From handling LION DUNG to POULTRY POOP! These stars all had REALLY GROSS jobs...

Celebrities are just like us; they too have had to do some really crummy jobs to make ends meet before hitting the big time.

They now might live the life of luxury but they once paid the bills with gigs that required them to pick up poop, catch rats and even beautify corpses!

Celebrities are just like us; they too have had to do some really crummy jobs to make ends meet before hitting the big time. They now might live the life of luxury but they once paid the bills with gigs that required them to pick up poop, catch rats and even beautify corpses!

The ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ star, 53, dealt with lots of poultry poop when worked as a chicken coop cleaner during his gap year living in Australia. He said in 2022: "It was in the sticks, man. But I was cool with that. It was a very life-changing year because I was removed from all the crutches that I had in my life. I depended on myself – stumbled, fell, and survived. It was a great year getting to know myself. I’m an extrovert, and it was a very introverted year and it has a lot to do with what I am right now – one of the best things I’ve ever done.”

The ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ star, 86, worked as a rat catcher at the National Theatre in Washington DC when he was 17 before he finally took to the stage and went on to have an illustrious Hollywood career.

The ‘Big Fish’ star, 52, has been a in a lot of films with fish in the title - including the 2011 rom-com ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’ with Emily Blunt - and it could be related to his pre-showbiz job working as a trout farm hand!

The ‘Sister Act’ star, 67, got up close and personal with the deceased when she worked as a morgue’s resident beautician! During her trial, her boss pretended to be dead but sat upright as she applied the makeup giving her a real fright. Reassuring her, Whoopi was told by her employer "that's the worst thing that could ever happen to you here, and it won't so there's nothing to be scared of".

The ‘Devil Wears Prada’ star, 62, had nothing nice about working as a outhouse cleaner, a gig he got a sleepaway camp for teens. When asked if he had any advice, he said: "Yes, don't ever clean an outhouse."

The 74-year-old heavy metal legend worked in a slaughterhouse before making it big with his band Black Sabbath. Perhaps that's where Ozzy's penchant for eating sometimes live animals came from!

The ‘Mad Men’ star discovered that there was “nothing tasteful” about working as a dresser on adult movies. Hamm, 52, hated every “depressing” minute before he got his big break in his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt’s movie ‘Kissing Jessica Stein’.

The ‘Flowers’ hitmaker, 30, got her pocket money picking up the dirty pants thrown at her father Billy Ray Cyrus, 61, when he performed his hit ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ on stage. She said in 2013: "I'd get a really big [pair of underwear] and be like, 'Dad! I found your biggest fan.’”

The ‘Reality Bites’ star, 52, might have had a pretty normal job as a fry cook at Burger King but he made it sound really gross when he pointed out how it exacerbated his acne at 16, which left him feeling really low about his appearance. He said: "I used to have very bad acne."

The ‘Rocky’ star, 77, probably got to grips with some huge poos when he was employed as a lion cage cleaner, a vital chapter in his rags to riches story!

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