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Tuesday, November 10, 2015
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
2. Leeann Tweeden
3. Naya Rivera
4. Jerri Manthey
5. Holly Madison
6. Alison Waite
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.”
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."”