Celebrities that are Nurses
There are nurses and doctors that were made famous by their characters in movies and televisions dramas. Dr. House has become a household item and Nurse Jackie has become your mum’s best friend during primetime. But had it come to your mind if there are really actresses or celebrities that really worked as a nurse before they become famous? Scrubs magazine made a quiz about some Hollywood actors and political celebrities who were formerly nurses or have work in a hospital and the quiz made a staggering twist. I was even tricked. So, Google knocked a head out of me to investigate and research if there are really celebrities that once clothed themselves with medical scrubs and worked in a hospital and alas results were amazing.
Here are some of the famous celebrities who had an actual duty, used nursing uniforms, and care for patients. Let’s try to know them:
Derek Longmuir – He might not be famously known by his name around the world but he is greatly praised as the Bay City Roller drummer. In early 2000, he was even made famous for some child pornography issues and charges who he eventually pleaded guilty with. After his music career ended he was employed as a nurse at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Virginia Dell Cassidy – She left William Jefferson Clinton in the custody of his grandparents so she can pursue her study and later earned her a degree in nursing. The mother of Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of America was actually a nurse. Too bad her son didn’t make it to pass the universal health care.
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter – There is no clear proof that Mrs. Carter, President Carter’s wife was actually a nurse. But there are many accounts that speak about her championing issues concerning health like the one she is famously credited for – the mental health advocacy.
Walt Whitman – He is known widely in the academe as a powerful poet and history claims him to be an effective soldier during his time. But the most that captured me was his other career; he served as a nurse for his fellow soldiers during the Civil War.
Kate Gosselin – She just starred in the 2009 movie Eight Little Faces and then in 2010’s I just want you to know, Gosselin made it big in Hollywood in her reality show Jon & Kate Plus 8 – in where she shares life living with twins and sixtuplets. Kate is a registered nurse and worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Reading Hospital.
Dr. Betty Shabazz – Yes, Malcolm X has been assassinated but Dr. Betty was there to perform CPR on him – thanks to her nursing background.
Bonnie Hunt – According to Wikipedia, Hunt was an oncology nurse at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She surely had a pair of medical scrubs to brag about not to mention her funny punch lines.
Tina Turner – Tina might have rolled out of the river and focused on her singing career that’s why she is now as famous as she is. But she studied nursing and was actually a nurse in a maternity ward while juggling singing at local St. Louis clubs.
Paul Brandt – He’s now a doctor but not of medicine but of divinity. This country singer first donned his nursing uniforms at Alberta Children’s Hospital before making it big in the music field.
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Gossip Girl Quiz: When Will Blair and Chuck Say Those 3 Words, 8 Letters?
3 words, 8 letters. Say it and I’m yours.
He loves her and she clearly adores him, but they are not together. She might be the girl of his dreams and he might be the only person she can rely on when things don’t go her way, but neither of them is willing to give in. Neither of them wants to be owned by the other.
Growing up in the same opulent circle of the Upper East Side Manhattan, Blair Waldorf and Chuck Bass have never been new to thrill of getting what they want at any cost. Both share a strong friendship which wasn’t strained by the fact that Chuck has a bad reputation for being a morally bankrupt womanizer and that Blair is no less than manipulative and spoiled. With them ruling their circle with Blair as Queen Bee and Chuck as the resident bad boy, could love be anything less than complicated between these two?
Love is definitely not a boring boy-meets-girl, girl-hates-boy, and boy-marries-girl for Blair and Chuck. Just when you think they are actually having their sweetest onscreen confession, one of them would spoil the moment and drive away the other until their apparently good relationship goes kaput. It’s self-sabotage really. It is pretty obvious that all they want is to be with each other, but because of their flawed characters plagued by insecurities, they always end up in the arms of another. This endless cycle has everyone asking the biggest Gossip Girl quiz to date: When will Blair and Chuck quit these mind games they play on each other?
The Blossoming Romance
Blair and Chuck have known each other since they were little. Although at a young age, both had already shown callous attitudes as evidenced by underage drinking, sex, and bitching out, the two have constantly had each other’s back. This friendship was reinforced by the fact that Nate is Blair’s boyfriend and Chuck’s best friend. Eventually, Chuck started seeing Blair as someone that he could actually love for real. Fate had turned their friendship into a romantic affair. Hence, Chuck was torn between pursuing his love for Blair and choosing Nate’s friendship. Chuck was trying to control his amorous feelings for Blair, but as the old bards said, Love is strengthened by obstacles. He was relieved of his clandestine feelings for Blair when he deflowered her at the back of his limousine. That was the fateful when Blair ended his relationship with Nate and Chuck decided to cross the bounds of friendship with Blair and jeopardized his friendship with Nate. Inevitably, Nate could never accept such a feat, and had a huge ruckus with Chuck for stealing his girl.
To Make the Gossip Girl Quiz a Major Teaser…
The quiz goes on. Just when everything seems romantic and leading to a happy ending between the two, Blair came back to Nate and leaving Chuck hurt and deprived. Gossip Girl immediately caught on the quiz and rumors about the Chuck and Blair’s steamy night inside the limo spread like wildfire. With this, Blair was enraged even more and as expected, left their would-be romance hanging in a dangerous balance.
Then, there’s also the cliffhanger. Chuck and Blair were supposed to go on a couple’s trip to Tuscany when Chuck stood her up for another girl. That time, the last string on Blair’s nerve twitched. Instead of moping around, she went off wandering in the arms of some rich British royalty.
Seeing Blair with another man really wounded Chuck’s usually cold heart. He then sought comfort in the arms of other women, but found himself unable to make love and for the most part, feel anything with and for another woman other than Blair. He tried to deny it, but the embers of his feelings for the only woman he ever loved continue to spark.
Chuck always said that he only needs three things in life—money, sex and his best friend Nate—but now, he finally knew what he would ever need to survive. Blair is the only woman he’ll ever need, ever desire and ever love.
When can we unearth the answer to the biggest Gossip Girl quiz?
After a series of more mind games and trials, Chuck and Blair finally laid down their cards. Chuck told Blair that they have one very unique set up and that the chase is the one thing that makes what they have more special. He added that saying those 3 words, 8 letter (or in our words, I LOVE YOU) is hard for them to utter because neither of them wants to lose in the game they’re playing. What makes saying it more difficult is the fact that they actually love each other. Deep in their hearts, they are afraid that those words might choke them into the usual boyfriend-and-girlfriend box that would obviously not do for them both. In the end, Chuck and Blair decided to take things slow to figure out what they really mean to each other.
Love is sweeter the second time around, but would it be the same for Chuck and Blair? Will we be there to witness how, piece by piece, they’ll mend their broken hearts in each other’s arms? Will we ever get to answer this Gossip Girl quiz? When will they finally cut the chase?
We just have to keep on watching to find out. You know you want to.
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