6 worst celebrity appearances in WWE history

The WWE has often been known to be a global sports entertainment brand. One of the major reasons why they earned the tag is because of their association with various other organizations like Hollywood, MTV, The NFL and other such industries where talent cross over is a common norm and this also helps boost the image of both brands.

Hence, celebrities making an appearance on a WWE show is common and when a celebrity is seen in a square circle, it is usually something that doesn't go down very well.

I mean, sure there have been some fun celebrity cameos in the past, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Seth Green, Ben Stiller, Hugh Jackman, Shaquille O'Neal, and more.

Other celebs were even involved in entertaining angles, like Andy Kaufman, Mike Tyson, David Arquette (on RAW 2010 and the Indy scene), Stephen Amell, Lawrence Taylor, Cyndi Lauper, Mr. T, and even President Donald Trump has contributed some positives to WWE.

Some celebrity appearances have not all been as well received as these, however. Many times celebrities pop by for an appearance or even a storyline and turn out so bad, all you can do is cringe with awkwardness. While there have been quite a few of these, I have decided to narrow it down to the top six.

#6 Kevin Federline

American rapper Kevin Federline, best known as Britney Spears' ex-husband, appeared on several episodes of WWE RAW in 2006. Initially, to the audience, K-Fed was just making a cameo to promote his debut album, Playing With Fire. But we would get more, so much more.

K-Fed was brought out as a special guest on RAW by Johnny Nitro and Melina. Nitro introduced him as an A-Lister, and one of Hollywood's biggest stars. To be fair, K-Fed was all over the news at the time, as his pending divorce from Britney was made public during this time, but he was still far from an A-Lister.

Then WWE Champion John Cena would come out to help promote K-Fed's album with a rap of his own, and would then lay out Federline with an Attitude Adjustment. K-Fed would challenge Cena to a match for the New Year's episode of RAW, which was accepted.

Over the next two months, K-Fed would appear on RAW to promote the match and have more segments with Cena, he even interfered in the Triple Threat main event of Cyber Sunday, causing Cena to be pinned by King Booker.

Come the Cena vs K-Fed match itself, Federline would pin Cena, following a beat down by Umaga and Johnny Nitro. Overall, I think K-Fed actually did well in his role and deserves commendation for still appearing and keeping it together, despite the news of he and Britney's divorce being everywhere.

However, he still makes this list because the WWE Champion, whoever he may be, should never have to lose a match to a D-list celebrity. If they had just kept his role to a few segments and maybe managing someone against Cena, K-Fed's stint with WWE would be looked back at in a better light.

#5 Jeremy Piven & Ken Jeong

Actor Jeremy Piven, best known for his TV roles in Ellen and Entourage, and comedic actor of The Hangover series, Ken Jeong, would serve as guest hosts of WWE RAW on August 3, 2009. Appearing to promote their upcoming movie 'The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard', the two were completely out of their depth.

Both men had not been fans of WWE, so had little knowledge of their surroundings. I do think that Jeremy did try hard to make the best out of a bad situation, but it just didn't work.

Dr. Ken was just irritating all show long, being hyper and making loud noises seemed to be his plans for the night. They mostly appeared in segments with John Cena and The Miz and even turned heel on Cena during the main event.

Other than being a completely dreadful episode of RAW, Piven and Dr. Ken's appearance will be best remembered for Piven referring to WWE SummerSlam, as WWE SummerFest all night. Thankfully, Piven did not return to RAW in 2014 when the rest of his Entourage co-stars made a guest appearance to promote their movie.

#4 Jackass cast

As you can tell by this actual poster, the crew from MTV's Jackass were almost a big part of WWE programming in 2007.

It all started back in October 2006 when Chris Pontius and Steve-O made an appearance on RAW. The Jackasses were brought into the ring by the late Umaga, who gave them a beat down. It was an incredibly ugly and awkward segment as both men, particularly Steve-O, didn't completely sell the attack.

Instead of being brought to the back, both men simply returned to their seats mere moments after the assault. It was as if the henchmen on the 80's A-Team series would always just stand up and dust themselves off after being involved in a near-fatal accident.

Fast forward to June 2007, WWE SummerSlam commercials began to air where it was said the event would be sponsored by Jackass. Allegedly put together by Shane McMahon, the idea was for several members of the Jackass crew to wrestle at SummerSlam in a handicap match with Umaga.

This would never make it to TV, as the cast would back out of their deal with WWE, apparently because Johnny Knoxville didn't think it would be wise to appear on WWE TV so soon after the Chris Benoit tragedy.

It doesn't end here. Johnny Knoxville appeared on RAW the following year because he ''wanted to see WWE's midgets''. He was then beaten up in an awkward segment by Beth Phoenix, The Great Khali, and Hornswoggle.

Johnny Knoxville appeared on RAW once more in 2010 as a guest host, to promote the Jackass 3D movie. This was the least awkward appearance any of the Jackass crew ever made, but it is still not worth re-watching either.

#3 Jerry Springer

The legendary Jerry Springer made two appearances on WWE RAW, and both were overwhelmingly awkward.

His first was in 2010, where he appeared in a parody of his own show. Guest Kelly Kelly claimed she was pregnant, which resulted in several superstars including Santino Marella, Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole, Chris Masters, and The Great Khali all coming out to claim that they were the father.

The Bella Twins and Eve Torres then got involved, making accusations and bad jokes. It was then revealed that the real father was, of course, Hornswoggle.

Jerry left the ring because he had too much of the craziness involved with all of these superstars. As he was leaving, Jerry Lawler told him that it was all a charade they all put together to mess with him.

The revelation, like much of the segment, received no crowd reaction. The entire thing was incredibly awkward, and everyone's acting - particularly Kelly's, was horrendous.

Jerry Springer returned in 2014 for another atrocious segment. Much like four years earlier, Jerry played the part of himself just fine, but the acting from the WWE players was awful.

The Bella Twins returned for this more serious segment, as it occurred just weeks after Nikki turned heel on Brie. This was one of the worst acting performances in WWE history, and the lack of emotion from their mother and brother did little to help.

The segment was more comical than anything. And I never understood why they brought Jerry in for this since the whole idea just made their feud itself comical. The segment came to an end in a brawl where they knocked Jerry down and he had to be stretchered away.

#2 Al Sharpton

I don't think even he knew what he was doing here

WWE has had some unusual celebrity guest hosts over the years, but Reverend Al Sharpton had to be the most out of place.

Sharpton appeared as a guest host in September 2009. He was there to promote Educational Reform in America, and while this was a noble cause, the Rev was just too out of place. He appeared only a few times, most notably in an awkward segment with Chris Jericho, Big Show, MVP, and Mark Henry, where he was booed throughout.

The only other time we saw him for the rest of the night was backstage with Jillian Hall and The Bella Twins, where he gave us a song. It seemed like all WWE did with The Bella's in 2009 was have them accompany the guest hosts everywhere they went on TV.

When talking about WWE RAW Guest Hosts, Chris Jericho cited Al Sharpton as possibly the worst, claiming he showed up after RAW began, left before the show was over, and didn't interact with anyone backstage.

The WWE's guest host setup was generally underwhelming considering how little the celebrities knew about the industry and the storylines that were currently running.

#1 LaVar, Lonzo, & LaMelo Ball

I mean, honestly, what was this?

American businessman and reality star LaVar Ball and his basketball player sons Lonzo and LaMelo made a guest appearance on Miz TV in June 2017. Everything about this segment was in complete shambles.

Promoting Lonzo becoming a Laker for the first time and their Big Baller Brand in general, LaVar was too loud, too hyperactive and in something that can't be unseen, took off his shit as he squared up to The Miz, ready to fight.

This car crash of a segment, which fell flat on almost every level, reached its peak when LaMelo uttered the N-word, during Miz and LaVar's attempted scuffle. WWE later apologized for LaMelo's comments, and rightly so, but they should have also apologized for how awful this entire segment was.

It was not surprising to hear The Miz later reveal in an interview with Sam Roberts that LaVar turned down script offers and wanted to wing it. While Jackass, Jerry Springer, and Al Sharpton are all a 9.9/10 on the awkward and atrocious scale, the Ball family gets a 10.

These are six awkward and weird celebrity appearances in WWE that we could think of. Who made your list? Sound off in the comments section below.