When it comes to having a side hustle, celebrities are not the first group you would think need the extra cash.?
But when they're not promoting movies or performing in sold out stadiums, some celebrities have turned their passion to other projects.?
From alcohol collections to clothing lines and beauty ranges, here are 20 celebrities who have a lucrative side hustle to fill their time between the glitz and glamour of Hollywood.
N?o one could turn on the TV in the 2000s without being blinded by McDreamy's smile on Grey's Anatomy.
The series helped Patrick Dempsey make a name for himself, afterwards starring in projects like Enchanted, Valentine's Day, Bridget Jones's Baby, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and Ferrari.
But he is willing to "walk away" from his almost four-decade-long acting career for his favourite hobby.?
When he's away from the cameras, the actor enjoys auto racing?, having amassed an impressive sports car and vintage car collection over the years.
He is now an established racer, having competed in the ? 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Rolex 24 at Daytona sports car races, and the Ensenada SCORE Baja 1000 off-road race.
Prior to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2013, he dropped what would be a bombshell to ?his fans.
"I would like to make that [motorsports] a complete priority and just focus on this full-time," he told Eurosport.
"If I could just walk away from acting, I think I could do that very easily, and just focus on the driving, I would love that more than anything else."
One year later he formed his own team, Dempsey Racing, ?and later took a break before returning to racing in May this year with the Porsche Endurance Challenge North America.
Ella Emhoff has been in the spotlight as her stepmother Kamala Harris inches towards the finish line of the 2024 US election.
But many wonder what Emhoff does for a living.
The 25-year-old may be a professional model, but her real passion lies in knitting.
The textile artist began knitting clothes in college, and now her collections sell out in minutes.
Her passions eventually developed into a business hosting a class on teaching people how to knit called Soft Hands Inc.?
Unfortunately, the model had to put the classes on hold in August after her stepmother's bid for the White House amped up.
"To protect myself and other club members, the smartest thing is to hold off until things calm down," she said in a social media announcement.
"It has been amazing working on this and meeting all of you. It has felt so special to build this little community. I'm going to keep working on ways to make it more accessible and keep building it while I'm not properly able to teach."
N?ow she is focusing on displaying her textile art, having exhibited knitwear paintings of Gucci hair barrettes and Sandy Liang Mary Janes during New York Fashion Week debut in 2023 with the exhibit "Ella Emoff Likes to Knit."
She previously told the Times of London about her knitting company: "I love being with people, I love community, I love championing healthy mental health, like coping mechanisms. I think that's what's so special and important about these kind of clubs. I want to try and expand it into other places, like schools and art therapy. Because I know it helped me so much. And I know that's where the longevity in it comes."
Not content with dominating the movie world as an actress, Australia's Margot Robbie also has a very valuable side hustle.
Like many Hollywood types she also has a movie and TV production company. She runs it with British husband Tom Ackerley? and friends Sophia Kerr and Josey McNamara.
It focuses on female-led stories, such as the mega hit Barbie? in which she played the title role. The film grossed $2 billion.
It was also the company behind I, Tonya, Promising Young Woman and the recent provocative hit Saltburn.
In an interview about Lucky Chap with Variety, Robbie said she is more than just an investor in the company.
She's also highly involved in the day-to-day and even asks to be CC'd on every email, particularly when it came to making Barbie.
In the joint chat with husband Ackerley, Robbie said her success was about taking risks.
"We swing for the fences, and sometimes you hit it out of the park and it's amazing," she explained. "But even if you didn't hit it out of the park, you can't not keep taking those big swings.?"
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You might be wondering why you haven't seen Jessica Alba on the big screen for a while.
But after a long spell in the mid-2000s winning fans on the screen, Alba, 41, pivoted away from acting and slowly but surely stopped taking on major roles.
Instead, the actress and mum of three has been busy building and running her own wellness company.
The 42-year-old launched The Honest Company back in 2012, and has had enormous success since.
The company produces and sells over 100 products for personal and pre/postnatal care. ?
?After only a year, Alba's business sold for around $10 million (approx. $14 million) of products.
Alba has made a handful of appearances on the small screen after fading from the spotlight, including starring as Nancy McKenna in the series LA's Finest.
George Clooney isn't just a master of the screen.?
It turns out the Ocean's Eleven star makes a pretty mean tequila.?
Casamigos Tequila was a labour of love for the actor who created the alcohol range with his friends Rande Gerber and Mike Meldman.?
The trio ended up selling their company for almost $1 billion in 2017.?
Move over George Clooney, there's another actor in town with a successful tequila line.?
Former WWE wrestler and action movie star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, 51, can add tequila connoisseur to his resume.?
The Black Adam actor has his own spirits company called Teremana Tequila that has had enormous success since it launched in 2020.?
According to Forbes, the company reached a milestone of $1 million annual sales as of earlier this year.?
Speaking to the magazine, the Rock shared his dreams to "make Teremana a true, global tequila brand" in the future.
It seems Sarah Jessica Parker is Carrie Bradshaw in real life.?
The Sex and the City actress, 58, has her own chic shoes line called SJP by Sarah Jessica Parker.?
The fashionista makes everything from comfortable platform shoes to glitzy stilettos that you can order online or shop at her New York store.?
Parker's line also includes travel accessories, fragrances and stationery with the signature fabulous SJP touch.?
When she's not on the big screen, Kate Hudson is making affordable athletics wear for women and men.
The Golden Globe award winning actress, 44, is the co-founder of the stylish activewear line, Fabletics.
The athleisure line sells everything from comfy leggings to sports bras and even scrub sets.?
Hudson moved to an advisory role for the company in 2022, and seems to be focusing on her second side hustle ¨C a vodka line.?
The screen icon is the founder of King St. Vodka, which according to her website, was inspired by Hudson's time drinking cocktails with friends in her old King Street home in New York City.
Kylie Minogue isn't just Australia's princess of pop ¨C turns out she is also quite the wine connoisseur.?
The Spinning Around singer, 55, has her very own award-winning wine collection with Benchmark Drinks called Wines by Kylie that launched in 2020.
The Prosecco ros¨¦ is a best-seller amongst Kylie fans, described as having a fruity taste with a delicious fizz.
"To be the number one Ros¨¦ brand in the UK and selling over eight million bottles since we launched and are now in over thirty-one countries is an incredible testimony to the amazing producers and winemakers that we are lucky enough to work alongside," Minogue writes on her website. ?
These days, Gwyneth Paltrow, 50, has turned her energy from acting to working on her lifestyle company, Goop.?
The 'wellness' brand has become well-known for selling some rather unique products, including vaginal steaming treatments and 'luxury disposable nappies'.?
Back in June, the Goop CEO filed a trademark application for a rather unusual name for her chocolate and candy line called 'This Tastes Like My Vagina'.
It seems like we're living through a Drew-naissance of late.
Drew Barrymore, 48, has been taking social media by storm with her successful daytime television show.
But the actress also has another lucrative side hustle.
Barrymore is the proud founder of the cruelty-free cosmetic line, FLOWER Beauty.??
The 50 First Dates star created her beauty line in 2012, and has since launched her own kids' d¨¦cor, eyewear and hair tools lines as part of FLOWER.?
Venus Williams is a star on and off the tennis court.?
The champion athlete turned her side passion for interior design into her very own company, V Starr, back in 2002.?
To this day, when she's not dominating on the court, Williams runs her South-Florida based design studio? which specialises in commercial and hospitality design.
The action star is just as much the daredevil in real life.
Keanu Reeves, 58, has long loved motorcycles, reportedly buying one to ride around every time he would have to film on location. ?
The John Wick star turned his passion for motorcycles into his very own line and is the co-founder of Arch Motorcycle Company with Gard Hollinger. ?
While his The Hunger Games character was quite the fashion designer, in real life, Lenny Kravitz, 59, seems to have quite the eye for interior design.?
After his homes appeared in the likes of Vogue and Metropolis, Kravitz launched his own studio called Kravitz Design in 2003.?
The singer even designed Queen Latifah's TV talk show set.
Just like her no-nonsense, career-driven character in The Proposal, Sandra Bullock seems to have a knack for how to manage a business.?
When she's not filming her next Hollywood blockbuster, the actress is busy being a restaurant owner.?
Bullock, 59, owns both Bess Bistro and Walton's Fancy and Staple, located where she lives in Austin, Texas.?
