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Elton John is Eminem’s AA sponsor, which I nonetheless cannot imagine however is type of…healthful?
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Dolly Parton met Keanu Reeves when he was a bit child as a result of his mother made lots of her costumes, together with her Playboy Bunny costume. In truth, Keanu went as Dolly within the Playboy Bunny costume for Halloween one 12 months. (I would like pictures of this.)
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Talking of Keanu — Alice Cooper babysat him when he was a child. Cooper did not even understand the child he’d babysat was Keanu till Reeves revealed Cooper had babysat him on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon. Apparently, pretend poop within the fridge was someway concerned?
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Cameron Diaz went to highschool with Snoop Dogg, and she or he’s “fairly positive” she purchased weed from him, which checks out.
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Meghan Markle did the calligraphy for Robin Thicke’s 2005 marriage ceremony invites — not as a result of the 2 had been buddies, however as a result of the then-23-year-old was doing calligraphy to make ends meet earlier than making it in Hollywood.
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Alicia Keys and Timothée Chalamet grew up in the identical constructing. Larry David additionally lived there at one level, together with Terrence Howard, Tennessee Williams, Angela Lansbury, Mickey Rourke, and Patrick Dempsey…so I am satisfied there’s some particular star-making energy within the water at this constructing.
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And guess who was the primary safety guard of that constructing? Samuel L. Jackson.
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Mick Foley and Kevin James went to highschool collectively, and had been even on the identical wrestling crew, the place they competed in opposition to one another “day in and day trip,” based on Foley. He even acquired in on the Kevin James memes to joke concerning the previous days.
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Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore lived collectively at Harvard, which I actually can’t think about.
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One among my fave celeb connections? Lauryn Hill went to Zach Braff’s bar mitzvah, and so they had been even companions through the sport “Coke and Pepsi.”
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I am type of in shock that Christian Bale’s stepmother is feminist rights icon Gloria Steinem.
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And Matthew Perry’s stepdad was Keith Morrison of Dateline fame.
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Talking of Perry — he went to highschool with Justin Trudeau as a child and even claimed he beat him up within the fifth grade as a result of “I believe he was excelling at a sport that we weren’t pretty much as good at. It was pure jealousy.”
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Jamie Dornan and Eddie Redmayne had been roommates earlier than they had been well-known. On the time, additionally they frolicked with Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, and Charlie Cox. I am nonetheless looking out the mail for my invite, TBH.
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And Chloe Sevigny babysat Topher Grace — Topher even had a crush on her.
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Mara Wilson and Ben Shapiro are cousins, and I can not IMAGINE how awkward these vacation meals are.
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Joe Rogan and Gerard Means, the lead singer of My Chemical Romance, are additionally cousins. Sorry, however I might make Rogan sit on the child’s desk — or within the storage by himself — at Thanksgiving.
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Nas is Yara Shahidi’s cousin, which is one Christmas dinner I might prefer to attend.
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Scarlett Johansson and Jack Antanoff dated in highschool and even went to promenade collectively, which is so weird to me. They broke up after commencement, reportedly on account of Johansson’s rising fame, and Antanoff wrote the track “Higher Love” about her.
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Ed Sheeran slept on Jamie Fox’s sofa for six weeks when he first moved to LA. He purchased a one-way ticket there for a single gig, making an attempt to maintain the momentum going, and ended up on Jamie Foxx’s radio present The Foxxhole, which led to acting at Foxx’s stay music night time, after which finally sleeping on his sofa and utilizing his in-home recording studio without spending a dime.
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Denzel Washington paid for Chadwick Boseman and a bunch of his classmates at Howard College to attend a summer time theater program at The College of Oxford. After they bumped into one another years later, after Boseman had made it large, Denzel joked to Chadwick that he owed him cash.
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Youngsters’s poet and creator Shel Silverstein labored for Playboy Journal and infrequently frolicked at Hugh Hefner’s mansion. If The Giving Tree was written on the Playboy Mansion, I am sorry, I am by no means going to take a look at it the identical means once more,
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Dominic Cooper and James Corden was once roommates. Cooper launched Corden to his spouse, Julia Carey. That is cute and all, however I actually can’t image Cooper and Corden hanging out.
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After assembly in a playwriting class, Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson grew to become faculty roommates, and so they had been each type of delinquents! Apparently, they’d points with their landlord, who would not repair their damaged home windows, so that they staged a pretend break-in. In addition they ended up transferring out in the course of the night time, inflicting a non-public investigator to trace them down. Oh, and Anderson as soon as wrote a paper Wilson handed off as his.
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Earlier than skyrocketing to fame, Harrison Ford labored on a digicam crew for The Doorways, serving to movie a highway tour film. Apparently, they partied too laborious even for him, main Ford to say he needed to affix a monastery afterward.
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Larry David and Bernie Sanders are distant cousins, which is hilarious contemplating what number of occasions David has parodied him.
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Pedro Pascal and Sarah Paulson have been buddies for the reason that early ’90s earlier than they discovered fame. One of many first occasions they frolicked, they noticed Woody Harrelson at a park and bonded over being followers of Harrelson. When Paulson started to e-book work, she would give Pascal cash so he might afford to eat. And that is why they’re the web’s Mother and Dad!
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Werner Herzog as soon as rescued Joaquin Phoenix from his upside-down automotive after he acquired in a crash. Herzog occurred to be passing by and noticed the wreckage. Phoenix says he heard a “light faucet” and a “calming and exquisite” German voice telling him to calm down, which made him really feel secure. Herzog helped him from the automotive after which disappeared moments later. “I acquired out of the automotive and I mentioned thanks, and he was gone,” Phoenix recounted.
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Martin Luther King Jr. paid the hospital invoice when Julia Roberts was born. Why? Roberts’ dad and mom ran a theater faculty that permit within the Kings’ kids at a time when few packages would admit Black kids. When her dad and mom could not pay the hospital invoice, Martin and Coretta stepped in.
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Talking of Coretta Scott King, she babysat John Lithgow when he was a child, which is past random.
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And talking of MLK Jr., his father, Martin Luther King Sr., was as soon as held hostage by Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson was a part of a bunch protest in opposition to the administration and curriculum, which concerned locking the college’s board (which included Dr. King) in a room utilizing chains from the walkways for a day and a half. At one level, Dr. King had chest pains, so that they “put him on a ladder, put him out the window, and despatched him down.” Jackson ended up being kicked out of faculty for the protest.
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That is particularly shocking contemplating Jackson had been an usher at Martin Luther King Jr’s funeral the 12 months prior.
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One final Martin Luther King Jr. superstar connection — King as soon as met Star Trek star Nichelle Nichols at an NAACP occasion and satisfied her to not give up the present. “He advised me that he was my greatest fan,” she recalled. “And he requested me to please keep on the present — that I used to be a task mannequin to Black kids and ladies all throughout America … He advised me that I could not go away: that I used to be a part of historical past.” Nichols, who was the primary Black girl to have a seamless co-starring function on American TV, would find yourself being one-half of the primary kiss between a Black individual and a white individual on an American TV present.
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Timothée Chalamet and Ansel Elgort went to highschool collectively and competed for a similar elements in performs. In addition they had the identical drama and science academics and performed on the identical basketball crew. (TBH, I can’t image both of those males taking part in basketball.)
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Kerry Washington is from the identical neighborhood within the Bronx as Jennifer Lopez and attended the identical highschool as Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Jay Z, Busta Rhymes, and Infamous BIG all went to highschool collectively, and Jay and Rhymes as soon as had a rap battle at lunch (oh, to be a fly on that wall). Rhymes mentioned he would skip class with Biggie and smoke weed. Oh, and DMX additionally went to highschool there.
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Seth Rogan and Nathan Fielder went to the identical highschool and had been even in an improv group collectively.
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And eventually, Rachel Brosnahan’s aunt was designer Kate Spade.
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