A STAR IS RE-BORN
Welcome back. MARION McMULLEN looks at celebs who made comebacks after finding retirement was not for them
1 Cameron Diaz is coming out of her acting retirement to appear in the appropriately named Netflix film Back In Action with Jamie Foxx. The 49-year-old Charlie’s Angels and There’s Something About Mary star said in 2018 she was stepping back from the screen. Her last film was the 2014 Annie remake, again with Jamie Foxx as her co-star.
2 Goodfellas’ Joe Pesci, pictured below left, was tempted out of his 20-year retirement by director Martin Scorsese to appear in gangster epic The Irishman. Joe has said: “Marty is probably the best director I’ve ever worked with and one of the best directors of our generation or any other generation...”
3 Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne embarked on his No More Tours Tour in 1992 calling it his farewell tour. He was back three years later with the Retirement Sucks Tour.
4 Cher has been calling it a day since 2005 when she came to the end of her Living Proof: The Farewell Tour. She promptly opened a show in Las Vegas and in 2014 was touring again with Dressed To Kill.
She once said: “I’ve been famous my entire life. I don’t know any other way.”
5 Boxer George Foreman retired from the ring in 1977 at the age of 28, but was back in action 10 years later. He went on to become the oldest heavyweight champion in 1994 at the age of 45 when he beat Michael
Moorer, pictured above.
6 Barbra Streisand is known to have a particularly avid fanbase, so it was no surprise to see concertgoers shelling out more than $1,000 to see her farewell shows in 2000, but fast forward to 2006 and she was back in concert singing all her hits once more.
7 Daniel Day-Lewis has won three Oscars for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, and Lincoln, but retired from acting following his 1997 movie The Boxer. He came back to appear in Gangs Of New York in 2002, but announced he was retiring again at the age of 60 following work on the 2017 film Phantom Thread.
8 Comedy actor Rick Moranis, right, stepped away from acting for 23 years and only did a little voiceover work during that period. He made the decision so he could raise his two children following the death of his wife in 1991. Rick is now back working on the new Honey, I Shrunk The Kids sequel, Shrunk.
9 Double Oscarwinner Joaquin Phoenix, right, announced that he would be quitting acting in 2008 to concentrate on his music dreams, but it turned out to be a fake retirement ahead of the release of his mockumentary spoof I’m Still Here, which followed two years later.
10 Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf’s retirement lasted just three weeks after he announced in 2014 that he was done with acting. He said on Twitter “I am retiring from all public life”, but he was soon back in films like Man Down and Honey Boy.