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Surprise! It’s Mark Wahlberg Bagging Your Groceries At Quincy Stop & Shop

Ok, I know celebrities like our fair city of Boston, and sometimes they come just to visit. There are plenty of celebrities from Boston. We have Chris Evans, John Krasinski,…

Mark Wahlberg
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Ok, I know celebrities like our fair city of Boston, and sometimes they come just to visit. There are plenty of celebrities from Boston. We have Chris Evans, John Krasinski, Amy Poehler, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon...it's a long list. Movies are often shot here, in fact there's one happening now around Boston starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. So, the chances of a celebrity popping up somewhere is not unheard of. But the chances of Mark Wahlberg bagging your groceries at Quincy Stop & Shop is probably one in a billion. It happened. And there's video proof of it.

Mark went back to the site of his first job, and was asking to get his job back! Of course he had to make sure they had plenty of Wahlburgers burger meat in stock, which they did. Yesterday, the supah celeb posted a video to his Instagram after making a surprise visit to the site of his first gig, Stop & Shop on Newport Avenue in Quincy. Wahlberg said he worked here in 1998 for $3.65 an hour. Dang, and to think I was there 2 days ago!

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Ever hear how Van Halen used to ask for a bowl of M&Ms backstage at their show with all the brown M&Ms removed? Rock bands aren't the only ones with bizarre demands. Here are 12 Actors Who Had Bizarre Demands In Their Contract.

Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson is a well-documented LA Lakers superfan. While filming 1989's Batman, Nicholson had extra days off filming worked into his contract so shooting wouldn't interfere with Lakers home games - he didn't miss a single game for filming while playing Joker.

Queen Latifah

In the movie Set It Off Queen Latifah had an epic death scene toward the end of the film. She disliked the experience so much that she has since had a no-death clause put into all of her movie/TV contracts.

Roger Moore

Some will argue that Roger Moore is the greatest James Bond of all time. Well Moore had unlimited Montecristo Cigars written into his contract for all 7 Bond movies he starred in. A good Montecristo now costs around $250 a piece so that was a pretty nice bonus.

Tom Cruise

This is a funny one. Tom Cruise has a clause in all of his contracts which prevents his likeness from being used for action figures or video games.

Dolph Lundgren

Dolph Lundgren starred as He-Man in He-Man: Masters of the Universe. Lundgren had it written into his contract that he was able to have three attempts at his dialogue before he was over-dubbed by a voice actor.

George Clooney

While filming Gravity, George Clooney's contract required a private beach hut style residence to be built for him with a basketball court. This is where he spent his downtime while filming. Now it's a Chik-fil-A. Just kidding about that last part - but the rest is 100% true.

Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg was supposed to play the lead role in Silver Linings Playbook - a role that eventually was picked up by Bradley Cooper. When Mark's contract for the movie was written up he had a clause added that would pay him $900,000 if his female co-star dropped out of the role (to protect him if a lesser prominent actress took over and it affected the success of the movie). At the time that actress was Anne Hathaway. He ended up passing on the role but if he had done the movie he would have been paid the money to star alongside Jennifer Lawrence as Anne Hathaway did drop out.

Uma Thurman

While filming Eloise in Paris Uma had a clause in her contract that ensured no other actor got more "favourable dressing facilities." It also included a minimum of a three-bedroom hotel suite and a trio of mobile phones to use for the entire duration of filming. Holy burners.

Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel has a clause added into all of his contracts which gives him the option to go golfing instead of shooting 2 times a week. The production company pays and arranges transportation to and from the course.

Paris Hilton

In her one day of filming for The Other Guys Paris requested unlimited live lobsters and vodka. That's a fancy kind of drunk.

Eddie Murphy

Apparently Eddie likes to feel his freshest. He asks for a new pair of underwear and socks every morning of filming, with the tags still on. Don't try to sneak a wear in before giving them to him, he'll know!

Kim Basinger

While on set Kim Basinger will only wash her hair using Evian bottled water - so you better be stocked or you'll be breaking that contract!

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