Embarrassing Celeb Dads

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His Kids: He has seven (and wants 10); do we really need to list them all?
Why They Cringe: If the man who has required not one, not two, but three (!) reality television shows to find love needs more explanation, just check out one of the many gigantic clocks he wears around his neck

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Tommy Lee
His Kids: Brandon Thomas and Dylan Jagger
Why They Cringe: The hard rock drummer and ex-husband to Pamela Anderson served four months for hitting the 'Baywatch' alum and also contracted Hepitis C while still with Anderson.

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DMX
His Kids: Xavier (14), Tacoma (9)
Why They Cringe: Since '98, the rapper has built up a rap sheet that includes arrests for drug possession, animal cruelty, stealing a car from JFK Airport and (ew!) urinating on his own fans during a concert. Who wouldn't want to follow in those footsteps?

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Scott Weiland
His Kids: Noah (7), Lucy (4)
Why They Cringe: The Velvet Revolver frontman has been arrested on loads of drug-related charges (he once tried to buy smack off an undercover cop). Scott hit the tabloids again this year after he and his wife has a vicious fight that started in front of the kids and ended with bloody sheets in a Burbank hotel.

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Eminem
His Kid: Hailie (11)
Why She Cringes: Everyone hates it when their parents fight -- but imagine if daddy spent his entire career recording multi-platinum songs about kidnapping and murdering mommy? Suppose mommy retaliated by going on the radio and telling the world about daddy's small penis and erectile dysfunction.

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The Game
His Kid: Harlem Caron (3)
Why He Cringes: At this point, the Game could teach a class on the Miranda Rights. The L.A. rapper recently got arrested on three felony charges after allegedly beating up and threatening to shoot a guy during what started as a friendly pick-up basketball game ... on school grounds!

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Pete Doherty
Kid: Astile (4), secret love-child (age unknown)
Why They Cringe: We're astonished that Pete Doherty has ever been sober enough to procreate once, much less twice. The singer's list of crack and heroin-related arrests is so long, it requires its own wikipedia page.

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Bobby Brown
His Kids: Landon (22), La Princia (17), Bobby Jr. (16), Bobbi Kristina (13)
Why They Cringe: He's been locked up many times, but things really got sad in Feb. 2007 when he was arrested at his daughter's cheerleading competition for missing a court date.

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Scott Stapp
His Kids: Jagger (9), Milan Hayatt (5 months)
Why They Cringe: In the past few years, he's gone from singing wholesome, "spiritual" songs with his former band Creed to making porn tapes with Kid Rock, fist-fighting members of 311, making a drunken ass of himself on a celebrity poker show and chucking an Orangina bottle at his wife's head.

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R. Kelly
His Kids: Jaya (9), Joann (7), Robert Jr. (5)
Why They Cringe: Kellz is the last person his daughters want chaperoning their slumber parties. In 2002, a video tape made the rounds showing the R&B bad boy getting nasty with (and urinating on) a 14-year-old girl. The R was quickly hit with 21 counts of sex with a minor.

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