Cracked Archive - Celebrities

5 Beloved Famous People With Creepy Secret Obsessions

You might spot Tom Cruise raving about energy spirits outside of Spago, but you'll never catch some beloved performer straight up worshiping the devil. Right? (Hint: Wrong.)

Authors: By Jake Flores
Published: March 14, 2013
Comments: 1613

5 Myths About Celebrity Deaths Everyone Believes

It turns out that some of the most famously juicy, ironic, or poetic deaths ever were nothing like they told you.

Authors: By Sammy Trujillo
Published: March 12, 2013
Comments: 1660

8 Actors Who Look the Same on Every Movie Poster (Part 3)

Yes, it is apparently possible to be typecast in movie posters.

Authors: By J.F. Sargent, Kier Harris, Isaac Cabe
Published: February 12, 2013
Comments: 821

8 Celebrities With Unexpected Famous Relatives

Some blood connections between celebrities aren't so easy to spot, since they exist between people you'd probably never imagine being in the same room together, let alone getting drunk and having an argument on Thanksgiving.

Authors: By Chris Scott, Kelly Stone
Published: January 19, 2013
Comments: 1077

Where Aren't They Now? 13 Overlooked Deaths of 2012

Every year, Cracked takes a few minutes to look back and reflect on the lives of the recently deceased whose deaths didn't necessarily make headlines, despite the fact that they each changed your life in some small way.

Authors: By Lisa Skye, Paul Rasche
Published: December 26, 2012
Comments: 719

How to Put on a Variety Show in the Modern Age

Authors: By Virgin Mobile
Published: December 13, 2012
Comments: 27

The 8 Greatest Eddie Murphy Movies of All Time

We asked some of your favorite Cracked writers to pick their favorite Eddie Murphy movie, and defend their picks in a sudden-death, no-holds-barred cage match of thoughtful, comedy enthusiasm.

Authors: By CRACKED Staff
Published: November 12, 2012
Comments: 609

The 6 Strangest Previous Careers of Famous Musicians

Apparently, rock stars who actually had serious careers going before the whole music thing panned out, and some of them are rather mind-blowing.

Authors: By Pauli Poisuo
Published: September 03, 2012
Comments: 858

The 12 Most Ridiculous Celebrity Self-Portraits

The art of rendering one's own image on canvas is still going strong -- even in this era of the much more elegant iPhone mirror pic. As with everything else, celebrities do self-portraits better than us laypeople. Or at least they do them much, much weirder.

Authors: By Liana Maeby
Published: August 25, 2012
Comments: 799

5 Famous People Who Secretly Had Awesome Second Careers

Somewhere, there's an alternate reality completely different from ours, where the following people went with their first career choice (for better or worse).

Authors: By Evan V. Symon
Published: June 18, 2012
Comments: 686

7 Physical Mutations That Helped Famous Careers

We bet every one of you reading this has one weird thing about your body you'd change if you could. Not so fast, though -- as a whole bunch of famous people can tell you, a horrible deformity and/or physical mutilation can be the difference between failure and stardom.

Authors: By Pauli Poisuo
Published: December 26, 2011
Comments: 848

5 Insane Celebrity Conspiracy Theories (That Make Sense)

We try not to be celebrity-obsessed here at Cracked. But some prominent people have permanently changed the culture, and it's worth understanding what made them tick.

Authors: By Adam Tod Brown, Kristi Harrison, Mohammed Shariff
Published: November 21, 2011
Comments: 1747

4 Reasons Zooey Deschanel Can Stop Pretending She's a Dork

If you're anything like me, you track rising movie starlets through a patented system of chicken bone voodoo and Precog upkeep. It's a good system but sometimes people fall through the cracks. Like when the lil' water baldies began rolling out the name 'Zooey' over and over again, I had to consult other sources to get a reading of what was up.

Authors: By Kristi Harrison
Published: October 07, 2011
Comments: 2009