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Before they were famous
It's hard to imagine life pre-super stardom for the likes of Sirs Mick Jagger and Elton John but they both made their way to the top via decidedly humble beginnings
From tea boy to Rocket Man
Sir Elt, who has clocked up nearly 80 hits over four decades, began his extraordinary career as Reginald Dwight, working as a tea boy for a music publishing company.
At the age of 16 he was earning £1 a night banging out bar room favourites, such as Roll Out The Barrel, at his local pub. He eventually saved enough to buy an electric piano before joining the band Bluesology.
But it wasn't until May 1968 that our Reg became a superstar in waiting, changing his name to Elton John before teaming up with fellow songwriter Bernie Taupin.
Every little helps...unless you are Boy George
Boy George had an even less glamorous start to his career, earning his weekly wage stacking shelves at Tesco.
The singer, 45, who took the charts by storm in the early eighties with Culture Club before carving a successful career as a DJ, didn't last long and was sacked for choosing to wear the store's carrier bags as fashion items.
Tesco branded the flamboyant's star's appearance 'disturbing'.
Bullied by boss before big break
For Gail Porter, the start of her working life was just as ungainly, earning her crust among the bunions and ingrowing toenails of Russell & Bromley shoe shop in Edinburgh.The Scottish TV presenter, who became a household name after her pert posterior was projected onto the House of Commons as part of a magazine promotion, admits now she was no natural saleswoman.
The divorced mother of one, who suffers from the stress-induced hair loss condition alopecia, remembers her boss as 'mean spirited and incredibly insensitive'.
'He made me cry a few times,' she recalls. 'It was my first job and I wanted to do it well but when the boss is misdirecting you and you're too young to stand up to him it can get on top of you.'
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