Over time, reality TV shows have made numerous celebrities out of normal individuals doing common on a regular basis issues, with a spice of drama sprinkled into the ultimate product. Whereas this style has supplied a car for fame for “common individuals,” these reveals have additionally featured cameos by celebrities, whether or not it’s to introduce one thing, promote a venture, and even take part in a much bigger method that goes past a standard fleeting second.
The superstar cameos on actuality TV reveals run the gamut, from relationship reveals to competitors reveals, and extra. The perfect ones stand out for quite a few causes, actually because the celebrities got here as a shock. In every occasion, they added one thing fascinating to the combination or got here utterly out of left discipline.
10 Lance Bass
‘The Circle,’ Season 2
Within the second season of The Circle, Lisa Delcampo got here into the sport pretending to be former NSYNC boy band member Lance Bass. She selected him for good cause: she has labored as his private assistant for years and is aware of him inside and outside. She was assured she may idiot others into pondering she was the actual Bass, and perhaps even be a starstruck participant or two. With most gamers being of their 20s, nonetheless, solely a handful of them even registered who he was.
Bass himself didn’t seem reside on the present, however he did ship a video message wishing Delcampo luck that was aired on the present. It demonstrates that he’s sport for agreeing to let Delcampo go on the present pretending to be him and supporting her all through the journey. For youths who grew up within the ‘90s, it was a welcome cameo.
The Circle
- Launch Date
- January 1, 2020
- Principal Style
- Actuality
- Seasons
- 7
- Distributor
- Netflix
The Circle may be streamed on Netflix within the U.S.
9 Mel B and Emma Bunton
‘The Circle,’ Season 4
A second entry from The Circle, Mel B and Emma Bunton from The Spice Ladies technically had greater than only a cameo. They really performed the sport for the primary 5 days, residing collectively in an condo identical to the opposite rivals. They hid their identities, although, playfully pretending to be a 28-year-old kids’s creator named Jared.
Earlier than they left, the opposite houseguests have been advised that two Spice Ladies have been amongst them and the others spent a lot of their conversations making an attempt to determine which participant they have been catfishing as. It was hilarious to see two mega pop stars let their guards down and play the sport identical to the others. They have been by no means in it to win it, simply as a part of a twist, and revealed to the opposite houseguests in a brief video cameo that was performed again to them. The very fact the pair took the sport severely made the looks so a lot better.
The Circle
- Launch Date
- January 1, 2020
- Principal Style
- Actuality
- Seasons
- 7
- Distributor
- Netflix
- Streaming Service(s)
- Netflix
The Circle may be streamed on Netflix within the U.S.
8 Joel McHale
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ Season 11
Actor and tv host Joel McHale popped up on an episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, one in all the best reality competition shows of all time, to shock all of the queens there. He served as a choose and introduced his signature loud and hyper comedic fashion to the problem.
His hilarious banter with common choose Michelle Visage, who was visibly aggravated by his judging fashion, made the episode particularly hilarious and memorable. Whereas McHale’s rowdy judging fashion wasn’t for everybody, and marked a departure from the same old on the present, that is exactly what made the cameo so humorous, and his cameo has grow to be one of the well-known, and talked-about, appearances within the historical past of Drag Race.
RuPaul’s Drag Race
- Launch Date
- February 2, 2009
- Forged
- RuPaul , Michelle Visage , Jason Carter , Carson Kressley
- Seasons
- 16
7 Bob Dylan
‘Pawn Stars,’ Season 3
Manner again in 2010, the famously reclusive musician Bob Dylan made an sudden cameo on the truth present Pawn Stars, which options the each day enterprise happenings on the World Well-known Gold & Silver Pawn Store in Las Vegas, a family-run enterprise that runs around the ‘clock and has been open since 1989. Given the character of the enterprise and the hours it is open, it is no shock that the homeowners meet some fascinating characters providing distinctive items, a few of which may be price tons of cash. On this episode, a person sells a Bob Dylan vinyl to the store for $50, and the proprietor, Rick Harrison believes that he can improve the worth exponentially for resale if they will pull off the seemingly unimaginable factor: getting it signed by Dylan himself.
He sends the less-than-intelligent Chumlee to get the job carried out, and he succeeds in monitoring down the artist, who occurs to be on the town for a live performance. Hilariously, Dylan is totally shocked when he runs into an odd man holding his album (to not point out being adopted by a digicam crew). However Chumlee ruins the plan when he tells Dylan to get the autograph out together with his personal title. Contemplating the file may have been price hundreds, it was one in all Chumlee’s many blunders on the present, however a wonderful get to seize Dylan on digicam for the present.
Pawn Stars
- Launch Date
- July 19, 2009
- Seasons
- 19
Pawn Stars may be streamed on Hulu within the U.S.
6 Machine Gun Kelly
‘Catfish,’ Season 4
This was technically greater than a fleeting cameo, since Machine Gun Kelly appeared for the whole episode of Catfish as a visitor host alongside host Nev Schulman. But it surely’s price together with it on the listing as a result of it was so memorable. Schulman is understood for inviting completely different celebrities to assist him with investigations when his common co-host Kamie Crawford isn’t there. However this case turned out to be one of the surprising. Hundra, it turned out, was utilizing the present to assist her come out to her mother and father, afraid of showing to them that she was homosexual. It was all an elaborate scheme to get on tv by all events concerned.
Seeing MGK go alongside for the experience with Schulman and understanding what number of twists and turns the present can take was entertaining. He absolutely immersed himself within the expertise, and even obtained caught up within the drama, upset at how the women had performed them like fiddles.
Catfish: The TV Present
- Launch Date
- November 12, 2012
- Seasons
- 7
5 Kevin Jonas – ‘The Actual Housewives of New Jersey’
‘The Actual Housewives of New Jersey,’ Season 6
Kevin Jonas made a cameo in The Actual Housewives of New Jersey as a contractor main the development of Kathy Wakile’s home. It wasn’t all fiction, although. Jonas, who hails from New Jersey, does certainly personal a development firm. Within the cameo, Wakile’s sister Rosie goes to the property to test it out along with her sister and says to Jonas “don’t you sing or one thing?” He replies, “that was my day job. Now I’m doing this.” He wasn’t joking both. It was his firm that purportedly dealt with the job, in response to AOL.
He additionally, together with his firm, constructed a home for his family. The cameo, it appears, was an ask for a present rooted in reality, and Jonas fortunately agreed to go on display screen for it. The jokes continued when Rosie requested if they may discover N’SYNC as their landscaper subsequent. Much more fascinating is that Jonas’ spouse Danielle had been provided a spot on the present and turned it down, in response to Today.
The Actual Housewives of New Jersey
- Launch Date
- Might 12, 2009
- Seasons
- 14
- Forged
- Teresa Giudice , Melissa Gorga , Joe Gorga , Dolores Catania , Gia Giudice , Milania Giudice , Jacqueline Laurita , Margaret Josephs
4 David Spade
‘Bachelor in Paradise,’ Season 7
Following backlash in opposition to The Bachelor host Chris Harrison, The Bachelor in Paradise went forward as deliberate, however with a sequence of visitor hosts to assist tie the present collectively. The listing included names like Lance Bass, Lil Jon, and Tituss Burgess. However one of the stunning visitor hosts was David Spade, who confirmed up for greater than a brief cameo, however ended up overseeing a number of episodes. A protracted-time fan of The Bachelor, Spade has memorably parodied the present in his comedy. When creator Mike Fleiss reached out to ask him to visitor host, in response to Variety, Spade felt like he simply needed to say sure.
Spade says he selected Bachelor in Paradise as a result of it’s much less severe than the extra intense fundamental present. He was his normal comedic self, by no means holding again together with his biting commentary. He was so fashionable as a result of not solely is Spade extremely humorous, however since he has been watching the present for years, he is aware of all of the individuals, the backstories, and the way the present itself works. This wasn’t a matter of an actor studying traces from a teleprompter: Spade obtained completely concerned within the expertise.
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Bachelor in Paradise may be streamed on Hulu within the U.S.
3 Put up Malone
‘Ghost Adventures,’ Season 17
Nobody may have anticipated to see Put up Malone present up in Ghost Adventures, one in all the best paranormal shows. However he was a fan, and when the crew traveled to Arizona to research a location identified eerily as The Slaughter Home, he joined them. The creepy venue was a meatpacking plant however has been changed into a haunted attraction the place individuals imagine ghosts exist and hang-out them.
Malone absolutely entails himself within the paranormal exercise, together with whereas Zak begins to really feel a darkish power. Followers beloved seeing Malone get so labored out, changing into terrified on the happenings because the group started to discover and sense presences. Malone adopted different musicians who had beforehand made a cameo look in Ghost Adventures, together with Vince Neil from Motley Crue and nation music star Loretta Lynn.
Ghost Adventures
- Launch Date
- October 17, 2008
- Principal Style
- Horror
- Seasons
- 20
- Forged
- Zak Bagans , Aaron Goodwin
2 Dr. Drew
‘Jersey Shore Household Trip,’ Season 4
The buddies have been at their wits’ finish with a lingering feud between Angelina Pivernack and Jenni Farley. It was inflicting friction in the home and making planning the following trip close to unimaginable. So, their buddies determined to take drastic measures. They known as Dr. Drew Pinsky to take a seat down with the 2 ladies and attempt to assist resolve the scenario.
Pinsky, in fact, rose to fame together with his radio discuss present Loveline, then later his many TV reveals and podcasts. Hilariously, Pinsky didn’t know what he was in for, and had a troublesome time getting via to the 2 ladies. His quick section on the present helped the messy scenario, a minimum of getting the 2 ladies in the identical room collectively. It was an sudden cameo, however it made complete sense given the scenario.
Jersey Shore: Household Trip
- Launch Date
- April 5, 2018
- Seasons
- 7
- Forged
- Paul “Pauly D” DelVecchio , Mike ‘The Scenario’ Sorrentino , Vinny Guadagnino , Deena Nicole Cortese
1 Billy Eichner
‘The Bachelor,’ Season 23
Billy Eichner memorably appeared on The Bachelor, one in all the best network reality TV shows. He made a joke about Colton Underwood being the primary homosexual bachelor. Because it seems, Underwood later formally got here out as homosexual. Eichner advised US Weekly he didn’t really imagine Underwood was homosexual on the time he made the touch upon the present and expressed his happiness for the previous competitor for residing his fact.
That second apart, Eichner’s cameo was hilarious. He appeared as a camp counsellor whereas the forged was on a gaggle date. The women regarded utterly confused at his presence. Eichner had a one-on-one dialog with Underwood the place he talked about Underwood’s lack of expertise within the bed room, and was typically his normal goofy and sarcastically humorous self.
The Bachelor
- Launch Date
- March 25, 2002
- Seasons
- 28
- Forged
- Chris Harrison , Brad Womack , Jesse Palmer , Sean Lowe
- Creator
- Mike Fleiss
The Bachelor may be streamed on Hulu within the U.S.