let's start a list of contestants who later became famous
Kirstie Allie
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Not exactly famous, but one contestant, Brenda Hillhouse, was an acting teacher who went on to have Quentin Tarantino as one of her students; Quentin cast her in "Pulp Fiction" (as young Butch's mom during Bruce Willis' childhood flashback about his father's watch) and in "From Dusk Till Dawn" (as the hostage bank teller who gets killed by Quentin early in the movie).
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Renaldo Rey was a contestant in 1973 (back then he went by the name of Harry Reynolds). Among his many credits, Renaldo played the mailman on 227, he was Red's father in Friday, and was the co-host for BET's Comicview.
shareDonna Pescow, who had a show called "angie". im old enough to remember the show, but never watched it.
i do distinctly remember donna being a panelist, and gene saying "it was X years ago you sat where the contestants are sitting and told us you wanted to be an actress".
Aphrodite Jones was a contestant in 1979. She was in law school at the time.
shareBrianne Leary. She starred in "Black Sheep Squadron" and "CHIPS." She won a total of $9,000.00.
shareGoing in the opposite direction, former Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres outfielder Al Ferrara appeared on one episode after his career ended. He must have been unemployed at the time because he insisted on giving his occupation as "freelance camel salesman," to which panelist Greg Morris replied "That's why the Dodgers put him out to pasture." As I recall he lost and was gone after one game.
shareRegarding Al Ferrara, I remember him saying he was a piano tuner or something like that, and he didn't even mention his baseball past until Greg Morris brought it up.
shareI said it in my original post. I clearly remember him calling himself a "freelance camel salesman," obviously being ironic. Greg Morris then said "That's why the Dodgers put you out to pasture" or some such.
share"Donny" Deutsch.
If you consider him to be famous.
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