Jon Hamm gets rejected on '90s dating show

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Footage of a 25-year-old Hamm on "The Big Date" was recently posted online, showing the struggling actor (billing himself as a waiter) as one of three men competing for the attention of 25-year-old Mary Carter, who told host Mark L. Walberg (now of 

Every actor has to start somewhere, and for “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm that was appearing on a 1996 show called “The Big Date," on which he didn't get pick for a date.

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Jon Hamm wasn't always dapper and smooth à la Don Draper. Back in 1996, he seemed more like Keanu Reeves in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure than he did his Mad Men persona! That's when Jon, now 43, was a 25-year-old contestant on The Big Date,