Before They Were Famous: Top 10 Celebrity Lorry Drivers

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Actors, professional athletes and mass murderers– it takes all sorts to drive trucks. With brief information of their involvement in the trade and succeeding Star, here is a countdown of the leading 10 stars who worked as lorry drivers prior to they were popular, with differing degrees of success.

# 10 Chris Tarrant:

This radio and television presenter, best known for hosting the TELEVISION game show ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’, pursued a number of tasks prior to discovering his feet in television. Tarrant’s previous roles consist of long-distance Truck driver, gatekeeper and schoolteacher.

# 9 Chris Eubank:

Chris Eubank is significant for being the only member of our list to have actually used up truck Driving after he become well-known. October 2003 saw a politically determined Eubank descending on Whitehall in his personal HGV to demonstration against the war in Iraq. The former world middleweight champion fighter wound up being arrested for obstructing the entrance gates to Downing Street, driving around Parliament Square sounding his horn, with a knife in his pocket, and reversing into a delivery van.

# 8 Rock Hudson:

Hudson was a popular American movie and television star and a charming leading guy in the 1950s and 1960s. During WW II, Hudson acted as a Navy airplane mechanic and after the war he was a truck driver. His size and good look and feels got him into movies.

# 7 Chevy Chase:

Our number seven is an Emmy Acclaimed American comedian, author, and tv and movie actor. Prior to his breakthrough as a comedian, Chase worked as a truck motorist, cab driver, motorbike messenger, waiter, busboy, building worker, audio engineer, produce supervisor in a grocery store, salesman in a wine shop and theatre usher.

# 6 Far away Clara:

The only woman on our list and, unfortunately, imaginary, juggernaut-driving Clara was the star of 80s youngsters’s cartoon ‘Pigeon Street’. Some see Long Distance Clara as an unrecognized feminist icon – her marital relationship to chef Hugo demonstrated a revitalizing reversal of gender stereotypes.

# 5 Charles Bronson:

Charles Bronson was an American star of ‘tough guy’ functions who made his name starring in a number of significant Hollywood flicks consisting of ‘The Terrific Escape’ and ‘The Dirty Dozen’. Prior to becoming popular, Bronson was prepared into the army and was assigned to the Air Corps in 1943. He began as a truck motorist and then trained as a pilot, winning awards for great service.

# 4 Richard Pryor:

Pryor was the very first African American funnyman to speak openly to mixed audiences making use of the language and jokes of the black community. He operated in various jobs prior to finding popularity, consisting of truck driving and meatpacking.

# 3 Liam Neeson:

Liam Neeson is a film star most well known for his function as Oskar Schindler in the 1993 blockbuster ‘Schindler’s List’. Irish-born Neeson when worked as a truck motorist along with a forklift operator for Guinness, an assistant architect and an amateur boxer.

# 2 Sean Connery:

This retired Scottish star is best understood for starring as James Bond in seven Bond films. Heart-throb Connery signed up with the Royal Navy after leaving school but was discharged on medical grounds. He went on to a succession of jobs, including truck driver, labourer and lifeguard.

# 1 Elvis Presley:

The American singer, artist, actor and cultural icon used up truck driving as one of his jobs after college graduation. The future ‘King’ drove a truck for the appropriately called ‘Crown Electric Company’. Presley even took up wearing his hair longer with a ‘ducktail’ – the style of truck motorists at the time. An artist for whom a young Elvis Presley auditioned recommended him to ‘Stay with driving a truck, due to the fact that you’ll never ever make it as a vocalist’.

The Mass Killer – Peter Sutcliffe:

Rather perhaps the most evil and deranged presence in the history of lorry driving, the ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ is far too nasty to create it into our top 10. In between 1975 and 1984, this lorry driver and previous gravedigger eliminated 13 women in a five-year reign of terror prior to being sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in jail. On his arrest, Sutcliffe declared that God had told him to go out and kill prostitutes. An unfortunate imperfection on the reputation of lorry driving.

Stars who were lorry motorists before they were popular– a heady mix of the gifted, the eccentric, the unpleasant and the downright dazzling. Who understands exactly what enchanting animals are sitting behind the wheels of our nation’s trucks today?