How Overrated Celebrities Tricked The World, In Three Steps

You don't have to be talented, you just need to fool people into believing you're talented.
How Overrated Celebrities Tricked The World, In Three Steps

It's as the old adage goes -- it's not what you know, it's who you know. And in the following cases, the "who" in these scenarios were a bunch of folks who thought these individuals were more talented than they really are.

CRACKEDCON 1. Constantly break character (Act like you're having fun) 2. Make the most inoffensive comedy possible (Laughs for the whole family) 3. Wa
1. Win an Academy Award. 2. Gradually get bad at acting. 3. Keep making movies to trick people into thinking maybe you're great again.
1. CRACKEDcO Become, SNL darling. ILFFFFEEEEF 2. 9 M60IG Start production company and make increasingly awful movies with your friends. 3. Continue to
How Overrated Celebrities Tricked The World, In Three Steps
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1. Bruce Lee movie 2.Generic action flicks Facts 3.Memes CRACKED.CON
1. Start out as an ugly guy who looks nuts. 0lpok 2. Win a lead role because of that. darfur 3. Win fame and awards, and... become a sex icon.
1o Shove your way into a bunch of geeks for a fraction of their space 2 Send same geeks packing SO you own al-1 their spacea 3 Treat cancer with fruit
JiMMY BuFFett 1. Make music drunk people can sing-along to. Barfaties MARGARITAVILLE besin 2. Sell food and LANDSKO merchandise drunk people will buy.
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1. Audition for a new TV show as a main character 2. Play a young queen on the most expensive show on TV 3. Be named as the Sexiest Woman Alive CRACK
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1. Be Born Into ORACKED COM Privilege 2. Become a tyrant with celebrity friends 3. Hold the world hostage
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CRACKEDcO 1. Create Mysterious Villain 2. Create Mysterious=er Villain 3. SHERLOCK Never Resolve Anything

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