Audrey's clothing company, Always More, was no more. She and
06:38Jeremy also became podcasters in 2018. As of March 2023, they hadn't released an episode
06:44of Behind the Scenes in over two years.
06:47Audrey revealed in a November 2022 Facebook post,
06:51Some of our businesses have made zero money, some have been extremely profitable, and others
06:56have actually cost us.
06:59Jesse James Decker's pursuit of country music stardom helped her gain a fan base. But as
07:05of March 2023, her last song to hit the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart was the 2015 single
07:11Lights Down Low, which peaked at No. 38. Her fame did help her land a lucrative side gig
07:17starring on an E! reality show with her husband, former NFL wide receiver Eric Decker.
07:23Eric retired from football one year after the third and final season of their show,
07:28Eric & Jesse, Game On, aired in 2017. The couple used social media to keep fans updated
07:34on their lives, occasionally making headlines for various attention-grabbing posts.
07:40She also returned to TV on Season 31 of Dancing with the Stars. Considering that fan votes
07:46help determine contestant placement, and thus that placement can serve as a gauge of popularity,
07:52it wasn't a great sign that she finished in 10th place.
07:55I don't think I would do it again, but I will watch it now all the time.
08:01Jesse hinted that she and her hubby were seeking further employment while chatting with Music
08:05Mayhem in 2023, saying,
08:08I've always dreamt of doing a Kelly & Ryan, Wake Up Coffee, Nashville-style show together,
08:14and I think Eric and I have great chemistry."