6. Kim Kardashian
It's always strange when WWE brings in people from reality TV shows and act like they're a big deal. Most fans just don't care. At all. Case in point: Kim Kardashian appearance at WrestleMania 24. Kim showed up at the event in 2008, which was years before her marriage to Kanye West. This meant that she was mainly famous for a sex tape, and her reality show which had only been on the air for five months at that point. Fans accordingly greeted her with apathy, and a fair dose of hostility. You can imagine that WWE had to shell out some big bucks for Kim to be the "hostess" for the event. What did that exactly entail? Well, she didn't exactly help out much with publicity, since she was confused about her role at WrestleMania. In an interview with Sports Illustrated just days before the event, she told them that she had no idea what she was doing on the show. So what exactly did all that money get WWE? Basically, she announced the crowd attendance. And for that minute of awfulness, she probably made as much as some of the mid-carders make in an entire year. Hey, for that kind of money, at least Snooki got in the ring!
Andrew Soucek
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
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