11 Stars Who Worked at Hooters

The path to fame and fortune is often littered with sacrifice, tears, hard work… and tight-fitting shirts.

At least for the celebrities listed below.

Each of these woman worked at Hooters prior to striking it big. We"re not judging, one must start out somewhere. We"re just taking note…

1. Amy Adams

The multiple-time Oscar nominee worked at this famous chain when she was 18. She said she waited on tables there to save up money for a car.

2. Leeann Tweeden

Model and televsion host Leeann Tweeden worked as a hostess at Hooters while she pursued a modeling career. You can see why she would fit in there.

3. Naya Rivera

The former Glee star worked a a Hooters location in Valencia, California. It’s safe to say she’ll never have to ever again.

4. Jerri Manthey

Jerri Manthey, of Survivor fame, actually worked at Hooters for several years. She was just a regular person, after all, prior to appearing on the reality competition.

5. Holly Madison

Holly Madison worked at Hooters to make money to pay for college. She then went on to take off her clothes and sleep with Hugh Hefner in order to keep making money.

6. Alison Waite

Playmate and model Alison Waite also worked at Hooters to pay her college tuition. Hmmm… we sense a pattern here. Stunning that future centerfolds with big breasts would work for Hooters, huh?

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Michael Angelakos, Passion Pit Frontman, Comes Out as Gay

During a candid interview with Bret Easton Ellis, Passion Pit’s lead singer Michael Angelakos came out of the closet.

The singer of the critically acclaimed band took the bold move to publicly out himself on Ellis’ podcast, B.E.E.  And in a heartbreaking story, he explained that he desperately wanted to be straight.

Angelakos was married to stylist Kristina Mucci.  The singer explained that he loved Mucci so much that he wanted to be straight.  But, in the end, he had to be true to himself.

“I just wanted so badly to be straight because I love her so much,” he told Ellis. “I think that was one of the most painful things when we decided to separate.”

The couple announced their divorce in August.  However, their split was amicable, and Mucci is Angelakos’ biggest supporter:

“When I decided to really deal with it head on, which was, I don’t know, in June, she was the one who spearheaded it in a way,” the musician explained. 

“She said, ‘You need to figure out what’s going on with your sexuality because you can’t hate yourself anymore.’”

Outside of Mucci and until now, Angelakos did not tell many people about his sexuality. He said, ”I’ve told very few people in my personal small circles because I don’t know how to talk about it, you know?” 

“When this was all happening recently, finally, I just decided it might be best to talk about it here. I don’t really know what happened, but it’s just one of those gut feelings,” Angelakos added.

“It’s the same gut feeling I had when I said, ‘Okay, I kind of just need to talk to people about the fact that I am. I’m gay.’ And that’s it. It just has to happen.”

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Fourth Grader Schools Teacher"s Math Question With Girl Code

A fourth grader schooled her teacher when answering a math problem using “girl code.”

Maddy Douglas was completing a worksheet for homework when she got to a question about high school dating patterns.

The questions proposed a precarious situation: a group of four boys and a group of four girls go on dates as varying couple combinations.

Maddy was supposed to figure out how many combinations of couples would be possible among the hypothetical group of boys and girls. But Maddy skipped the math portion of the problem and got straight to the moral quandary:

“I can’t answer this problem because my mom says acoording to girl code you shouldn’t date a friends x boyfriend,” Maddy wrote on her worksheet.

Her mom shared a picture of the question on Huffington Post’s Parent’s Facebook page with the hashtag #girlcodetrumpscommoncore.

Maddy’s mom Jenn Douglas was not thrilled about the math problem her daughter was assigned to answer.

“Maddy had never really seen me disgusted in that type of manner,” she told HuffPo. “She could see my disgust and said ‘Didn’t you tell me that you shouldn’t date your friend’s ex-boyfriend?’”

Although Douglas was proud of her daughter’s answer, she was concerned about the appropriateness of the question.

“I consider myself to be a completely open-minded type person and as a single mom, try to teach my children about equality and about different types of people they will encounter,” she stated.

“But my first reaction was it was not an appropriate question for a fourth grader or really any grade,” the mom continued.

Facebook users and her teacher responded well to Maddy’s clever answer when she turned her homework in on Friday.

Douglas told HuffPo, “Her teacher laughed at her answer and told her ‘Good point."”

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Donald Trump Ponders Starbucks Boycott, is on Team Christmas

Presidential candidates are tackling the tough issues this week.

Take Jeb Bush, who said in a recent interview that he would kill baby Hitler if given the chance.

And now take Donald Trump (PLEASE!).

The top contender for the Republican nomination spoke to a crowd in Springfield, Illinois on Monday, touching on the debate surrounding Starbucks, which has chosen to make its holiday-themed coffee cups simply red this season.

The lack of Christmas decorations on these cups has caused some to believe that Starbucks hates Jesus.

Where does Trump stand on the giant scandal?

“I have one of the most successful Starbucks, in Trump Tower. Maybe we should boycott Starbucks? I don’t know,” Trump said, adding that he won’t be resigning his lease with the company due to this debacle.

And tossing in a promise to all who feel passionately about this issue:

“If I become president, we’re all going to be saying Merry Christmas again, that I can tell you. That I can tell you.”

It’s unclear, of course, how Trump will enforce this rule.

Will he build a wall around all who refuse to utter those two magical words?

More importantly, where does Trump stand on the topic of ending baby Hitler’s life?

We can only hope (nay… pray!) that these are two of the questions that are posed to the candidate at tonight’s Presidential debate.

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