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American, British, or Australian celebrities who suddenly vanished out the limelight

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    #62
    topper75
    Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    As I say, David O'Leary.


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    #63
    CiarraiAbu2
    Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭CiarraiAbu2


    AllForIt wrote: »
    Princess Diana.






    Oh no actually, she's still front page news on some of the uk tabloids from time to time. Scrape that one.

    They did, off the floor


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    #64
    badboyblast
    Registered Users Posts: 753 ✭✭✭badboyblast


    Ghostbusters


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    #65
    MikeyTaylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭MikeyTaylor


    Hopefully we will be able to add Donald Trump to this list soon.


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    #66
    Lady Spangles
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭Lady Spangles


    MikeyTaylor wrote: »
    Hopefully we will be able to add Donald Trump to this list soon.

    Still a couple of years too late, sadly. The damage has been done and just got worse.


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    #67
    Crea
    Registered Users Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Crea


    topper75 wrote: »
    Is this 'the rah fupped up' story?

    No. It's the- he wasn't worth the ransom story because he had retired and none of his offspring were amounting to anything so the ransom wasn't paid and the horse was killed.


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    #68
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,968 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Lady Spangles wrote: »
    James and Natasha Bedingfield. They were everywhere about ten years ago, then poof! Same for David Grey.

    Does Syd Barrett count? He turned up out of the blue a few years after his initial disappearance, walking in on one of Pink Floyd's recording sessions ("Shine On", appropriately enough) and then dropped into the void again (well, Cambridge).

    Richey Edwards from the Manics, although that was obviously entirely his choice. If he is alive (unlikely), he clearly has no wish to be found.
    Daniel Bedingfield?


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    #69
    [Deleted User]
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    Crea wrote: »
    No. It's the- he wasn't worth the ransom story because he had retired and none of his offspring were amounting to anything so the ransom wasn't paid and the horse was killed.

    Given that only one foal had been born (never mind raced) when he was stolen that seems an unlikely story, you might want to check your sources.


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    #70
    Lady Spangles
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭Lady Spangles


    gmisk wrote: »
    Daniel Bedingfield?


    That's the one, not "James". So obscure now I've even forgotten his name.


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    #71
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Russ Abbott. He was huge for a while in the late 80s, even had a good sized hit single called "Atmosphere" then he vanished for years - turned out he was on stage!


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    #72
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Carrie Ann Moss (huge for a very brief period, when she starred in The


    Not a massive role, not obscure either. But, she features quite a bit in the Marvel TV series such as Jessica Jones.



    Emilio Estevez


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    #73
    badtoro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 482 ✭✭badtoro


    gmisk wrote: »
    Paul Hogan?

    Think his bicycle was stolen in Dublin today.


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    #74
    MikeyTaylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭MikeyTaylor


    Did anyone listen to Mr Hudson or Daniel Merriweather back in the day? How about Sam Sparro or, as Daniel is now calling him, "Samual"?


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    #75
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    Lady Spangles wrote: »
    That's the one, not "James". So obscure now I've even forgotten his name.

    You might be thinking of James Blunt. He was popular at the same time. "You're beautiful"


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    #76
    MikeyTaylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭MikeyTaylor


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    You might be thinking of James Blunt. He was popular at the same time. "You're beautiful"

    Or James Morrison?
    "You can't play on broken strings... you can't heeear anythiiiiing..." Part of the song sounded a bit like "Secret Smile" by Semisonic.


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    #77
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Your man Mika fairly disappeared too, didn't he?


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    #78
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Your man Mika fairly disappeared too, didn't he?

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.


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    #79
    MikeyTaylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭MikeyTaylor


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Your man Mika fairly disappeared too, didn't he?

    I was just thinking about him minutes ago!


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    #80
    Beanntraigheach
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    Whatever happened to Baby Jane?


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    #81
    MikeyTaylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭MikeyTaylor


    Update re Daniel Merriweather: he has a new song out with Mark Ronson and Diplo!
    https://www.complex.com/music/2018/05/silk-city-diplo-mark-ronson-daniel-merriweather-only-can-get-better


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    #82
    MikeyTaylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭MikeyTaylor


    New stuff from Taio Cruz


    Not had a hit in the UK in nearly six years according to officialcharts.com. Of all the late 00s/early 10s music stars who emerged around that time and then evaporated into obscurity, Taio has to be the big stand out - hit after hit, and then nothing.


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    #83
    MikeyTaylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭MikeyTaylor


    Anyone remember Jay Sean?

    Pretty big both sides of the Atlantic, then vanished into thin air. Good singer though.

    Edit: Apparently he and Sean Paul had a #49 hit only in 2016, but Jay's last top 40 was "2012 (It Ain't the End)" in 2010.


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    #84
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Jennifer Grey was very successful in the 80s, starred in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Dirty Dancing then seemed to disappear.


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    #85
    shakeitoff
    Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭shakeitoff


    LIL BOW WOW
    Jason Mraz(He's still going in the States but he just exploded worldwide for some reason)


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    #86
    MikeyTaylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭MikeyTaylor


    shakeitoff wrote: »
    LIL BOW WOW
    Jason Mraz(He's still going in the States but he just exploded worldwide for some reason)

    Here's what happened to Bow Wow.
    https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7461866/bow-wow-announces-retirement-from-rap-final-album-NYLTH
    And here's what happened afterward.
    http://www.rap-up.com/2018/04/02/bow-wow-announces-new-album-edicius/


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    #87
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Vita nova wrote: »
    Jennifer Grey was very successful in the 80s, starred in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Dirty Dancing then seemed to disappear.
    She had a massive schnozzle so decided to get a nose job. It was something of a disaster so she required a second operation

    The results were better but she now looked so much unlike her natural self that even friends failed to recognise her.

    As a result film producers wouldn't cast someone the audience wouldn't recognise in a significant role.

    Apparently, in her own words, "I went in the operating room a celebrity and came out anonymous".


    JenniferGrey.jpg


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    #88
    kupus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    Scissor sisters. The band. Not the two psychos from dublin


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    #89
    MikeyTaylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭MikeyTaylor


    kupus wrote: »
    Scissor sisters. The band. Not the two psychos from dublin

    They went on hiatus in 2012.


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    #90
    Lady Spangles
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭Lady Spangles


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    You might be thinking of James Blunt. He was popular at the same time. "You're beautiful"


    My mistake, sorry, I meant Daniel Beddingfield. I would agree with James Blunt, but he has a hilarious twitter presence which in itself is worthy of note. Therefore, I don't think he counts as having vanished altogether.

    D.B definitely has, though. Haven't heard a peep out of him in yunks.


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    #91
    Lady Spangles
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭Lady Spangles


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Your man Mika fairly disappeared too, didn't he?

    Yes. His one hit was huge, being played everywhere at all times, on every single station on rotation. Then ... nothing (thank fvck).


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