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Trauma Unit: TV's Leading Luckless Ladies

If these characters didn't have bad luck, they wouldn't have any luck at all

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(Newser) – As a cokehead-dating addict who, among other things, got shot by carjackers, burned in a house fire, and suffered amnesia, Kelly Taylor of "Beverly Hills, 90210" is the gold standard of TV victims. Employing the misery-measuring "Kellyness" scale, Radar rates prime time's most luckless ladies.

  1. Meredith Grey, "Grey's Anatomy": Abandoned by her alcoholic father, cursed by a suicidal and Alzheimer's-riddled mother, Grey's loving stepmom died while in her care. Kellyness: 8

  1. Peyton Sawyer, "One Tree Hill": Dead parents? You bet! Wounded during a school massacre and stalked by a faux half-brother, Sawyer also had to share scenes with Kevin Federline. Kellyness: 9
  2. Kate Austen, "Lost": Held hostage, imprisoned in a bamboo cage; Austen's mom tried to have her arrested for blowing up dad. Kellyness: 5
Click the link below to see the complete list.

"Hate Is Safer Than Love" -- (l-r) Hilarie Burton as Peyton and Chad Michael Murray as Lucas are shown in the One Tree Hill episode "Hate is Safer Than Love" on The CW network.   (Fred Norris, The CW ©2008)
In this image released by ABC, actress Ellen Pompeo, is shown playing Meredith Grey in a scene from ABC's,
In this image released by ABC, actress Ellen Pompeo, is shown playing Meredith Grey in a scene from ABC's, "Grey's Anatomy."   (AP Photo/ABC, Michael Desmond)
"Lost" character Kate Austen, played by Evangeline Lilly, is shown here in the episode "There's No Place Like Home."   (ABC official Lost homepage)
Actress Blake Lively is shown here in her role as Serena in the GOSSIP GIRL episode
Actress Blake Lively is shown here in her role as Serena in the GOSSIP GIRL episode "Must I Do About Nothing".   (Giovanni Rufino/ THE CW ©2008 THE CW NETWORK,)
Far far away from the perpetual misery endured by her Kelly Taylor character in Beverly Hills 90210, actress Jennie Garth and dance partner Derek Hough perform on
Far far away from the perpetual misery endured by her Kelly Taylor character in Beverly Hills 90210, actress Jennie Garth and dance partner Derek Hough perform on "Dancing with the Stars."   (AP Photo/ABC, CAROL KAELSON)
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