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Pharrell Williams Was Fired From McDonald’s 3 Times
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Pharrell Williams Was Fired From McDonald’s 3 Times

Pharrell Williams Was Fired From McDonald's 3 Times: 'He Was Eating Nuggets'
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Pharrell Williams exactly We When it comes to chicken wings.

The “Happy” singer revealed that he was fired from McDonald’s three times before gaining fame as a prolific music producer; one of which was after he was caught eating McNuggets.

“McDonald’s was my first and only job. I was fired three times. I was eating chicken nuggets,” Williams, 51, shared during a recent interview on the U.K.’s BBC Radio 2. billboard.

He continued: “The first two times it was just because I was lazy. The third one said, ‘What are you doing? Are you just sitting there eating nuggets?’”

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From fast food to celebrity! Many of today’s biggest stars started out working at McDonald’s, Burger King and the like, eventually finding great success. But for many, their limitation in the world of fries, ice cream and more was short-lived, because they inherently knew they had to take a dip (…)

Williams isn’t the only star with a fast food past.

Rapper in June 2019 Nicki Minaj announced that he was fired from multiple Red Lobster locations.

“I worked at a few different Red Lobsters and got fired from three or four of them,” Minaj said. Jimmy Fallon on the late night talk show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

“I walked up to this woman. She and her boyfriend walked out of the restaurant and took my pen and they wouldn’t tip me,” Minaj explained, explaining why she was let go from a Red Lobster concert. “I walked up to the car, banged on the car window and screamed, ‘Give me my pen!’ Minaj said she showed the couple her middle finger and was fired “immediately” by her manager.

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mean girls star Rachel McAdams he also admitted that he wasn’t a “great” McDonald’s employee. The actress described her short-lived fast food career: “I was 16 and managing a children’s theater that didn’t quite cover the bills.”

“(I worked at McDonald’s) for about three years. I wasn’t a great employee; “One day I broke the orange juice machine,” McAdams added. Fascination magazine in January 2012.

Despite McAdams’ poor performance, the actor described McDonald’s as “a great place to work.”

“I had a bit of an OCD issue with hand washing and didn’t have time,” she said. “They said, ‘Hey, the drive-through is happening. Stop washing your hands!’”

Meanwhile in February 2019 Chris Pratt He recalled working at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company before he gained fame and admitted to helping himself to leftover shrimp.

“Twenty years ago I was a waiter at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. Every time I come back, I think of the thousands of shrimp I ate off people’s plates on my way back to the kitchen. Guardians of the Galaxy a star-headed one instagram A photo of himself at his old haunt. “Please tip your server. Leave at least 20%. Also leave some shrimp.”