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Sometimes, famous people decide they don’t want to be famous anymore — so they go do something else completely. Redditor u/YOPFrecentlyaskedthe people of Reddit to name celebrities who live normal lives now, and suffice to say, it’s a real trip down memory lane:
1.“The kid who played Charlie in the originalWilly Wonka. He went on to be aveterinarian.”
— u / noseymimi
2.“Chunk fromThe Gooniesbecame alawyer.”
— uranium / bionicjoe
3.“Bill Watterson, creator ofCalvin 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. Helives quietlyand has minimal contact with Queen, though they do run ideas by him as a courtesy.”
— u / alfienoakes
5.“Rick Moranis.”
— uranium / XeniaDweller
6.“Newt fromAliens(Carrie Henn) is ateacher.”
— u / raresaturn
7.“The girl who played Harper onWizards of Waverly Placeis anRNnow.”
— u / Username_Here5
8.“Jonathan Taylor Thomas. He was SO BIG in the 90’s. Now he’s mostly, if not entirely, behind the scenes.”
— uranium / Fin745
9.“Tom from MySpace. 😆”
— u / Extreme_Eye_3198
10.“Erik Estrada, who played officer Francis Llewellyn ‘Ponch’ Poncherello onCHiPs, became areal-life police officerin Saint Anthony, Idaho.”
— u / vieniaida
11.“Tonya Harding. She now owns a landscaping business and has said she’s really happy with it.”
— atomic number 92 / threadbarefemur
12.“Meg White.”
— uranium / AlexSummersFan
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
14.“Hayden Christensen did all theStar Warsstuff and then bought a farm outside Toronto. He’s nowall about farming.”
— u / Raskolnikovs_Axe
15.“Phoebe Cates.”
— uranium / canuckbuck2020
16.“Mara Wilson.”
— u / Main - Protection3796
And finally…
17.“Chad Muska is a now avegetable farmera few hours outside of Cleveland.”
— u / tobias19
These entries have been edited for length and clearness .
