You will notice that I will say things about people and their celebrity status. We all know some people are more famous than others and some people are not truly famous at all even if they do happen to end up on a TV show. I’m here to sort all that out.

A-List: People in movies, TV and music that you recognize by name and face. You may or may not like them but you can’t deny how famous they are even if it pains you to think that way.

B-List: Famous people who mostly act on TV shows and movies and are respected in music but not insanely famous. You know them by name or face but they don’t have the huge swarm of celebrity coverage around them unless they do something. You also know they are above doing reality TV (But they will do documentaries at times).

C-List: People who have some sort of talent but never seem to advance their careers. They are the people who hop from TV show to TV show or only get moderate parts in movies. They are also the people in music who can never seem to get a hit record even though people know who they are or recognize they are talented. You can also consider game show, talk show and national news hosts to be in this level too (Pat Sajack and Alex Trebeck have had the same jobs since what seems like the beginning of time).

D-List: These are the high profile reality stars, the people who have no talent whatsoever but people recognize them and either hate their guts or stan feverishly for them. This list is also reserved for musicians and actors who haven’t done anything in a while so they try to reboot their careers through reality TV (Anyone who goes on Celebrity Apprentice). Sometimes it works but even then they don’t usually advance past being C-Listers.

E-List: These people are people who are on a popular broadcast reality TV show (Think the people on American Idol, X Factor and The Voice) but they aren’t the stars. They just happened to be in the right place at the right time and when the show ends nobody will care about them anymore (Why none of them sell records after the show). These are also the actors who seem to only get 1 season stints on shows.

W-List: These are the people where if you see their names or faces the only 2 thoughts that come to mind are ‘Who?’ or ‘What hole did they dig them from?’ They are people you either definitely recognize or never heard of at all and they haven’t done anything in ages. Somehow they start appearing all over the place again only to fade back into obscurity a few months later.

Z-List: These are the people on modestly rated (as in it gets more than 2 million viewers) cable reality shows but nobody in the mainstream media (The Insider and The Soup doesn’t count) cares to highlight anything about them or the shows they are on. Some of these people try their damned hardest to get up to the D-List but it never happens for them.

Negative Z-List: These people are on low rated reality shows or shows that air on VH1 and Oxygen (This does mean Basketball Wives and the girls from Bad Girls Club). Only certain people online follow their every move but mention them on a morning news show and typically not one person knows who they are. They usually can’t get a spot on anything other than a niche friendly talk show (Wendy Williams or The Bill Cunningham Show) and you would be hard pressed to find a mention in a tabloid magazine. For a few their careers might advance to Z-List but it has to be achieved before or immediately after their show ends.

Below Negative Z-List: Yes this level does exist. These are the people who have either been on a reality show but never did anything else after that or they are people who desperately want to be on reality TV because their delusional Twitter followers tell them that they would be perfect for it. They are the models, the girls who say they are models but their pictures say otherwise and people who say they are aspiring singers/actors/rappers who believe they are way more famous than they actually are (which is not famous at all).