I don't know about you, but I just LOVE learning new facts! And what's better than a fact about your fave celeb? Here are my favourite tidbits about famous people...
1.Robin Williams' teachers at the Juilliard School thought he was such a "genius", that they encouraged him to leave in his junior year because there was "nothing more" they could teach him.
2.During an episode of Who Do You Think You Are, Sarah Jessica Parker discovered that her 10th great-grandmother was accused of witchcraft in a scandal that actually put an end to the Salem Witch Trials. Of the revelation, the actor said, "It has changed everything about who I thought I was."
3.Björk's name is frequently pronounced incorrectly as "bee-york". In fact, the singer herself clarified that it's supposed to rhyme with "jerk", and should be pronounced like "bee-yerk".
4.Jack Black made a video begging Led Zeppelin for permission to use "The Immigrant Song" in School of Rock. The band have a history of not letting people use their songs, and had previously denied director Richard Linklater rights to their music for his 1993 film Dazed and Confused.
5.While we're on Jack... His mother, Judith Love Cohen, helped create the Abort-Guidance System – a system which was used to help the Apollo 13 astronauts safely return to Earth after an oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft.
6.Stevie Nicks appears in the music video for Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious". The reason being that the guitar riff running through the song is actually a sample from Stevie's iconic track, "Edge of Seventeen".
7.Shortly after filming on Annie had wrapped, Carol Burnett went have to work done on her chin, which she had always felt was "necessary". Later, she was called up to do some re-shoots ~after~ the procedure, which had made a noticeable change to her face.
Here's that scene if you want to check it out for yourself:
8.Tilda Swinton comes from an ancient Anglo-Scottish family – one of the oldest in Scotland – that can be traced back to the Middle Ages. She also went to school with Princess Diana!
9.Cherie Currie, the frontwoman of The Runaways, left the group in 1977 because she felt "unable to cope" with being in the band. She later became a chainsaw artist, which has been her "sole livelihood" ever since.
10.Alexis Bledel, best known for her starring role in Gilmore Girls, did not speak English until she started school. Alexis considers herself Latina, and grew up speaking Spanish with her family; she still speaks it at home with her family today!
11.Kim Kardashian suffers from psoriasis, an autoimmune skin condition that causes flaky patches of skin which form scales. The reality TV pioneer has been very candid about her experience of the disease, sharing that psoriasis "is the sh*ts".
12.Stanley Tucci met his second wife, Felicity, at the 2006 premiere of The Devil Wears Prada. Felicity is the sister of Emily Blunt, who was Stanley's co-star in the film. The pair began dating around 2010 and secretly married in 2012.
13.Courtney Love's great-grandparents – Elsie de Sola Fox and Paul Hervey Fox — were just about as wild she is! The writer couple flitted between Manhattan and Hollywood, mixing with film stars and engaging in all sorts of debauchery.
14.Nicole Kidman has shared more than just a screen with her Big Little Lies co-star Zoë Kravitz. Nicole was actually once engaged to Zoë's dad Lenny Kravitz, and the three even lived together!
15.Lena Headey and Jerome Flynn both starred in all eight seasons of Game of Thrones, but allegedly refused to film scenes together because of a bad break-up between them years before.
16.David Bowie credited much of his early cultural education to his older half-brother, Terry. Unfortunately, after briefly joining the RAF, Terry came back showing "pretty evident signs of schizophrenia", according to David.
17.George Harrison remortgaged his house so that the Monty Python gang could make the seminal 1979 movie, Life of Brian. He set up film company called HandMade Films, and gave them around £2million to make the movie after the funding from EMI was withdrawn.
18.And finally – Mara Wilson's mum was dying during the production of Matilda, so director and star, Danny DeVito, took an early cut of the film to the hospital for her to watch before she passed away.
Did any of these surprise you? Let us know in the comments below!
