Jack Wagner

Do you ever watch Hallmark Channel movies? Come on. You can be honest. The ratings for these programs suggest that a vast volume of Americans treat Hallmark programming as the ultimate guilty pleasure.

The general formula for Hallmark movies involves an impossibly handsome man, usually a widower, chastely falling in love with a too-perfect but somehow insecure woman. But Hallmark throws the rulebook out the window in some cases.

For example, Jack Wagner has starred in several of the cable channel’s films. Why does he get special treatment? Wagner’s a multi-generational success story.

First, he earned some semblance celebrity as a daytime soap opera actor on General Hospital. Later, he worked the same gig, only at night, on the highly-rated Melrose Place.

Somewhere along the way, Wagner also had a number one single on the Adult Contemporary charts with All I Need, the most 1980s of all 80s ballads. And he apparently honed his singing, acting, and possibly even seducing skills as a Universal Tour Guide.

Jimmy Fallon

A lot of what I said about Conan applies to Fallon. The latter gentleman is a less funny, more musically inclined version of the former. But the premise still holds.

Fallon trained as a talk show host on the backlot tour. Today, he reaps the rewards as that guy who makes all of the viral videos where celebrities sing with/to him. Hmm, I can’t find anything that suggests James Corden ever worked at Universal as a Tour Guide, but the description fits.

PS: Fallon has lived out the ultimate fantasy for every Universal Tour Guide. He stars in his own attraction, Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon!