These Celebrities Were All Cheerleaders Before Making It Big

Olivia Wilde

Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts didn't technically have a cheer team, but it did have a step team. It seems to be pretty much the same look and style of cheer, but with a different name and less stunting. According to Wilde herself, it's just "another form of cheering."

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The More You Know

  • Tom Hanks had an asteroid named after him which was called “12818 tomhanks”.
  • Before going solo, Britney Spears was in an all-female group called Innosense.
  • As a child, Jim Carrey wore tap shoes to bed just in case his parents needed cheering up in the middle of the night.
  • Shakira was banned from her school’s choir, and her classmates said she sounded like a goat. The Hips Don’t Lie superstar sure showed them!
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