Duh! Celebrity Confessions Even Less Surprising than Mark Mcgwire's Steroid Use

Believe it or not, Monday's steroid "revelation" will somehow avoid going down as the top celebrity surprise on record. How many "duh" moments do you remember? Check out all 10 at esquire.com.

The Top 5 Unsurprising Celebrity Apologies:

1. Whitney Houston:

She scored seven straight number-one singles (and that was before "I Will Always Love You"). Then Whitney married Bobby. She started missing performances. Worse, she started showing up on the reality show Being Bobby Brown, where Mr. Brown discussed reaching in her butt to help with a particularly trying "dookie bubble." A 2002 interview found Whitney asserting that "crack is whack," but in 2009, she opened up on Oprah's couch, saying her erratic behavior might be connected to her heavy drug use.

2. John Edwards

By the end of 2007, the National Enquirer had asserted Democratic presidential candidate (and husband of terminally ill Elizabeth) had an affair with campaign documentarian Rielle Hunter. Edwards decided to take bold action and... pretend everything was fine! He continued his presidential run even as it became clear the story was true, clinging to the hope Obama might make him VP or at least attorney general (that didn't happen). Only after the Enquirer ran photos of him with his alleged love child did he appear on Nightline, acknowledging a "very serious mistake" that made his wife "mad." Here's to 2016, John.

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3. O. J. Simpson

By 2006, everyone on Earth thought the Juice was a killer, he had been acquitted in court, and he wanted money. What to do? Write the tell-all, If I Did It! While this piece of literature did not acknowledge Simpson actually killed Nicole, it did indulge in an in-no-way-disgusting hypothetical situation, in which he explained how he would have done it, had he done so… in the process persuading his own ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves of his guilt: "I was sitting in a room with a man I knew to be a murderer, and I let him hang himself."

4. Clay Aiken

He was the runner-up on the second season of American Idol, showing gangly born-again Christians there was a place for them in show biz. But there were soon rumors he was, er, not playing for the team that's preferred by people who buy records from gangly born-again Christians. Aiken brushed off the gay question for years ("People are going to believe what they want") before coming out in 2008, by which point he was both a father and starring in Spamalot (yes, the lavish Broadway musical).

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5. Adam Lambert

Can you leave the closet if you aren't really in the closet? By his own assessment, Lambert had been living in L.A. as a gay man for eight years before making American Idol. There were online photos of him kissing dudes, and Idol's Website pandered to knowing fans, with updates like, "[Adam] loved the fact that he had three wardrobe changes!" Nevertheless, Rolling Stone later hailed the "revelation" in a cover story that underwhelmed even Adam, who responded, "I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone."

At Esquire.com, you'll find 5 other celebrities who's confessions weren't surprising. But first, guess who they are in the comments below.

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