It is interesting how celebrities who have lost fame have turned to driving for delivery platforms. While the media portray this as a “downgrade job,” it definitely isn’t for this fitness queen from the 1990s whose experiences on the job are big and beautiful.
Delivery for a comedian a few months before he died
Susan Powter’s heyday has faded, but this queen of 90s wellness, the then-fitness influencers, sat down in an interview with Entertainment Weekly to share her experiences delivering for the late comedian Louie Anderson.
Yes, Powter is now taking advantage of the income opportunity from Uber Eats, driving via the platform near her quaint home in Las Vegas. There was one time when Anderson became her customer.
“I’ll tell you a story,” the 67-year-old Powter told correspondents at Entertainment Weekly, with tears flowing from her eyes in the corner of a Hawaiian restaurant in Nevada’s periphery. “It was the wintertime. Cold and dark. Delivering is hard, and I got a huge order. It was a big order. And I went into a gated community, which I go into all the time, and that’s hard seeing houses that I used to live in. Like, I used to live there. That affects me, but not that much.”
The customer was Anderson, who has impacted her in her career as a food delivery driver. Call her overacting, but nowadays, considering life’s hardships, appreciating small things can change your life. Uber Eats allows anybody interested to become a delivery driver for them.
“Delivering with Uber Eats is a great alternative to traditional part-time delivery driver jobs or other part-time employment, temporary jobs, or seasonal work,” Uber Eats said on its official website.
In tears for 3 days
Powter recalled the coincidence of delivering for a guy who she knew in her life.
“This got me because, back in the day, we knew each other. I ring the doorbell of this big order, and Louie Anderson opens the door — and he knew who I was. He looked right at me, and he knew. And I knew he knew,” Powter remembered. “He had just had that huge resurrection with that show [Baskets] he did. He did such a good job. He was such a nice man.”
She added how she was in “tears for three days” because of that meeting.
“I was so grateful to him for being so honorable. He knew who I was, and you could feel it,” she said.
A few months after she delivered for him, Anderson died in Las Vegas in January 2022 due to complications from large B-cell lymphoma.
Anderson was a 68-year-old stand-up comedian, actor, and game show host. He created the “Life with Louie” cartoon series and “The Louie Show” TV sitcom. He also wrote four books, including “Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother.”
Powter is an Australian-born American motivational speaker, nutritionist, fitness trainer, and author who rose to fame in the 90s with her catchphrase “Stop the Insanity!”, which also became the centerpiece of her famous weight-loss infomercial.