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Harry Styles, Christopher Walken had odd jobs before fame
A Times of India listicle reveals odd jobs that celebrities like Harry Styles and Christopher Walken held before fame. Styles worked at a bakery in Cheshire, England, before his X-Factor audition. Walken…
The Story in Brief
A Times of India listicle reveals odd jobs that celebrities like Harry Styles and Christopher Walken held before fame. Styles worked at a bakery in Cheshire, England, before his X-Factor audition. Walken trained a lion named Sheba for a circus when he was 16. Other stars include Amy Poehler scooping ice cream, Matthew McConaughey raking sand traps at a golf course, Cardi B working at a market, Megan Fox as a banana mascot, and Carrie Underwood at a creepy hotel and gas station. The article attributes these anecdotes to past interviews with the stars themselves.
The Indian Opinion
Stories of celebrities doing humble jobs before stardom are heartwarming, but they also feed a lazy narrative that success is purely a matter of grit. For every Harry Styles who baked bread, a hundred others worked similar jobs and never made it. These anecdotes cherry-pick winners. The real test is not where they started but how many others started the same way and failed. Until we see a study of the actual odds, these tales remain feel-good fiction, not a roadmap.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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