101 Weird Facts About Celebrities

Take away fame and fortune and celebrities are just like us. Normal folk going about their business and trying to make the most of their life. Of course, they’re celebrities so they will never be really normal, which is why it’s no surprise there are so many weird facts about celebrities floating around the internet. 

Many of these so-called “weird facts” aren’t really that strange, but as they are attributed to famous people, it makes them a little bit weird. Then there are facts that are just plain weird no matter the status of the person. The bottom line is there are a lot of weird and wonderful facts about celebrities that show them in a more humane light. Some will surprise, others will confuse you, and some might just turn you off your favorite celebrity for good.

So read on and discover the weirdest facts about celebrities that they don’t want you to know.

1. Channing Tatum played a bartender in Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs” music video. He made $400 for the role.
2. Reese Witherspoon studied English Literature for a year at Stanford before quitting to pursue acting.
3. Nicki Minaj is acrophobic, which means she is afraid of heights.
4. Before becoming a movie star Harrison Ford was an accomplished carpenter. He still enjoys it as a hobby. 
5. Jennifer Lawrence has “H2O” tattooed on her hand to remind her to drink more water.
6. Chuck Norris’s first name is actually Carlos. His full name is Carlos Ray Norris. 
7. Frank Oz was the voice for Yoda, Miss Piggy, and Cookie Monster.
8. Tom Cruise has an asymmetrical face.
9. Johnny Depp was allergic to chocolate as a child. 
10. Matthew Perry lost part of his middle finger after it got jammed in a car door.
11. Rowan Atkinson has a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
12. P!nk’s real name is Alecia Beth Moore.
13. Robert Downey Jr. claims that Burger King saved his life from his drug addiction.
14. Taylor Swift has a framed picture of Kanye West interrupting her at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in her living room. It’s captioned, “Life is full of little interruptions.” Good to see she has a sense of humor. 
15. Martha Stewart started her career in the entertainment business as a fashion model. 
16. Liam Payne has a fear of spoons. It’s commonly known as koutaliaphobia.
17. Selena Gomez drinks olive oil. She says it helps protect her voice. 
18. Uncle Phil (rest in peace James La Rue Avery) from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was also the voice of Shredder from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.
19. Zayn Malik didn’t have a passport before he was on X-Factor. That all changed once he became part of One Direction. 
20. Nicolas Cage convinced Johnny Depp to take up acting over a game of Monopoly. 
21. Grimes legally changed her name from Claire to c in 2018. The lowercase is intentional. She also named her children X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl Musk. 
22. Emma Watson is British but was born in Paris, France. 
23. Britney Spears loves scented candles. 
24. Bill Murray was arrested for trying to smuggle ten pounds of marijuana at age 20. As he was a first offender he was spared jail time and given five months probation. 
25. Justin Timberlake is an accomplished juggler. 
26. Kim Kardashian is a big fan of Haagen-Dazs Dulce de Leche.
27. Orlando Bloom learned how to surf in New Zealand whilst filming The Lord of the Rings.
28. Ryan Gosling is the co-owner of the Moroccan restaurant Tagine in Los Angeles.
29. Before becoming Tim ‘The Tool Man” Taylor on the hit sitcom Home Improvement, Tim Allen was arrested after he was found with 1.4 pounds of cocaine. Looking at a possible life sentence, he ratted out his accomplices for a three to seven-year sentence. He ended up serving two years and four months before being released. 
30. Vince Vaughn is another celebrity who lost part of an appendage, with The Wedding Crashers star losing the top of his thumb in a car accident when he was 17.
31. Tom Hanks has an asteroid named after him which is called “12818 tomhanks.”
32. Jennifer Lopez is the first actress to have a movie and an album hit number one in the same week.
33. Katy Perry has a cat named Kitty Purry.
34. Before shooting the Friends pilot episode, Jennifer Aniston had the chance to become a cast member on Saturday Night Live. Bullet dodged there. 
35. Megan Fox was banned from the Wal-Mart store in her hometown because she shoplifted makeup as a teenager. She claims it was an accident.
36. Kanye West once worked at The Gap. 
37. Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart didn’t know how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
38. Domonic Monaghan can speak fluent German.
39. Matthew Broderick was convicted of careless driving in a car accident in which two people died.
40. Ryan Cabrera has a tattoo of Ryan Gosling’s face on his leg.
41. Kesha claims she slept with a ghost. She revealed this during an interview with Conan O’Brien. 
42. Paris Hilton has huge feet. She wears size 11. 
43. Tyra Banks suffers from the unusual phobia known as delphiniphobi, which is a feat of dolphins. 
44. Johah Hill ended up in hospital with bronchitis during the filming of The Wolf of Wall Street. For his role, he was snorting vitamin D (substituting for cocaine) almost daily for seven months and it finally took its toll. 
45. Robe Lowe is deaf in his right ear. 
46. Aston Kutcher has webbed toes. 
47. Leslie Mann is a talented unicyclist.
48. Katy Perry used to keep a lock of Taylor Swift’s and Miley Cyrus’s hair in her purse.
49. Oprah Winfrey has a bathtub shaped like her body. 
50. James Lipton of The Actor’s Studio worked as a pimp in the 50s. 
51. Stephen Baldwin as a Hannah Montana tattoo. Miley Cyrus told Baldwin he could appear on the show whenever he wanted as long he got the tattoo. So he did, but Baldwin never ended up on the show. 
52. Dennis Quaid studied ballet dancing.
53. The J in Michael J. Fox doesn’t actually mean anything. His full name is Michel Andrew Fox. 
54. Justin Timberlake’s mom was Ryan Gosling’s guardian while he was a child. 
55. Nicole Kidman is afraid of butterflies. 
56. Paul Newman taught Jake Gyllenhaal how to drive. 
57. Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg went to the same school and she claims he sold her weed. 
58. The idea for YouTube was inspired by the Super Bowl halftime performance where Justin Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson’s breast.  
59. Jerry Springer was once the Mayor of Cincinnati. 
60. Hugh Jackman used to be a P.E. teacher. 
61. Jim Carrey has written a children’s book. How Roland Rolls is about the ocean wondering if its life will end when it hits the beach.
62. Brad Pitt has been banned from visiting China due to his role in Seven Years in Tibet.
63. Tom Cruise divorced all three of his wives when they turned 33. 
64. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta’s stage name, Lady Gaga, is inspired by the Queen song “Radio Ga Ga.”
65. Christopher Walken once worked as a lion tamer in his youth. 
66. Sean Connery worked as a nude model for art students after being discharged from the Merchant Navy.
67. Aquaman Jason Momoa is an avid rock climber who has his own line of rock-climbing products. 
68. Elvis Presley never performed outside of North America during his career. 
69. Ben Affleck, a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan, refused to wear a New York Yankees cap in the movie Gone Girl, shutting down production for several days before he and director David Fincher came up with a solution. 
70. George Clooney wanted to be a professional baseball player. He qualified for the Cincinnati Reds but was never recruited, ending his baseball dreams. 
71. Marilyn Monroe originally wanted the stage name “Jean Adair.”
72. Gemma Arterton was born with six fingers on each hand. 
73. Rebel Wilson won a $12,000 scholarship that enabled her to move to New York and enroll at the Second City Training Centre and New York Film Academy in 2012.
74. As a child, Emily Blunt had a stutter. 
75. Kaya Scodelario speaks fluent Portuguese. She can thank her mom who is Portuguese. 
76. After her father took on a job managing luxury hotels around Europe, Carey Mulligan spent eight years living out of hotels. 
77. 11-year-old Daniel Radcliffe celebrated getting the role of Harry Potter by staying up an extra half an hour and watching Faulty Towers. 
78. Hugh Grant was once an assistant groundskeeper at Fulham. 
79. Before making it as an actor Damian Lewis worked as a telemarketer selling car alarms. 
80. Mariah Carey sleeps 15 hours a night in a room full of air humidifiers before her live concerts.
81. Taylor Lautner was once a world karate champion for several years running. 
82. Rose McGowan was brought up in the Children of God cult but managed to escape as a teenager. 
83. Unsurprisingly, Matthew McConaughey was named “Most Handsome Student” during his final year at school.
84. Michael Fassbender served as an altar boy while growing up in Ireland. 
85. For some unknown reason, Rosario Dawson is an Arsenal supporter. 
86. Demi Moore was cross-eyed as a child. She had to wear an eye patch and her vision wasn’t 100% clear until she had several operations to correct her eyes.  
87. Kylie Jenner is the youngest billionaire ever. 
88. The Obamas didn’t pay off their student loans until they were in their 40s.
89. Steve Buscemi was a firefighter before he became an actor. He returned to his old station in the days after 9/11 to help out.
90. Woody Harrelson’s dad was a hitman. He died in prison in 2007.
91. New Zealand singer Lorde runs a secret Instagram account where she reviews onion rings. You can check out her thoughts @onionsworldwide.
92. After missing out on becoming one of the Backstreet Boys, Chris Kirkpatrick became a founding member of NSYNC. 
93. Dennis Rodman has 28 siblings. 
94. Megan Fox believes in Leprechauns, something she shared with Esquire. Explains a lot really. 
95. While they were dating, Billy Bob Thorton and Angelina Jolie wore vials of each other’s blood around their necks. True love. 
96. Dolly Parton’s breasts are apparently insured for $600,000. But that’s nothing compared to Rihanna’s legs ($1 million), Kylie Minogue’s butt ($5 million), and Julia Roberts’s smile ($30 million). 
97. Waka Flocka Flame once had his own personal blunt roller he paid $50,000.
98. Tim Hanks is obsessed with typewriters and has over 250 in his collection. 
99. Nolan Gould who plays the dimwitted Luke Dunphy on Modern Family is actually a genius. He is a member of MESA and has an IQ of 150.
100. Leighton Meester’s mother was serving a prison sentence for smuggling marijuana when she gave birth to the actress
101. Fran Drescher believes aliens abducted her and implanted a chip in her hand.