George Clooney – baseball player

Long before Hollywood, George dreamed of a sporting career.

He once pursued baseball seriously and even tried out professionally before turning his focus to acting.

The Jay Kelly star recalled on a December 2025 episode of Live with Kelly and Mark: "I wanted to be a baseball player. I was back in Cincinnati, which is close to Kentucky, where my family worked, and I was just back there a month ago.

"The owner of the Cincinnati Reds, which I had a couple of trials for, showed up, and brought a contract for a day to make me an official Reds.

"And we made the play-offs this year - I just want to say - and he also read my scouting report."

And the official scouting report made him realise that he was right not to pursue a baseball career.

George added: "And the scouting report was like, he's got decent speed, he can kind of hit, and it's like, he's got the worst arm.

"And I've been telling all my friends how I was going to be a professional player, then you read that scouting report, and I was clearly not ever going to be [a professional baseball player]."