***CRAPPY EARLY JOBS OF THE STARS***

GWEN STEFANI ONCE MOPPED FLOORS AT A DAIRY QUEEN . . . AND OTHER CRAPPY EARLY JOBS OF THE STARS:

ORLANDO BLOOM worked as a clay pigeon trapper at a skeet shooting range when he was 13.

BEYONCÉ swept up hair at her mother's beauty salon.

MICK JAGGER sold ice cream as a teenager . . . then later worked as a porter at a mental hospital.

WARREN BEATTY once worked as a RAT CATCHER.

COLIN POWELL worked in a baby furniture store in the Bronx.

WARREN BUFFETT . . . one of the richest men in the world . . . worked at his grandfather's grocery store.

AMY ADAMS . . . who plays a very sexy Amelia Earhart in "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" . . . was a HOOTERS GIRL for two months. (!!!)

OZZY OSBOURNE worked in a slaughterhouse.

MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY spent a year in Australia when he was younger, and worked a variety of jobs. One of them involved shoveling chicken manure.

CLINT BLACK sold newspaper subscriptions door-to-door.

GWEN STEFANI mopped floors at a Dairy Queen.

ROD STEWART was a gravedigger.

JIMMY STEWART once painted lines on roads.

JAMES BROWN racked balls at a pool hall.

CHUBBY CHECKER plucked chickens. (--It was actually his boss who realized what a talented singer he was, and set him up with a recording session with DICK CLARK.)


BILL COSBY sold produce, worked as a stock boy at a supermarket AND shined shoes.

TOM CRUISE had the CLASSIC early job: He was a paperboy.

ED MCMAHON worked as a carnival barker and a bingo caller . . . then sold vegetable slicers on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City.

BILL MURRAY sold chestnuts outside of a grocery store.

BRAD PITT once wore a chicken suit to advertise an El Pollo Loco restaurant.

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN did some LION TAMING for a circus. (???) But he later claimed the lion was old, and was really, quote, "more like a dog."