There’s a reason supermarket tabloids and gossip sites are so popular.
We can’t help but wonder what our favorite stars’ real lives must be like, since they’re practically in a different world than the rest of us. But that doesn’t mean we should believe everything we read. For every celebrity news report that’s accurate, there are plenty more that are fake. We’ve rounded up some of the most absurd celebrity rumors out there, from reports that Tom Cruise is an alien to Billy Idol playing Eddie Munster. And for celebrity stories that actually do hold up, check out the 50 Crazy Celebrity Facts You Won’t Believe Are True.
Mister Rogers
Mister Rogers wore those sweaters to cover up tattoos on his arms.
If you grew up watching Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, you might have heard that the friendly-faced TV host had tattoos from his time as a Navy Seal. But the truth of the matter is, Fred Rogers never served in any war, according to History.com. Actually, they report, he “was a devoted Presbyterian minister who neither smoked nor drank.” So it’s pretty unlikely he had any tattoos at all.
Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons had a cow tongue grafted onto his own.
The KISS singer is known for his fairly large tongue, but it sounds like he came by it naturally. As Snopes discovered, Gene Simmons wrote about the origins of his extra long tongue in his autobiography. “I was oblivious, for the first thirteen years of my life, that I was endowed with a large oral appendage, my superlong tongue,” he wrote. “It really was longer than everyone else’s.”
Cher
Cher had two of her ribs removed to shrink her waistline.
One pervasive absurd celebrity rumor is that female celebrities have removed their ribs to shrink their waists, including Cher. Vanity Fair mentioned the theory in a 1990 profile of the diva, but Cher denied “all but breast, teeth, and nose work.” So yes, she did have plastic surgery, but definitely no rib removal.
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