FingerHut is a company that says it helps you manage your budget, keep your credit score in check, and improve your financial situation. It featured a pair of actresses, as “Nancy” and “Nancy’s Budget,” and it had the budget gal having a worse and worse time as Nancy overspends.
Twitter user @Coppertopmpls was the actress for Nancy, which got her much more than a minute of fame thanks to how popular and long-running the ad was. Lady K is now an artist, a writer, and a mother and was moved beyond her one minute of fame.
Not Very Sanitary of You, Martha
Juliet Ames didn't know what she was getting into when she consented to appear on a show with Martha Stewart. According to Juliet's tweet, she ate not only a kimchi hot dog but also raw steak with kimchi that Martha Stewart handed to her with her bare hands.
Juliet is apparently only a jewelry maker and crafter from Maryland, so she wasn't used to being in the spotlight. She was so tongue-tied she couldn't say a word. It may have been a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but it also wasn't all that sanitary.
Nobody Expected That
It's simple. Carlton Banksy had a vasectomy, then had a photo shoot. His picture was put right under that of Beyoncé, he got a bunch of interviews from Buzzfeed and Yahoo, and then a bunch of people got mad at him. We have no idea how any of that happened, except for people getting mad at him online, which tends to happen anytime you mention celebrities.
Just by having Beyoncé's name in this article, we're going to get people mad at us. Unlike most of the people on this list, Carlton doesn't have fond memories of his one minute of fame, which is full of so many questions. Why the photoshoot? Why the interviews?
Uncredited Cameo as Babies
One person piped up to say that she, and her twin brother, played some characters on “Friends.” Normally that would be more than sixty seconds of fame, but in this case, both the person with the story and the brother played babies.
Not only that, the children – Monica and Chandler's twin babies – only appear in the very final episode of the series. Still, that's not a bad claim if it is true. “Got hugged by Chandler Bing” isn't something that many people can say happened to them. The siblings say it's fun to see people's reactions.
Seated Next to the Winners
One person claims to have been a seat filler – someone who award shows basically hire to make an audience look at full capacity so that awards shows don't appear to be the sad, forgettable events they usually turn out to be – that had a spot right next to the cast of “High School Musical” when they won their Teen Choice Awards in the year of 2007.
Since the movies were big hits for kids of the era, we can imagine that they brought home more than one award, which means this person probably got to be on camera a number of times.