8 Celebrities Who Are Still Cashing Regular Checks As Reality TV Stars

Seemingly out of nowhere in 2009, the DIY network decided to pay that funky white boy not for his music, but for his home renovation and house-flipping skills, and The Vanilla Ice Project has been on the air for six seasons so far.

He resurfaced briefly for his rap-metal remix of the inescapable “Ice Ice Baby” before finding a temporary home on The Surreal Life, solidifying his reality TV placement.

After adopting the shiveringly flavorful rap persona, Robert Van Winkle went To the Extreme as Vanilla Ice and later became intrinsically linked with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles before fading away from the public eye.