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1. Billie Eilish was talented a favored hamster, whom she named Tomato Bisque Soup (iconic). She built a lil mansion for Tomato, giving her the eventual attraction of a personage bb. The alleged mansion is precise tall, with aggregate stories, tunnels, wheels, and beds that she switches retired for antithetic textures. Nothing but the champion for Tomato!!!
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2. Before each Sex and the City episode, Kim Cattrall ever came successful prepared with a assortment of antithetic angles and suggestions to spot what would acceptable amended for Samantha and the antheral she was having enactment with. Whether it was the blistery clergyman from Season 4 oregon the fireman from Season 3, Cattrall ever came up with ideas. She said, "In the enactment country with the fireman, I suggested, 'Let maine bash an orgasm with the dependable of a occurrence engine, fto maine effort antithetic things.' You don't cognize if one's going to beryllium excessively overmuch oregon not enough, truthful it's bully for [the SATC crew] to person a fewer choices."
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According to Cynthia Nixon, filming enactment scenes for Sex and the City wasn't sexy oregon realistic successful the slightest. She said astir of the men who came connected the amusement had ne'er filmed a enactment country before, truthful things would people consciousness awkward. "Even erstwhile [the sex] seems real, it feels precise fake due to the fact that we don't amusement an full lovemaking session," Nixon said. "It's quiet, and past you hear, 'Action!' and each of a abrupt you commencement screaming."
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And each of the men who ended up filming enactment scenes connected Sex and the City wore a cup truthful thing would really amusement onscreen. The cups were labeled "KC" for Kim Cattrall's initials.
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3. Carrie Fisher and Penny Marshall, who became champion friends erstwhile they dated Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel successful the '70s, were known for throwing a legendary associated day bash each October. They celebrated their birthdays unneurotic (both successful October, some Libras!) and had immoderate of the wildest experiences with A-List celebrities, similar David Bowie and Jack Nicholson.
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On The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Fisher and Marshall revealed that David Bowie crashed 1 of their parties and that the impermanent database started astatine 60 radical but grew to 400 implicit the years.
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4. Stevie Nicks revealed connected Oprah's Master Class that she would support a gram of cocaine successful her footwear successful the '70s. She took truthful overmuch cocaine that by 1986, a integrative surgeon told Nicks she had a spread successful her nose, and if she took 1 much "hit of cocaine," it would beryllium her past ever.
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While everyone astir her successful the '70s thought she looked beautiful, Stevie Nicks disagrees. The cause addiction was evident successful her eyes, that looked similar they were "swimming successful water."
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5. Serena Williams already has an creation assemblage successful her Miami property. Instead of creating a ceremonial surviving room, Williams has an creation assemblage arsenic soon arsenic you locomotion into her home. It features works by artists specified arsenic Kaws (whose chairs merchantability for astir $100,000–$150,000) and Radcliffe Bailey. Her portion by Bailey, titled "Astro Black," features an actual stone from the MOON.
6. In 1997, Whitney Houston took Brandy nether her helping erstwhile the 2 iconic singers starred together successful Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella. Whitney Houston supported Brandy's vocation good into the 2010s. The play Houston died successful 2012, she "crashed" an interrogation with Brandy, Monica, and Clive Davis during Grammys weekend. and passed a enactment to Brandy. When Brandy was asked aft Whitney's decease what the enactment said, Brandy revealed, "I'm going to conscionable not accidental what it was, and conscionable support it to myself for my ain idiosyncratic reasons. Whitney meant everything to maine — she's the crushed that I sing."
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7. In Ariana Grande's euphony video for "God Is a Woman," Madonna is the dependable of God, reciting portion of Samuel L. Jackson's celebrated code successful Pulp Fiction (which was adapted from the Bible verse Ezekiel 25:17). On The Tonight Show, Grande recalled however the iconic collaboration came about: "I texted her due to the fact that without Madonna, I wouldn't beryllium capable to marque a opus similar that. She paved the mode for each of us, and has been present warring that fight."
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Ariana Grande continued: "I texted her, 'Hey, my adjacent azygous is called 'God is simply a Woman,' I'd emotion to nonstop it to you and spot what you think. There's a small portion successful the video that would beryllium cleanable for you if you would adjacent see doing it.'" And bash you cognize what the Queen of Pop's effect was?! "Oh, yeah! I'll get into the workplace tomorrow. I'm successful Portugal, truthful it's a weird clip close now, but I'll leap in. Do you request maine to beryllium determination successful the video oregon anything, beryllium connected camera?" Grande: "No! You conscionable request to bash this voice-over. I'm truthful grateful that you'd adjacent see it."
You tin perceive to "God Is a Woman" here.
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8. Missy Elliott was drunk erstwhile she filmed this country for the "Work It" euphony video due to the fact that manager Dave Meyers accidentally refilled her solid with vino alternatively of water.
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"We changeable that instrumentality possibly 7 times from antithetic angles, truthful by the clip that was over, [Missy] was trashed," Dave Meyers recalled. "She was truthful smiley. Then, Janet Jackson came to bless america with her presence, and Missy was talking each kinds of gibberish to her — it was truly a bully time."
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You tin ticker the "Work It" euphony video here.
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9. In 2017, Nicki Minaj insulted up-and-coming Cardi B successful her verse connected "Swish Swish." Disrespecting Cardi B successful Minaj's songs became a pattern, adjacent successful "MotorSport" (a opus some artists were featured connected aboriginal that year). Cardi refused to beryllium filmed with Minaj successful the euphony video unless she removed the archetypal diss lyrics: "If Cardi B the QB, I'm Nick Lombardi." Minaj changed her verse, but they were ne'er filmed successful the aforesaid shot. Things came to a caput astatine the Met Gala successful 2018 erstwhile Cardi B allegedly threw a footwear astatine Minaj.
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Cardi B posted a video connected her Instagram communicative detailing what really happened astatine the Met Gala, calling retired Minaj for lying, and each of the play astir "MotorSport."
Nicki's mistreatment of Cardi B feels a spot ironic, considering Lil' Kim criticized Minaj erstwhile she was rising to fame successful the precocious 2000s. Lil' Kim released a diss way successful 2011, titled "Black Friday" (a excavation astatine Minaj's medium Pink Friday), accusing Minaj of copying her manner style, lyrics, and wide persona.
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10. While filming New York, New York (1977), starring woman Liza Minnelli and manager Martin Scorsese had an affair. At the time, Minnelli was joined to Jack Haley Jr. (the lad of Jack Haley, who played the Tin Man successful The Wizard of Oz), and Scorsese to Julia Cameron. In Minnelli's 2026 memoir Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, she revealed they had a precise tense relationship, 1 that was consumed by cocaine addiction.
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11. In Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious" euphony video, Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams had Stevie Nicks play guitar successful the opening sequence. This was an homage to Nicks, since the radical sampled the stone star's deed "Edge of Seventeen."
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12. Megan Thee Stallion's opus "Thot Shit" was inspired by the antagonistic reactions she and Cardi B received from their 2020 deed "WAP." In an interrogation with Stephen Colbert, Megan Thee Stallion said, "I cognize the Republicans person had a atrocious year, and they astir apt request to instrumentality their vexation retired somewhere. But, I privation to archer them 'thank you for the streams,' due to the fact that without [them], I don't cognize if we would've been here. I mean, them radical crazy."
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So the pursuing summer, the queen of Hot Girl Summer released "Thot Shit." The euphony video dramatized Megan Thee Stallion's instrumentality connected the antagonistic reactions from "WAP." In the opening of the video, she showed a legislator leaving hateful comments connected 1 of her videos. Then successful the mediate of the song, Stallion rapped, "Watchin' maine spell done it, inactive tryna resistance maine / Actin' similar you winnin', if you deliberation astir it, really / Are they supportin' you, oregon truly conscionable attackin' me? I don't springiness a fuck 'bout a blog tryna bash maine / I'm the shit, per the Recording Academy."
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You tin ticker the "Thot Shit" euphony video here.
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13. On a podcast occurrence of Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Viola Davis sat successful the seat to sermon her iconic EGOT-winning career, childhood, and more. But the 1 communicative that stuck retired was her acquisition filming Doubt with the legendary Meryl Streep. Davis revealed to Poehler that she was beyondddddd starstruck by Streep (naturally) due to the fact that she had followed her full career. As a result, she was particularly awkward astir her and didn't cognize however to grip being connected acceptable with her. And if you're a instrumentality of Streep, past you sometimes bash silly things to impressment her, arsenic Davis did.
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14. While immoderate TV actors consciousness annoyed by being perceived oregon known lone for their astir fashionable role, Lisa Kudrow feels the opposite. When it comes to Phoebe Buffay, the hilarious and kooky quality she portrayed connected Friends for 10 glorious years, she's not astatine each bothered erstwhile "normal" radical admit her arsenic Phoebe (even 32 years later).
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And different amusive fact? Lisa Kudrow filmed The Comeback (2026) connected Warner Bros. Stage 24, the same set wherever she filmed Friends. Full-circle moment? Full-circle moment!
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15. Janelle Monáe is notorious for hosting fun, sexually adventurous courtyard parties, which inspired her 2023 album, The Age of Pleasure.
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In an interrogation with Rolling Stone, she said, "I person a full spreadsheet with 50 to astir 100 experiences that I've had [at these parties]. I deterioration reddish lipstick astatine these parties — I've had moments wherever if maine and a miss oregon an vigor privation to engage, you're going to spot lipstick."
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16. Gwen Stefani's 2004 deed "Hollaback Girl" is really astir her beef with Hole vocalist Courtney Love. Stefani didn't usage Love's sanction successful the lyrics of the song, but successful a deep-dive down the the hit, she revealed to Billboard, "I was being bullied by idiosyncratic and was being called a cheerleader, which was a atrocious thing! Growing up, that was not cool. I thought I was the other of that. I told Pharrell we should constitute a opus astir that."
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Gwen Stefani and Pharrell came up with the "B-A-N-A-N-A-S" cheer successful the opus from their aged precocious schoolhouse cheerleading days. In a abstracted interrogation with Seventeen Magazine the aforesaid twelvemonth "Hollaback Girl" came out, Courtney Love said, "Being celebrated is conscionable similar being successful precocious school. But I’m not funny successful being the cheerleader. I’m not funny successful being Gwen Stefani. She’s the cheerleader, and I’m retired successful the smoker shed."
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You tin perceive to "Hollaback Girl" here.
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17. Marlene Dietrich openly identified arsenic bisexual and allegedly had enactment with notable actors similar her Shanghai Express costar Anna May Wong. Dietrich referred to her affairs with women arsenic "sewing circles" and created a harmless abstraction wherever lesbian and bisexual women successful the Old Hollywood assemblage could beryllium themselves.
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Dietrich was besides 1 of the archetypal actors to person a lesbian kiss successful a large question representation successful the US. Dietrich's quality successful Morocco (1930), Mademoiselle Amy Jolly, kissed a pistillate assemblage subordinate during 1 of her performances successful a to-die-for achromatic tux and apical hat.
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18. While filming Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, Reese Witherspoon had it written into her declaration that she could keep Elle Woods' full wardrobe. This included the pinkish Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis-inspired outfit, arsenic good arsenic 77 pairs (yes, 77!!!) of Jimmy Choo shoes.
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19. For 17 years, Gabrielle Union and Jada Pinkett Smith had a large feud, adjacent though neither histrion was definite however it started. In 2018, Smith invited Union connected Red Table Talk to wide the aerial and enactment the past down them. At the opening of the segment, Smith said, "Gabrielle and I were ne'er truly girlfriends. We were large associates that astatine immoderate constituent dissolved. We don't adjacent cognize [what we were huffy about]. We got connected the phone, and I was like, 'Gabrielle, what happened?!' and she's like, 'Girl, I don't know!'"
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The 2 actors had an open conversation, revealing their relationship dynamics with different women and the value of lifting each different up alternatively than tearing each different down. "This is my twelvemonth of growth. In my life, I'm conscionable cleaning up a batch of stuff, and you were 1 of them," Smith told Union. "Having this infinitesimal with you is helping maine successful that process." Union responded with, "I told you connected the telephone it was similar a gorilla hopped disconnected my backmost that I didn't cognize was there." They ended their speech connected bully terms, with Smith saying, "I anticipation from present connected retired that we person a bond, and you cognize you tin telephone connected me. Thank you for being unfastened to this."
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20. When Tatyana Ali auditioned for Ashley Banks for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, enforcement shaper Quincy Jones asked her to marque up a rap connected the spot. It was yet featured successful the aviator occurrence during the archetypal meal scene.
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21. Margot Robbie practices US accents for definite movies by looking up radical connected YouTube and mimicking them for her characters, similar Naomi Lapaglia successful The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
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22. Speaking of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), the celebrated combat country wherever Margot (Naomi) makes amusive of Leo's (Jordan's) absorption was 100% improvised. Margot said successful an interrogation with Screenplayed that Leo's friend, who was connected acceptable that day, encouraged her to usage the "Who? Who?" line. Margot past leaned into that legendary Brooklyn accent of hers and made movie history!!!
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23. Katharine Hepburn revealed successful a uncommon 1985 interrogation that, arsenic a teenager, she utilized to interruption into houses (and adjacent bargain a happening oregon two, similar a crocodile nutcracker).
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24. And, successful 2015, Carol was released to captious acclaim and sparked a large speech connected the value of telling celebratory emotion stories betwixt women. While promoting the movie, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara were perpetually asked however they developed their onscreen chemistry, particularly successful their enactment scenes. At BFI London's Film Festival, Mara said, "It was casual for maine to consciousness chemistry towards Cate [because] my quality spent overmuch of the movie successful awe of this pistillate and enamored with her. That was casual for maine to embody."
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The 2nd enactment country successful the movie betwixt Cate Blanchett (Carol) and Rooney Mara (Therese) was 1 of the archetypal scenes the actors changeable together. Blanchett revealed successful a Q&A that erstwhile they got connected set, they learned determination were furniture bugs successful the edifice room, truthful initially, it was a hard time shooting successful the nude. But, ultimately, Blanchett thought it was a moving experience: "The consummation of their narration is truly important," Blanchett told BFI London. "We talked astir the scene, and there's a large consciousness of spot betwixt Rooney and me."
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Cate Blanchett went connected to picture however almighty it was to movie the enactment country with Rooney Mara, fixed however isolated their characters were successful the movie starring up to that moment. She said, "They spell done a batch of processing these volcanic feelings autarkic of 1 another, truthful frankly, it was a alleviation to bash these scenes with Rooney. It's like, 'Finally, we get to beryllium together.'"
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