I Honestly Can't Look At These Celebrities The Same Way Again After Learning These Ridiculously Interesting Facts About Them
Morgan Murrell
·8-min read
1.Macaulay Culkin let fans give him a new middle name.
After going through the submissions, he landed on five top contenders: Publicity Stunt, TheMcRibIsBack, Kieran, Shark Week, and Macaulay Culkiin.
With nearly 61K votes, Macaulay Culkin won. So, on Christmas Day 2018, Macaulay revealed that beginning in 2019 his new legal name will be Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin.
Merry Christmas to me, from all of you! My new middle name has been chosen. You voted and the winner is clear. In 2019 my new legal name will be:Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin. It has a nice ring to it (if you like my name).#MerryChristmas
2.Pete Wentz has an interesting connection to President Joe Biden
He shared this sweet throwback photo on his Instagram when Biden was elected. It features a young Pete being held by then-Senator Biden while Pete's mother smiles affectionately for the photo.
...as well as Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire. Can you guess the connection?
...Jennifer Lopez too:
4.Millie Bobby Brown kept an interesting memento from the Stranger Things set.
Watch her full interview below:
5.Ambika Mod doesn't sleep with her eyes closed.
Watch Ambika explain it all below:
6.Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King paid for Julia Roberts' birth.
Advisor Zara Rahim shared the interview on Julia's 55th birthday. Watch the Leave the World Behind star explain the connection below:
Today is Julia Roberts birthday! 55 years ago MLK and Coretta Scott King paid for her parents hospital bill after she was born. Can’t stop thinking about this since I read it. Here she is talking about it with @GayleKinghttps://t.co/5HvpNSUIYbpic.twitter.com/147x6d807W
8.Samuel L. Jackson worked at the same apartment building where Alicia Keys was born.
The federally subsidized apartment complex opened in the late 1970s and became a creative hub for actors and aspiring artists. In fact, some other famous tenants included Larry David, Terrence Howard, Patrick Dempsey, Tennessee Williams, Angela Lansbury, Mickey Rourke, Tom Fontana, and casting director Mary Jo Slater. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino would visit their friend Jack Warden there as well.
9.Willem Dafoe needed a body double in Lars von Trier’s 2009 psychological horror film Antichrist.
Lars said, "I wouldn’t let him treat her in any other way than with his dick, he has an enormous dick, but that maybe I took also…he’s extremely well-equipped. And we had to kind of take the scenes out of the film, we had a stand-in for him, we had to take the scenes out with his own dick.”
10.Lastly, Kris Humphries could've been an Olympic swimmer.
Kris dominated in the following events: 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter freestyle, 50-meter butterfly, 50-meter backstroke, 50-meter breaststroke, and 200-meter individual medley. But he gave up swimming to pursue his passion for basketball. Kris played professional basketball for 12 years, so he made a great choice either way.
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