These Celebrities Were All Cheerleaders Before Making It Big

Diane Sawyer

Who's got spirit? Apparently, Diane Sawyer used to!  The cheerful and bubbly blonde Diane was part of the Seneca High School cheerleading team in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. After her kicks kicked off, she spent a few years promoting the Coca-Cola Pavilion at the World's Fair and eventually moved that personality to television journalism. 

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The More You Know

  • Jonah Hill had to go to the hospital for bronchitis while filming Wolf of Wall Street. For seven months, he was snorting vitamin D (almost) daily, pretending it was cocaine.
  • Before she was a megastar, Madonna worked at Dunkin Donuts. She got fired for squirting jelly on a customer.
  • Shakira was banned from her school’s choir, and her classmates said she sounded like a goat.
  • In the early days of his career, Sylvester Stallone was so poor that he sold his dog Butkus for $50.
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