Celebrity Trivia
Seven things you may not have known about Jimmy Fallon: (1) He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. (2) He wanted to be a priest. (3) Growing up, he would lip-synch Michael Jackson videos in the mirror. (4) He used lots of hairspray in high school. (5) As a kid, he was obsessed with “Saturday Night Live.” (6) He’s working on a hardcore-punk album. (7) He’s embarrassed about his lack of chest hair.
Opera star Luciano Pavarotti rakes in $35-million for the 40 performances he gives each year.
Fabio, dubbed “The Italian Stallion,” has been on the covers of more than 250 romance novels and dubbed the world’s sexiest man. He lives in a $1.5-million home that visitors have described as “a pigsty.”
Penelope Cruz gets her arms waxed at top NY salon, Frederic Fekkai Beaute de Province, on top of the Chanel store.
The staff at Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones’ spacious L.A. residence complained about the tiring trip from the front door to the back mailbox, so Mike, baby, bought everyone a golf cart to keep them happy.
Jake Gyllenhaal is the guy who beds Jennifer Aniston in the flick, “The Good Girl.” In real life, he’s dating “Star Wars” beauty Natalie Portman.
When dog-lover Renee Zellweger has to go on location without her pooch, she sends packages to her dog-sitter pal containing clothes she’s just worn, so that the canine can sniff them, pick up her scent, and be reassured.
One reason Sen. Hillary Clinton always looks at the ground when she walks, or has a conversation on a parking lot, is she’s hoping to find good fortune. She saves lucky pennies.
Paul McCartney had friends pay at the bar at his then-fiancee Heather’s birthday party.
Ashanti, whose real name is Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas, landed her first record contract at the age of 14. She became only the second act in music history to have three songs among the Top 10 in the same week (the other was the Beatles).
Steven Spielberg’s classmates scoffed when he vowed he’d become a famous Hollywood director. To them, he was a nerd they sometimes called “Spielbug.”
Producers removed Sylvester Stallone’s famous face from the ads for the 1993 thriller “Cliffhanger,” because viewers laughed at him during a test screening of the film.
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