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Celebrity Alt-Careers: What they would have been if they chose academia

A photo collage of Barak, Nadia, Nyanshinski and Fena. [Courtesy]

Most celebrities we see on the daily basis probably did not choose art as their first choice. Some fell off the way pursuing their parent's dreams, went to school but later came back to entertainment circles. Some entertainers might have made their way up the ladder with little or no education but others aced their examinations but still chose to entertain us.

Others left the corporate world and settled on mostly music and content creation.

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