Random Celebrity Facts and Trivia

1.      Matthew Perry is missing part of his middle finger on his right hand due to a door-shutting accident.

2.      Madonna is related to both Gwen Stefani and Celine Dion. Gwen's great aunt's mother-in-law shares the same last name as Madonna Ciccone and an ancestor of Madonna's mother was married to a distant relative of Celine's dad.

3.     
Christina Applegate attended the 1989 MTV Movie Awards with Brad Pitt, but dumped him at the event and left with someone else. "We were really good friends when I was about 16. We went to the awards and I ditched him! I left him there and I feel really bad about it...I really really do. I left with somebody else"

4.      Comic actor Jack Black is the son of rocket scientists. His mother worked on the Hubble telescope, and his father worked on "some stuff that I can't tell you about," Jack says.

5.      At age 10, Justin Timberlake won 1991 pre-teen Mr. America pageant. The following year, he became the first male winner of America's Universal Charm pageant.

6.     
When he was little, Ben Affleck asked his mom for a dog and she tested him by making him walk an imaginary pup for a week. In the end, he only lasted five days and didn't get the dog.

7.      Though Christina Aguilera is of Ecuadorian descent and recorded an album in Spanish, she doesn't speak the language.

8.      George Clooney sometimes sleeps in the walk-in closet of his LA mansion because, he says, "all the bedrooms are too bright".

9.      Mariah Carey was nicknamed "Mirage" in high school because she never showed up for class.

10.  Heidi Klum is an avid painter and several of her works have appeared in US art magazines.

11.  Struggling actress Charlize Theron landed her first agent in a bank. He signed her after witnessing her throwing a fit at a bank teller who refused to cash her cheque.

12.  Brad Pitt belonged to the Key Club and the Forensics Club in High School, and before he became an actor he supported himself as a chauffeur, a furniture mover and a costumed mascot for the restaurant, El Pollo Loco.

13. As a 2nd grader Jamie Foxx was so talented at telling jokes, his teacher used him as a reward. If the class behaved, Jamie would entertain them.

More Interesting Celebrity Facts

As a child, Jim Carrey wore tap shoes to bed just in case his parents needed cheering up in the middle of the night.

In 1985, Teri Hatcher played a dancing mermaid on The Love Boat. "That was the first job I ever had" she says. "I left college before finishing my math degree to go do that".

Claire Danes has a swing in her apartment. "My parents had a swing, a trapeze and a trampoline in their apartment, I was inspired by that"

In 1993, Jessica Simpson tried out for the Mickey Mouse Club but panicked after watching Christina Aguilera audition. "I froze and forgot everything" she says. She lost out to both Christina and Britney Spears.

Eva Longoria starred in the 2004 flick Carlita's Secret, a crime drama in which she shared a same-sex smooch with actress Maria Bravo. "It was the most fun I’ve ever had kissing somebody".

Tom Cruise admits that he still does the Risky Business underwear dance when he’s at home alone. He calls it his "dance of freedom".

Jennifer Love Hewitt sent Matt Damon an inflatable bed because she read he didn't feel like he has a bed of his own. She never heard back and now, he "looks at me a little weird".

Julia Roberts' left eye tears up when she gets nervous.

Demi Moore, who has earned up to 20 million per movie, first found work as a bill collector

After Drew Barrymore posed for Playboy in 1995, Steven Spielberg sent a note that said "cover yourself up" along with a quilt and a copy of the magazine with all her pictures altered so that she appeared fully clothed.

Butt-Kicking Kill Bill siren Uma Thurman is a crafty one. "I knit" she admits, adding "I love glue gun projects"

While attending Princeton, Prison Break star Wentworth Miller travelled the world performing with the school's acapella group, The Princeton Tigertones

In a high school talent show, Matt Damon performed the talking heads' "Burning down the House"

Both Olsen twins had to wear fake teeth during the later years of Full House because their smiles began to look different.

More Random Interesting Facts for your Enjoyment

1.      Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

2.      "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.

3.      Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.

4.      American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

5.      The world's first University was established in Takshila, India in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

6.      A normal person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.

7.      If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

8.      During the 2,475,576,000 seconds of the average length life, averagely we speak 123,205,750 words, have sex 4,239 times, shed 121 pints of tears.

9.      250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.