Okay, never is not correct, but most once-successful actors or one hit wonder singers don't appear to get normal jobs when the entertainment industry doesn't work out, but they don't live on welfare either.
I'm not talking about the ones who were once super rich and can live off savings, but the ones were somewhat famous but never made it big.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | March 10, 2023 9:13 AM |
Most end up getting normal jobs or doing mundane things (they may transition as the stay at home parent or head to school, or there's a fair portion that do education + new age pseudo spiritual guru/retreat shit).. you just don't usually hear about it.
Many will, initially, try to hang in the peripheral parts of the industry...
the more pathetic may be given pity jobs, entry level, grunt jobs at the lowest rung of the ladder. Now, those you'll hear more about because it's regular media fodder - Once a celebrity, now a lot whore.
But most just fade into the background until the media gets a nostalgia bug or someone bigger they were once connected to dies.
Actual welfare cases... it happens more to those at the older end than the younger end because it's easier to make the case they've exhausted their earning potential. But lower tier child stars follows next. . .
It's all quite variable to where they happen to be at the time of application. It's less likely to happen in CA/NY and more likely to qualify somewhere between. More likely qualify if it's been at least ten years since they were a celeb.
Evens so, more likely to be temporary or relative to an emergency crisis, with criminal activity and/or mental health and addiction issues, likely multiple lawsuits or debts. They would have to prove they couldn't sell their story for a payoff or trade on their celebrity in other ways. . . which can be quite difficult. It's not something easily quantified .
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 9, 2023 7:50 PM |
OP, how do you know who’s on public assistance and who’s not?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 9, 2023 9:32 PM |
you can't go on "welfare" or "public assistance" unless you have children, at least here in CA. You can get EBT/SNAP though as well as subsidized healthcare/insurance.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 9, 2023 9:38 PM |
R3 Can an unemployed person in the USA get any assistance if they are childless?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 9, 2023 10:05 PM |
r4 you can get unemployment assistance if you've worked in the past year, and how much you get depends on how much you made during your highest earning quarter. But it's only usually for a short period (6 months up to a year). If it's different in other states (besides Calif) I"m sure someone will chime in.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 9, 2023 10:08 PM |
I'm sure there's a small number that do.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 9, 2023 10:12 PM |
when people say welfare - they often mean in a colloquial sense as to include disability or any other form of public assistance. . .
r7 most common is theatre and related.
then music industry - but stereotypes - that usually involves crime, mental health and/or addiction.
film/tv if mid tier or higher, institutionalization (jail or mental health) is helpful, independent medical and a decent cpa.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 9, 2023 10:32 PM |
We were kicked off welfare!
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 9, 2023 10:48 PM |
Julia Robert's smells like she's on the welfare.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 9, 2023 10:55 PM |
“ most once-successful actors or one hit wonder singers don't appear to get normal jobs”
Highly inaccurate
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 9, 2023 10:57 PM |
Does dinner theater still exist? That used to be the paycheck for the washed up.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 10, 2023 12:03 AM |
😁 They're not as washed and dried up as you think they are.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 10, 2023 12:19 AM |
Wasn't Dana Plato on welfare? And that chick from Happy Days?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 10, 2023 12:24 AM |
Melba Moore & a couple others ended up on welfare OP.
She also did TBN, The 700 Club & shockingly some LGBT prides.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 10, 2023 12:25 AM |
Max Baer Jr. was way hot as Jethro. I wonder if he is on welfare?
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 10, 2023 12:28 AM |
Because dying homeless as a result of drug and alcohol addictions in the state of Indiana was embarrassing enough..
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 10, 2023 12:56 AM |
R16 no he had a very successful 2nd career after he finished acting
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 10, 2023 1:13 AM |
I wonder if Donna Douglas was as fortunate.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 10, 2023 1:25 AM |
Wasn’t Donna Douglas a realtor in LA in the 80s?
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 10, 2023 2:05 AM |
Does BrendaD get SNAP? Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. That tator salad at Gelson’s doesn’t come cheap.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 10, 2023 2:19 AM |
Shit, I'd forgotten Erin Moran was dead, but I do recall she was found living in a trailer in some mid-America state. She died of fucking throat cancer and when she went to the hospital, it was already Stage 4. She was found to have no illegal drugs in her system and there were no drugs on the premises either. What a sad, lonely end.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 10, 2023 2:28 AM |
R20
An autopsy report from the Harrison County coroner indicated the cause of death to be complications of stage four squamous cell carcinoma of the throat Toxicology testing showed that no illegal narcotics were involved in her death, and no illegal substances were found in Moran's home
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