So, here are our five favourite crossover flops whose stars prove that while they can carry a tune, they unfortunately cannot carry a movie. It really ain't as easy as it looks, okay?
BRITNEY SPEARS We have only just one word to say: Crossroads. 'Nuff said.
MARIAH CAREY Here's another one word: Glitter. Horribly, excruciatingly, dreadfully painful. Actually, that's five words but you get the point.
JESSICA SIMPSON To you, it's a bird with stuffing and drumsticks. But to people in the entertainment industry, it's career suicide. Yes, The Dukes of Hazzard and Employee of the Month were big honking turkeys for the ex-Mrs Lachey, and yet, according to IMDB, she's still slated to appear in a 2010 movie called The Witness. Hope she's not referring to us - we don't intend to witness it.
50 CENT While his 2005 "breakthrough" movie Get Rich or Die Tryin' was a competent attempt, you really couldn't call that glamourised semi-autobiographical character real "acting". His subsequent choices, including Righteous Kill, silly spoof Date Movie and this year's Next Day Air (he was even bad in the trailer) just proves - due mainly to his having the screen presence of mouldy toast and acting ability of a doorstop - that not all rappers-turned-actors automatically find success like Will Smith did.
RINGO STARR The Beatles may have collectively spawned many a successful tailor-made musical movie, but it took only one of the Fab Four to rack up a truly embarrassing B-grade film resume all by himself. With films titled Sextette, Son of Dracula and The Magic Christian, he hit an all-time low with the unbearable prehistoric fantasy film Caveman - a flick so bad, you have to see it to believe it. Makes you wonder how much hallucinogens the man inhaled back in the day. - TODAY/yb