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TIL Marla Gibbs continued to work as a flight attendant for two years after being cast on a hit TV show. In a 2015 interview, Gibbs told the Washington Post that despite it appearing as though she had gotten her big break, she kept her job as a flight attendant for American Airlines for 2 more yrs.

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