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.