Rumour has it that Hollyoaks alumnus and party-handed Love Islander Paul Danan works as a recruitment consultant in Loughton, Essex. But what did some other celebrities do after they were famous? Eleven put on its deerstalker and rummaged through some CVs...
What did Dollar frontman David Van Day get up to when the bucks stopped rolling in? Well, he picked up his spatula and turned into Hot Dog Van Day, making a few cents from running a mobile chippy on Brighton seafront. Talk about (burger) flipping careers...
Nichola Holt had a career as an art teacher before an appearance on the first series of Big Brother changed her for the worse. The slap-headed reality TV also-ran now makes a living by making eye-watering appearances in mucky movies. Fans of one-handed "art films" beware.
Thankfully, other BB starlets have gone on to find work that doesn't involve pushing their la-las together for one-handed mags. Kate Lawler is now a resident DJ at Manchester club Sankeys and "unquestionably one of the most in demand and popular female DJ's in the UK today". Or so her MySpace page claims.
Woooaah. Aaaah. Can't touch this. So honked lamé-d crab-dancer MC Hammer in his number one hit. But what exactly did he mean by "this"? Well, it turns out that he must have been talking about our neighbour's oxen, as he now makes a living as a Christian televangelist in the USA. Yes - it's manna time!
Everybody's got a special kind of stor-reeee. And if you're Gary Coleman, yours has involved shooting to fame on Diff'rent Strokes; having your parents embezzle your cash; and ending up making ends meet by working as a security guard in a shopping mall.
The years that Geoffrey Hayes spent patronising his live-in puppets resulted in a pot of gold. However, the Rainbow host bungled his finances and ended up stacking shelves in Sainsbury's. He now works as a cab driver among the streets and houses of the East Midlands.
Justin Timberlake became a global phenomenon after the demise of 'N Sync, but his cohort Lance Bass ended up reaching for the stars somewhat more literally. He spent months doing bunny hops while wearing tin foil tracksuits as part of his astronaut training, but the would-be space explorer's dreams eventually fell back to earth. No final frontier for him.
Blur's Alex James spent the 1990s twanging the bass in Blur, while his irksome oppo Damon Albarn crooned about boys who liked girls. But now it's more a case of boys who like curds, as the lanky Britpop pin-up now makes cheese for a living – and we're not talking about more songs like "Parklife".
Former Celebrity Big Brother housemate Coolio has gone from rap star to wrap star with the launch of his very own online cookery show. "I'm about to teach yo' ass how to cook", he declares, at the beginning of each instalment. Sounds delicious Coolio. We don't think.