What do washed up celebrities do with their free time?

Well, there used to be Blockbuster, but now I just throw lettuce at little homosexual boys and kick refrigerators

They become MAGA Republicans!

Hobbies? Travel?

Go to trial

Raise kids, travel, dine at nice restaurants, have house renovation projects. There's an awful lot of wonderful stuff you could do with your life if you have lots of money and have already achieved some great things.

Hire a personal trainer and get ripped

Drink

Are you joking, OP? They buy real estate, fix it up, famous decorator, "live" in it for a year and then sell it at a celebrity markup.

Rinse, repeat. Rinse, repeat.

How do you think Rob Lowe has survived all this time?

Starting an onlyfans like Bella or Dan Benson. Will Shawn soon join?

Drive their former colleagues to suicide

Sign up for Cameo and do autograph conventions

Write memoir, after memoir, after memoir, after memoir - and pretend I have something shocking to reveal.

Write a twelve page children's book (the kind with three sentences on each page) because if there's one thing I always knew I had talent with, it is writing a children's book in my fifties. It's not just 'any children's book' - this one will teach a valuable life lesson to your four year old (like gender is fluid) !

Move somewhere nice and hopefully avoid having bad plastic surgery.

Oh god. I wrote a children's book in my 60s. Am I so obvious. Sad.

Develop your own line of soaps and candles with eye-popping names such as "The Scent of My Ass", or depressing names like "The Last Day of Your Life".

They hawk term life insurance to old people on Fox News commercials.

Hang out at Gelson's hoping to be recognized

Madonna’s Instagram should give you a good idea OP.

Come to think of it, there was an actor who was in a gay show 20 plus yrs ago. There were loads of frau threads about him which have since been deleted. Hale Garold? He has to have no money by now. How do people like that continue to eat and keep the lights on?

I do wonder how Brenda really fills her time, R18. I mean it doesn't take all day to facetune a photo of yourself at a party and post it on Instagram.

R21 I don’t know who Brenda is, but maybe she gardens? Plays bridge with friends? Who knows.

One of my friends retired at 19. A retired boy genius.

His parents dragged him to numerous talk and radio shows, public speaking engagements (mostly them doing the talking) from when he was six to sixteen. He did two years of college, dropped out and used the remaining funds intended for his education to qualify for a loan to buy a warehouse and turn it loft apartments. He gave himself a small apartment, lets a firm handle the rentals and has lived there ever since... enough money coming in that he doesn't have to want for anything but not really doing anything at all.

a former mate became famous for a startup. Sold it eight years later. He's also quite low key but had a more visible life. . . published a few books, did the socialpreneur thing for a bit and is something of a cult leader (all that sacchraine, poppy, positive affirmation shit) and techevangelist on twitter.

Yet another was part of a successful ensemble tv show, however, he was odd looking (not bad looking but unconventional for hollywood), tall (towers over most leads) and publicly out. So, being over twenty years ago that left pretty much left him to bad camp to softcore films, occasional theatre part and the odd guest billing - mostly on tv crime shows; enough to keep your name floating out there but not really enough to pay the bills. He went back to school and studied up to become an intimacy coach and therapist. On set, he's responsible for choreographing sex scenes to make them appear realistic while helping to actors to feel safe and boundaries respected to the regulations of the laws of the states he's allowed to work in (not all coaches are limited to that but the licensed psychs and social workers are more limited on this factor but get better pay plus industry clients).

Musicians, singers, tech... they fade into the background, usually still working but without the support of a major label and stuck on the festival scene or touring out of pocket. Quite a few end up as performers for benefits...fundraising. tho, often in more socially conservative circles; i.e. museums and the like that get upset when they've hired them because of the performers they are but triggered by their music. You can make a fairly decent living especially if you have tech skills or capable of working as session musician but it becomes a bit of a grind. And, there's far more bullshit in it than being on the road. But inevitably, most people settle in one place. songwriting for other bands/performers happens usually more in the immediate unless you have an established history for it but the more stable is in advertising or cataloguing sounds (or doing commissions) for content creators to use for a nominal fee or to buy licensing straight out. But it's highly competitive anymore and simulation software ( a lot of it is open source) is starting to eliminating it as it's massively improved in the last few years from the robotic ones you might be used to.

In short, you get a day job, if you didn't have one to begin with., If you're recognizable you do conventions, reality shows, gossip or tell-alls, and just generally whore out your dignity to keep your head above your ass. Many will disappear into family life with kids unaware they were ever celebs. Quite a few of those end up being a stay at home parent that may work remotely or from home. Maybe more the roadies than anyone. Stage performers - coaching of some kind is the popular avenue, probably setting up a social media account to dispense advice and attract wannabes willing to pay for a one on one. All will inevitably become old grumps shaking their fists at the sky over the next wave of performers... and probably wasting their spare time here because friends disappear quickly when the celeb does or your inability to switch off alienates everyone.

^ Johnette, btw, last I heard (a few years ago) now spends most of her time reading tarot for people.

-Appear as a contestant on The Masked Singer and/or Dancing With the Stars

-Sell some product in commercials whether it be a new pill, health food, insurance, laundry detergent, etc.

-Reminisce about their glory days on social media to give nostalgic people "the feels"

-Slap their name on a food product (whether for people or pets) or some home product like cookware or dish towels.

Google themselves

Philanthropy.

Twirl in circles, change clothes and walk a fake catwalk like a model, and post things on Instagram that usually make no sense.

In the mid-20th century Tom Dougall wrote and performed in radio dramas broadcast out of WXYZ in Detroit, notably “The Lone Ranger” and “Sergeant Preston of the Yukon” When broadcast TV came along he played horror show host Mr. X. Then he went back to college, got his PhD and taught philosophy. Rest in power, Tom.

Play golf, tennis and do pilates or workout. Have some sort of product endorsement or your own line. Post cutely lifestyle videos like Jennifer Garner's Pretend Cooking Show. Try to get a cooking show on the Food Network. Give speeches to young people and involve yourselve in some charity. Buy and sell real estate. Occasionally, do a vanity project such a book or nostalgia series appearance. Have plastic surgery. Divorce your unfaithful younger spouse and search for a replacement. Try to get a social media following.

Design your own line of clothing and sell them at Target, K Mart or Walmart.

oh, yes, and the standups all seemingly have podcasts or attempt a hand at it.

Litigate

If they're british they can garden, cook, decorate a London cottage with an ecclectic mix of antiques and clashing patterns, create jewellery, headline a touring pantomime in a coastal town, preside over some venerable actors association and spend my guilt money. If they're american, they can buy a trailer in the desert off L.A. , grow marihuana to sell it to a mule who'll dispatch it in town, beard for me whenever I'm knighted or have to walk the red carpet, demand a pay-off for pretending to be my caretaker (or else they might call THE SUN to disclose a thing or two about my young protégé) and spend my guilt money. Lots of options here.

You could always post incessantly on social media, do some "humanitarian work" in Africa, pit your adopted children against one another, call the press to declare that your bio children have been in fact spawned by some classic Hollywood superstar that you briefly dated 90 years ago...again, lots of options

Charity work

Go hiking on Mount Baldy

Jet ski

needlepoint

Petit point

attend the grammys with their wife.

They become cashiers at Trader Joe's.

Post on Datalounge.

Attend banquets for bullshit charities that don't actually do any charity work.

Swim in lake Piru with their children.

Escort.

former models, if not whoring for fame

are often just whoring.

selling memorabilia online and personal greetings while operating from a website that looks like it was created in 1996.

You must marry a producer when you can cash in on you're aura of pseudo-WASPy class ...

dug out of their crypts every few years to Remember.....

Paint/sculpt.

collect things

You go out and perform your old hits for your Generation X fan base.

or join tiktok because the older gens aren't buying but the tide pod munching crowd is easily amazed by anyone that can sing live without autotune.

Attend those show conventions.

They used to go on game shows.

Run for Congress!

Washed-up actors used to make guest appearances on weekly primetime shows like "Love Boat," "Fantasy Island," "Hotel," "Murder, She Wrote," etc. Now what do they have? They might have a chance on Lifetime and Hallmark, but they age out of feature roles.

Run for POTUS

Get a UN Ambassador gig.

board games, darts, occasionally karaoke.

knit. a lot. Washed up celebrities like knitting a lot, and feed cats around the neighborhood.

Julia Roberts loves to knit is she washed up?

I'd hardly refer to successful celebs as [italic] Washed Up.

Yes r58. ‘ Ol Aaron Spelling was a gift to actors of a certain range and age.

If you were popular on a sci-fi series, in the 90s and early 00s you could make a good living doing fan conventions. The lesser Star Trek lights and Whedonverse alums made bank doing that for a while. The '08 crash killed a lot of the smaller cons, though.