Photo of A-list celebrities as kids resurfaces and leaves everyone asking same thing

They say a picture tells a thousand words, but in some cases all it says is 'wow, you can really tell that's Ryan Gosling'.

A photo of a bunch of famous faces back when they were kids has been doing the rounds on the internet as it showed four youngsters at a time when they were on the Disney Channel's Mickey Mouse Club.

Running for a little while in the mid 90s, some very famous folks managed to get on there before going on to do the thing everybody knew them for.

Take a look at the picture and see if you can recognise who this bunch are, though we've already told you one of them is Ryan Gosling and you don't need to have seen Project Hail Mary to tell it's obviously the kid in the middle.

Sitting either side of him are Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, but the identity of the kid lying across their laps might be a bit harder to figure out.

These famous kids were on The Mickey Mouse Club (Instagram)

He's a guy called TJ Fantini, who never managed to carve out the sort of A-list career as the other people on the sofa.

On the other hand he's never had the 'this is going to ruin the tour, what tour, the world tour' exchange with police officers that Timberlake had, so perhaps it's for the best.

While plenty who saw the photo on social media puzzled over who Fantini was, someone was able to sum it up pretty well, saying: "Retired from acting. Today he's a council member in the state of Washington and continues to do music now as a hobby."

Not everyone who gets to be on TV and rub shoulders with the future famous goes onto that showbiz lifestyle themselves, but in his social media activity he seems pretty happy with his family so all seems well.

TJ Fantini might not have had the careers of Britney Spears, Ryan Gosling or Justin Timberlake but he's doing fine (Instagram/@tjfantini)

Being a celebrity isn't for everyone and there are plenty of people who did get involved in that life who decided they were better off walking away from it all and living life away from the public eye.

Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin is back on screens in the likes of Fallout, but for a while there he took a break from showbusiness.

Meanwhile, comedian and actor Pete Davidson has told Vanity Fair he's possibly looking for an exit from a life of stardom and seeking a venture to settle himself down in.

For now that appears to be socks.