So, this week Ed Sheeran became the latest celeb to become a doctor.
Even Ed acknowledged that it's a mad world where you can be strumming a guitar one minute and receiving a doctorate the next.
I wasn't joking, I am actually a doctor now, that's how mad this world is
But actually, there are MANY celebrities walking around with random doctorates.
1. There's Dr Kayne West, ofc.
Thank you SAIC… This is my greatest honor to date and would have been my mother - Dr. West’s - proudest moment.
Did Jesus have a doctorate? NOPE.
2. Dr J.K. Rowling of Harvard, Dartmouth, the University of Exeter, and many Scottish ones.
3. Dr Jeremy Clarkson of Oxford Brookes.
4. Dr Prince Charles of Oxford...and Wales.
5. Dr Julie Andrews of Yale.
6. Dr Aretha Franklin of New York University and many others.
7. Dr John Legend of the University of Pennsylvania.
8. Dr Ben Affleck of Brown University.
9. Dr Meryl Streep of six universities.
10. Dr Oprah Winfrey of Harvard and the University of the Free State, South Africa.
11. Dr P Diddy of Howard University.
If P. Diddy got his doctorate, would he be PhDiddy?
And then he gave this speech and melted the heart of academia.
View this video on YouTube
12. Dr Alec Baldwin of the Manhattan School of Music.
13. Dr Robert De Niro of Bates College.
14. Dr Kermit the Frog of Southampton College.
15. Dr Mike Tyson of Central State University.
16. Dr Jill Scott of Temple University.
17. Dr Celine Dion of Université Laval.
18. Dr Chaka Khan of Berklee College of Music.
19. Dr Dolly Parton of the University of Tennessee.
20. Dr Quincy Jones of many, many places.
21. Dr Bianca Jagger of the University of East London.
22. Drs Annie Lennox, Willie Nelson, and Carole King.
23. Dr Bill Nye the Science Guy of Rutgers and John Hopkins Universities.
24. Dr Barbara Windsor of the University of East London.
25. RIP Dr Michael Jackson of Fisk University.
26. Dr Jodie Foster of the University of Pennsylvania.
27. Dr Grayson Perry of the Royal College of Art.
28. And finally, genuine Doctor James Franco of Yale, who has actually studied for his English PhD and who has a zillion other highly impressive qualifications.
