I liked him better on “Jackass”
JD Fortune, the lead singer of INXS after winning the “Rock Star” reality show in 2005, is now unemployed and homeless in his native Canada after the band fired him in a Hong Kong airport. He apparently had a little too much of the “Devil Inside.” By which I mean “cocaine.”
“I was in an airport at Hong Kong and literally got a handshake. They said, ‘Thank you very much’,” Fortune told Canada’s Entertainment Tonight… I don’t know where I am going, from sofa to sofa, from night to night. I am trying to get through my life.”
Fortune – real name Jason Dean Bennison – said his departure could have had something to do with his cocaine use. “It got as bad as it needed to be for me to numb out the fact that I knew this was going to come to a screeching halt,” he said.
Man, what a terrible twist of fate… is what I would say if I had any sympathy left today. Turns out I can’t feel sorry for people who throw away fame and Estella Warren in order to live a cliché. Like, he realizes this is the exact plot of the movie Rock Star with Mark Wahlberg, right? Um, no, I didn’t see it. And certainly not in the theater when it came out. Why, did you?
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By the way, that picture is what coked out guys look like when they ask you to smell their finger
I guess the band decided they could either have FAME or FORTUNE!! LMFAO! Anyone? Anyone?
/Puts down hand
How broke can he be? It sure looks like he’s hired a publicist, ’cause he’s all over the news, and there’s a lifetime’s worth of mechanical royalties and publishing money coming his way from the decent sales of “Switch”
I didn’t know Bam Margera could sing.
This guy’s Behind the Music wouldn’t even make it to the first commercial break.
At least Mark Wahlberg’s character had a good excuse for his drug use, he was dating Jennifer Aniston.
is that Matt, THE Matt? or another Matt.
this is so confusing. Pictures help.
…Fortune – real name Jason Dean Bennison – said his departure could have had something to do with his cocaine use. “It got as bad as it needed to be for me to numb out the fact that I knew this was going to come to a screeching halt,” he said….
Kinda like when Lou Gehrig die doff Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Whatever happened to the “Rock Star” band that had Tommy Lee, Jason Newsted, and that other guy no one ever heard of?
Douchebag poseur goes homeless? Chalk up a win in the Karma column.
But what of the Filipino lead singer from Journey? Tell me he’s ok!
Oddly enough, the karmic punishment for pissing away a relationship with a woman that hot is being forced to tour with INXS.
When they kicked him out, did he take his cables and his mic stand?
Rock Star: INXS for the PS3 and 360 features wireless auto-erotic asphyxiation accessories.