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1. Tupac Shakur – Ballet dancer

Tupac was a man of many talents, and one of them was ballet dancing!

The ‘Changes’ rapper attended Baltimore School For The Arts, where he studied dance and acting.

His biggest role as a ballet dancer was as Mouse King in ‘The Nutcracker.

2. Rihanna – Military

Rihanna was in the military in Barbados. In fact, the singer’s drill sergeant was another famous performer from her native country, Shontelle.

As Shontelle told the BBC in 2009, “We were both in cadets together — it wasn’t compulsory or anything. But picture me and Rihanna in combat boots and fatigues crawling through mud and things like that.”

3. Cardi B – Stripper

The American singer and actress Cardi B once worked as a stripper, knowing she would earn more money than in any other job.

That led her to drop out of college because her main motivation over the years has been to make money, and she has succeeded.

No other job paid as well for the short hours, but something she won’t forget happened to her because of him.

A boyfriend she had met while stripping scammed her by spending her savings on drugs.

4. Drake – Actor

At the age of 15, Drake, eager to begin his career as an actor, was introduced to a high school friend’s father, an acting agent.

The agent found Drake a role on the Canadian teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation.

5. Georgina Rodriguez – Sales Clerk

Georgina’s love story with footballer Cristiano Ronaldo began while she was working as a shop assistant at Gucci. She spent most days in the designer store to make money, but everything changed when she met the Man U player.

As per The Mirror, she said: “I went from selling luxury items to wearing them on the red carpet.” One day, she was working what seemed like a normal day in the Spain-based Gucci store, when in walked Ronaldo.

However, Ronaldo first noticed Georgina in the VIP area of a Dolce & Gabbana event in Madrid a few days later. Almost in a spark of fate, they saw each other for a second time in the space of a week. She told The Sun:

Days later we saw each other again at another brand’s event. It was then that we could talk in a relaxed atmosphere, outside of my work environment. It was love at first sight for both.

When fans kept swarming the Gucci store Georgina worked at, she was eventually sacked from her job there, as reported by Mirror. Ronaldo would pick her up from work in a £1.5million Bugatti daily.

She would turn up to work in a bus and leave in the fancy sports car, but it wasn’t long before rumors began swirling about the footballer arriving at the designer shop. Fans had began swarming the store at every opportunity.

After just eight months of working there, bosses dismissed Georgina from her job in December 2016 amid worries that their high-end clients would be put off by the crowds.


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