It's a sure sign that your days as a top-flight celebrity are over when reality TV beckons. When "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here" or "Big Brother" is your next job, it is a problem. When you find yourself as a "guest host" on pro wrestling's "Monday Night RAW", it is a serious problem.
So it was last night for Freddie Prinze, Jr. The former teen idol entered the ring to announce the tag team championship match coming up later in the show. WWE Champion Randy Orton took exception to Freddie's pairing him with his blood rival John Cena and proceeded to lay a "neck breaker" body slam on the unsuspecting guest host. Freddie remained prone on the mat and was quickly removed "to receive medical attention."
Freddie Prinze, Jr, former teen idol, star of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997), "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" (1998), "I Have A Fair Idea What You Thought Of Last Shrove Tuesday",(OK, I made that one up), and the unforgettable Scooby Doo movies (2003, 2004) had less than five minutes screen time ON MONDAY NIGHT CABLE TV PRO WRESTLING! To go from co-starring with Jennifer Love Hewitt, to sharing the screen with a CGI-generated dog is bad enough, but to get less screen time than "The Wiz" (the obnoxious, fast-talking pro wrestler, not the obnoxious, fast-talking appliance salesman) is a disgrace.
Fortunately, new career options are at hand for Freddie. The commercial shown immediately after Freddie's body was removed from the ring promised big money and a great future in the exciting world of heating and air conditioning repair. Perhaps, twenty years from now, an older and wiser Freddie will drive up to my house in his panel truck to fix my furnace.
"You know I was the guy who saved Jennifer Love Hewitt from that dude in the raincoat with a hook for a hand."
"Yeah, right. Less talk, more work, buddy. I'm paying $100 per hour for work not conversation."
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