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Have you ever been watching an aged TV amusement oregon movie and thought to yourself, "Hmm, I wonderment what happened to [insert celebrated person's sanction here]?" If so, past person I got the scoop for you!
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1. "The feline who played the pb successful Johnny Tsunami was my server successful downtown Boulder, CO. This was astir 10 years ago, and helium was a truly bully guy."
2. "Chris Gethard does unpaid EMS successful my county. He talks astir it successful 1 of his specials. His son, who was excessively young to read, thought his overgarment said 'daddy ambulance.' He besides talked astir it with a firefighter/EMT connected his podcast this year."
3. "My oncologist utilized to beryllium the drummer for The Offspring. I've been cancer-free for 7 years!"
—u/nfortier11
4. "Miranda from Lizzie McGuire (Lalaine Vergara-Paras) was a 'budtender' astatine my section weed store successful North Hollywood astir 8 years ago. She was truly nice! And had bully taste."
5. "As a teen moving astatine McDonald's, 1 of the managers had a Super Bowl ring. He played for the Cowboys. He was perfectly massive, but the nicest guy."
6. "If anyone remembers Anya from America's Next Top Model Cycle 10, I met her astatine PF Chang's connected Oahu respective years ago. She was our server, and we kept wondering wherefore she looked familiar. When we worked up the courageousness to inquire her if she was Anya from ANTM, she said yes, took a representation with us, and was wide incredibly kind."
7. "I saw Frankie Muniz execute arsenic a drummer successful a reggae set successful college."
8. "Danny Lloyd (the histrion who played the kid successful The Shining) was my biology prof successful assemblage college. Great professor, ace nice. Doesn’t similar talking astir his puerility acting."
9. "I utilized to interface with Dylan Sprouse a ton erstwhile helium worked astatine Mud Cafe successful NYC. He was chill."
10. "My fourth-grade teacher was the bassist for Joan Jett. When she was inducted into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, helium was there. It was weird seeing him connected TV, LOL. He was an awesome guy! I retrieve asking my dada to people retired a photograph of him truthful I could person it autographed."
—u/b00biesrfun
11. MAYBE "Working astatine a edifice successful LA, Zach Woods (Gabe from The Office) came successful to prime up an UberEats order. As in, helium was helium transportation driver."
—u/madkubrick
12. "The kid who played Charlie Bucket successful the archetypal Willy Wonka is simply a veterinarian successful Lowville, NY, an extremely tiny municipality successful nowhere, US. He is beauteous bushed of talking astir it."
13. "My small, leafy mid-Michigan wide arts assemblage had requirements to get a degree. I enactment disconnected the arts request until my elder twelvemonth and decided to instrumentality Intro to Theatre. The prof turned retired to beryllium Jeff Daniels, who lived a fractional hr distant successful Chelsea. His vocation was successful a lull successful the aboriginal 2000s, and the boredom was starting to get to him."
14. "Peter Weller taught an creation past people astatine a New Jersey college. On the archetypal day, helium said, 'Yes, I played Robocop. I'll springiness you 15 minutes to inquire thing astir my acting career. After that, nary much questions.'"
15. "I worked with Danielle Fishel astatine Bloomingdale’s."
16. "When I lived successful Los Angeles, I took yoga classes taught by the histrion who played Libby connected Lost."
"I took yoga classes from Tami Stronach, the Childlike Empress from The NeverEnding Story, successful Brooklyn years ago."
17. "I worked astatine a bookshop, and 1 of our seasonal hires was Jamie Lee, who played Michelle connected Derry Girls. This was close erstwhile the archetypal play aired. She was bully to enactment with."
18. "Ilan Mitchell-Smith, 1 of the leads from Weird Science, was my medieval lit prof successful college."
19. "Back erstwhile it was inactive a saccharine small barroom with large gumbo, Great Jones Cafe successful NYC was my favourite spot to drawback a wound and a brew and perceive to a prime jukebox. This guy, Mark, was an astonishing bartender and ever bully for an absorbing chat. After years of doing this, 1 time helium says he’s gonna beryllium retired of municipality connected circuit with his band. 'Oh, what’s your set called?' 'Sonic Youth.'"
20. "Amy Sedaris utilized to enactment astatine Mary’s Fish Camp successful the West Village adjacent aft she was famous/successful."
21. "Jenette Goldstein, who played Vasquez successful Aliens and John Connor’s adopted ma successful Terminator 2: Judgment Day, opened a lingerie store for plus-sized women called Jenette Bras. 'The alphabet starts astatine D.' If you’ve got a larger than mean bust and unrecorded successful LA, spell to Jenette Bras."
22. "My aged roommate erstwhile worked arsenic a carpenter alongside Alan Tudyk aft Firefly."
23. "I went to the Astor Diner successful Greenwich Village with a fewer friends successful 1989. We discussed our server each clip she walked away, and yet figured it out. So erstwhile she returned with our drinks, we each gushed, 'OMG, you played Trini connected 3-2-1 Contact connected PBS erstwhile we were kids!' She said she was ever amazed to beryllium recognized, and was inactive auditioning, hoping for her 'big break'. We near a stellar tip."
24. "My neighbour had a semipermanent recurring relation connected All My Children arsenic Brian Bodine, Kelly Ripa's TV boyfriend. He inactive does immoderate acting (he was Lyle, the pawn store feline connected Cobra Kai), but helium besides does a batch of gig work. He's been an Amazon driver, Lyft driver, healthcare speech broker, and worked immoderate income jobs. Whatever helium needs to bash betwixt acting gigs."
25. And finally, "In 1984, I was visiting a person astatine her silkscreen T-shirt store and met idiosyncratic who was moving arsenic a paste-up layout artist. The pistillate I was introduced to was named Susan, and I said, 'You look precise acquainted somehow.' She past explained that she had been a kid histrion and had played Cindy Brady connected The Brady Bunch."
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