It's that time of year - A level results are out and there are thousands of nervous students across the country hoping they have passed those all important exams.

But what happens if you find out you've failed (like this guy, who happened to discover his results live on air. Ouch)?

Instead of getting down in the dumps about it, just have a little browse over this list of *super* successful celebs who didn't exactly pass their exams with flying colours either.

Simon Cowell

Would you believe the man who would go on to become one the biggest TV/music moguls in the world actually left school with just two O-levels in English Language and Literature?

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So what did Simon do next? He got himself a job working in the mail room at EMI records, and tirelessly worked his way up the ranks. Now he gets to sit back and rake in the millions thanks to One Direction, The X Factor and too many other things for us to list.

Carey Mulligan

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The amazing actress who has starred alongside the likes of Ryan Gosling and Keira Knightley once revealed that she was rejected from every drama school that she tried to get into! We know, it's all hard to believe when she's gone on to bag roles in films like The Great Gatsby and won herself the Best Actress BAFTA in 2010.

Russell Brand

Russell Brand has proved that he's actually quite a clever fellow. From his witty biography, My booky wook, to his eloquent tribute to Amy Winehouse, Russell revealed he has a way with words.

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But it turns out Russell also failed to get himself any A levels, as he tweeted...

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Jeremy Clarkson

We'll let Jezza explain how he's spent A Levels results day over the last four years in his own words.

Lord Alan Sugar

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Before The Apprentice and before he made his fortune, Alan Sugar was just a 16 year old lad who dropped out of school because he wasn't interested. Starting off by selling car aerials and electrical goods out of a van, the man we now call Lord Alan Sugar began to pave his way with successful business ventures such as Amstrad.

Cheryl Cole

The pop princess left Walker Comprehensive School in Newcastle with no real qualifications. But after fighting for her chance to appear on Popstars: The Rivals, Chezza went on to become part of Girls Aloud.

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Now she's one of the richest celebs in town thanks to her stint as a judge on The X Factor, becoming the face of L'Oreal, designing her own shoe collection AND her music career of course!

Robbie Williams

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Robbie told Digital Spy about when he found out his GCSE results: "Me and my friend Lee just got our exam results and we both failed really badly. We didn't know how we were going to tell our parents, so we went to the bottle shop and bought ten each of the cheapest cans of bitter we could buy and sat on the green and just necked these bitters.

"They wanted me to go to university. I went back to my mum, pissed, and said that I had something to tell her, and she said she had something to tell me – 'You're in the band'. I ran upstairs and shouted at the top of my voice 'I'm going to be famous!'"

Jon Snow

Jon told Digital Spy that he didn't have the easiest time when it came to his A Levels.

"I sat two first time round and failed one and got a C in English. I think it was geography I failed," he said. "Then I went to a tech and sat economics and law and got a D and an E. I was really chuffed I got any A-levels at all, I was a complete dunderhead."

Deborah Meaden

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So Deborah didn't exactly fail her A Levels, because she decided to leave school altogether before taking them. Instead, she studied business at Brighton Technical College which we all know now certainly paid off.