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  • Why do we feel like we know these people from somewhere?

  • Welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 times.

  • Celebs appeared on reality shows before they were famous.

  • For this list, we'll be looking at various famous people who appeared on a reality series before striking it big and becoming household names.

  • We'll be including various types of reality shows, including traditional reality TV and competition franchises like American Idol Number 10 Heather Morris.

  • Raise your Right Hand, Your Right Hand, Britney.

  • I'm Sorry, most people know Heather Morris as the dim witted Britney asked Pierce from Glee, but her heart has always been in dance.

  • Heather began dancing when she was nine years old and competed in various competitions throughout Scottsdale, Arizona, where she was raised in 2006.

  • When Morris was in her late teens, She competed on the second season of So You Think You Can Dance, which is essentially American Idol for dancers.

  • Surprisingly, Morris failed to make an impact and was eliminated before making the final 20.

  • You were 3 to 2.

  • I'm afraid it was 3 to 2 against.

  • However, Heather got the last laugh as she was quickly recruited into Beyonce's troop and danced with the iconic singer during the Beyonce experience.

  • World Tour Number nine Karam Oh Brown Karam Oh is now known as the culture expert on Netflix's Queer Eye.

  • You're seeing a fat, ugly old man.

  • We're not seeing 57.

  • That's not old.

  • But long before he popped up on the streaming service, he was making TV history in 2000 for Karama became the first openly gay black man to appear on reality TV when he starred in The Real World Philadelphia.

  • At the time, Karama was working for an L, A based social service company called the Brotherhood Crusade.

  • So after MTV Israel World, I went through about two year rough period where living in this fame bubble being young, having access to money, I got addicted to cocaine.

  • After leaving the show, Karam oh found work as a social worker before reappearing on reality TV and 2016 he starred in seven episodes of TV ones.

  • The next 15 Karam oh, isn't the only celebrity to come out of the real world, as actress Jamie Chung starred in the Real World San Diego in 2004 number eight Lucy Hale.

  • I can see why she likes you so much.

  • Oh, but for the record, if you hurt her, I will crush your scones.

  • Known primarily for her work on Pretty Little Liars, Lucy Hale began starring is the hip story aria Montgomery in 2010.

  • The show wrapped in 2017 whereupon she began to take on more film roles starring in the 2018 horror movie Truth or Dare Me.

  • I Just like Being Nights.

  • However, music was always Lucy Hills first love and, in fact, much earlier.

  • In 2003 she competed in the short lived American Idol spinoff American Juniors.

  • She performed quite well, eventually finishing in fourth place when she moved to Hollywood.

  • She pursued a career in music but instead landed small roles on shows like Drake and Josh and the O.

  • C.

  • She's now mainly an actress, and that's how we know her.

  • It's my Dad, you know The Valley.

  • It's a show.

  • Number seven.

  • Kesha Kesha was born to a very musically gifted mother, PBC Burt.

  • She wrote a song for Joe Son back in the seventies called Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You, which was then covered by Dolly Parton on her 1980 album Dolly Dolly.

  • Dolly.

  • Kesha and her mother would often write songs together, and the two quickly formed a bond around 2000 for Cash's mother.

  • PB noticed that Paris Hilton's The Simple Life was looking for an eccentric family to host Paris and Nicole, and she threw her name into the hat.

  • The Sea Birds were eventually picked and appeared in the 2005 episode.

  • Wedding Planner.

  • Kesha eventually sang backup vocals on Paris Hilton song Nothing in this World before signing with R C.

  • A.

  • And finding her own success.

  • We're tearing it apart.

  • You know we're superstars Way number six Laverne Cox.

  • But you got between your legs, your business and when I got his mom.

  • Laverne has broken a ton of ground for transgender advocacy.

  • She's the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a primetime Emmy, thanks to her work on Orange is the New Black.

  • She's also the first transgender person to play a transgender character on network TV and the first openly transgender person to appear on the cover of time before staking her claim in history, though Laverne was a contestant on VH one's I Wanna Work for Didi, which saw people competing for a job with P.

  • Diddy.

  • So just, um, yeah, I was just let go, um, from bad Boy.

  • I won't be working for Didi, but I still feel gorgeous.

  • Um, yeah, I don't know if I look my best.

  • My weave is kind of busted, I guess when you're we've gets busted.

  • She also produced and starred in her own VH one series called It Transformed Me, which saw female contestants receiving makeovers from three Trans Women number five Cardi B.

  • Don't I get it?

  • You know paper Cardi B broke onto the mainstream in 2017 thanks to the number one single boat Back Yellow, which appeared on her critically acclaimed album Invasion of Privacy and featured another chart topper in I Like It.

  • She was also a successful featured artist, having wrapped on the top five singles, No Limit, finesse remix and girls like You.

  • But long before that card, he worked as an exotic dancer and found some popularity through her viral line and Instagram videos.

  • This possibly lead to her stint on VH one's 11 Hip Hop New York You know what I have for me, she go happy for me.

  • She was the main star of the sixth and Seventh Seasons, which spanned from December 2015 to February 2017.

  • Boat Dock Yellow was released the following June, and the rest is history number four Beyonce.

  • Before she was the world's biggest pop star, Beyonce was just another girl from Houston.

  • She quickly gained an interest in music and met Latavia Roberson while auditioning for a girl group.

  • Beyonce Roberson and Beyonce's friend Kelly Rowland were subsequently placed into a group called Girl's Tyme, which attracted the attention of producer Ernie Fricker.

  • Frager brought them to California and put them on Star Search, which was sort of a predecessor of America's Got Talent Unless You F Y I.

  • Justin Timberlake also appeared on Star Search back in the day.

  • Despite the mesmerizing early nineties attire, Girls Times performance wasn't good enough and the group failed to win.

  • No matter.

  • The group pushed on dropped members and changed their name to Destiny's Child in 1996 after which they proceeded to rule the airwaves.

  • Number three Lady Gaga.

  • Now this may come as a surprise, but Lady Gaga is not actually the singer's name.

  • She was just Stephanie German auto when she appeared on the MTV prank show Boiling Points in 2005.

  • In this show, unsuspecting targets are ridiculed and angered, and they earn $100 if they keep their cool through a seemingly arbitrary amount of time.

  • Stephanie was eating at a restaurant and had her food taken away during a phone call, and when she asked for it back, it returned, coated in garbage.

  • She did not keep her cool.

  • Put that in your mouth.

  • Lady Gaga also appeared in an episode of The Hills when Lauren helped her with a wardrobe malfunction before an Interscope Records event.

  • Oh my God, Hey, hey, Number to Emma Stone As a child, Little Emily Stone knew she wanted to be a performer.

  • She just didn't know what to Dio.

  • She had a passion for acting and appeared in countless Youth Theatre productions as a child.

  • However, she also had an interest in sketch comedy and performed in a Phoenix based improv troupe.

  • She also showed some love for music, and after dropping out of high school and moving to Los Angeles, she appeared on the VH one talent competition show in search of the New Partridge Family.

  • Stone actually ended up winning the competition and was cast as Laurie Partridge in The New Partridge Family.

  • Unfortunately, the pilot was not picked up.

  • It's a whole different world on there.

  • Yeah, we've never been played outside the garage, Thank God.

  • Luckily, Superbad and superstardom were just around the corner.

  • A Jules departed income.

  • Today, it's kind of personal question.

  • What?

  • Nothing.

  • It's my attempt at humor just before we unveil our number one pick.

  • Here are a few honorable mentions.

  • Elizabeth with drivers spoke.

  • It's time for you to go Goodbye.

  • I'm on early.

  • I'm 19 years old.

  • You used to figure skate was a competitive figure skating.

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  • Number one Jon Hamm Hamm was a bit of a late comer to stardom as he was 36 years old when Mad Men premiered in July of 2007 but it certainly wasn't from lack of trying.

  • Ham moved to Los Angeles in 1995 and found work as a contestant on a dating show called The Big Date.

  • John Hammond's next 25 Years Old.

  • He's a waiter, Jon Hamm.

  • Later, not much is known or remembered about the Dating and relationship reality television series.

  • Aside from the fact that a mid twenties Jon Hamm appeared on it, not only did he lose the competition, but he was eventually dropped by the William Morris Agency for not finding any gigs.

  • Luckily, his role is Bert Ridley on Providence prevented him from quitting acting, and he eventually landed one of the most iconic roles in television history.

  • You had me worried.

  • I don't know if you're drunk or not drunk, but that was inspired.

  • For the record.

  • I pulled it out of thin air.

  • Thank you there.

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