How many people have “been on TV” (lemmy.world)

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How many people in the US have “been on tv”. There Isaacs got in my hometown who’s whole identity is that he was a contestant on a committe cooking show. I’m trying to gauge how common it is for a random person that you might meet at a bar to have been on TV. By this I mean:

non actors
not the news -not just in the audience

I think that predominantly leaves game show contestants and reality tv show contestants. What do you think?

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[-] Deuces@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I did a fair amount of hitch hiking along the west coast last summer. A shockingly large number of people in SoCal told me about their 15 minutes of fame. One guy was one of the CGI pirates from pirates of the Caribbean 3, another had done fairly well in some game show I can't remember, but the wildest was Jake and Logan Paul's dad. North of the Sierria Nevada those stories dropped off quickly.

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