These days, the cast of Revenge is focused on image, status, and always having something to hold over each other. In that way, the characters really aren’t that different from Hollywood itself. But before they were scheming on the shores of the Hamptons in New York, they were getting their entertainment starts in some surprising places. Snakkle looks back at the road to Revenge.

“Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in,” are we right? Well, for once-television stars who took a break from the medium that seems to be this season’s motto. See what Christina Applegate, Tim Allen, and Poppy Montgomery (to name a few) had to say about taking the plunge back into TV.