From Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s octopus show to Macaulay Culkin’s pizza band: stars’ wildest career U-turns
07-05-2025 14:19 via theguardian.com

From Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s octopus show to Macaulay Culkin’s pizza band: stars’ wildest career U-turns

The Fleabag creator’s new TV series sees her reinvent herself as an ocean documentarian. But she’s far from the first celebrity to strike out in a radical new directionFor some years now, putting “Phoebe Waller-Bridge” and “Amazon” together in a sentence would only provoke feelings of sadness and disappointment. After all, in 2019 Waller-Bridge signed (and re-signed, and re-signed again) a $20m-a-year deal to develop shows for the platform, without a single pr
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