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Promoted Fanboy

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Promoted Fanboy	comment	Some fans have all the luck. Somehow they've managed to be a part of the very industry, or even the very work, that they're a fan of. This can range anywhere from the minor, such as a Contest Winner Cameo, or to the point where the fan has creative control and is Running the Asylum. Compare Ascended Fanboy (a fan In-Universe), Ascended Fanfic, Fandom VIP (the ones most likely to be promoted), Make-A-Wish Contribution, and Official Fan-Submitted Content. Contrast Hire the Critic. As noted below, many franchises have been around for so long that it's only natural that fans would get to work on them.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_109f7814	comment	The fan-inspired title sequences continued on with the Thirteenth Doctor. Since 2013, "John Smith" had published a number of fan-made Doctor Who and Sherlock edits and VFX shots. In 2017, he got the call from director Rachel Talalay to produce the black hole effect in "World Enough and Time" as well as the William Hartnell-David Bradley transition effect in "Twice Upon a Time". Later on, Chris Chibnall gave him a call to work on the Series 11 title sequence, which is clearly based on one of his previous VFX shots.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_11859033	comment	Jeffrey Wells wrote an extremely long and surprisingly good fanfic for the Narbonic comic. It was so good that author Shaenon Garrity not only featured it as filler during most of Narbonic's run but also wound up working with Jeff to write her later comic Skin Horse. Neither of them are exactly sure how, tho.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_11b7db91	comment	The Adventure Time episode "Root Beer Guy" had a minor background character who was voiced by another Make A Wish benificary.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_1367cea0	comment	Worm has Interlude 19, focusing on a web forum within the story made up of thinly disguised versions of regular posters in the serial's comments section.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_148f217e	comment	Arglefumph, famous for his Nancy Drew walkthroughs, entered a photo contest to have a cameo in the remake of "Secrets Can Kill." The results of said contest? Well, check out this video. Also qualifies as a funny moment.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_14d341dc	comment	90% of the development staff of Star Trek Online are this. Al Rivera, Daniel Stahl, Thomas Marrone and Jeremy Randall being the most prominent (the last two being promoted fanboys of STO proper) and are notable for getting the game released after Perpetual didn't do anything with the license and didn't want to see it die. Also Enterprise-F designer Adam Ihle, who has since gone on to be put along side other ship artists like Andrew Probert, Matt Jeffries and Mark Rademaker.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_158b0cbb	comment	One of Haley Jenkins' favorite shows as a kid was Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. She would eventually land a role in the spin-off Donkey Hodie as the titular character.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_160c1407	comment	He was a longtime Metallica fan long before he got to develop a pinball game based on their music.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_17dbf5ae	comment	Eiji Akaso, who plays RyÅ«ga BanjÅ� and was previously in Season 2 of Kamen Rider Amazons, has said that his favorite Rider is Kuuga and his grandfather once gave him a toy Arcle for his birthday.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_1898a311	comment	Beth Elderkin was also a fan of Doug's, and pitched a clipless review of The Phantom of the Opera (2004) to him, the crossover taking six months to complete.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_1e015a5d	comment	ILM visual effects supervisor Ben Snow remembers reading an article in a special effects magazine about Dennis Muren's work on The Empire Strikes Back, and wanting to work with Muren—he got his wish when the prequels came around.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_1f818da5	comment	Many of the contributors on Channel Awesome started out as fans of The Nostalgia Critic. Almost all of them had been featured as Transmission Awesome's Awesome Blog of the Week before being picked up. Diamanda Hagan, a fan of the website since its inception, even crossed over with The Nostalgia Critic on the movie she wanted him to review the most - Heavy Metal. Beth Elderkin was also a fan of Doug's, and pitched a clipless review of The Phantom of the Opera (2004) to him, the crossover taking six months to complete. Doug Walker himself was a huge fan of Animaniacs growing up, and credits the show as a comedic influence. He has since gone on to create essentially an hour-long documentary/tribute to the show featuring interviews with creator Tom Ruegger and several writers.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_2162a284	comment	Andrew Hussie of MS Paint Adventures wrassled up a sound team consisting of the best composers from the MSPA forum for Homestuck, who compose music for the flash animations. They now have their own indie record label under "What Pumpkin". Later, to widen the variety of art found in flash animations, Hussie gathered an art team to draw various pieces found in animations and sometimes static pages, and they also sell art prints (Ascended Fanart, basically.) of stuff the art team has done. All in all, Hussie's team almost entirely consists of fans with the exception of himself and Lexxie. Also, for each official song that is released a piece of specialized album art accompanies it. Originally all the songs just had the main album artwork, and then there were pictures from the comic itself, but now most of the artwork is drawn by fans.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_21e1640f	comment	JonTron was a fan of Egoraptor's work long before they collaborated on Game Grumps.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_23008d15	comment	From that same production, Josh Castille (Ernst) remarked that he used to watch Andy Mientus on TV (SMASH), and wound up kissing the latter eight shows a week.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_25d97c04	comment	Kingsley Amis was a noted fan of James Bond, writing a number of books on the subject, and finally was asked to write a canon novel for the series. Similarly, Raymond Benson had been fond enough of the series to write unofficial works before approached to write in canon, and eventually contributed six original novels. Notably, Benson ignored much of the earlier continuity.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_27b0262b	comment	Grant Imahara was but a wee child when he first saw R2-D2 on the silver screen. Almost thirty years and one electrical engineering degree later, he became Artoo (or rather its pilot and main technician).
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Promoted Fanboy / int_28286c57	comment	The Rise of Kyoshi: The writer F.C. Yee was a fan of the original Nickelodeon series when it was first shown.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_2a842e3a	comment	Many of the people writing for the Doctor Who Expanded Universe and the revival television series had an involvement with the AudioVisuals fan audios series starring Nicholas Briggs as his version of the Doctor. One of the more prominent AudioVisuals creators, Gary Russell (who had auditioned for the part of Adric), has script edited for the Whoniverse shows and Briggs has voiced the Daleks, Cybermen and sundry other monsters (in both the new series and Big Finish Doctor Who, the latter of which he is also the executive producer of) and appeared in person in Torchwood: Children of Earth.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_2c2a56e3	comment	Leland Chee, a longtime fan, was first the main tester of The Phantom Menace video game. He was hired by Lucas to manage the Holocron, which was THE definitive, top-secret collection of past, present, and future projects. He was also the czar of the EU, with his word being almost equivalent to that of Lucas. He received another promotion after the Continuity Reboot, being tapped for the Story Team now in charge of managing the new continuity. Oh, and he's also the manager of the Indiana Jones continuity.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_2ca653c9	comment	Eve also had another one of those moments on the show. On February 9, 2018; Gina Rodriguez made a guest appearance on The Talk to promote her series Jane the Virgin which the ladies of The Talk made a guest appearance on that night's episode "Chapter Seventy-Four" in which Eve admitted to Rodriguez she is a huge fan of Jane the Virgin and was honored to be in that episode with her fellow co-hosts.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_2ea6ae26	comment	Evan Evagora, who portrays Elnor in Star Trek: Picard, identifies himself as a big Trekkie in this interview, so it was a dream come true for him to share scenes with Patrick Stewart and to be directed by Jonathan Frakes.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_2eab162f	comment	On the topic of Game Grumps and Ninja Sex Party, Ross O'Donovan was one of NSP's very earliest fans and introduced longtime friend Arin Hanson/Egoraptor to their music, who became a fan too. Both of them got to work directly with Dan and Brian at Grumps on Steam Train and other series; they've both featured in many different NSP music videos over the years; and Arin even started another band, Starbomb, together with Brian and Dan.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_2ec27115	comment	William Walter Thompson was another one of these, appearing in the Teen Titans Go! episode "Wally T".
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Promoted Fanboy / int_3381cfbc	comment	With Power Rangers Dino Fury, the only one in the main cast who didn't watch the show as a kid is New Zealander Tessa Rao, due to the show being banned in there for many years, who despite that is also a fan. Both Kai and Chance's kids are also huge fans of the series that their dads have now become part of.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_33fdae4d	comment	Graphic artist and Mad Men fan Dyna Moe illustrated a Christmas card for her friend Rich Sommer, a member of the show's cast. In advance of the third season, AMC hired Dyna to create promotions for the show including a online avatar-generator.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_359b115d	comment	Kamen Rider Zero-One Gai Amatsu/Kamen Rider Thouserâ€™s actor Nachi Sakuragi is a fan of Kamen Rider Kuuga, Kamen Rider Hibiki, Kamen Rider Ghost, and especially Kamen Rider 555, even citing Masato Kusaka from the last of those as one of his inspirations for portraying Gai. Hideaki ItÅ�, who plays S/Kamen Rider Eden in the REALÃ—TIME movie, grew up watching Kamen Rider: Skyrider and Kamen Rider Super-1 in his childhood, and he joined his son in watching Zero-One itself during its broadcast run. He wanted to be a Kamen Rider, so his character was decided to become a Kamen Rider even before the script was finished.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_35e05f2a	comment	"Mojojoj" is a very popular RWBY fan artist, noted for his insanely-fast-yet-very-well-drawn art work. He ended up becoming part of the crew to help out with the spin-off series, RWBY Chibi.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_3a9d9a5c	comment	Tamagotchi has a promoted fangirl; the Japanese fashion model Rola, who was a huge fan of the Tamagotchi craze when it originally started, was given a Tamagotchi character based off of her named Rolatchi to promote the Tamagotchi 4U. Rolatchi also makes several cameos in the fourth installment of the anime series, GO-GO Tamagotchi!.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_3c53ffa8	comment	Borg was a massive fan of Rush - the first concert he ever attended was part of their Moving Pictures tour - long before he became the designer of Rush (2022).
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Promoted Fanboy / int_3cf0c5c5	comment	Imagine Dragons had this threefold when making music for Transformers: Age of Extinction. Not only did they get to contribute to a franchise they loved since childhood, but they also managed to collaborate with two of their favorite composers, Hans Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_3edaaf6d	comment	Shin Kamen Rider (2023) is written and directed by Hideaki Anno as part of the Shin Japan Heroes Universe. Annoâ€™s love of Kamen Rider cannot be understated; he cosplayed Rider 1 not just for conventions, but in the moments leading up to his own wedding. Speaking of which, his wife has mentioned that he uses the average size of a Kamen Rider toy as a unit of measurement for home furniture.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_405243c7	comment	Singer Shawn Mendes was a big fan of The 100, and got a bit part in the Season 3 premiere where he sings a song before being tackled by a drunken Jasper.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_40822817	comment	Jack Waley-Cohen, a team captain on the very first episode of quiz show Only Connect back in 2008, went on to become the show's question editor (which is a more high-profile job on Only Connect than on most quizzes since they're frequently the subject of the host's in-game quips and regularly referred to by name).
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Promoted Fanboy / int_40873128	comment	When the Japanese casting director for Unbroken met with Miyavi, he had little knowledge of the film, its story, or anything about it. When she asked him who his favorite actor was, he immediately answered with Angelina Jolie...having absolutely no idea that she was the director behind the project, or that she was a fan of his and had sought him out personally for the role of Watanabe. He later jokingly said on an episode of Ellen that this was why he got the part.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_4500f5a	comment	Muppets from Space did this for an 11-year-old Make A Wish recipient named Kristina Donnelly. She played a sheep in the opening breakfast scene.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_4522fd1	comment	Most of the current authors for the Whateley Universe started out by writing fanfic for the universe and then being asked to join the 'canon cabal'.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_467773a6	comment	Just about the entire of the cast and the director of Rogue One, really. Possible special mentions to Ben Mendelsohn (who described himself as a "Star Wars Tragic", reminiscing about Star Wars collectable cards back in the 70s and proclaiming he had 2 of the rarest card), Diego Luna (positively giddy as he told interviewers "I still can't believe I'm in a Star Wars film!"), and Felicity Jones (who "dropped everything" in order to join the film). For Luna's appearance on The Star Wars Show, he steals a framed poster from the wall on his way in, and is overjoyed when the interviewer gifts him a stack of Star Wars comics in his native Latin American Spanish.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_49ebb569	comment	Quentin Merabet, who plays Ulrich in Code Lyoko: Evolution, claims to have been a Code Lyoko fan and that his favorite character was Yumi.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_4a059a74	comment	The 501st Legion, a group of Stormtooper and Bounty Hunter cosplayers who make publicity appearances for Star Wars-related events, were hired as extras for some scenes in The Mandalorian since they had professional-quality Stormtrooper costumes readily available and the series' budget was pushing its limit. The group received a "Special Thanks" card, which also displays their logo, during the end credits of the episodes they appeared in.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_5268a4ed	comment	Kamen Rider Build Atsuhiro Inukai, the lead actor of Kamen Rider Build is a sheer Kabuto fan. Sento Kiryu is slightly childish Insufferable Genius to Tendouâ€™s god one. Eiji Akaso, who plays RyÅ«ga BanjÅ� and was previously in Season 2 of Kamen Rider Amazons, has said that his favorite Rider is Kuuga and his grandfather once gave him a toy Arcle for his birthday. Yukari Taki, the actress for Sawa Takigawa, has expressed that her favorite ShÅ�wa and Heisei Riders respectively are Kamen Rider V3 and Kamen Rider Accel, the latter of whom she actually costarred with in his own V-Cinema. Yasuyuki Maekawa, the actor for SÅ�ichi Isurugi/Blood Stalkâ€™s human disguise, stated in a press conference that Skyrider and Stronger were his favorite Rider series growing up. Build's writer, ShÅ�go MutÅ�, became a fan of Kamen Rider while watching it with his son, and aimed to give Build the same Multiple Demographic Appeal he enjoyed from the early Heisei series.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_52837809	comment	Kamen Rider Drive star Ryoma Takeuchi is another name for the list, this time being a fan of Kamen Rider Double and Kamen Rider Accel in specific. In fact, this paid off in the character focus movie Drive Saga: Kamen Rider Chaser: Takeuchi asked the staff if there was any way they could get Accel to cameo; thankfully actor Minehito Kinomoto was game, leading to the two Riders meeting thanks to Jurisdiction Friction and eventually teaming up.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_5293b208	comment	Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Hiroki Iijima and Toshiki Seto, who portray Emu Hoju and Hiiro Kagami respectively, are fans of Kamen Rider Ryuki, to the point that their favorite riders are Shinji Kido/Ryuki and Takeshi Asakura/Ouja respectively. Seto would even costar with Asakura in a V-Cinema release. Paradoâ€™s actor ShÅ�ma Kai is a massive fanboy for Kamen Rider Kuuga, which he made abundantly clear in most of his answers during a post-Ex-Aid cast interview.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_53a73ca0	comment	Most, if not all, of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars voice cast have admitted to be long time Star Wars fans. Where do we even begin: Supervising director Dave Filoni is a big Star Wars fan himself, who even went to see Revenge of the Sith on opening day while cosplaying as Plo Koon. As of 2016, heâ€™s now the head of Lucasfilm Animation. He is also an executive producer and sometimes director and writer of the first live-action Star Wars TV show The Mandalorian. Fan film TROOPS creator Kevin Rubio got to write the season one episode â€œBombad Jediâ€�. Matt Lanter was initially a downplayed example of this, but after voicing Anakin Skywalker, he's now a full-fledged Star Wars fan (and a fan of the character that he tends to voice). James Arnold Taylor is a big fan of Star Wars, and after portraying Obi-Wan Kenobi in many video games and Star Wars: Clone Wars, he finally got to voice him in a major Lucasfilm production. Ashley Eckstein is a huge self-proclaimed geek of Star Wars and got her Star-Making Role as the voice of Ahsoka Tano. Anna Graves grew up with Star Wars and the novelizations, and got the role as the voice of Satine Kryze (along with other characters). Jon Favreau is a fan of Star Wars and particularly Boba Fett. After chatting with Dave Filoni at the Lucasfilm studios during the production of Iron Man, he became the voice of Pre Vizsla. He would go on to create and write the first live action Star Wars TV series, The Mandalorian, and have a supporting role in Solo. Sam Witwer is a massive Star Wars geek who is well known after his role as Starkiller from The Force Unleashed. He got to voice the Son and Darth Maul in this installment. David Tennant also counts, being a fan of both Doctor Who (for which he has a long entry further down) and Star Wars, getting a guest role in the fifth season.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_546f4d9a	comment	Yoshi and Peter Sudarso are huge fans of Power Rangers and the Super Sentai shows, to the point of cosplaying as Rangers and auditioning for parts on the show for several years. Eventually they were both cast on subsequent seasons of the show, Yoshi in Power Rangers Dino Charge and Peter in Power Rangers Ninja Steel. Yoshi's co-star Brennan Mejia is also a fan, and has mentioned attending the fan convention Power Morphicon a couple years before he was cast. Yoshi's even inserted an in-joke for Sentai fans, with his character in one scene humming the theme from Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, upon which his series is based. He also has the approval of Yamato Kinjo, Kyoryu Blue, his counterpart from Kyoryuger. Yoshi visited Japan and finally had the chance to meet not only Yamato, but also Robert Baldwin (Kyoryu Cyan) and Masayuki Deai (Kyoryu Grey). Also as a bonus, he met the 2015 Super Sentai team, Shuriken Sentai Ninninger...because he had a cameo on the 34th episode on the show! Yoshi is the first Power Ranger actor to make an appearance on Super Sentai. (And for bonus points, Ninninger was the season that would later be adapted as Ninja Steel with Peter as part of the cast.) At this point, he's pretty much this trope defined.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_556760c3	comment	Gladiators (2024): CrossFit athlete Zack George was a fan of the original Gladiators shows, and is now "Steel", one of the revival's Gladiators. Not only has George talked about this when interviewed, but the show's commentator mentions it when Steel's first introduced. Matt Morsia (Legend) was a huge fan of the original series and even had a poster of the show's original heel, Wolf, on his bedroom wall. Toby Olubi (Phantom) says that, as a 90s kid, he viewed the original Gladiators as a "version of real life superheroes". Now he's one himself. Ella-Mae Rayner (Comet) was a fan growing up, and says that Jet, one of the original Gladiators, was one of her inspirations. Not only was Jodie Ounsley (Fury) a fan of the original show, but she actually watched her father take part as a contender. She describes becoming a Gladiator herself as "truly surreal". Several of the contestants are fans of previous versions of Gladiators, which the show is keen to acknowledge. The introductions for episode one contenders Myles and Kerry mention that they both grew up watching Gladiators twenty years earlier, but never thought they'd compete in it. Kerry describes the experience as surreal.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_55f94533	comment	Sophist of the Party Crashers is a big fan of Persona, as the original outro music in his videos used to be the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate remix of "I'll Face Myself" from Persona 4. Thus he was very hyped when Atlus asked him to promote Persona 3 Reload in "Mario Party but there's a killer on the loose".
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Promoted Fanboy / int_59e9298	comment	Chuggaaconroy: On Valentine's Day 2015, Nintendo of America tweeted Chuggaaconroy a picture of Kirby giving his trademark smile with the caption "I've absorbed your friendship!". Chuggaaconroy himself cites ProtonJon as having been one of his primary inspirations to get into doing LPs in the first place. Now, not only is he one of the more notable modern LPers in his own right, he and Jon are friends and, alongside NintendoCapriSun, make videos and attend conventions together under the group name The Runaway Guys.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_5a0093	comment	Rod Roddy, the announcer on The Price Is Right from 1986 to 2003, had previously attended a taping of the show in its early years to seek advice from original announcer Johnny Olson on how to find work as a television announcer. The same thing happened with Rod's successor, Rich Fields, who took over in 2004. Rich attended a taping when he was 18, and during a commercial break, he asked Johnny how he could get an announcing job. Drew Carey has spent decades hero-worshipping Bob Barker, and leapt at the chance to succeed him.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_6274caa4	comment	Domee Shi, director of Pixar's Bao and Turning Red, started on her journey of a career in animation by watching Aladdin so many times that she wore out the VHS tape.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_6a42af90	comment	Yoshi visited Japan and finally had the chance to meet not only Yamato, but also Robert Baldwin (Kyoryu Cyan) and Masayuki Deai (Kyoryu Grey). Also as a bonus, he met the 2015 Super Sentai team, Shuriken Sentai Ninninger...because he had a cameo on the 34th episode on the show! Yoshi is the first Power Ranger actor to make an appearance on Super Sentai. (And for bonus points, Ninninger was the season that would later be adapted as Ninja Steel with Peter as part of the cast.) At this point, he's pretty much this trope defined.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_6bfd32ef	comment	Strippin initially got to know Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane through community games, and eventually applied to do volunteer work for the site. Later, a paid position opened and he applied for the job, getting it because Lewis was pleased with his prior work. Eventually, he appeared on the Christmas livestreams with Martyn and Sparkles*, asking at that point if he could try making his own channel, getting the go-ahead. The rest is history.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_71a2d83d	comment	Danielle Campbell was a huge fan of The Vampire Diaries before being cast on The Originals.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_735a44a9	comment	Yoshi's even inserted an in-joke for Sentai fans, with his character in one scene humming the theme from Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, upon which his series is based. He also has the approval of Yamato Kinjo, Kyoryu Blue, his counterpart from Kyoryuger.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_7466d203	comment	Andy Mientus was known for being the creator and maintainer of the first Spring Awakening group on Facebook, which had been granted official status. Several years later he was cast in the touring production of the show as Hanschen. He then went on to co-direct (with his husband, Michael Arden) the first production of what would become the Spring Awakening Broadway revival. When the original Hanschen for that production, Joey Haro, left, Mientus became a Descended Creator note he pitched the idea of Spring done with English and American Sign Language to Arden and stepped back into the role of Hanschen for the rest of the productions of Deaf West's Spring Awakening, from Los Angeles to Broadway. From that same production, Josh Castille (Ernst) remarked that he used to watch Andy Mientus on TV (SMASH), and wound up kissing the latter eight shows a week.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_77e84827	comment	Inverted with Nao Nagasawa (Nanami/Hurricane Blue in Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger), who became a devoted fan of the Super Sentai franchise while playing the role.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_7ab10627	comment	Star Trek: The Motion Picture has a scene where a lot of fans were used as extras. The unions really complained about this one. Many of the fan extras in that scene never bothered to cash their paychecks, instead keeping them as souvenirs.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_8d98042f	comment	Game Grumps: Ashley "Starexorcist" Swaby went from a fanartist of the show to a concept artist on Ross O'Donovan's upcoming series Gameoverse. Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard was a fan of the series for years before eventually making several appearances on the channel, as well as an appearance in a Ninja Sex Party music video. Dan and Arin are also fans of Stranger Things, so it's a win-win situation.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_8e0312e6	comment	RuPaul's Drag Race: Season 8 winner Bob the Drag Queen was inspired to do drag from watching the show. It premiered in 2009, and the later seasons have seen contestants who've been watching since they were children. There is something of a generation gap among the contestants, between the older queens who started their careers in the 80's, 90's, and 2000's when drag was still an underground niche, and the younger queens who grew up with the show and were able to use it as a "cheat sheet".
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Promoted Fanboy / int_8eab5c5	comment	Atsuhiro Inukai, the lead actor of Kamen Rider Build is a sheer Kabuto fan. Sento Kiryu is slightly childish Insufferable Genius to Tendouâ€™s god one.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_90a3a7f4	comment	A girl named Katelin who was a fan of Kim Possible appeared in the episode "Clean Slate", in which she asked the title character for an autograph.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_90e2f673	comment	Most of the development staff of BattleTech nowadays are these, having grown up playing the game in the '90s. Even the artist in charge of the recent visual revamp of the game's original 1980's 'Mechs came in as "king of the fan artists."
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Promoted Fanboy / int_938e19ec	comment	John Tartaglia idolized Jim Henson growing up and was an especially big fan of Fraggle Rock as well as Sesame. He joined the cast of Sesame in his teens, then took over the role of Gobo Fraggle in 2013, a year after the death of the original performer, Jerry Nelson. In the 2020s, he's now the performer of Sprocket and Architect Doozer as well as Gobo and an executive producer on the reboots.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_945c8683	comment	In the 2008 American Gladiators, promotion to Gladiator in the second season was one of the grand prizes.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_99041728	comment	Matt Tieger, the director of the Transformers: War for Cybertron series, is a big Transformers fan, in particular of the Dinobot Grimlock. So strong is his admiration for the character that he convinced Hasbro to not scrap the Grimlock so he could include him in the upcoming Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_9b3d9b5b	comment	After making TROOPS, Kevin Rubio went on to write Star Wars comics and work on episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_9d3a804e	comment	Legacies: Most of the younger cast, but in particular Kaylee Bryant. Bryant once revealed that she became a huge fan when she binged the first five seasons of The Vampire Diaries when she was fifteen and from there went on to watch the rest of the series and the other series in The Vampire Diaries Universe, The Originals. She also described joining the cast of this show and being able to walk onto the set of the old Salvator Mansion as a dream come true and is not afraid to fangirl about the franchise in interviews.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_9ddfd6cb	comment	On the video game music podcast Nitro Game Injection, Suraida, the newest co-host, was originally a dedicated listener. She ended up being invited onto the show for episode #142 to fill in for one of the other hosts, returning for a few more episodes before popular demand from fans led her to becoming a semi-regular co-host.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_9f3ed456	comment	Nebula artist Toc made several pieces of fanart for the comic before becoming one of its official creators.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_a2294028	comment	Inverted with Kohji Moritsugu, the actor of Dan Moroboshi/Ultraseven. He once described being on Ultraseven as having "changed his life", and it shows. His restaurant in Kanagawa is loaded with Ultra Series memorabilia, including suits and props from the shows, and he was even the president of the Ultraseven Fan Club for a while. Yes, you read that correctly - Ultraseven is his own number one fan!
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Promoted Fanboy / int_a6102a00	comment	On What Would You Do?, during the part in each segment where John QuiÃ±ones comes out to reveal that the scenario is staged, the participants will often get excited and comment that they've watched the show.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_a6443254	comment	Rich Koz, the current Svengoolie, who applied for a writing position and became the show's star in both revivals when the original Svengoolie, Jerry G. Bishop, decided he didn't want the job back and gave Koz his blessing.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_a80b5d61	comment	One fan of Enjuhneer cosplayed one of the characters at an anime convention, ran into the creator of the comic, and was put into the comic for being the first cosplayer that the creator had heard of.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_a825da3e	comment	A good number of folks now working in R&D of Magic: The Gathering come from the ranks of former players, up to and including the head of R&D, Mark Rosewater. And several more entered the ranks through a semi-reality series called The Great Designer Search, which pulled its contestants from the ranks of players and fans of the game.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_a9cb14fc	comment	The 3rd Edition version of D&D's Ravenloft setting, produced by Arthaus under license from WotC, was crafted almost entirely by fans. Arthaus recruited them from the "Kargatane", a web-based group of fanzine writers. (TSR's original Ravenloft design team took its name from an in-game secret police force, the Kargat, and the Kargatane are their brainwashed mook underlings, so....)
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Promoted Fanboy / int_a9dd3bce	comment	One Piece (2023): Executive producers Marty Adelstein, Steve Maeda and Matt Owens, along with actors Emily Rudd (Nami) and Mackenyu (Zoro) as well as cinematographer Nicole Hirsch Whitaker are longtime fans of One Piece. Rudd and Mackenyu even stated that they were portraying their favorite characters from the series, which was a dream come true for them.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_ad0ac581	comment	Zodiac Starforce, artist Paulina Ganucheau is a huge fan of the magical girl genre, especially Sailor Moon. Just check out her Twitter feed...
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Promoted Fanboy / int_b0e1bc07	comment	Co-host Julie Chen (who also hosts Big Brother) has some few notable Big Brother fans that currently (and have) sit at the table with her; Eve (which Sheryl Underwood revealed during the show) and Sara Gilbert (who admitted it walking into the Big Brother house when The Talk got to play ''Big Brother'' for the day). Former "Mother On the Street" Marissa Jaret Winokur is a huge Big Brother fan (who still communicates regularly with Chen about Big Brother) and is currently participating in the first Celebrity Big Brother in the US.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_b1e6eef4	comment	Junya Ikeda, who portrays Gai Ikari/GokaiSilver in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, is a lifelong Super Sentai fan... just like his character. For bonus promotion points, he mentionned that in kindergarten, he wanted to be KibaRanger from Gosei Sentai Dairanger —- Gokaiger's Power Copying aspect allows for that. Inverted with Nao Nagasawa (Nanami/Hurricane Blue in Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger), who became a devoted fan of the Super Sentai franchise while playing the role.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_b226ea10	comment	Mandel Ilagan was the founder of the newsgroup alt.tv.game-shows and a contestant on the 1998 revival of Match Game. By 2000, he'd become a writer for Greed, and later worked as a producer for Fremantle Media (while there, he created one of Price's pricing games) and then Fox Reality Channel.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_b2fba3e0	comment	The Ultra Series is such a long-runner that many of the live actors and voice actors from the series' later installments were fans and avid viewers of previous installments when they were kids and often have a favorite Ultra hero or monster. Tatsuomi Hamada is a great example. Beginning with his first appearance as Tagalong Kid Nao in Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial, he has made it clear that starring in the Ultra series is a dream come true for him. And then that was taken a step further when he was cast as Riku Asakura/Ultraman Geed, having once said that the role is a fulfillment of his childhood dream of becoming an Ultraman. Megumi Han (who voiced Pega the Pegassa in Geed) is another good example. She's a huge fan of Ultraman and Ultraman Tiga, and hen she was announced as one of the cast for the Ultraman manga's motion comic, she got to meet Tiga in person and was moved to Tears of Joy. Role Reprises are not uncommon in the franchise, so many of the ascended fanboys get a chance to meet the actors behind the heroes they watched as kids. Shunji Igarashi (Mirai Hibino/Ultraman Mebius) was quite excited to get to work with Hiroshi Nagano (Daigo Madoka/Ultraman Tiga) on Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers, while Tatsuya Negishi (Hikaru Raido/Ultraman Ginga) had similar feelings when meeting Taiyo Sugiura (Musashi Haruno/Ultraman Cosmos) on set for the Ginga S movie. As for the writers, Chiaki Konaka and his younger brother Kazuya Konaka are fans of Ultra Series and watched the earlier entries in their younger days so they became a writer and a director for different Ultra Series shows, including Ultraman Gaia where they worked together. Inverted with Kohji Moritsugu, the actor of Dan Moroboshi/Ultraseven. He once described being on Ultraseven as having "changed his life", and it shows. His restaurant in Kanagawa is loaded with Ultra Series memorabilia, including suits and props from the shows, and he was even the president of the Ultraseven Fan Club for a while. Yes, you read that correctly - Ultraseven is his own number one fan!
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Promoted Fanboy / int_b310c8f4	comment	Many of the members of the child cast of Barney & Friends had watched the show when they were growing up. Most notably, Pia Hamilton (Min), who had been a fan of the Barney and the Backyard Gang videos the series adapted, appeared in the show's first few seasons.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_b31b332f	comment	Josh Nizzi produced a movie-inspired design for the Constructicon Dump Truck Long Haul. He was not only brought on to Hasbro, but Long Haul was the first new design for the Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen toyline and he went on to design several more for the movie.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_b41cd8a7	comment	Matt Sloan, the voice of Chad Vader on the YouTube series by the same name, was eventually noticed for his uncanny impression of Darth Vader and eventually landed a role as Darth Vader himself in various video game spinoffs of the Star Wars franchise, specifically The Force Unleashed, the Empire at War expansion, Vader's Guest Fighter appearance in SoulCalibur IV, and Star Wars Battlefront (2015), along with portraying Vader as the Banker (albeit staying visible) in a Deal or No Deal special.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_b7903143	comment	Corey Taylor of the band Slipknot was a fan of the series, and when the production team learnt the band was touring Cardiff in 2015, they invited Taylor to not only visit the set, but to voice the Fisher King's roar in the episode "Before the Flood".
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Promoted Fanboy / int_b7db5642	comment	Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard was a fan of the series for years before eventually making several appearances on the channel, as well as an appearance in a Ninja Sex Party music video. Dan and Arin are also fans of Stranger Things, so it's a win-win situation.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_b7f8a84e	comment	In a documentary on Matt Lucas, he mentioned how he had been a lifelong fan of musicals and of Les MisÃ©rables in particular, and had always wanted to have a part. He was cast as Thenardier for the 25th anniversary concert.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_b8d48026	comment	Hermitcraft: The Hermitcraft Recap, "a show by fans for fans", is a resource used by both the fanbase and occasionally the Hermits themselves to keep up with the happenings of the server, since there are too many Hermits and too many different points of view for any one person to reasonably be able to keep up with. As a result, narrator Pixlriffs is a Fandom VIP with a channel that have come to rival some of the Hermits in terms of size; later, not only has Pix gotten the chance to collaborate with some of the Hermits and other big YouTubers on the Empires SMP, but the Empires Season 2 crossover with Hermitcraft Season 9 has led to Pix being whitelisted onto the Hermitcraft server itself as a guest.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_b8e28f2e	comment	Good Omens (2019): Michael Sheen has been a fan of the book since it was originally released, and has indicated that he's familiar with the fanfiction written about it. Jon Hamm is also a fan of the book and eagerly accepted the expanded role of Archangel Gabriel. Nina Sosanya's agent was apparently reluctant to tell her she'd been approached for the role of Sister Mary Loquacious, assuming that Sosanya wouldn't want to accept the role of a Satanist nun. Turns out Sosanya was a fan of the book, knew exactly who the character was and didn't mind at all.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_b96adef8	comment	Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman saw Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood as a Special Guest in the episode "Deal with the Devil", playing the role of "Reverend Thomas". The part was created for him when producers heard Rogers (who famously had a low opinion of TV in general) say that Dr. Quinn was one of the few shows he enjoyed watching. It was Rogers' first and only on-screen appearance as a fictional character.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_ba4a4543	comment	CrossFit athlete Zack George was a fan of the original Gladiators shows, and is now "Steel", one of the revival's Gladiators. Not only has George talked about this when interviewed, but the show's commentator mentions it when Steel's first introduced.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_bc8b07	comment	Scru Face Jean had been doing Epic Rap Battles of History reactions for two years before he appeared in Mansa Musa vs Jeff Bezos. As you can see in his reaction to that video, he was pretty excited about the opportunity.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_bddc4ebe	comment	While there have been some fans in earlier seasons (such as Kevin Duhaney who played Ethan James in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder) in general, from Power Rangers Samurai onwards at least one if not more of the Ranger actors were a fan of the show as kids and are now old enough to be a part of it.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_c0869433	comment	From the Yogscast: InTheLittleWood is supposedly this to the Yogscast after being noticed for his musical parody creation skills. Strippin initially got to know Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane through community games, and eventually applied to do volunteer work for the site. Later, a paid position opened and he applied for the job, getting it because Lewis was pleased with his prior work. Eventually, he appeared on the Christmas livestreams with Martyn and Sparkles*, asking at that point if he could try making his own channel, getting the go-ahead. The rest is history. William Strife was supposedly a Yognaut before he joined.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_c137e301	comment	Power Rangers Wild Force writer Amit Bhaumik was a long-time fan of the franchise before he got hired. During the season he gave various shoutouts to his fellow fans (mainly via naming places after them). However, he ended up causing a Broken Base when he attempted to insert elements from his fan-fiction as canon. While there have been some fans in earlier seasons (such as Kevin Duhaney who played Ethan James in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder) in general, from Power Rangers Samurai onwards at least one if not more of the Ranger actors were a fan of the show as kids and are now old enough to be a part of it. Power Rangers RPM actor Eka Darville (who played Red Ranger Scott) was a fan of Power Rangers as a child. Yoshi and Peter Sudarso are huge fans of Power Rangers and the Super Sentai shows, to the point of cosplaying as Rangers and auditioning for parts on the show for several years. Eventually they were both cast on subsequent seasons of the show, Yoshi in Power Rangers Dino Charge and Peter in Power Rangers Ninja Steel. Yoshi's co-star Brennan Mejia is also a fan, and has mentioned attending the fan convention Power Morphicon a couple years before he was cast. Yoshi's even inserted an in-joke for Sentai fans, with his character in one scene humming the theme from Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, upon which his series is based. He also has the approval of Yamato Kinjo, Kyoryu Blue, his counterpart from Kyoryuger. Yoshi visited Japan and finally had the chance to meet not only Yamato, but also Robert Baldwin (Kyoryu Cyan) and Masayuki Deai (Kyoryu Grey). Also as a bonus, he met the 2015 Super Sentai team, Shuriken Sentai Ninninger...because he had a cameo on the 34th episode on the show! Yoshi is the first Power Ranger actor to make an appearance on Super Sentai. (And for bonus points, Ninninger was the season that would later be adapted as Ninja Steel with Peter as part of the cast.) At this point, he's pretty much this trope defined. With Power Rangers Dino Fury, the only one in the main cast who didn't watch the show as a kid is New Zealander Tessa Rao, due to the show being banned in there for many years, who despite that is also a fan. Both Kai and Chance's kids are also huge fans of the series that their dads have now become part of.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_c13fe608	comment	William Strife was supposedly a Yognaut before he joined.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_c211d8bf	comment	Star Trek Beyond had cases in both director Justin Lin, who stated he grew up watching reruns of The Original Series, and Rihanna, who contributed a song to movie.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_c24a2f2b	comment	SMPLive: Yahiamice, though it didn't work out for him very well. He says that he felt the others didn't like him very much due to his enthusiasm, and was later banned for making a trap in the End.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_ca06ddb6	comment	The Talk has an example of this which is very rare for a talk show. Rapper Eve who was one of the many ladies auditioning on air to be Aisha Tyler's replacement got the job. She admitted it to her hometown's CBS news station that she is a fan of the show. Another big fan of the show that did audition... Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child who notably disclosed her battle with depression on the show which made her suicidal during her time with Destiny's Child. Permanent co-host Sheryl Underwood gave Williams advice on dealing with depression since her husband committed suicide from it. Underwood and the permanent co-hosts of The Talk gave Williams full support sharing her battle with depression and wanting to normalize mental health as a discussion. Although Williams did not get the job, she replied to many fans on social media supporting her desire to be a permanent co-host on the show. Williams was extremely grateful to have been given to the opportunity to audition for one of her favorite shows. Eve also had another one of those moments on the show. On February 9, 2018; Gina Rodriguez made a guest appearance on The Talk to promote her series Jane the Virgin which the ladies of The Talk made a guest appearance on that night's episode "Chapter Seventy-Four" in which Eve admitted to Rodriguez she is a huge fan of Jane the Virgin and was honored to be in that episode with her fellow co-hosts. Co-host Julie Chen (who also hosts Big Brother) has some few notable Big Brother fans that currently (and have) sit at the table with her; Eve (which Sheryl Underwood revealed during the show) and Sara Gilbert (who admitted it walking into the Big Brother house when The Talk got to play ''Big Brother'' for the day). Former "Mother On the Street" Marissa Jaret Winokur is a huge Big Brother fan (who still communicates regularly with Chen about Big Brother) and is currently participating in the first Celebrity Big Brother in the US.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_cf69b21e	comment	Random sector locations in Beast Wars were named after fans from the forums.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_cffa1bda	comment	A sixteen-year-old Richard Wagner attended a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio in April 1829 starring the actress and singer Wilhelmine SchrÃ¶der-Devrient (1804-1860). He was so impressed that he sent a note to her afterwards saying that because of her he would now devote his life to creating opera. As it turned out, SchrÃ¶der-Devrient would play leading parts in the first performances of Rienzi (1842), The Flying Dutchman (1843) and TannhÃ¤user (1845). In the latter two cases Wagner got to conduct her himself.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_d11e211f	comment	Kamen Rider Gaim: Gaku Sano, the lead actor, has stated that he was a huge fan of Kamen Rider Kuuga growing up, and that he hopes to inspire children just as Joe Odagiri did before him. Yutaka Kobayashi, the actor of the rival Baron, was a fan of Kamen Rider Ryuki growing up. Fitting as Gaim is tonally similar to Ryuki. Mahiro Takasugi, Mitsuzane/Kamen Rider Ryugenâ€™s actor, is also a fan of Kamen Rider Ryuki with a particular fondness for Kamen Rider Knight. And to cap it all off, series writer Gen Urobuchi has admitted to drawing influence from Kamen Rider BLACK and, you guessed it, Kamen Rider Ryuki. Seems a fondness for Ryuki is a common trait in the cast and crew of Kamen Rider Gaim.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_d120122a	comment	Keisuke Kato was also this; he is a big Kamen Rider fan and landed the role of Kamen Rider IXA in Kamen Rider Kiva as Keisuke Nago.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_d3285da0	comment	Tom Chambers, known mostly as Sam Strachan from Holby City, has a history in musical theatre and his adoration of Fred Astaire's drum dance number in A Damsel In Distress led him to record his version of the number and send it out to various casting directors (which landed him his Holby City role). In 2011, he got the lead in the stage adaptation of Top Hat, aka. Fred Astaire's character.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_d556752c	comment	Paolo emailed Harvey Morenstein asking for advice on how to do his own epic meal. The cast and crew of Epic Meal Time road-tripped to his location and cooked with him.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_d56cafaf	comment	Power Rangers RPM actor Eka Darville (who played Red Ranger Scott) was a fan of Power Rangers as a child.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_d68df17d	comment	Richard Hammond was a devoted follower of the original Top Gear when he went to audition for the revival with Jeremy Clarkson. He claims that he finished the audition thinking what a great job it would be and fiercely envying whatever lucky sod finally got it (he did).
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Promoted Fanboy / int_d6b6971d	comment	Survivor and Big Brother respectively have many examples of this since super fans have been cast in many seasons.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_d78fe402	comment	Aurora Nikolaeva made a complete Age of Aquarius career from a fan to a leading developer.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_d796465d	comment	Nick Roche and James Roberts are a pair of UK Transformers fans who became co-writers (with Roche also doing art) for IDW's Transformers comics. Their first collaboration, The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers, was very well received, especially since they have much more fan-friendly asylum-running tendencies than McCarthy. And Roberts' current work Transformers: More than Meets the Eye has also been garnering a lot of positive buzz both in and outside the fandom.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_da92c130	comment	When the original artist for Erfworld, Jamie Noguchi, left after the end of Book 1, then fan Xin Ye was hired as the new artist after she sent in fanart◊ for one of the intermission updates.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_db47f8fc	comment	David Willis, author of the Walkyverse webcomics, is another fan. He has been hired by Hasbro to produce convention art. He also got to create Shattered Glass Ravage, who has become a canon character. He's also become something of a Fandom VIP in general what with being one of the lead administrators for the Transformers wiki.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_dbf18509	comment	Quite a few Jeopardy!, question writers were fans of the show; at least one, Rocky Schmidt, was even a contestant! Also applies to the numerous guest hosts who appeared following Alex Trebek's passing; many of whom mentioned their love of the show in interviews. They eventually settled on two hosts; one of whom, Ken Jennings, was a legendary contestant who won 74 games in 2004.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_e0f3d2b6	comment	Jon Bailey (a.k.a. the Honest Trailers voice) is a lifelong Transformers fan. In fact, it was Peter Cullenâ€™s work in the original cartoon that inspired him to pursue a carreer as a voice actor. In 2016, he finally got the chance of working for Hasbro, and voiced none other than Optimus Prime himself in the Combiner Wars web series.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_e28573ba	comment	For the first Electric Wonderland comic, Peter Paltridge enlisted a fan of some of his older series, Jesse Barboza, to provide drawings. One of Jesse's solo webcomics, Forever 16, also became a regular feature in Peter's periodical, BANG! Magazine.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_e293455a	comment	She also claims to have been a huge fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer before joining the cast as Dawn Summers, and was even quoted gushing to Joss Whedon: "There was never a Buffy episode that sucked. I love you!" Joss's response: "So, next season, more Michelle, less Nick..."
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Promoted Fanboy / int_e356186a	comment	Xuan Lu was a fan of the novel Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi before she was cast as Jiang Yanli in its adaptation The Untamed.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_e83633d8	comment	As a kid, John Kassir read and collected Tales from the Crypt comics, which became one of his all-time favorites. Years later after becoming a professional actor, Kassir was called in to audition for and then cast to voice the Crypt Keeper himself in the Tales from the Crypt TV series.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_ebf8d85e	comment	Yukari Taki, the actress for Sawa Takigawa, has expressed that her favorite ShÅ�wa and Heisei Riders respectively are Kamen Rider V3 and Kamen Rider Accel, the latter of whom she actually costarred with in his own V-Cinema.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_ec6b71cf	comment	Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello is a Star Trek fan, and made a cameo appearance in the sixth season episode "Good Shepherd". He previously appeared in a cameo in Star Trek: Insurrection. Producer Rick Berman knew about Morello as his children were fans of the band.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_ee6c1abc	comment	The Strong Bad Email "parenting" has a skit at the end where Homestar Runner does background voices for Alex Hirsch. Alex had been a fan of Homestar Runner for many years, and the Brothers Chaps had worked with him in the past on Gravity Falls, so this was a natural fit.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_eef69f10	comment	A fair number of Sherlock Holmes fans have gone on to write canonical (or as close to as is possible when the guy who owns the fandom is dead) material that have been published, performed on TV or radio or had some other decent stamp of approval. Working out who was a fan and wasn't is tough since there's a LOT of latter day writers. However, at the very least Stephen King and the above mentioned Isaac Asimov have written published Holmes stories and were fans.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_ef076a36	comment	King Abdullah II of Jordan is a giant Star Trek nerd. In 1996, when he was still Crown Prince, he appeared in a non-speaking role on Star Trek: Voyager.note Abdullah isn't a SAG-AFRA member, therefore he wasn't allowed to be given a speaking role.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_ef48be8b	comment	Miranda Ram-Nolte got to appear in two films in 2011 - Barbie: Princess Charm School and Twinkle Toes (both times as characters named Miranda who resemble her and don't do much except hang around and comment on the action) before dying at the age of 19.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_f02c231a	comment	Hideaki ItÅ�, who plays S/Kamen Rider Eden in the REALÃ—TIME movie, grew up watching Kamen Rider: Skyrider and Kamen Rider Super-1 in his childhood, and he joined his son in watching Zero-One itself during its broadcast run. He wanted to be a Kamen Rider, so his character was decided to become a Kamen Rider even before the script was finished.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_f3b581b6	comment	CaptainSparklez was a huge fan of SeaNanners when the former was doing his old channel. With the latter's help, he ended up becoming one of the more popular channels on YouTube and now plays games with the latter quite regularly, also knowing him in real life.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_f3d3a91c	comment	She-Hulk: Attorney at Law has cases in both showrunner Jessica Gao, who once her pitch for Black Widow (2021) was called out as a Backdoor Pilot for She-Hulk asked Marvel to call her whenever they wanted to do the character, and actor Rhys Coiro, who had all the original comics in his parents' home, providing much research material for himself and director wife Kat.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_f61ea51b	comment	Interview with the Vampire (2022): Sam Reid has been a fan of The Vampire Chronicles since he was 13 years old, and jumped at the chance to play Lestat de Lioncourt when he heard the show was in development. Ben Daniels, who was cast as Santiago, is also a fan of the novels.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_f8eb8c4a	comment	Grandmasterof Demonic Cultivation Mo Dao Zu Shi Some of the people involved in the fanmade song "Same Path, Different Routes" eventually worked in the audio drama. Three of the singers ended up singing official songs for the franchise. Aki Ajie (Wen Qing's singing voice) and Wu En (Lan Wangji's singing voice) performing the first and second ending songs of the audio drama, respectively; and HITA (Jiang Yanli's singing voice) eventually sang the vocalized version of "Xianyun", the donghua's rendition of "Wang Xian". There are the voice actors who lent their lines in the fansong but are cast as completely different characters in the audio drama. Kuo Haojun (Wen Qing) voices Meng Shi, and Xu Jing (child Wei Wuxian's voice actor) voices minor character Bicao.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_fb173de	comment	Derrick Davis was only 11 when his parents took him to see The Phantom of the Opera after much begging on his part. He wrote a letter to then-star Davis Gaines and received an autographed picture-â€”which he carried with him while on tour as the third African-American to play the Phantom. Similarly, Emilie Kouatchou first saw the show during a school field trip. In October 2021, she became the first black actress to play the role of Christine in the Broadway production, first as alternate, then as the main one as of January 2022 until the show closed in April 2023. Actor John Riddle first saw the Toronto production of the show as a boy while visiting family and declared to his father "I'm going to do this someday". He too would eventually join the Broadway cast, being the final actor to play Raoul.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_fb1cad31	comment	Chuggaaconroy himself cites ProtonJon as having been one of his primary inspirations to get into doing LPs in the first place. Now, not only is he one of the more notable modern LPers in his own right, he and Jon are friends and, alongside NintendoCapriSun, make videos and attend conventions together under the group name The Runaway Guys.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_fb7a5dcb	comment	Ryan Weiber, one of the creators of the popular Star Wars fan film Ryan vs. Dorkman. After working for LucasArts for a time, he did special effects for The Force Awakens and Rogue One. Dorkman, real name Michael Scott, is also a budding filmmaker.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_fb9c177d	comment	Joseph Kyde grew up a giant fan of Transformers through adulthood, and ended up on the Hasbro Design Team for the franchise.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_fcf43f47	comment	The Fighting Fantasy series, being a long-running franchise since the 80s, have several issues written by fans of the series, including Space Assassin by Andrew Chapman (who enjoyed The Warlock of Firetop Mountain as a teen), Battleblade Warrior by Marc Gascoigne (long-time fantasy fanboy who wrote two novels and several supplementary materials for the franchise as well) and Crystal of Storms by Rhianna Pratchett (fangirl ever since she's 9).
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Promoted Fanboy / int_fd314ec1	comment	Kamen Rider Decade got several at once. Masahiro Inoue, the lead actor is a long-time Kamen Rider fan, especially Black and Black RX (Hell, heâ€™s even part of the franchiseâ€™s Periphery Demographic both before and after Decade). When Decade's journey took him to Black RXâ€™s World, Inoue made a blog post in which he effectively geeked out over the entire situation. After his season and directly associated movies have concluded, he didn't let it stop him, proceeding to poke into any big crossover movie he could find the time for, culminating in even joining the next anniversary show Kamen Rider Zi-O as a permanent cast member. Inoue's co-star Ryouta Murai got this quite literally. As a child he was a huge fan of Kamen Rider Kuuga; jump ahead nine years, and he gets to be Kuuga (well, an Alternate Universe incarnation of the character) in Decade. Pop musician GACKT is another promoted long-term fan, by giving him the role of Badass Normal Joji Yuki, AKA Riderman in All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker; he even appears in-character in the music video for the filmâ€™s theme song, â€œThe Next Decadeâ€�.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_fd6407b	comment	Simon Pegg is a big fan of the Strontium Dog comics, and got to voice Johnny in the CD adaptations.
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Promoted Fanboy / int_fdc66d32	comment	Renn Kiriyama, who plays Shotaro in Kamen Rider Double, is like his predecessors a huge Kamen Rider fan. Specifically, he's a fan of Black, which might explain why Kamen Rider Joker, his character's solo Rider form, performs poses and finishing moves just like Black. He's also stated that Kamen Rider Ryuki was his favorite Heisei Rider series growing up, and that he was particularly fond of Kamen Rider Ouja. Unfortunately, Masaki Suda, who plays Shotaroâ€™s Heterosexual Life-Partner Philip, has of late become too high profile and busy to reprise his role, which leads to awkwardness in more recent crossovers when Kiriyama reprises his role but no mention is made of Philip.
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