These 22 Celebrities Lost Their Sense Of Taste And Smell Because Of COVID
From Doja Cat not being able to taste bacon to Bryan Cranston's lasting for months.
The CDC lists "new loss of taste or smell" as a potential symptom of COVID-19. Most people regain these senses after a few weeks, but some still haven't. Here's a list of celebrities who experienced this very peculiar symptom of COVID and what it was like for them.
1. Doja Cat:
I couldn't taste bacon and my legs hurt. https://t.co/qWZ7FMrhBk
What it was like for her: She told Capital XTRA, "It was a four-day symptom freak out, but I'm fine now." She also couldn't taste bacon.
2. Neil Patrick Harris
What it was like for him: He told Today, "It happened very early, like late March, early April. We were doing our best before, and I thought I had the flu, and I didn't want to be paranoid about it. And then I lost my sense of taste and smell, which was a big indicator, so we holed up."
3. Jim Parsons
What it was like for him: He had a mild to medium case, but said it stuck around for a month to six weeks. He also lost his sense of taste and smell.
4. Alyssa Milano
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What it was like for her: She wrote in an Instagram post, "This was me on April 2nd after being sick for two weeks. I had never been this kind of sick. Everything hurt. Loss of smell. It felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t keep food in me. I lost nine pounds in two weeks. I was confused. Low grade fever. And the headaches were horrible. I basically had every COVID symptom. At the very end of March I took two COVID-19 tests and both were negative. I also took a COVID antibody test (the finger prick test) after I was feeling a bit better. NEGATIVE. After living the last four months with lingering symptoms, like vertigo, stomach abnormalities, irregular periods, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, zero short-term memory, and general malaise, I went and got an antibody test from a blood draw (not the finger prick) from a lab. I am POSITIVE for COVID antibodies. I had COVID-19."
5. Bryan Cranston
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What it was like for him: Bryan told Ellen he contracted the virus in March and still hadn't regained full sense of taste or smell in December.
6. Jack Nicklaus
What it was like for him: Jack said at a press conference in July, "I had a little sore throat for about four, five days, a cough that lasted about three weeks. Barbara had absolutely nothing. I'm actually still left with no taste. I can't smell or taste very much."
7. Prince Charles
The Prince of Wales also spoke to staff about losing his sense of taste and smell when he had #coronavirus and said he is still feeling the effects of the virus now. Many weeks later.
What it was like for him: He felt the effects of the virus for weeks. He also lost his sense of taste and smell.
8. Von Miller
What it was like for him: He lost 15 pounds. He said in a Zoom call, "During the virus, I lost a lot of weight. Everybody’s symptoms are not the same, but for me, I lost my taste and smell, and I really couldn’t eat. When you can’t taste or smell food, you kind of lose your appetite. I lost about 15 pounds."
9. Anna Camp
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What it was like for her: She wrote on Instagram in July, "Completely losing my sense of smell and taste without knowing when or even if they will return is extremely disorienting. I’m only smelling about 30 percent of how I used to now."
10. Gavin Creel
What it was like for him: He told Rosie O'Donnell, "I’m getting asparagus and it might as well be rubber. I don’t know, it’s the weirdest thing.”
11. Rudy Gobert
Just to give you guys an update, loss of smell and taste is definitely one of the symptoms, haven’t been able to smell anything for the last 4 days. Anyone experiencing the same thing?
What it was like for him: He was one of the first athletes to report losing his loss of taste and smell in March.
12. Daniel Dae Kim
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What it was like for him: He had tightness in his chest, body aches, and a high temperature. He also lost his sense of taste and smell.
13. Aaron Tveit
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What it was like for him: He wrote on Instagram, "One thing I have been experiencing is the loss of taste and smell, which I think is a big sign for people who are otherwise asymptomatic."
14. Lena Dunham
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What it was like for her: She wrote on Instagram, “I had swollen hands and feet, an unceasing migraine, and fatigue that limited my every move. Even as a chronically ill person, I had never felt this way." In the same Instagram post, she said she lost her taste and smell.
15. Andy Cohen
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What it was like for him: He told Today, "It was a low fever. It was no sense of smell or taste. Really achy throughout my body, just persistent aches that wouldn’t go away. Kind of a dry cough, not horrible but there."
16. Rita Wilson
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What it was like for her: She lost her senses of taste and smell. Her husband, Tom Hanks, didn't.
17. Hugh Grant
What it was like for him: He told Stephen Colbert, "It started as a very strange syndrome where I kept breaking into a terrible sweat, like a poncho of sweat. It was embarrassing. Then my eyeballs felt about three sizes too big and I felt like this enormous man, like Harvey Weinstein, was sitting on my chest. Then I was walking down the street and was like I couldn't smell a damn thing."
18. Charlie Hunnam
What it was like for him: He told Jimmy Kimmel, "It wasn’t particularly acute, I just lost my sense of taste and smell for about 10 days, and had a little bit of fatigue."
20. DJ Jazzy Jeff
What it was like for him: He told Will Smith on Snapchat, "I had a temperature that reached 103. I had the chills. I lost sense of smell. I lost sense of taste."
21. Gloria Estefan
What it was like for her: She said on Instagram, “My poor chef was the victim of me telling her that the chicken that she made me tasted like nothing. I still didn’t realize it ’till the next day when my breakfast tasted like nothing and then my soap I couldn't smell."
22. Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson
😂👏🏾👏🏾🥃 Love it and thanks for the laugh. And my sense of taste is still checked out. #mahalocovid https://t.co/jNjLxStnxx
What it was like for him: He said in an Instagram video that the coronavirus was one of the most challenging and difficult things he had to endure as a family.