Went from all over the place to back on track as a fashion designer.
Amanda Bynes looked like she was on her way to superstardom. She got her start on Nickelodeon’s “All That” and “The Amanda Show” and went on to star in “What I Like About You” and “What A Girl Wants.” But the young star disappeared from screens and started appearing in the tabloids as she went through a series of mental breakdowns.
These days, she seems happy and healthy. She enrolled at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles and has her sight set on fashion design.
Mackenzie Rosman
Ruthie Camden from "7th Heaven" now tries to perform real-life miracles as the chairman of CureFinds.
When the series ended in 2007, Mackenzie Rosman got some small parts in "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" and "Ghost Shark" but had a hard time finding her next big role. When she turned 18, she decided that maybe posing for Maxim magazine would help bring her back into the public eye and show everyone that she was not a little girl anymore.
When that attempt failed, she quit show business and began working for the non-profit CureFinds which focuses on support and research for cystic fibrosis.
Taran Noah Smith
Used his Hollywood money to buy a vegan farm that produces non-dairy cheese.
Taran rose to fame when he was just 7 years old as the youngest son on "Home Improvement". When he was 17, he had a legal battle with his parents over his $1.5 million trust fund and won. He used the money to open a company named Playfood, which manufactured vegan non-dairy cheese.
In 2017, he went back to his Tool Time roots and helped fix homes destroyed by Hurricane Harvey.
Susan Boyle
Won the world over with her amazing voice but decided to step out of the spotlight and into a Scottish betting store.
Susan Boyle proved to the world in 2009 that looks can be deceiving when she blew everyone away on the reality TV show "Britain’s Got Talent" with her amazing voice. She went on to release an album that quickly became the best-selling debut album in UK history.
The singer received many awards and accolades but decided that fame wasn’t for her and that she wanted to live out the rest of her life as normally as possible. She found a job at a Scottish betting store and when The Sun interviewed the manager, he said what we were all thinking: “We were all in shock.”
Geoffrey Owens
From "The Cosby Show" to Trader Joe's.
In 2018, a Trader Joe's customer found an unexpected sight when he went to get his far-too-expensive groceries: former “The Cosby Show” star Geoffrey Owens, who played Elvin Tibideaux, doing the bagging. It took place in Clifton, New Jersey.
Owens has continued to land small parts once his big show ended in 1992. In an interview with “Good Morning America,” he said that he wasn't ashamed of the work. “There's no job better than another...every job is worthwhile.” Now that's the kind of thing we want to cheer for. The increased attention from that interview has been getting him more roles.