‘Imposters’ Star Parker Young Reveals His First Ever Job

Parker Young, who currently plays Richard on the Bravo series “Imposters,” revealed that his first ever job wasn’t actually an acting job.

In a recent interview with Observer, Young shared that he worked at a retail store before landing his first paid acting role.

“I worked at a … retail store,” Young said when asked what his first job was. “I was dating a girl that I met on a family vacation and at the time she was like, the face of Abercrombie, so you go to the mall and she was the big picture when you walk through the door. So that was at the time when that thing was cool. I worked at the store. [But] not one of the shirtless guys.”

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As for what his first paid acting job was, Young starred as a Chippendales dancer for an unaired XM Radio commercial. “My very first [paid] role was the spec commercial for XM radio, and I played a Chippendales dancer and I had a bow tie,” Young revealed to The Daily Dish. “They paid me 50 bucks cash and they shot it on my birthday, I was so pumped.”

After that gig, Parker went on to play a delivery man on NBC’s soap opera “Days of Our Lives” in 2008. He was then cast as Ryan Shay on ABC’s “Suburgatory,” as Private Randy Hill on FOX’s “Enlisted” and most recently as Alex Davis on CW’s “Arrow.”

Parker first got bitten by the acting bug during his junior year in high school. But during that time, he had other career ambitions in mind.

“In high school, I was captain of the football team, but I also did theatre,” Parker told Assignment X. “[In] my junior year, I got into theatre kind of heavily, and then I got a few too many concussions playing football, [so I] decided to give up football and focus on acting, and I moved out here [to Los Angeles] with that intention.”

Catch Parker in Season 1, episode 8 of “Imposters,” which airs tonight at 10 p.m. EST on Bravo.