5 – Tan Mom
- Not all of the reasons people get famous are positive, and this woman found fame in a really, really questionable way.
- A woman with a horrendously dangerous obsession with tanning beds was accused of burning her five-year-old daughter in a tanning accident, though the mother claimed her daughter’s tan burns were regular old sunburn. Tanning beds are a huge cause of skin cancer and are illegal in many countries. For some reason, the world wanted more of this crazy woman and she became known as the famous Tan Mom.
- Recently Tan Mom has apparently swapped her tan-bed obsession for a more “healthy” Botox obsession.
4 – Stephen Perkins
- If you’ve ever made a questionable life choice while you’ve been drunk, at least you didn’t accidentally cost a company $10 million dollars like this guy.
- Steve Perkins was completely wasted when he turned up for his shift at Oil Futures. Instead of his normal work, Perkins decided to drunkenly buy 7 million barrels of oil with the company’s money. This unauthorised transaction was so serious that it increased the cost of oil in every country in the world.
- Needless to say, his inebriated shenanigans got him fired from the company and fined 72,000 pounds.
3 – Adam Pacitti
- A desperate last-ditch attempt to get a job was the reason this guy became a total internet sensation.
- Adam Pacitti was unemployed and facing the drastic reality of not being able to find a job when he had a risky but genius idea. He spent every last dollar he had on a billboard pleading for someone to give him a job. His website ‘Employ Adam’ received over 1.5 million hits and up to 100 job offers were emailed to the brash young man.
- Adam now has a great job at an award-winning company and even posted a second billboard saying thank you for all the job offers.
2 – Rosario Dawson
- You might know Rosario Dawson from Hollywood blockbusters, but you’d be pretty surprised to learn how she was discovered.
- When Dawson was just 15 years old she was sitting on her porch, hanging out doing typical teenager things when a screenwriter walked down the sidewalk and decided she was the perfect part for her upcoming project. Dawson had no prior acting experience but went for the audition and ended landed her first role in the movie The Kids.
- Since that fateful audition, Dawson has featured in movies such as Men in Black, Sin City and Unstoppable.
1 – Marina and the Diamonds
- If you get a chance to impress a record producer, you do it: even if it means pretending to be in a reggae boy band.
- Marina Diamondis, more famously as Marina and the Diamonds was struggling to get her name out in London when she found out about an opportunity to impress some Virgin Music record executives. The catch was that she had to pretend to be a reggae voice singer in a boy band. Apparently they weren’t too interested in the band but they called Marina back the following week.
- It just goes to show that if you’re desperate enough, you can get the world’s attention any way you try.
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