Elizabeth Banks reveals surprising first job before Hollywood stardom which involved retrieving condoms from toilets

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By SEAN O’GRADY

Published: 10:53 BST, 29 May 2025 | Updated: 10:54 BST, 29 May 2025

Elizabeth Banks has revealed she used to remove ‘condoms and tampons’ from toilets during her time as a ‘chambermaid’.

The actress, 51, has recalled her time taking on difficult jobs before finding success in films, and she recalled a period where she ‘cleaned toilets’ to make a living.

She told The Kelly Clarkson Show: ‘I started working really young. I’ve done everything. I was a waitress for a decade. I also was a chambermaid at a bed and breakfast.’

The Charlie’s Angels star took the opportunity to make a plea for any guests in the hospitality sector from someone who’s been on the other side.

She begged: ‘I just have some advice for people who stay in hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts, whatever.’

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Elizabeth Banks has revealed she used to remove ‘condoms and tampons’ from toilets during her time as a ‘chambermaid’

‘Please stop flushing things other than tepee down toilets. Like the amount of condoms and tampons I had to dig out of toilets as a 17-year-old is shocking to me.’

However, Elizabeth conceded that the experience was character-building, and she feels like she’s ready for anything.

She added: ‘Kelly, I can go anywhere. It’s not glamorous this life you lead. You end up going a lot of crazy places and I’m like, ‘I’ve been worse.’ ‘   

Elizabeth – who has kids Felix, 14, and Magnus, 12, with her husband Max Handelman – recently insisted her children have ‘no interest’ in following in her footsteps as actors when it comes to their own working ambitions.

She told PEOPLE magazine: ‘If my kids decide to get into acting, which they have currently no interest in, then I would be thrilled to ever do anything with them if they would deign to hang out with me.

‘It’s unlikely. In fact, it would have to be a paying job for them to actually want to hang out with me.’

She also revealed one of her boys recently had a role in a school production, but wasn’t impressed with the return he got for the work he put in.

Speaking to E! News, she quipped: ‘My son was recently in a school play and he said, ‘That was a lot of effort for flowers and some applause!”

Elizabeth said: ‘I started working really young. I’ve done everything. I was a waitress for a decade. I also was a chambermaid at a bed and breakfast’

Elizabeth conceded that the experience was character-building, and she feels like she’s ready for anything

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Elizabeth Banks reveals surprising first job before Hollywood stardom which involved retrieving condoms from toilets

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