17 Celebrities Who Used To Be Pretty Famous But Are Totally Normal Now
Sometimes, famous people decide they don't want to be famous anymore — so they go do something else completely. Redditor u/ YOPF recently asked the people of Reddit to name celebrities who live normal lives now, and suffice to say, it's a real trip down memory lane:
3. "Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, refused to license his work out and retired when the comics were huge at 37. He walked away from potentially hundreds of millions because he thought it would jeopardize the integrity of his art through commercializing it. He lives in a modest neighborhood in Cleveland."
—u/ sroop1
4. "Queen's John Deacon. He lives quietly and has minimal contact with Queen, though they do run ideas by him as a courtesy."
—u/ alfienoakes
10. "Erik Estrada, who played officer Francis Llewellyn 'Ponch' Poncherello on CHiPs, became a real-life police officer in Saint Anthony, Idaho."
—u/ vieniaida
13. "Greta Garbo was the biggest movie star in the world throughout the 1930s. She made her last movie in 1941, at the age of 36. She then spent the next 50 years living alone in a New York apartment. She was known for taking daily walks around Manhattan, and ' Garbo-spotting ' was a popular New York activity in the '60s, '70s, and '80s."
—u/ Arkeolog
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17. "Chad Muska is a now a vegetable farmer a few hours outside of Cleveland."
—u/ tobias19
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