Odd celebrity trivia

While Rob Lowe was promoting his new show, The Lowe Files—in which he and his son investigate unsolved mysteries—the former Parks & Rec star told of his “incredible encounter” with a huge, hairy cryptid sometimes called Bigfoot. “I was lying on the ground thinking I was going to be killed,” Lowe recalled. Why he wasn’t actually smashed into a fine paste by a gigantic foot, while Leonard Nimoy narrated in the background, we may never know. But Lowe is at least aware that “I sound like a crazy, Hollywood kook right now.”

While visiting New York in July before his big fight with Floyd Mayweather, Conor McGregor arrived for a press conference wearing a white fur coat that he claimed was made of polar bear fur. “I’m a cold [expletive],” he elaborated, and explained that he doesn’t care how boiling hot New York is in the middle of July.

“Some sort of spirit came down from God knows where and made love to me,” said Charlie’s Angels actress Lucy Liu in 1999. “It was sheer bliss. I felt everything. And then he floated away.”

“The hip-hop community is most likely owned by gay, to be honest with you,” Fat Joe revealed recently. “They’re owned by gay.” If you’re confused why he’s using “gay” as a noun, he elaborated. “I happen to think there’s a gay mafia in hip-hop. Not rappers. You know, the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows. This is a… gay mafia, my man.” One could argue that a musical genre with perhaps the most homophobic language in all of modern music history likely isn’t owned by a homosexual cabal, but we’re gonna let it slide.

You don’t become a successful rapper like Waka Flocka Flame by doing all your own grunt work. So in 2014, he put out an ad for a personal “blunt roller,” offering an annual salary of $50,000 for basically just rolling joints for Flame.

It’s tough to be an actor with rock-star ambitions. Macaulay Culkin just wanted to be in a band without people criticizing him, saying “Hey, isn’t that the kid from Home Alone?” Or “Why are they only singing Velvet Underground parodies about pizza? This is weird.”

How did The Nanny star Fran Drescher know that beau Peter Marc Jacobson was “The One?” Well, obviously, they both had scars from when they were abducted by aliens and implanted with electronic tracking chips. “I think that somehow we were programmed to meet,” she claimed in an interview. “It’s the exact same scar on the exact same spot.”

Willow Smith, the daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, announced during an interview, without even a trace of irony, that she can make time “go slow or fast, however I please. That’s how I know it doesn’t exist.”

You can’t blame a guy for trying, right? Well, maybe you can a little. Charlie Sheen was positive he could finally catch the elusive Scottish legend using only a leg of lamb and a large hook. “Something happened,” he told Jay Leno on the Tonight Show. “There was an event at the top of the water that was crazy.” It didn’t lead to a capture, however, but Sheen still believes in the beast. “Why not? If people talk about something for, like, 200 years, it’s got to be there, right?”

“My grandfather leaves quarters,” Oscar-winning actress Emma Stone once told David Letterman, also mentioning that her grandfather has been deceased for years. “It’s him! It’s absolutely him. 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!” We’ll just take your word for it, Emma.

It’s no big secret that Donald Trump likes gold, but you should get a load of the interior of his Boeing 757. It’s got 24-carat gold-plated seat belts, a gold-plated shower and sink, and a master bedroom with gold silk-line walls.

Randy Quaid, who you may recognize from movies like Independence Day and National Lampoon’s Vacation, has reason to believe that “star whackers” working for the underground organization the Illuminati have been offing celebrities like Heath Ledger and David Carradine, and he’s next on their hit list. “They follow us, they tail us, they tag our cell phone, they hack our computer,” Quaid once insisted. Why do they want him dead? “In order to gain control of my royalties,” he said.

The late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wasn’t just a vegan; he was a vegan who thought his diet gave him superpowers. He believed that eating only vegetables and grains flushed his body of mucus, which meant he didn’t have body odor.

When U2 lead singer and activist Bono arrived in Italy for a charity concert in 2003 and realized he left his favorite hat, a black trilby, back in London, he did what any reasonable person would do. He did the concert without the hat. Ha, no, just kidding! He paid $1,200 for the hat to be flown to him, on a first class seat on British Airways. Because obviously Bono’s hat needs more legroom than you.

Socialite Paris Hilton thinks her dog should sleep in luxury, so in 2009 she spent $325,000 for a two-story, 300-square feet villa. It’s got a black crystal chandelier, designer furniture, and a balcony. Yes, a balcony. For when they want to do their all-barking version of the Evita song “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina.”

When Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton were still a couple, there were rumors of their vampiric tendencies. And recently Thornton confirmed it, explaining that Jolie “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.”

The Grammys weren’t enough for Beyoncé, who now gets an insect named after her. It happened in 2012, when researchers in Northern Queensland, Australia discovered a new species of horse fly. So they named it “Scaptia beyonceae,” apparently because of the golden hairs on the fly’s abdomen. Researchers even claimed that the rare horse fly is the “all-time diva of flies.”

Lady Gaga is afraid of some ghosts. Specifically, a ghost named Ryan that she’s pretty sure is haunting her. So she spent a whooping $50,000 on an electromagnetic field meter designed to detect poltergeists.

They buy their children entire rooms of candy

We’re not talking about a standard playroom, where kids can keep their toys and games. We mean a room devoted exclusively to candy. That’s what Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon created for their twins: a room that physically contains every type of candy they could possibly want, from gigantic lollipops to their very own cotton candy maker.

They own solid gold bathtubs

Among other outrageously poor money decisions too numerous to reveal here, Mike Tyson once dropped an estimated $2.2 million on a 24 karat gold bathtub for his mansion in Ohio.

They feed their babies like birds

On her health food site TheKindLife.com, Clueless star Alicia Silverstone posted a video of 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.” To be fair: Some have claimed that pre-chewing food for an infant has health benefits, like boosting a baby’s immune system, and is the norm in many non-Western cultures.

They get into bidding wars over dinosaur skulls

Who wants a Mongolian dinosaur skull more, Nicolas Cage or Leonardo DiCaprio? Turns out, it’s Cage, who bested the Revenant star in a bidding war for the privilege of paying $276,000 for the world’s most expensive paperweight. Take that, Leo!

They hire people to remove the cardboard sleeve from their coffee

“I hate the sleeve on a Starbucks cup,” Kim Kardashian once admitted. “I leave 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.”

“I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns,” Megan Fox said in an interview while promoting the first Transformers. “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.”