Celebs should stop making self-absorbed retirement announcements

For most normal people, the word “retirement” conjures a familiar picture: Somebody over 65 leaving their job to cupcakes and a card, tapping into their 401-K and moving to Florida. But funny old Hollywood ain’t normal.There, retirement is a far more glamorous affair.

It can happen at any age, juvenile to geriatric, gets an overblown press tour and is often totally meaningless.It’s the actor’s spin on a final, final, final farewell tour.Last week, Cameron Diaz, who supposedly “retired” from the film industry a decade ago, returned in Netflix’s aptly-named “Back In Action” starring Jamie Foxx. Back in 2018, the “Charlie’s Angels” actress announced she’d given up the screen in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. After playing Miss Hannigan in the derided 2014 “Annie” remake, she decided Hollywood was a hard knock life for her.So would I if a Post critic said I was at my “scenery-swallowing worst.”But, it turns out, the star would come out tomorrow.

Now, 52-year-old Diaz has made yet more headlines of her hiatus in glossy magazines and on late-night talk shows, calling it “the best 10 years” of her life.It’s a media blitz.

She’s spun last-straw into gold. Naturally, there’s something about money.Netflix reportedly signed her for a two-picture, $45 million deal — just like Tom from Mergers and Acquisitions. Another marquee name from the 1990s and aughts, Jim Carrey, declared he was retiring in 2022.That hard stop turned out to be merely a “Mask” for burnout.

“The Cable Guy” was already making faces in front of the camera again less than two years later as Doctor Robotnik in “Sonic the Hedgehog 3.” The 63-year-old has joked that he took the gig for the dough, but he’s also said, “I think I was talking more about ‘power-resting’” than actual retirement.You know, like Nancy in HR.And with two departures, Daniel Day-Lewis has almost racked up almost as many farewells as he has Oscars.

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