Glen Powell comes from a reality TV show background.

Glen Powell may be Hollywood's newest "it" boy and a certified movie star, but it turns out that his entertainment origins are a bit more, um, lowbrow.

Apparently, the "Twister" star once appeared on a reality show as a teenager.

"Honestly, it's pretty hard to tell this story," Powell told Stephen Colbert, host of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," on a recent appearance.

"I've never talked about this publicly," he added, sounding sincerely embarrassed by his reality show past.

Colbert then revealed to viewers (i.e., the world) that Powell had briefly appeared on Discovery Kids' "Endurance" series in 2002. Powell, who was 13 at the time, appeared in only one episode, but the series itself ran from 2002 to 2008, according to People.

"The fact that they pulled this off is shocking, but come on," Powell continued, simply willing to get involved in it.

"I was 13 and I was on a show called 'Endurance. It's basically a 'Survivor' type show for kids," he explained, adding that the show would send kids to Mexico and then "play them against each other."

"I wanted to be on that show so badly, but I got kicked off in the first episode," Powell admitted. Powell admitted. When I found out I was going home, it was the worst feeling."

"I was like, 'I'm going home.'

Of course, things eventually turned around for Powell, who made waves with his appearance in Top Gun: Maverick, Anyone But You, Twisters, and the Netflix hit Hitman.

"I've probably been told more than any other individual alive that 'I'll never make it in this city,'" the star said in a recent interview with Vanity Fair magazine.

"The odds are so slim that people hand out those words like candy."

Now, he is the proverbial bell of the ball, awash (to say the least) in incessant social media attention.

"At the end of the day, it doesn't matter anymore. At the time, I didn't think it mattered. I gave a lot of ****. And it felt **** personal," he told the publication at the time. I'm a joking guy, and I don't think people realize that I'm very sensitive."

"The gamification of this job is basically what you have to do ... It's almost like creating a wrestler's alter ego. It's like Bruce Wayne and Batman. You have to be okay with not knowing the whole story, because no one knows the whole story." It's entertainment. I'm already okay with my personal life being part of the entertainment."