Before They Were Stars
HOT GALLERY: These Celebrities Were Voted Most Likely to Succeed in High School—and Guess What? They Really Did!
Remember the star basketball player from your high school days? Or the drama-club star who was also the most popular girl in your class? Now imagine that that kid grew up to actually be a pro athlete or a movie star. That’s exactly what happened with this bunch of celebrities, who were all voted Most Likely to Succeed—including a few that just might surprise you.... By Nina Hämmerling Smith
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Rick Warren
Bespectacled Most Likely to Succeed senior Rick Warren—then known as Richard—was all smiles at Ukiah High School in Ukiah, California, in 1972. Now the best-selling author of The Purpose Driven Life and the evangelical pastor of the mega-Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, Warren found himself in a media firestorm when his friend President Obama asked him to deliver the invocation at his January 2009 inauguration.
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