Dive Brief:
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Next time you climb onto a roof at a job site, check out the guy working next to you: He could be a music superstar.
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After the Jonas Brothers pop group broke up last fall, the oldest of the trio, Kevin Jonas, who helped build his own home, became co-owner of a custom home building business. The 26-year-old wholesome heartthrob recently made a cameo appearance on “Real Housewives of New Jersey” as a contractor working on the home of one of the reality TV’s stars.
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Likewise, ’90s rapper Vanilla Ice— who still performs occasionally— is starring in the fourth season of the DIY Network series The Vanilla Ice Project, on which he shows viewers how to fix up homes and then flip them for a profit. The 46-year-old entertainer, best known for his early 1990s hit “Ice Ice Baby,” started buying and flipping houses when his music career started winding down.
Dive Insight:
Other construction workers among the once-famous: Danny “Little Red” Lopez, a World Featherweight champion boxer in the 1970s; 2012 Olympian discus thrower, who works as a superintendent for a Colorado general contracting company; and Larry Fortensky, best known as Elizabeth Taylor’s husband from 1991 to 1996.