List of celebrities who had really weird jobs before they became famous (7 of 9)

Connie Britton was an aerobics teacher

Connie Britton had quite a number of jobs to her resume before she became the Nashville star. Apart from folding clothes at Gap and the Limited, she also used to wear the bandana and leg warmers to teach aerobics. And don’t forget to add a pink leotard and thick socks to get a complete picture.

Some of the other famous aerobics’ teachers include Calista Flockhart and Lucy Liu.

George Clooney used to cut tobacco

George Clooney studied journalism at the Northern Kentucky University, where he took a job of cutting tobacco. Clooney’s grandparents had a tobacco farm, and Clooney would often drop by to help them out by cutting, chopping and stripping the tobacco. He thanks this gig as the major factor that led him to stay away from smoking. Clooney also worked as an insurance salesman, going door to door, before he gained popularity as an actor.

Kate Winslet used to make pastrami sandwiches

Titanic star, Kate Winslet used to work at a deli shop where she made pastrami sandwiches before she became a well-known actress. In fact, it was during working on this gig that she got a call that she had won a prominent role in the first movie, Heavenly Creatures. She revealed that she went out through the back door and cried – not from cutting onions, for the first time.

Jennifer Aniston used to sell timeshares

Before landing a role in Friends, Jennifer Aniston used to sell timeshares in the Pocono Mountains to people in order to make her ends meet. She revealed that her phone skills were truly awful, and accepted to hanging up on customers quite frequently.

Channing Tatum worked as a stripper

Almost everyone out there knows that Channing Tatum used to work as a male stripper before making it big in Hollywood. There are pictures of him out on the web… heck, there’s even a movie (Magic Mike)! Back in the nineties, this action star used to work at numerous strip clubs in Florida where he used a stage name “Chan Crawford”. Tatum revealed that he earned somewhere around fifty dollars a night, plus tips.