I stumbled across this information this morning, not sure how, and had to share it with you. I find some of the pre-celebrity jobs fascinating such as the coffin polishing __________ (ya’ gotta keep reading!). Do you know what a celebrity did before becoming famous? What about Prince, Kate Gosselin (yes, her), or Tom Cruise? <UPDATE: The celebrities I listed have all been listed by now.. be creative in your celebrity search! Do the research and leave the info, including a link to the source, in the comments below and I will give one random commenter a $10 Amazon.com gift certificate! Entries will be accepted until 10pm May 29th and I will announce the winner right here in this post!
Whoopi Goldberg was a bricklayer. That’s a tough job!
Russell Crowe was a waiter. I’m sure he got some great tips from the ladies.
Gwen Stefani’s previous job was as a Dairy Queen cleaner. Wacky huh?
Johnny Depp was a telemarketer! What a bummer..wasting his good looks by sitting in a cubicle bugging people on the phone.
Pink was a McDonald’s worker.
Simon Cowell worked in the post room.
Madonna worked in a doughnut factory. WHAT?
Colin Farrell was a dance teacher. Not the suspected sexy kind of dancing.. line dancing!
Barack Obama was an ice cream seller. How much more ‘all-American’ can you get?
Geri Halliwell, pre Spice Girls, was a Turkish game show hostess. Huh, can you picture that?
Brad Pitt was a chicken dancer for a Mexican restaurant. His job was to entice people to eat at the restaurant. Couldn’t he have just stood there as himself, not a chicken?
Harrison Ford was a carpenter. I can’t really vision that one.
Sean Connery was a coffin polisher. I can vision that.
Annie Lennox was a waitress at a cafe in North London.
Source: Virgin Media
Congratulations to the winner of the amazon.com gift certificate, Lily K.!
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After leaving the university, Liam Neeson worked in a variety of small jobs, from fork-lift operator at Guinness to truck driver.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Neeson
Brad Pitt supported himself by driving strippers in limos, moving refrigerators and dressing as a giant chicken while working for “el Pollo Loco” before becoming a famous actor.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093/bio
beckydsl13 at gmail dot com.
robin williams was a mime
http://www.tribute.ca/people/Robin+Williams/1726/
Michelle Obama has has a couple of very prestigious jobs before become first lady!
She worked as a staff member for Chicago mayor at the time, Richard Daley.
Mrs. Obama also worked at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
One link to this information is found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama
In September 1950, ELVIS PRESLEY occasionally worked evenings as an usher at Loew’s State Theater — his first job to boost the family income, but his mother made him quit as she feared it was affecting his school work. He worked again at Loew’s in June the following year, but was fired after a fistfight over a female employee.
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley
Rob Schneider once worked in an ice cream parlor washing dishes.
http://www.hardlyfamous.com/stars/schneider-rob
Annette Bening worked as a cook on a charter boat.
Faith Hill sold t-shirts. I bet her looks made that business pretty successful… http://www.theboot.com/2008/05/12/worst-pre-fame-jobs-no-25/
Alec Baldwin was a bouncer
hardlyFamous.com
Rod Stewart – The Grave Digger
http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/13123/entertainment/the_jobs_of_celebrities_before_they_were_famous.html
Whoopi Goldberg used to work as a bricklayer in the days before she took the comedy and film world by storm.
http://www.blackvoices.com/work-money/celebrity-jobs-before-they-were-famous
Andy Bell from Erasure used to work in a meat packing plant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Bell_(singer)
Oprah: Radio Announcer
Oprah got a lucky and early start to her career. From 2spare.com: “Arriving at a radio station to collect a watch she had won through a promotional contest, a 16-year-old Winfrey read for producers and secured herself a spot as an on-air reporter earning $100 per week.”
http://www.blackvoices.com/work-money/celebrity-jobs-before-they-were-famous
braaisjo at gmail dot com
Eddie Vedder worked the night shift at a gas station before he was in Pearl Jam
Christopher Walkin worked at a circus and even tamed lions
Sally Struthers cleaned houses.
Chris Cornell worked as a cook in seattle
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