Today's Blind Items - Blacklisted

Five or six years ago I wrote about this actor that has a very memorable face. He was an overnight star in several viral commercials and, for a short time became a national celebrity. Producers would then hire him for stunt casting and he was making money hand over fist doing personal appearances. It was my experience with him from the first day of meeting him that he was an a-hole. Not an overnight sensation, bow down to me ego kind of a-hole, but just overall. I wrote about not liking him, but I followed up with that when I discovered first hand, and via tips and other people who had similar experiences. He would be in places he didn't belong. You would see him cruising playgrounds and parks. Someone once caught him looking through the window of a ballet school. The person actually confronted him and he said he was looking for the modeling agency that was on the complete opposite side of the building. Wherever children congregated, he would be there. When I wrote, people were just kind of getting it together. Over the years since then, he has effectively been blacklisted and can't get work. If he does manage to land a job, someone who knows about him usually finds out and can get him fired. That pretty much leaves him with uncredited roles or being edited out of things if he isn't noticed prior to his film dates.