Meryl Streep
Before Hollywood cheered Meryl Streep on to the tune of three Academy Awards, the actress was actually cheering on her high school football team at Bernards High School in Bernardsville, New Jersey in the 1967.
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Alicia Silverstone
Though her “Clueless” character, Cher Horowitz, never picked up a pom-pom in the 1995 film (maybe if the uniforms were yellow plaid), Alicia Silverstone was more than happy to bring the spirit. She was a cheerleader for San Mateo High School in San Mateo, California in 1991.
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Cameron Diaz
Along with being classmates with Snoop Dogg (which should be brag-worthy enough), Cameron Diaz was also a cheerleader for Long Beach Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, California, where she attended in the late 1980s. (Fun fact: Snoop remembered Diaz as one of his “cheerleading homegirls” from high school.)
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Madonna
Before becoming a mega pop sensation, Madonna was a straight-A student and head cheerleader at Rochester Adams High School in Rochester Hills, Michigan, where she spent her teen years in the early 1970s.
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Halle Berry
Not only was Halle Berry a cheerleader, but she was also an honors student, school newspaper editor, and prom queen at Bedford High School in Cleveland, Ohio, where she spent her formative years in the early 1980s.
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Jessica Simpson
Though she dropped of high school to pursue a recording career, Jessica Simpson did have a stint in the eighth grade as a cheerleader at her middle school, Richardson North Junior High School, in Dallas, Texas, in the early 1990s.