29 Unexpected Facts About Beloved Celebrities
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We all know celebrities. We see them on T.V., in magazines, and online. They're the rich and famous people who always seem to have it all. Everyone knows that celebrities have resumes just like the rest of us. And while they usually contain all of the expected information - such as jobs, honors, and awards - sometimes there are a few unexpected bullet points. For example, did you know that...
This post is all about some of the more surprising things that can be found on celebrities' resumes. Whether it's Justin Timberlake's stint as a janitor or Rihanna's work as a sales clerk at Saks Fifth Avenue, these tidbits are sure to surprise and entertain readers. So, without further ado, let's take a look at some of the most unexpected resume items held by celebrities!
The whole deal about being a celebrity is that people know what you do for a living. Your job history is public for everyone to take a look at if we want to. The issue here, however, is that often we don't want to -- or in any case, we aren’t very thorough about it. When we are, we find surprising stuff like this...
![LL COOL J BROKE THE NOSE, JAW, AND RIBS OF SOMEONE WHO TRIED TO ROB HIS HOUSE. The rapper and actor physically detained the home invader until police arrived. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/3/813523.jpg)
![MIKE ROWE is an opera singer. You've seen him work dirty jobs on Discovery Channel, but have you heard him sing? People attending the Baltimore Opera have, as he used to perform professionally there. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/9/813529.jpg)
![62 ELVIS WAS A NATURAL BLONDE. Не dyed his hair darker since high school. One time he dyed it himself using black shoe polish. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/8/813508.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM To prepare for her role in Black Swan, Natalie Portman practiced for at least five hours a day. She sometimes started at 5 a.m. because she had other movies to film as well. She practiced SO hard for the role that she ended up with a dislocated rib.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/4/813524.jpg)
![CRACKED COM BRIAN MAY is an astrophysicist. Queen's lead guitarist got his PhD in 2007. Не also served as chancellor of a research university in Liverpool. No surprises here, as he already had guitar riffs down to a science.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/8/813528.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM DEXTER HOLLAND is a molecular biologist. The Offspring's singer put his studies on hold when band took off, but finally got his PhD in 2017.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/5/813515.jpg)
![Soon after publishing her first book, which was an immediate success, Martha Stewart spent 18-20 hours a day working on more books. Decades later, the 77-year-old has written up to 87 books, launched several magazines and TV shows, and released over 7,000 products (among other things). Even during her brief prison stint, she was still strategizing and thinking about work. GRAGKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/5/813525.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Since 2008, Eric Roberts has acted in over 300 projects, including movies, TV shows, and music videos. JOHNKY WHITAKER KRISTINE DIBELL FAMES AFTAR AND H YOKI OF EDITISENOUCH - N SEA ERIC ROBERTS STARKING - YOUNG ERIC ROBERTS - SAWYER - - A TALKING Stalked By CAT!?! My Doctor: THE RETURN The obsession continues After Robert's role in The Dark Knight, he's been active pretty much non-stop, becoming one of the most prolific actors in Hollywood. Не currently has 40 more films and TV series in post-production.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/2/813512.jpg)
![Lucille Ball was actually a very serious and responsible person, despite being famous for playing silly and funny characters. And her natural hair color was brown. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/1/813511.jpg)
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![Behind the scenes, Bob Ross wasn't SO relaxed and laid back he was a control freak about every little detail of his show, which is why it was the success it was. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/4/813534.jpg)
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![Serena Williams threatened a line judge (and seemed intoxicated) on the court. A few years after telling a line judge I swear to God I'll fucking take the ball and shove it down your fucking throat, Williams challenged tennis etiquette in a different way. During a Wimbledon doubles match with her sister Venus, she had trouble holding the ball and lost the ability to serve. The incident was blamed on a viral illness, while Martina Navratilova remarked, I think it's clear that's not the case. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/1/813521.jpg)
![1200 Trejo comes across Danny as one badass SOB in his movies, but in real life he's a totally wonderful guy. Aside from his work helping convicts get and stay on the straight and narrow, he says Everywhere I go I wanna bring some kind of joy and some kind of happiness. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/3/813533.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM Chuck Woolery was the host of Studs, possibly the most raunchy and sexually explicit game show ever syndicated on American network television. Не couldn't be much further to the right politically, and tweets or retweets about 40 times per day. Chuck Woolery @shudewoolery 28m Stand against the PC war on Christmas. Find out how on a new Blunt Force Truth. bit.ly/2gVHfLo BRACE YOURSELVES Chuck Woolery @chuckwoolery 45 Sore loser Obama turns to Russian hacking to delegitimize Trump's triumph WAR ON CHRISTMAS POSTS ARE COMING Chuck Woolery @chuokwoolery Dec 12 Sore loser Obama turns to Russian hacking to delegitimize Trump's](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/0/813530.jpg)
![Mark Wahlberg goes to church every day. Не credits his Catholic faith with saving him from gangs and addiction, and spends time helping inner city kids avoid that life as well. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/2/813532.jpg)
![Eminem doesn't believe in swearing around the house! AFI kl LIKE THE OPE THE P PE SMOES DOPE CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/6/813516.jpg)
![Gwen Stefani made an estimated $90 million per year from one clothing brand. The brand is L.A.M.B., and she's also started others, like the Japanese-inspired Harajuku Lovers and the ready-to-wear brand Design With Purpose. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/4/813514.jpg)
![SETH ROGEN AND NICOLAS CAGE NG R The two met during the casting of The Green Hornet in 2011. Cage mentioned that he wanted his character to be bald with tattooed hair. Days later, Cage phoned back to say that he didn't really want his character to have tattooed hair in the movie-he was just thinking of actually doing it in real life. Rogen laughed hysterically at this...only to realize that the man wasn't kidding. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/1/813531.jpg)
![Will Smith makes money by selling sustainably sourced and packaged water. ech For example, Norwegian Cruise Line is replacing 6 million plastic bottles with cartons of Smith's Just Water (his son Jaden came up with the brand). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/9/813509.jpg)
![DAVID BOWIE AND JOHN LENNON Bowie was apparently terrified of meeting Lennon. Bowie's longtime collaborator and producer Tony Visconti revealed that the two first met each other in a New York hotel room to see if they could collaborate on a song. Bowie asked Visconti to accompany him to buffer the situation, only to sit on the floor sketching while completely ignoring Lennon for hours. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/0/813510.jpg)
![QUENTIN TARANTINO COLLECTS BOARD GAMES The director collects film and TV-related games. John Travolta once said, All wanted to do was spend the evening playing board games of my old movies. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/8/813518.jpg)
![DAVID WALLIAMS AND PRINCE Walliams was invited to dinner by singer Bryan Ferry, and at the dinner he met Prince. It was awkward since both Ferry and Prince weren't that talkative, so when Walliams spotted a magazine with Florence and the Machine on the cover, he asked them what they thought about the band's new cover of You Got The Love. They didn't know what song he was talking about...so he started singing it to them while they stared blankly at him. Не said it was the most embarrassing experience. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/3/813513.jpg)
![The Rock also took the world's most selfies. CRACKED.COM Не took 105 selfies in 3 minutes in 2015, but the record only held for 3 years. Some guy with a selfie stick on a cruise ship clocked 168 in 2018.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/7/813517.jpg)
![JOHN MAYER COLLECTS WATCHES Не estimated his watch collection was worth in the tens of millions. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/6/813536.jpg)
![Babysitters CRACKED COM Tia and Tamara Mowry would babysit the Olsen twins. It makes sense since their brother Tahj Mowry was a character on Full House.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/0/813520.jpg)
![Frankie Muniz was a pretty good race car driver. TOYOTA AC III ESTONE YO TA EDS Wi TOYOTA CRACKED.COM Starting out driving the pace car at the Daytona 500 in 2001, he worked his way up the ranks of professional racing over the course of a decade. Не was ultimately sidelined by a wrist injury, but was, by all accounts, a legit racer with a bright future.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/2/813522.jpg)
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![Jimmy Buffett has no chill when it comes to the Heat. Не even got himself kicked out of a game. The famously laid back Margaritaville singer is a devoted Miami Heat fan, and got booted from a game in 2001 for yelling at an official. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/5/813535.jpg)
![Mother- & Daughter-In-Law GRACKED.COM Did you know Ashlee Simpson is married to the son of Diana Ross, making her a sister-in-law to Tracee Ellis Ross.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/6/813526.jpg)
![Steven Colbert is obsessed with J.R.R. Tolkien. Не even beat Peter Jackson's Tolkien expert, in a quiz. Jackson says Colbert is the biggest Tolkien geek he's ever met, and Colbert owns Aragorn's sword- which he got directly from Viggo Mortensen. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/7/813527.jpg)
![Bob Dylan is into steampunk metalworking. il Dra 3 His handcrafted gates have been in museums. Не says, Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/9/813519.jpg)
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