Stars' FIRST Jobs Find Out Where Your Favorite Celebs Worked Before Becoming Famous! E! News
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00:00 Back here on E! News. Okay, if you've ever wondered where the biggest stars in the world
00:04 worked before they were famous, we got you covered in tonight's installment of Before
00:09 There Were Stars, You Better Work.
00:11 From putting time in at the drive-thru to working behind the bar as a child, you're
00:16 about to see that stars really are just like us. Okay, let's get to it.
00:20 Let's do it. All right, we all know Jennifer Hudson has powerful pipes, but when the E!
00:23 Got winner visited Sirius XM's The Howard Stern Show, she revealed that at her first
00:28 job customers would sing her praises.
00:30 How long were you at Burger King?
00:32 The first time I worked there, I was 16.
00:34 Right.
00:35 But then I quit.
00:36 Right.
00:37 Because it was just not for me. And then I eventually went back.
00:40 The singing.
00:41 And I used to sing in the drive-thru, right?
00:42 Did you really sing in the drive-thru?
00:44 Yeah. I used to sing in the drive-thru. Because it was a mic, honey. It was a mic. So that
00:48 was my stage.
00:49 So let's say I pull up, I go, "I'd like to have two fries."
00:52 You just, I don't know what I would be singing, but you would hear my mouth just, "Ah, singing
00:57 away!" And they'll pull up, and they're like, "Who is..." And they'll beep. You knew a call
01:03 was coming because it would beep, beep, beep. And my sister, she was like the queen of Burger
01:06 King. And she used to bust at me, "Do your job!"
01:09 I need a commercial right now.
01:11 I need a surveillance footage of that moment, too. A Whopper and Jennifer Hudson, that's
01:15 a win.
01:16 I love it. All right, now to Margot Robbie, who may be living in a Barbie world now, but
01:20 on Jimmy Kimmel Live, she told guest host Chris Pratt that she's been pounding the pavement
01:25 since she was 10.
01:26 Did you have a normal upbringing? I worked in a restaurant. Did you ever work in a restaurant
01:31 growing up?
01:32 I did. I did. I worked in a restaurant from, I think, about 10 to 15.
01:36 10?
01:37 Yeah, I was working really young.
01:39 Whoa, what did you do?
01:41 I started back in the kitchens. I was polishing cutlery, and then I upgraded to peeling potatoes,
01:46 and then I was a dish pig, and then I was a waitress. And then by about 14, I was behind
01:50 the bar, and that was the fun part.
01:51 Whoa, 14 behind the bar? Is that legal in Australia?
01:55 No, it's not. Sometimes I'd be giving someone a drink, and they'd be like, "Yeah, two beers."
02:01 "Are you old enough to give me a beer?" And I was like, "Do you want the beer or not?"
02:04 And they're like, "Well, yeah."
02:08 She outed her boss.
02:09 You know what? I love that so much. Give us a beer.
02:12 All right, let's keep going. Who's up next? Oh, Ben Affleck. He stopped by the Kelly Clarkson
02:16 show and revealed his and Matt Damon's not-so-profitable first job.
02:20 Is it true that back in the '80s that you were a break dancer?
02:25 Let me tell you something. Matt Damon suggested that he and I—
02:31 You threw him under that bus so fast?
02:34 We had some nylon puma suits. We wanted to be cool, and so we learned how to break dance,
02:41 and then Matt was like, "If we just get some linoleum and put it down at the subway, we
02:45 could do some of our moves," you know, and put out a hat.
02:48 You made money break dancing.
02:49 Well, I don't know if anybody put quarters in the cup. I think they walked by with pity
02:54 and astonishment.
02:55 I'm going to need Ben back up dancing for his wife, J-Lo, in the next video ASAP.
03:02 We're going to put our best people on it.
03:03 Please. All right, moving on. When Jennifer Coolidge appeared on Live with Kelly and Ryan,
03:08 she shared the worst job she ever had.
03:11 I was a babysitter for many years, and maybe that's why I don't have children.
03:16 But I went to this one family's house, and the mother was very condescending, and she
03:24 wanted to—she had to read the child's book to me to see if I could understand.
03:29 She's like, you know—
03:30 Auditioning?
03:31 Well, she was like, "This is the I Spy book, and I'd like you to read it."
03:34 She goes, "Let me show you how it works." You notice?
03:36 She goes, "I spy with my little eye something that rhymes with 'dapple.'"
03:44 And Jennifer, it would be the apple on his face.
03:47 Right.
03:48 You know, and then I would go, "Oh, okay."
03:53 Worst job, Kelsey?
03:55 I used to clean the bathrooms at the mechanic shop my dad owned.
03:58 Hi, Dad.
03:59 With a toothbrush?
04:00 He watches every night.
04:01 You know, with my hands. It was pretty gross.
04:03 Wow, I can't picture that.
04:04 Yours?
04:05 Wedding photographer.
04:06 Oh, I love this.
04:07 Yeah.
04:08 Always the romantic kissing Kennedy.
04:09 I was 15. Come on.
04:10 I love it.
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