21 Celebrity Facts That Sound Fake But Are 100% True

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29-03-2025

1. Millie Bobby Brown's middle name isn't actually Bobby. It's Bonnie. She said she changed her name for "shits and giggles." Her dad's name is Robert "Bobby" Brown.
2. Mikey Madison is a twin. Miles, her twin brother, attended the 2025 Oscars with her, and in her Best Actress acceptance speech, she gave him a shout-out.
3. Benny Blanco gets his toenails painted pretty frequently, with suuuuuuper intricate designs, which is really cool. His go-to nail artist is Tahvya Krok, who hand paints and sculpts the designs. He's gotten nail art with sushi and another time he got a Persian rug pattern.
4. Prince Harry once tripped on shrooms at Courteney Cox's house. As a self-proclaimed " Friends fanatic," he wrote in his book, Spare, that he was thrilled when he found himself at Courteney's house while party-hopping with friends and needed a place to spend the night.
Courteney, who was supposed to be traveling at the time, "didn't mind" if they "crashed at her place." But then Courteney returned early and kept the party going by inviting a few more famous friends, including Will Arnett.
"Then, maybe to get rid of us, [Will] led my mate and me to the fridge, from which he extracted a soft drink. While the door was open, we spotted a huge box of black diamond mushroom chocolates," Harry wrote. "Somebody behind me said they were for everybody. Help yourself, boys. My mate and I grabbed several, gobbled them, washed them down with tequila." Shortly after, the mushrooms kicked in, and he recalled seeing monsters.
"Beside the toilet was a round silver bin, the kind with a foot pedal to open the lid. I stared at the bin. It started back. What — staring? I stepped on the pedal. A huge open grin," he wrote. "Now the loo became a head, too. The bowl was its gaping maw, the hinges of the seat were its piercing silver eyes. It said: Aaah."
5. Bradley Whitford is extremely flexible.
6. Margot Robbie can hold her breath underwater for five minutes.
7. Keke Palmer's full name is actually Lauren Keyana Palmer. "Keke" was a name that only her family called her, until one day, her manager heard her mom call her by her nickname and suggested she use it professionally.
8. Jenna Ortega used to perform "autopsies" on dead lizards she found in her backyard.
"I'm a weirdo in the way I used to perform autopsies on little animals when I was younger," she said. "Little lizards that I found that were dead in my backyard."
9. Harry Styles has four nipples. Meanwhile, Carrie Underwood, Mark Wahlberg, and Lily Allen were all born with three nipples each. Carrie had hers removed, but Lily claims hers is "functional," "gets erect," and "lactates."
10. Benedict Cumberbatch was once abducted while filming a miniseries in South Africa.
He and his friends where on their way back to the set of To the Ends of the Earth when a tire blew out. Then, six armed men seemingly came out of nowhere asking them for their money and weed. They tied them up, and threw Benedict in the trunk of their car.
11. Jackie Chan has broken nearly every bone imaginable throughout his career, but while filming Armour of God, a stunt left him with a " hole" in his head
He explained that the stunt required him to jump through a tree, but the branches broke. In an effort to save himself, Jackie grabbed other branches, but those broke too. He ended up falling to the ground and cracking his skull, his whole body went numb, and blood was coming out of his ear. Then, he was rushed into surgery.
12. Katy Perry used to carry around locks of Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus's hair in her purse.
"One of the first times I went to the Grammys, I got to share a dressing room with Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift and I asked them for a lock of their hair from each one of them, which is totally creepy, but awesome," she said. "I put little bows on them individually and put them in my purse. And that was my little secret, and I'm a freak!"
13. Whoopi Goldberg's full name is actually Caryn Elaine Johnson. She gave herself the name Whoopi because she just happens to be a gassy person.
She said, "The true story is that my family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist, and Catholic — none of which I subscribe to, by the way, as I don't believe in man-made religions. So I took the last name from a Jewish ancestor. And I happen to be gaseous, which explains the first name, short for whoopee cushion."
14. Sandra Bullock was once in a plane crash. The plane skidded off the runway, severely damaging the plane but luckily leaving Bullock unhurt. Coincidentally, Bullock had recently starred in the film Forces of Nature, which is about a plane that skids off the runway.
15. Back in 1991, Julia Roberts called off her wedding days before she was going to marry Kiefer Sutherland. On the day she was supposed to be married, she instead went on a date with Jason Patric, who was friends with Sutherland (but had recently been uninvited from the wedding), then ran away with him to Ireland. Coincidentally, she went on to star in the movie Runaway Bride.
16. Jack Nicholson was raised by his grandmother, Ethel May, who he'd believed was his mother. Nearly four decades later, Jack learned that the person he thought was his sister, June, was actually his mother, and she was only 18 when she gave birth to Jack. He only learned this after a Time magazine researcher called him to confirm details for an upcoming story about him.
17. Bill Skarsgärd wore a ton of prosthetics to play Count Orlok in Nosferatu, including a prosthetic penis. During a scene where Orlak had to suck Nicholas Hoult's character's blood, Nicholas could feel the prosthetic rubbing against his leg and "didn't know how to react." After filming wrapped, Nicholas was gifted the penis framed, and it's hanging in his house.
18. Barbra Streisand cloned her dog Samantha twice after she died in 2017. The cloning cells were taken from her mouth and stomach.
19. One of Adrienne Bailon's favorite food combos is tuna salad sandwiches dipped in fruit punch. She'll even pour some fruit punch into the tuna salad before spreading it onto her bread.
20. Sean Penn was once in jail with Richard Ramirez, aka the infamous Night Stalker serial killer. Ramirez actually sent Penn fan mail asking for an autograph. At the time, Sean was spending 60 days in jail for reckless driving and punching an extra. He said that Ramirez wrote, "Hey, Sean, stay tough and hit them again — Richard Ramirez, 666." Sean replied with a note saying he felt "absolutely no kinship" with Ramirez, despite both being inmates, and said, "I hope gas descends upon you before sanity does, you know? It would be a kinder way out."
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21. And finally, Patrick Mahomes confirmed that he wears the same pair of underwear for every game he plays, and only washes them "once in a while." "I mean if we're on a hot streak, I can't wash them, you know? I've just got to keep it rolling," he said. "As long as we're winning, I'll keep the superstition going."
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