Celebrities, they’re just like us. Well almost. While some celebrities do occasionally buy their own lattes, and you can sometimes spot them at a Red Sox game, most of our favorite stars do live extraordinary lives. Well they often have more money than they can handle, and the freedom to do whatever they please. So they can afford to drop a cool million on a ghost machine. They can also spend $100K on their hair each year. If they want, they can get into a fully-blown bidding war over some dinosaur bones. So we’ve compiled a list of the weirdest and quirkiest facts about about our favorite celebs, which really does help them stand out from us ‘regular’ people.
Meghan Fox
Meghan Fox has it all. The model-looks, and enviable career and a gorgeous family of her own. Still, there’s still some quirky facts about her which fans may not have realized, and maybe this is the source of her luck. While she was promoting the first Transformers movie, Meghan said in an interview, “I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns.” She added, “Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people’s imaginations.” So maybe these Irish luck is the secret of her success?
Meghan Fox
Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian really lives the high-life and can afford to pick and choose and do what ever she pleases. She can also afford to be a little bit diva-ish. So if one of her pet hates is the cardboard, she won’t ever have to deal with that, ever. Kim once admitted in an interview how “I hate the sleeve on a Starbucks cup.” For her this is no sweat, as she has people to deal with this burning dilemma. Kim simply leaves “the room for someone to take it off for me because I cringe from the sound. It’s like nails on a chalkboard for me. I hate cardboard.”
Kim Kardashian
Nicolas Cage
Did you ever wonder what a celebs like Nicholas Cage blow their millions on? Well, one of these items was a Mongolian dinosaur skull. Even more, did you ever wonder how much he would pay for a Mongolian dinosaur skull? Well, Nicholas Cage actually got into a bidding war with Leonardo DiCaprio and ended up taking home the prize skull for a cool $276,000. Nicholas also has an interesting pet collection, and blew $275,000 for an octopus and two Albino King Cobra snakes. Thankfully, he also bought an antidote in case they ever bit him. Ok that’s good to know!
Nicolas Cage
Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone shot to stardom as the high school queen in the iconic flick Clueless. Since then she took a step back from the limelight and focused on her vegan lifestyle and family. A few years ago she posted a video on her health food site TheKindLife.com and revealed the surprising way she feeds her son, Bear. “I fed Bear the mochi and a tiny bit of veggies from the soup…from my mouth to his,” she wrote. “It’s his favorite…and mine.” While this seems a little controversial to some, others have claimed the pre-chewing food for an infant has health benefits. Well as long as their both happy!
Alicia Silverstone
Katy Perry
Back in 2010, Katy Perry was loved-up with Russell Brand. While the celeb couple already had everything money could buy, birthday gifting must have been tough. So what better way for Katy Perry to impress Russell Brand on his 35th birthday, than buying a ticket to space. At just $200,000 a pop, they could secure a seat on Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson’s suborbital spaceflight. While they couple are no longer together, luckily the space ticket had to put on hold too as that might have been an awkward flight. The Virgin Galactic is still in test-flight mode almost 10 years later.
Katy Perry
Mariah Carey
While most kids have a playroom in their house where they can play with their toys, the children of Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon are no ordinary kids. These are celeb kids. So Mariah and Nick went one step further and created a real-life candy room for them. This room is exclusively devoted to candy and the kids can enjoy any sweet treat that their heart desires. It even has it’s own cotton candy maker. Luckily for these celeb kids, they can also afford the best dental treatment money can buy. They may also need to hire a therapist to wean them off their candy addiction later in life!
Mariah Carey
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga is another iconic pop queen, who has it all. Well she almost has it all. You see she’s actually afraid of ghosts and is scared that there is one ghost named Ryan who is haunting her. So if you ever wondered what would Gaga do to solve her issues, then the answer is simple, just buy a ghost-detector. In fact the ghost-detector cost her a whopping $50,000. The machine is electromagnetic field meter designed to detect poltergeists. Let’s hope she finally chased those ghosts away.
Lady Gaga
Beyoncé
Queen B has conquered the world of music, entertainment and movies. She’s won countless awards and inspired a generation of fans. So, just when we thought she’d achieved everything she wanted in life, she has even had an insect named after her. Confused? Well back in 2012, a group of researchers in Northern Queensland, Australia discovered a rare species of horse fly. Since the fly had golden hairs on it’s abdomen, and seemed to be “all-time diva of flies” the researchers named the insect “Scaptia beyonceae.” We’re not too sure if Beyonce is happy or freaked out by this accolade, but we’re sure they meant it as the greatest honor.
Beyoncé
Ludacris
When you’re a an actor and rap mogul like Ludacris, it might be hard to do regular things like going to the movies and sitting with regular people. And you don’t even have to, because you’re Ludacris. In 2016, Ludacris shared a photo on Instagram, with the caption “Sometimes you have to rent the entire movie theater out for your fam and babies to yell and disrupt the movie in peace #nowthatsludicrous.”
Ludacris
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie has dominated the tabloids for quite a few reasons over the years. Although one of these reasons was a little more strange than others. When Angelina was dating Billy Bob Thornton, there were a few rumors floating around about the couple’s vampire tendencies. Well later Angelina even confirmed that they “thought it would be interesting and romantic if we took a little razorblade and sliced our fingers, smeared a little blood on these lockets and you wear it around your neck just like you wear your son or daughter’s baby hair in one.” Um, ok each to their own.
Angelina Jolie
Paris Hilton
The socialite, heiress and reality queen Paris Hilton, really does live a life of luxury. So it seems only natural that her dogs should sleep in luxury too. In fact, in 2009 she blew $325,000 for a two-story, 300-square feet dog villa. Yes you heard that right, a villa for her dogs. The luxury pad is kitted out with a black crystal chandelier, designer furniture, and a balcony. Let’s just hope her pups are trained too!
Paris Hilton
George Lucas
George Lucas is the brains behind the sci-fi franchise Star Wars. So in our eyes, he can spend his starry fortune on whatever he needs. Even if that means buying his own fire truck, then that’s fine with us. He also employs 12 full-time firefighters, just in case. Well it’s always good to be prepared.
George Lucas
Bono
In 2003, the U2 frontman Bono traveled to Italy to sing at a charity concert. When the plane landed and he was in time for the gig, everything was going to plan. That was until he suddenly realized that he’d forgotten his prized possession, his lucky black trilby hat. So while most stars would have just done charity gig without it, not Bono. He needed that hat so much that he ended up paying a whopping 1,200 for the hat to be flown to him, on a first class seat on British Airways. We only wonder what the passenger on that plane who sat next to the hat must have thought!
Bono
Mike Tyson
The boxing titan, Mike Tyson has made a few outrageous and extravagant money decisions throughout his career. One of the highlights was a $2.2 million on a 24 karat gold bathtub for his mansion in Ohio. We can only imagine how the rest of his house must have looked!
Mike Tyson
The Obamas
While the Obamas were in the White House, they did seem to be a regular, down-to-earth couple. Still, even Barack Obama has some quirks of his own. Firstly, he doesn’t believe in hats. He once said, “Here’s the general rule: You don’t put stuff on your head if you’re president. That’s politics 101. You never look good wearing something on your head.” He also had some interesting dress choices. Throughout his Presidency he deliberately only wore blue or grey suits as it means he had less decisions to make. Now his term is over he resorted to baggy dad jeans. We just hope his fashionista wife got him out of that habit now!
The Obamas
Rhianna
When you’re an international superstar like Rhianna, you can really blow your fortune on anything you choose and afford the best blow-out hair stylist on the planet. So for her spending a cool $1,168,000 each year to ensure her hair always looks on point, would be like pocket money. For us regular people, that would be the equivalent of four years of tuition fees at Harvard. Well she does always look fabulous, she we can’t really blame her.
Rhianna
Catherine Bell
Catherine Bell made a name for herself as the hugely successful actor from the ’90’s cult pop TV series JAG. However fans may not have known that she almost didn’t become an actress. She originally worked as a model in Japan, and had her sights set on becoming a doctor, so she studied Biology as UCLA. However she then had a change of heart and ended up dropping out of university and started to study acting in Beverly Hills Playhouse. And we’re glad she did! Her other hobbies are a little eclectic too and include sewing, motorcycle driving and designing cars. We wonder if any of these would be her next career move.
Catherine Bell
Troy Aikman
Troy Aikman became world famous as the star quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys and led his team to three Superbowl victories. So we can only imagine that the sports legend has amassed a small fortune. So Troy can afford to live the high-life and invest his fortune in a few properties. His prized property is a 10,000 square foot luxury estate in Texas, Dallas, worth around $5.5 million. The lavish pad comes equipped with a pool, a special home cinema with a snack bar, a wine room and a matching bar. He can also relax in a soaking tub, 4 baths, 6 bedrooms and keep all his luxury cars in his 3-car-garage.
Troy Aikman
Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper has become a national staple as a CNN anchor and lived a pretty extraordinary life. While it seems like nothing can get past him as a news anchor, fans may not know that young Cooper was a little more impressionable. In fact, when he was younger and his father showed him a statue of ancestor Cornelius Vanderbilt, Cooper later admitted he thought that when you die it meant your body would turn to stone. Ok then!
Anderson Cooper
Terry Bradshaw
Terry Bradshaw is famously known as an ex-NFL quarterback, Father Figures star and popular Fox sports analyst. While he is not as quirky as some other celebs in this collection, he did invest his fortune on a $9.95 Million Red River Ranch in Oklahoma. Luckily the estate is expansive enough to house his interesting pet collection, which include eight dogs, two cats, two miniature donkeys and two miniature goats. He also does a has a quirky sense of humor and once admitted in an interview how “People always mistake me for Brad Pitt, everywhere I go — it has to stop!”
Terry Bradshaw
Kesha
Kesha is well-known for her catchy pop lyrics and quirky sense of style. She also has made some seriously quirky statements in her time as a pop princess. In 2013 she told the talk show host Jimmy Kimmel that she was “very serious” that her body was haunted. Kesha explained, “I was told I had dead people in me so I called my hypnotherapist. So then she said she had to exorcise my body. And then I got a ghost meter to read it, just beeped at my [privates].”
Kesha
Julia Roberts
Another celebrity trend that has gained more popularity in recent years is for stars to insure their body parts. While Dolly Parton famously insured her breasts for a cool $600,000, Rhianna topped that by insuring her legs for $1 million each. Then Kylie Minogue insured her butt for $5 million. Still this was nothing compared to Julia Robert’s assets. She really raised the bar higher and insured her smile for a staggering $30 million.
Julia Roberts
Steve Jobs
Steve Apple was the co-founder of the Apple empire, and we’re sure he had enough money to eat in the most lavish Michelin star restaurants around the world. However he still insisted on sticking to a strict vegan diet. This because he thought his diet gave him superpowers. Apparently, he believed that eating only vegetables and grains would help flush his body of mucus. Wait there’s more, as he also believed this meant he didn’t have body odor. Wow, well he is a genius, so if he says it then maybe it’s true…
Steve Jobs
Celine Dion
For us ‘regular people’, if we were searching for a basic humidifier, we could find one on Amazon for around $20. However if you’re a pop diva like Celine Dion, you couldn’t just buy any old humidifier. After all, she was staying in Las Vegas and needed to protect her vocal cords form the dry desert air. So understandably she needed a good one. While we might think it could cost a few hundred dollars, she went to the next level and invested in a $2 million humidifier. That’s more than a condo in Manhattan! We’re just hoping the humidifier had magical powers aside from pumping moisture into the air.
Celine Dion
Randy Quaid
Randy Quaid shot to the limelight as the comedic character from movies like Independence Day and National Lampoon’s Vacation. While he does have a quirky sense of style, he also has some far-out beliefs. You see, he reason to believe that there are “star whackers” who work for the underground Illuminati organization. The same Illuminati have been wiping-out celebrities like Heath Ledger and David Carradine, and Randy believes he is next on their hit list. he once insisted, “They follow us, they tail us, they tag our cell phone, they hack our computer.” The reason he believes they are after him, is “to gain control of my royalties.”
Randy Quaid
Kim Basinger
While celebrity real-estate prices can often go off the charts, Kim Basinger really took house-hunting to the next level. Anyway, why just buy a house when you can purchase an entire town. So, since she could afford it in 1989, she decided to splurge $20 million cash on Braselton, Georgia, which is a 2,000-acre town with approx 7,500 residents. her original plan was to turn the town into a a tourist destination, which featured movie studios and even a national film festival. But just five years later, she decided against the idea and let it go for just $1 million. Ouch!
Kim Basinger
Donald Trump
Donald Trump can pretty much do anything he wants in life, especially as President. So it may come as no surprise that his own private Boeing 757 is lined with gold. In fact, the entire interior is gold-plated, including 24-carat gold-plated seat belts, a gold-plated shower and sink, and a master bedroom with gold silk-line walls. Just wow!
Donald Trump
Emma Stone
Emma Stone is an Oscar-winning actress who has a won us all over with her charms in movies like Crazy Stupid Love and The Amazing Spiderman. Well she also has some pretty supernatural beliefs and once told David Letterman how “My grandfather leaves quarters.” Confused? Well, in reality her grandfather has been deceased for a few years, but every time she sees a quarter, she believes “It’s him! It’s absolutely him.” She also told Letteman that “It’s such a long story that you’d have to go to commercial five times and roll to a clip and then come back and I’d still be telling the story. But it’s him, you guys, it’s him!” Well since we’re still waiting for the back story, we’ll just have to take her word for it.
Emma Stone
Willow Smith
Willow Smith is the enigmatic daughter of the cooler than cool parents, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. While she’s already carving a name for herself as a fashion icon, international pop artist and film star, she also possesses cool magical powers. Willow once announced during an interview, with a completely straight poker face that she can bend time. She explained, how she can make time “go slow or fast, however I please. That’s how I know it doesn’t exist.” Well to be honest she is that cool that we could almost believe anything she says.
Willow Smith
Tom Cruise
Most celebrity couples can afford to pay for the only rge best hospitals with the most qualified doctors and state-of-the-art equipment. However this was good enough for Tom Cruise when he was married to Katie Holmes and she was pregnant. He actually purchased a $200,000 for a sonogram machine so he could watch Suri in the womb every day. Talk about keeping a constant eye on your kids, even if they aren’t born yet!
Tom Cruise