Benji Madden's Role Model: Raven-Symon

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Raven-Symoné -

Although she appeared on The Cosby Show, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, and a couple of movies throughout the 1990s, most people remember Raven-Symoné for her starring role in the Disney Channel classic That’s So Raven. While the show was mainly marketed towards young girls, boys were coaxed into watching it by Raven Baxter’s wit and sassy attitude, as well as her glamorous clothes and makeup, which set her aside from most other teen stars of the time. Raven-Symoné was so perfect in the role that character of Raven Baxter even became the first “girl crush” of many female viewers.

A decade on from the final season of That’s So Raven, Raven-Symoné has changed quite a bit, owing, in no small part, to her role on The View. After becoming
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In many ways, he was the anti-heartthrob, the celebrity outcast girls drifted towards while their more popular counterparts were swooning over the likes of Justin Timberlake and Zac Efron.

More than a decade on from Good Charlotte’s greatest success, Benji Madden is almost unrecognizable. No longer the fresh-faced young man who sang about the blasted rich and famous, Madden looks more like a trucker who has perpetually just finished a cross-country delivery. With his star faded in the United States, his sagging face can be seen almost exclusively on The Voice Australia. Despite his questionable looks, Madden has been married to actress and model Cameron Diaz since 2015. Good for him!

Ron Howard -

Ron Howard is the rarest of beasts: a child actor who grew up to have a successful career in show business without any problems with drugs or alcohol. In the early 1960s, Howard began appearing as Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show and quickly stole the hearts of all the little girls around the world (your mother included). In 1974, he landed the role of Richie Cunningham on the iconic sitcom Happy Days, leading to those little girls, now grown up, falling in love with him all over

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