Definition of "sublebrity"

After the screening, a large crowd filled the street outside the theater, playing spot-the-sublebrity with some of the film's prime characters, including Nirvana photographer Alice Wheeler and Love's estranged (and notoriously unhinged) father.

1998, SPIN, page 78

I wonder how many of today's sublebrities will ever achieve that degree of longterm adulation?

2012, Joan Collins, The World According to Joan, Hachette UK

As I write this book, I have secured myself a place as a sublebrity in the pantheon of America's queer and postmodern subcultures.

2012, Kate Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today, Beacon Press

But I could definitely consider a Shower List – a list of the biggest shower of horrors in any field at any given moment. First up, then: Britain’s Ghastliest Financial Sublebrities.

2018 January 15, Marina Hyde, “Britain’s ghastliest financial sublebrities – a who’s who”, in The Guardian‎