Check out the Top 20 Hollywood stars who started their career from Reality TV Shows –
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Julianne Hough
Julianne Hough was a professional dancer on Dancing With the Stars before becoming a mega-famous singer/actress. She and speed skater Apolo Ohno won the show’s fourth season, becoming her the youngest dancer ever to do so. Julianne was one of the “Million Dollar Dancers” on the ABC game program program Me the Money about a year before that.
Laverne Cox
You probably didn’t realize that actress Laverne Cox appeared in a VH1 reality show in 2008! She was a competitor on I Want to Work for Diddy, a reality show in which a group of candidates vie for a job working for the rapper. She subsequently said that she didn’t want to be his secretary, but viewed it as a chance to establish her television career.
Heather Morris
Heather Morris first featured on Glee in season two of So You Think You Can Dance. She was a backup dancer on Beyoncé’s tour the next year, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Lio Tipton
Lio Tipton may be familiar to you from Crazy, Stupid, Love, A Friend of the Family, or Vengeance. But, before making his big screen debut, Lio participated on America’s Next Top Model (as Annaleigh Tipton) in cycle 11 in 2008.
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert was on the inaugural season of Whose Line Is It Anyway? in 1998, long before he was making you laugh on The Colbert Report or The Tonight Show.
Stephen Colletti
Stephen is well-known to One Tree Hill fans for his role as Chase Adams in seasons four through nine of the show. But before he was a Tree Hill darling, he starred as himself on Laguna Beach seasons one and two.
Karamo Brown
Karamo first starred on The Real World: Philadelphia in 2004 before becoming one of the Fab Five on Netflix’s Queer Eye. He was one of the first out homosexual Black males to appear on reality television at the time.
Kristen Wiig
Hello, did you know Kristen Wiig was in a reality program back in 2003? The idea of The Joe Schmo Show is that one actual contestant believes they are participating on a reality show, while all of the other “contestants” are improv actors playing along. Kristen portrayed a phony marital counselor known as “Dr. Pat.”
White, Mike
If you’ve heard the name Mike White a lot in recent years, it’s because he developed the program we’re all fascinated with: HBO’s The White Lotus. When he appeared on Survivor in 2018, his lodgings were far from luxurious.
Amelia Gray Hamlin
Fans of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills got to know Amelia Gray Hamlin as Lisa Rinna’s daughter before she became a renowned model (who also dated Scott Disick). Adorable!
Cardi B
Do you watch Love & Hip Hop New York? Then you already know that Cardi B was the finest part of the show. Cardi joined the cast in 2015, less than two years before “Bodak Yellow” was released.
Meghan Markle
Life lesson: Watching Deal or No Deal may take you down a path that ends with a prince, a tiara, and a lot of family conflict.
Bella Hadid
Bella Hadid used to be a regular on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills since her mother, Yolanda Hadid, appeared on the program. We watched the start of Bella’s modeling career, as well as her transfer to NYC, thanks to RHBH!
Adam Lambert
Adam Lambert, like many other artists, got his start on American Idol. He’s since been nominated for a Grammy and has toured with Queen. Also, where can I purchase those boots? Thx.
Camila Cabello
Camila Cabello got her start on The X Factor, where she eventually joined girl group Fifth Harmony. Today, she’s smashing records and making out with her (ex?? boyfriend) Shawn Mendes at Coachella.
Christian Siriano
Christian Siriano got his start on Project Runway (he won, of course) and has gone on to outfit notable figures such as Michelle Obama. No big deal!