Yahoo Lifestyle 15 Celebrities With Absolutely Wild Lore
We all have that one friend with absolutely wild lore. Like, they'll drop the most unbelievable stories about their life out of nowhere.
Here are 15 celebs with absolutely wild lore:
1.Sabrina Carpenter started posting song covers on YouTube at age 9. When she was 11, her cover of "You Raise Me Up" by Josh Groban went so viral in China that she was invited to the Hunan TV Festival, where she made her very first TV appearance.
She told Teen Vogue, "I then sang a cover of Christina Aguilera's 'Something's Got a Hold On Me,' so age appropriate."
You can watch a video of her performance here.
2.In 1997, Guillermo Del Toro's dad, Federico Del Toro Torres, was kidnapped. James Cameron, Guillermo's friend and fellow director, helped them by paying for a negotiator.
In 2022, Guillermo told the ReelBlend Postcast, "When my father was kidnapped ... there's information that is not correct, that he paid the ransom. He didn't. We did. But he paid for the negotiator. He paid for the negotiator, and we paid [James] back a little while after. Because it was a really, really harrowing situation. And he came in, and he took charge. He said, 'The hostage negotiator will be in your house in 72 hours to help you go through the process.' He did it on his own. And we didn't ask, he volunteered. And he did offer, he said, 'I'll pay for the ransom.' He did offer. He is that kind of guy. He is incredibly loyal. Incredibly strong."
3.Christopher Lee's step-cousin, James Bond author Ian Fleming, reportedly said the actor's days as a WWII spy inspired him to create the iconic super spy.
During WWII, Christopher served as part of the Special Air Service in the British Army. He reportedly declined to talk about his experiences in the war because he'd agreed to never publicly discuss the SAS's classified operations. He was reportedly extremely skilled at decoding German ciphers, returned to duty after a bout with malaria six times, conducted espionage missions, etc. Most of his service records reportedly remain classified.
4.When Bruno Mars was six, he played a young Elvis impersonator in the Nicolas Cage movie Honeymoon in Vegas.
He began performing as an Elvis impersonator at age 2.
You can watch the scene here.
5.When Christopher Walken was 16, he worked as a lion tamer with a lioness named Sheba for the summer.
He told the Guardian, "I would come into the cage and wave my whip, and she'd lazily get up and sit like a dog and maybe give a little roar. I like cats a lot. I've always liked cats. They're great company."
6.Troye Sivan is the only person besides Hugh Jackman to have played Wolverine onscreen.
At age 12, he landed his very first acting audition and played young Wolverine in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Watch his scene below:
7.After recording her demo, Kesha broke into Prince's house by bribing a gardener with $5, sneaking under the fence, and walking inside through an unlocked door. After coming face-to-face with the singer himself, she left her CD then made her escape.
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On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, she said, "I walk into the elevator, and there is Prince music playing! And then I go up in the elevator and I come out, and I'm on the phone with my mom saying, 'I think I may get arrested,' and then I walk out, and there's Prince playing the guitar, with a beanie on, and I almost pooped my pants. He just kind of looked at me funny. He gave me a look like, 'Who the hell are you?' and I waved around my CD, I put it on the table, and then I ran away."
8.As a teenager, Colin Farrell was questioned as a suspect in an attempted murder. The actual perpetrator bore a striking resemblance to him.
On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, he said, "I saw a photofit of the guy who actually did the crime and it looked remarkably like me, and for a second, because I had had a blackout that night, I wondered, 'Could I have done such a thing?'"
9.Jack Black's mom, Judith Love Cohen, was an accomplished ballerina-turned-engineer. In her obituary, Neil Siegel, Jack's older half-brother, wrote, "She actually went to her office on the day that Jack was born. When it was time to go to the hospital, she took with her a computer printout of the problem she was working on. Later that day, she called her boss and told him that she had solved the problem. And...oh, yes, the baby was born, too."
Judith notably worked with NASA.
Neil wrote, "My mother usually considered her work on the Apollo program to be the highlight of her career. When disaster struck the Apollo 13 mission, it was the Abort-Guidance System [which she worked on] that brought the astronauts home safely. Judy was there when the Apollo 13 astronauts paid a 'thank you' to the TRW facility in Redondo Beach."
10.In the '70s, Tippi Hedren visited Hope Village, a California-based refugee camp for Vietnamese people, and the women there loved her manicured nails. Since she was trying to help them find jobs, she flew in her personal manicurist and worked with a local beauty school to teach them the trade. Once they completed their training, Tippi helped them find employment.
She told the BBC, "I loved these women so much that I wanted something good to happen for them after losing literally everything. Some of them lost their entire family and everything they had in Vietnam: their homes; their jobs; their friends — everything was gone. They lost even their own country."
11.As a 10-year-old aspiring actor, Rob Lowe boldly knocked on Liza Minnelli's hotel room door and introduced himself.
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On The Kelly Clarkson Show, he said, "I see Liza Minnelli's luggage — says 'Liza Minnelli' in a stencil. And this is, like, Cabaret time. She's, like, it. This is, like, her at her height, and I go to the front desk. 'What room is Liza Minnelli in?' And they told me! What were they thinking?...I went up and knocked on the door in the middle of the day, and she answered in a bathrobe."
He told Liza, "Hi, I'm Robe Lowe, and I wanna be an actor."
He continued, "She was awesome. She invited me into the room. She was there with her then-husband [Jack Henley, Jr.]...They were so nice to me, and Liza was fascinated and wanted to know why I wanted to be an actor."
When Rob grew up and became a famous actor, he and Liza became friends.
12.The Monkees member Michael Nesmith was the son of Bette Nesmith Graham, a single mom and secretary who invented Liquid Paper correction fluid. After getting fired for accidentally signing her employer's letter with her company's name, she grew her company into a million-dollar business.
For a time, Michael and his friends worked for Bette, who paid them $1 an hour to help fill orders.
13.When Leslie Mann was 11, she was gifted a unicycle, which she learned to ride. So, rather than bike, she "would unicycle for miles."
The skill stuck with her into adulthood. On Lorraine, she said, "I can just get up and do it. I can remember how to do it."
14.When Doja Cat was a kid, she and her brother were occasionally babysat by Pretty Wild star and Bling Ring member Alexis Haines (née Neiers).
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In a profile on Doja, Alexis told Rolling Stone, "We were a little bit more of the latchkey kids. We had these hippie moms and were given probably more freedom than kids should have been."
15.And finally, when Keanu Reeves was little, his mom, Patricia Taylor, was a costume designer who "did a lot of sewing for" Dolly Parton, including her famous Playboy bunny suit. On The Drew Barrymore Show, Dolly said, "She would bring him over to my house when we were fitting or when I would go to the shop where she worked."
They reconnected years later.
She said, "I was doing a show somewhere, and somebody knocked on the door. And [Keanu] said, 'Do you remember me? I'm the little boy that used to sit at your feet while my mama was doing [your fittings].' And I said, 'Oh my god!' I knew he had become a star, but it didn't connect to me that that was who that was."
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