The Long History of Scandal's Supporting Players

As the heat from the Tiger Woods sex scandal cools, the once paparazzi plagued Rachel Uchitel will again settle into the cold grip of obscurity. She is one of scandal's secondary players, and we are done with her.

Thanks to a little vehicular mishap on Thanksgiving, Uchitel became a household name as the first of Tiger's skanks to be identified. As these things usually go, we rushed to find out everything we could about her, the press called up her friends and family, her privacy was invaded, and cameras greeted her every public appearance. But now Tiger has finally apologized and we're moving on to the next mock outrage. What's left for Rachel? Well, not much. She'll get some small press notes if she gets married, appears on a reality show, or goes on a killing spree or something like that. Other than that, bubkis. It's back to the civilian life.

Uchitel is one in the long line of colorful characters who we got to know and love (or love to hate) but then discarded as soon as we were done with her like a crusty Kleenex on an adolescent's bedroom floor. Here are some other recent and notable examples in various stages of the bit player's trajectory.