THREAD: For every RT this gets I will add one piece of celebrity gossip. I might be making a lot of them up.
When Nicole Kidman starred in Big Little Lies she insisted on having her hair and makeup done up a tree and when cast-mates complained she made bird noises from up the tree. She didn't do this in season 2 because Meryl Streep wanted the tree for her makeup.
Zac Efron wanted to land the role of Ted Bundy so much that he put his arm in a cast and would wait for casting directors by a van, trick them in to helping him load furniture in to it and then audition for them.
David Beckham and Victoria Beckham keeps things fresh in the bedroom by throwing paprika and saffron on each other while singing "spice up your wife".
Julia Roberts didn't know she was in a movie in Runaway Bride, they achieved the movie with two years of careful planning and very tiny cameras in vases and lapels etc. When the trailers started to come out she was devastated to learn of the deceit.
Natalie Portman keeps her Oscar for Black Swan in her car on the dashboard and sometimes while driving it flies off the dashboard and hurts passengers because she always speeds away from traffic lights.
Stephen King gets his ideas for his scary scary books by leaping out of alleyways and saying "WHAT'S THE SCARIEST THING YOU CAN THINK OF" to people. If he likes the idea he buys them lunch.
The only reason Dominic Cummings still has his job is he knows terrible terrible awful things about people and if he still has his job the secrets are safe.
Bjork's infamous swan Oscars dress was made from humanely-sourced dead seagulls. The beak was made from old Tango bottle tops melted down.
Yardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson, originally auditioned for Homer.
Kanye West collects Bunnykins china and Kim Kardashian let slip in an interview that "one day he hopes to own the whole set".
Mr Tumble swears so much that on set the director has to carry a water spray bottle and squirt him with it when he starts effing and jeffing. He soon calms down though and filming can continue.
James Cameron only made Titanic as a joke but it ended up being a smash hit!
Helena Bonham Carter enjoyed playing Princess Margaret so much in season three of The Crown that she will be returning for season four.
Contrary to popular belief, the footage of Benny Hill chasing those women around was not sped up. He was very very fast and the women had to absolutely floor it to keep away from him.
Dominic Cummings was found in contempt of parliament just over a year ago and a lot of people have forgotten or don't realise so here it is again.
JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter in the grounds of Buckingham Palace on scraps of litter she found on her long commute from Edinburgh each day.
When Toni Collette was in The Sixth Sense her young co-star Haley Joel Osment would say "she's a ghost n all" to make the crew laugh and she's never got over this.
To save money during the pandemic Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have shared a Disney+ subscription. Behind closed doors Jen Garner has said this is "ridiculous".
Dominic Cummings drives a Land Rover Discovery that gets about 25 miles to the gallon. From Islington to Durham is 260 miles so that 520 miles PLUS the trip to the town of Barnard Castle that he didn't need to refuel for? People don't forget.
Jennifer Lopez has a room in her house that is just a lino floor covered in Creme De La Mer that she rolls in for 5 minutes every morning after she's brushed her teeth.
Fay Wrey genuinely fell in love with the King Kong puppet when making King Kong. People said it was ridiculous but they are still happily married to this day!
To get himself "in the zone" while filming the video for Livin' La Vida Loca Ricky Martin watched episodes of Rising Damp in his trailer while shadow boxing.
Mel B and Mel C aren't named that because of their surnames, oh no, there was a Mel A who left the band just before Wannabe to star in the 1996 tour of Hello Dolly. She has no regrets and retired from showbusiness to open a haberdashery in Kent.
Will Smith was so scared of Vincent D'Onofrio's "bug alien" character in Men In Black that every take included so much whimpering so over 80% of his dialogue had to be ADR'd in post.
The Russia report exists and there are people who can leak it. Leak the Russia report.
Jack Nicholson so enjoyed the experience of making The Shining that he lives alone in the Overlook Hotel to this very day. He is happy to report that it isn't haunted in real life and is just a regular hotel.
The Fast and the Furious movies are box office dynamite but would they be as successful if people found out that Vin Diesel can't drive and refuses to learn?
Angelina Jolie has been overheard down the supermarket saying that Brad Pitt doesn't really like Friends and that he married Jennifer Aniston because he liked her, not the sitcom.
Melania Trump has a big book with a lock on it that she keeps by her bed and if you get drunk with her she'll show you a few pages and it's just a book where she writes down all the reasons Donald Trump is a POS.
Kelsey Grammar can’t get his head round iTunes and finds it really annoying that you can just “buy an iTunes machine” so he can listen to music on the go.
Louis Theroux's ultimate goal is to host The One Show and he doesn't mind making his investigative documentaries but he hopes it provides the stepping stone to his biggest dream.
That light-coloured suit Obama wore in 2014 caused Fox News to have a power surge that took them off the air for several hours. Racists across America briefly didn't know what to think and many joined the Democrats in their confusion.
Jake Gyllenhaal leaves the fridge open so often his wife has had to put an alarm on it for when it's been open for 30 seconds. The alarm is a muzak version of Jake's favourite song (Mr Mister's Broken Wings).
Sylvester Stallone has the three-seashell toilet system as seen in Demolition Man in every bathroom in his home. If guests ask how it works he just laughs. His bathrooms are a mess after parties.
As requested by @steenrasko I can now reveal which celebrity has a firm stool: it is Matthew McConaughey! He is regular as clockwork and has never been constipated and rarely has diarrhoea, even after a spicy meal!
Nancy Pelosi was so excited on Xmas Day to receive a Kindle from her husband! “This is the most amazing present I’ve ever had!” she said. Later on she discovered that a Kindle doesn’t automatically come with every book ever written already loaded on to it and was less impressed.
You won't read about this in the Bible but when Jesus went berserk in the temple marketplace that time he was heard to yell "I'LL FUCK SHIT UP" several times.
Tim Henman's famous "fist pump" he did after scoring points in tennis was actually a secret signal to his wife that he was gonna be hungry later and that she should pre-order a takeaway for when the match was over.
Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson hope the scrutiny of their actions not just during COVID-19 but since 2015 has died down now but people won’t forget, there will be a report and the world will eventually be a better place.
Beyonce and Jay-Z are big EastEnders fans and have become online-friends with Ross Kemp who sends them over aired episodes monthly on a USB. Jay-Z in particular has to fight not to just binge watch them, particularly under lockdown!
Carole Baskin has taken over Joe Exotic's zoo by order of the courts and at night she goes round slagging Joe off to all the lions.
At this year's Oscars Renee Zellwegger hired Alastair Campbell to write her winning speech for her. He was happy to do it as he'd been "a big fan" since Nurse Betty.
As requested by @slowlorisday here is some exclusive gossip on Ray Mears: he secretly thinks camping is "really shit" and he'd "rather go to Center Parcs any day of the week".
Lady Gaga's rider for shows is: a welcome hamper with Biscoff spread, Baileys and a four-pack of Crunchies.
Idris Elba is really good at juggling. He can juggle five objects at once pretty well and always makes sure he has five juggling balls in his bag at all times just in case the mood needs lifting.
Elton John wears shoes worth thousands of pounds but his socks are George @ ASDA and he's absolutely terrified of anyone finding out (but he loves the socks so he won't buy from anywhere else).
Richard Gere never did that thing with the gerbil but he wrote a book detailing what it would be like to do it called If I Did It.
Alan Coren wished he'd never become famous so that Giles Coren would have just ended up as some prat in middle-management.
Alan Sugar loves Fawlty Towers and his hobby is recording every single episode as it airs on UKTV on VHS. He labels each VHS with the date and title of that day's episode and has a whole room in his house where they are neatly displayed.
To get in the best possible shape to play Magic Mike Channing Tatum used tins of beans for weights and put this photo on his mirror.
Britney Spears wanted to make her entire fourth album about the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland but the studio said "no way".
Joe Rogan idolises Gaston from Disney's Beauty and the Beast and lives on a diet of boiled eggs, herring and tablets he saw on InfoWars called Man Mountain.
Robert Pattinson was bullied at school for wearing Hi Tec squash shoes that were passed on to him by his uncle for PE. With his first paycheck from Twilight he bought himself a brand new pair of Adidas Gazelles.
When Robin Williams played sad-dad-turned-happy-nanny Mrs Doubtfire he would keep everyone entertained between takes by doing fun impressions of famous dictators.
Viola Davis just puts Echo Falls chardonnay through her Soda Stream and serves it up as champagne at dinner parties and literally nobody has ever questioned it.
Stormzy has not one but two copies of Spiceworld on VHS. He likes to have a spare "in case I want to lend it to somebody who hasn't seen it before".
Mariah Carey thinks Carte D'Or ice cream is extremely expensive and luxurious. If she notices it in a friend's freezer (she always checks) she'll go "oo someone's doing well for themselves" and if she's told "it's not even expensive" she thinks you're joking.