Jesse G. James

As the muscular chief gearhead of the reality TV show Monster Garage, Jesse James chopped and welded a Lincoln Town Car into a custom fire truck and turned a Ford Mustang into a high-speed lawnmower. Monster Garage ran on The Discovery Channel from 2002-06, and James won fans with his straight-talking, pit-bull-taming, motorcycle-outlaw charisma. Jesse James had been fascinated with motorcycles since childhood, and he opened his own shop, West Coast Choppers, in Long Beach, California in 1992. The company grew into a builder of super-custom bikes with price tags of $100,000 and more. His choppers attracted celebrity customers like Shaquille O'Neal and Kid Rock, which in turn caught the eye of The Discovery Channel, which put him on the air in the 2001 special Motorcycle Mania. When that show was a hit with viewers, the series Monster Garage was born. Jesse James married actress Sandra Bullock in 2005. In 2010, gossip sites suggested that James had had an affair with a tattoo model named Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, and possibly with other women as well. Jesse James did not address the charges in detail, but made a public apology for the "grief" he had caused Bullock. They were divorced later that year. In 2011, James announced that he was engaged to tattoo artist Kat Von D, but that fell through. He married drag racing driver Alexis DeJoria in 2013.