Dating Confessions by You "I love my boyfriend, but he has slept with four times as many people as I have. He says he wants to settle down, but I don't know if I can do that until I even the score."
10. Farrah Fawcett on The Late Show with David Letterman, 1997
Farrah Fawcett toddles to her chair, and fumbles a joke. It begins. Dave asks if she's all right. Her head snaps around, her eyes stare wildly. Farrah barks, "Don't I seem all right?!" The conversation disintegrates into frothy talk about Ms. Fawcett's sexiness and how much people like her. Then, while attempting to relate a central park adventure, Farrah loses command of the English language completely. She slaps herself in the face in an attempt to kickstart her weary synapses. A moment of cathartic revelation: Farrah yells, "You're making fun of me!" The audience applauds. Yes. Yes we are! — M.L.
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9. Paula Abdul on Seattle Q13 Fox News affiliate, 2007
Paula Abdul is often accused of being on some form of medication — be it alcohol, painkillers, or Simon Cowell's heady musk. But this morning-show incident stands out from even her checkered resume. She's so unfocused that the network had to take a do-over, on live TV, and restart the interview. At least Paula was enjoying herself. Though Bravo has removed her one-season show Hey Paula from its website, we remember her blaming this disastrous interview on exhaustion. But when she says, "Seattle has the best delusional people," we're pretty sure it takes one to know 'em. — J.C.
8. Jim Everett on ESPN2's Talk2, 1994
It's one thing for a sports talk-show host to trash-talk an athlete when he's on the field. It's another entirely to trash-talk that same, very large athlete when he's sitting across from you in-studio. Host Jim Rome did just that to former L.A. Rams quarterback Jim Everett, repeatedly calling him "Chris" (after female tennis player Chris Evert), and referencing Everett shying away from sacks in an '89 championship game. With their chests puffed up like warring silverbacks, the men verbally spar until Everett says, "I bet you don't call me Chris again." And then Rome does. It's rare for actual off-field NFL violence to end up on-camera; it's usually left in the club, or the ER after someone shoots himself in the leg. It's even rarer that it's this hilarious. — M.L.
7. Whitney Houston on Primetime, 2002
In 2002, Barbara Walters interviewed the troubled Bodyguard chanteuse for ABC’s Primetime. Instead of seeing the brassy diva with the golden pipes, audiences got a terse, spacey Houston who sounded like she had been sucking on an exhaust pipe. The singer’s demeanor and laryngitis were odd but hardly the stuff that goes down in the annals of bizarre unscripted TV. No, it was Whitney’s catchy anti-drug jingle that made the history books. Remember kids, don’t smoke rock — dream big and spring for some China White. — C.L.
6. Ol' Dirty Bastard on MTV News, 1999
The world lost something special when Russell Tyrone Jones died in 2004. Ol' Dirty Bastard, Big Baby Jesus, Dirt McGirt — even the man's aliases were entertaining as hell. ODB was a strange man, and nothing illustrated that better than putting him in a room (or on a street, on at an award show) with even-keeled citizens. This collection of outtakes from a sit-down with MTV's John Norris is almost exhausting to watch. Was ODB just fucking with him or was the man really that damn weird? The good money's on "that weird." — J.C.
