7 Hilariously Weird Side Businesses From Favorite Celebrities

It's not unheard of for celebrities to run a side hustle on the side. It is easy to comprehend why a person might partake in a side hustle if they have the luxury of leisure and the financial resources that come along with celebrity status. However, not every supplemental income opportunity is a typical one.
Where regular people have side hustles like Etsy stores or driving for Uber, celebrities have things like woodshops like Nick Offerman's, OnlyFans accounts like Cardi B's, and many operate restaurants. Normal people have side hustles like Etsy stores or driving for Uber (Ryan Gosling owns the illustrious Tagine in Beverly Hills). Those, on the other hand, are not quite as peculiar as the celebrities who have made it onto this list.
Scroll down to see 7 funny and weird side businesses from beloved celebrities

1. Mark Wahlberg

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Mark Wahlberg co-owns a burger restaurant with his brother, Donnie, and the two of them starred in a reality program called Wahlburgers: The Wahlbergs' Story, which ran for many seasons and was based on their Boston burger restaurant. A recurrent gag on Conan O'Brien's TBS show revolved around the show.

2. Kevin Costner

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Waterworld, starring Kevin Costner, depicts a post-apocalyptic Earth that is entirely covered by water. The waters have Costner's real-life assistance, which helps maintain them clean.
Ocean Therapy Solutions, which the actor founded in 1995, is responsible for research and development of oil-separating solution technology. It's a mouthful, but what it means is that his firm creates equipment to clean up potentially disastrous oil spills at sea. After the disastrous BP Spill in 2010, Costner's firm and its cutting-edge technology played a crucial role in the cleanup effort.

3. Justin Timberlake

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Are you curious as to what become to MySpace? Before Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok came along, MySpace was the most popular social networking site. Following Newscorp's 2005 acquisition, the magazine's popularity began to fall.
In 2011, artist Justin Timberlake purchased it for many million dollars in the hopes that he might revive the enterprise. It was a bad experience. The Social Network is the narrative of the genesis of Facebook, the site that rendered MySpace irrelevant, and in it, Timberlake plays the role of a prominent tech CEO.

4. Robert DeNiro

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Of the several fine dining establishments that De Niro owns, the Nobu restaurants in New York and Southern California are among the most well-known. Masaharu Morimoto, the famed last Japanese Iron Chef from the first Iron Chef, used to work at the New York site.

5. Madonna

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Madonna became famous for being a radical proponent of sexual health. As a mother of several, she has decided to shift her focus to something more kid-friendly, such as writing books for them. From "Papa Don't Preach" to "Read it again, Mommy!" in an instant.

6. Scarlett Johansson

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Johansson has been an advocate for a number of brands, but her investment in the Yummy Pop popcorn shop in Paris, France stands out. In 2016, we opened our doors to the public. In 2018, Scarlett Johansson stepped down as CEO.

7. Trump

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Donald Trump, the now-deposed president, built his fortune mostly on real estate. However, both during and after his presidency, he tried various projects, the vast majority of which failed due to his extreme lack of experience in those fields. The Trump Vodka and Trump Bottled Water companies, as well as the Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, which Trump controlled, all failed.
NFTs, or "Trump Trading Cards," are one of Trump's newest and most rapidly failing companies. Almost immediately after their publication, Trump Trading Cards were met with backlash from internet sleuths who noticed that many of the images weren't original and were instead crudely manipulated stock photographs.