10 Actors You Never Knew Were Born Rich

10. Rashida Jones

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Rashida Jones became known for playing sweet, small town characters on shows like The Office and Parks and Recreation. However, she definitely isn’t from some tiny Midwestern town like many actresses she shares the screen with. Jones is actually the daughter of talented music legend (composer, record producer, musician, instrumentalist…etc.) Quincy Jones and glamorous actress and model Peggy Lipton. Before attending Harvard University, the former self-confessed nerd grew up in Bel Air, and attended the prestigious The Buckley School with classmates like Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton. She probably saw a lot of glamorous parties filled with A-Listers before she ever stepped foot on a red carpet!

7 Greatest People’s Champions In Wrestling History

7. The Voice Of The Voiceless

Like Paige in today’s WWE, CM Punk’s heroic characters often end up being a little, well, douchey. Too much of a sarcastic jerk to be really, truly popular as a babyface, CM Punk was over despite this. He was cheered by thousands upon his WWE debut in June 2006, because everyone knew he was that damn good, and we needed something new, fresh and that damn good to come along.
He turned heel in June 2009, playing the holier than thou straight edge a**hole. It made him step up his game and he was like hot fire in the ring and on the mic for the next two years. Then, on 27th June 2011, at the conclusion of a run-of-the-mill episode of Raw in Las Vegas, he cut that worked shoot promo, and everything changed.
The fans – the real fans, not the casual fans who didn’t follow the product – were narked with WWE, fed up with the same old same old and desperate for a change. The real-life Phil Brooks was also narked with WWE, and he let it show in spades. For a while, CM Punk, mouth like a runaway train, said what we were all thinking, what we were all saying. Except he said it louder, funnier, and straight to Vincent Kennedy McMahon and Triple H’s faces.
It lasted a year, probably half that actually, given how badly he was booked after the second Summer Of Punk turned into autumn. Punk turned heel again at Raw 1000, and he was bloody brilliant, but it wasn’t the same and it didn’t come back when he turned babyface yet again the year after that.
Still, for a few months, CM Punk was the voice of the voiceless. That’s why you still hear ‘CM PUNK’ chants here and there from smark-aleck crowds on boring-ass episodes of WWE TV, two years after he left the company. It’s an echo of a time in 2011 when one p***ed off guy said what so many of us were thinking, then when they shut off his mic came back two weeks later with a goddamn loudhailer so that they couldn’t do it again.

10 WWE Wrestlers Who Survived Awful Gimmicks To Become Huge Stars

10. JBL

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Awful Gimmick: The big Texan was saddled with a couple of rubbish gimmicks in his early years with the company. He made his debut in January 1996 as Justin ‘Hawk’ Bradshaw, a cowboy/mountain man gimmick where he would ‘brand’ his fallen foes (in ink) with the letters JB.
It was decidedly naff and didn’t last the year. Unfortunately for the future World Champion, things would get worse: he became a member of the New Blackjacks, a tag team with a totally past-it Barry Windham. That moustache just looks ridiculous, regardless of what era you’re in.
How He Overcame It: The former ‘Widowmaker’s’ injuries began to pile up in 1997 and the New Blackjacks never really got going as a team. Bradshaw meandered in the midcard for a while before he finally found a role/gimmick that suited him: although the Acolytes got off to a shaky start with all that Ministry of Darkness nonsense, Bradshaw and Farooq finally found their groove.
As a member of the beer-drinking, barroom-brawling APA, Bradshaw was quickly becoming a star in the company. He really established himself, however, when he was re-christened JBL in April 2004, following a failed singles push on Raw and a lukewarm APA reunion.
JBL, the immigrant-hating, suit-wearing, stock market-playing heel was thrust into the main event scene when Brock Lesnar decided he wanted to be an NFL star and Kurt Angle went down with yet another neck injury. Luckily for JBL, he succeeded in the role and became a bona fide main eventer.
He had to bide his time and survive a load of crap gimmicks to make it there, mind.

10 Selfies Taken Moments Before Death

#10 No Fear of Heights

Xenia Ignatyeva took a selfie from a bridge 28 feet off the ground to impress her friends. The 17-year-old Russian girl lost her balance and fell on a cable, which tragically electrocuted her.

10 Potential WWE Royal Rumble 2016 Winners

10. Braun Strowman

Just cracking the top 10 is a man who Vince McMahon would probably put over in a heartbeat if he didn’t have so many other, more qualified superstars to choose from. Braun Strowman makes the list because of his association with the Wyatt Family, a WWE creative favorite, as well as his massive size. It’s no secret that Vince loves his top superstars to be larger-than-life and Strowman definitely meets that physical criteria.
The fact that he’s greener than goose sh*t though makes his chances of realistically winning the Royal Rumble quite thin. Still, Strowman is among the top 10 superstars on the current roster who have any realistic shot at winning if for no other reason than the boss loving his size.
In fact, Strowman winning the Royal Rumble in 2016 wouldn’t be the first time Vince gave the battle royal match to a super heavyweight rookie as Yokozuna came out of nowhere to win it in 1993. An impressive showing where he accumulates multiple eliminations is more likely than him actually winning the whole thing though, and is why he enters the list at number 10.