Cracked Archive - Celebrities

5 Celebrities You Won't Believe Were Badass Soldiers
Most celebrities are profoundly disappointing in real life. Not these guys.
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The 5 Most Baffling Celebrity Cameos in Pro Wrestling
One reason pro wrestling will probably stick around forever is that there are certain advantages to having everything scripted, such as making sure shocking underdog stories happen right on schedule, and celebrity guest appearances.
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- By Andrei Cherascu
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5 Heartwarming Stories to Restore Your Faith in Celebrities
We should stop every now and then and point out when celebrities do nice or even heroic things. Because it does happen.
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- By Ricardo Rivera
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The 8 Most Horribly Insulting Attempts to Honor the Dead
When you're trying to create a dignified memorial to some historic event, it's important to ask yourself, 'Is what I'm about to create actually ridiculous and/or insulting to everyone involved?'
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- By Marcus O'Reilly, Scott Pearson
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6 Famous People Who Eerily Predicted Their Own Deaths
Too bad they didn't get to say "I told you so!"
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- By Stephen Milton
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7 Eyebrow-Arching, Post-Fame Careers Of Famous Musicians
If you're about to sign a record contract, take a cue from these seven artists. All have played before thousands-strong audiences, and all have followed up their fame with successful (if totally random-ass) careers.
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- By Bashir Mamow, Eric Ding
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5 Famous People You Didn't Know Have Real Mutant Powers
Mutants are very real, and they are among us -- in our TVs, and our iPods, and our sexual fantasies.
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- By Samuel Flashner
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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.)
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- By Jake Flores
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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.
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- By Sammy Trujillo
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8 Actors Who Look the Same on Every Movie Poster (Part 3)
Yes, it is apparently possible to be typecast in movie posters.
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- By J.F. Sargent, Kier Harris, Isaac Cabe
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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.
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- By Chris Scott, Kelly Stone
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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.
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- By Lisa Skye, Paul Rasche
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How to Put on a Variety Show in the Modern Age
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- By Virgin Mobile
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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.
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- By CRACKED Staff
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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.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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