26. Jon Gosselin

Jon Gosselin is yet another person who could tell you a thing or two about the transient nature of reality television fame. There's good money to be made if you can generate interest, but it's also very intrusive being followed by a camera everywhere you go. In Gosselin's case, the camera was there every hour of every day filming his show 'Jon & Kate Plus 8', and he ultimately snapped and quit after feeling that he no longer had a life of his own.

Quitting, of course, deprived Gosselin of his only form of income. He set about trying to find steady work but struggled at first, drifting from one job to another without feeling any connection to any of the work he tried his hand at. In the end, he found cookery, and discovered he had a passion for it - and most importantly, it was a passion he could fit in part-time around his DJing work in the evenings. Gosselin prepares meals for diners at the TGI Fridays in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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