Rise to stardom. Fall from credit. (Attempt to) revive career with questionable TV project.

“The Vanilla Ice Project” desire focus on Robert Matthew Van Winkle’s (yep, that’s his veritable name)…

“The Vanilla Ice Project” will focus on Robert Matthew Van Winkle’s (yep, that’s his substantial name) “passion for home renovation” and document the room-by-space overhaul of his 7,000-square-foot mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, according to a narrative from the DIY network, which plans to premiere the series in October.

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For with equal rea~n many stars of the 1980s and early ’90s, it’s good the way the cookie crumbles. Earlier this summer, Debbie Gibson and Tiffany threw at a distance their ’80s pop star rivalry (and possibly their common sense) to thin skin the Syfy movie “Mega Python vs. Gatoroid,” which features them brawling in c~tinuance top of dinner tables and in a swamp, and Gibson uttering the utterly appropriate place-fight line, “I think we’re alone now.”

The latest throwback to variation to TV for a tune up: Vanilla Ice. He couldn’t worn-out horse it in rap, but apparently, home renovation is his new action.

“The Vanilla Ice Project” will focus on Robert Matthew Van Winkle’s (yep, that’s his substantive name) “passion for home renovation.” It will document the room-~ means of-room overhaul of his 7,000-square-foot mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, according to a narrative from the DIY network, which plans to premiere the series in October.

Will the “Ice Ice Baby” vocalist’s latest endeavor crown him the king of cool again or form him melt into the morass of ’80s/’90s trash? Looking at in what plight five stars of Ice’s ilk fared by attempting similar course of action reboots offers some clues:

Flavor Flav, “The Flavor of Love”

Like Ice, Flav hailed from rap roots before he jumped into reality TV. Unlike Ice, he as a matter of fact had credibility in the rap community. He also had a aptness for winning fans, thanks to his frequent exclamations of “Yeah, lad!” and his neckwear of choice, clocks big enough to hang higher than a mantel. So people knew what they were in for when they turned on “Flavor of Love,” Flav’s three-season-~-spun romantic quest on VH1: a little bit of mumbling, a portion of incomprehensible accessories and a motherloade of in-fighting between the women who wanted to subsist his wife.

Flav bounded back into the public consciousness thanks to his verity series. In 2006, the “Flavor of Love 2″ finale scored the secondary highest ratings of a non-sports basic cable show. But have power to Vanilla Ice’s Bob Vila act generate anywhere near as abundant must-see drama as a show that boasted contestants with such nicknames as Luscious D and Hotlanta? Doubtful.

Bret Michaels, “Rock of Love With Bret Michaels”

There was a time when it seemed Bret Michaels’ hair would last longer than his stardom. Then came “Rock of Love With Bret Michaels,” what one. gave the Poison frontman a prime position in pop culture and a pilgrimage bus full of groupies. Three seasons on VH1 pumped some abundant-needed juice into Michaels’ career and scored him a spot forward NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice 3.”

But if it hadn’t been with regard to the subarachnoid hemorrhage that hit Michaels in April, he might righteous have gone down in the annals of reality TV history in the same proportion that another ’80s vestige who looked for love and maybe a in a small degree instant gratification.

Thanks to his brush with death, he scored a follower interview on “Oprah” and the cover of People magazine. His renovated reality series, “Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It,” chronicles his passage to recovery. Now, no one’s advocating that Vanilla Ice procure hit by a two-by-four during his home renovation saga, but if that were to happen, maybe he could monetize the resulting jolt.

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