{"id":774830,"date":"2026-07-02T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774830\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:36:09","slug":"29-people-share-what-celebrities-were-like-before-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774830\/","title":{"rendered":"29 People Share What Celebrities Were Like Before Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      A while back, we shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/laurengarafano\/people-who-knew-famous-people\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stories<\/a> from people who knew celebrities before they got famous. Then, a bunch of readers submitted their own stories. Here&#8217;s what they said:<\/p>\n<p>The people who shared their stories allegedly speak from personal encounters. Obviously, we weren&#8217;t there when they happened, so feel free to take them with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<p>Some responses are also from this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/1iatlco\/people_who_knew_celebrities_before_they_made_it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">thread<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A while back, we shared stories from people who knew celebrities before they got famous. Then, a bunch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10402,49,48,361,2740,75,4052,8433],"class_list":["post-774830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bestofinternet-reddit","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-dib-celebs","tag-entertainment","tag-evergreen","tag-flipped"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}