These Celebrities Don't Actually Use Their Real Names

Leaving Home as a Teen

The singer said he left home at 17, dropped out of school, and convinced one of his crew members to do the same. "We grabbed our mattresses from our parents threw it in our friend's shitty van and left one weekend and never came back home. It was gonna be the title of HOB [House of Balloons]. I hated my name at the time though so I tried it as a stage name. It sounded cool. I took out the "e" because there was already a Canadian band named the weekend (copyright issues)."

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The More You Know

Before he was a star, Harrison Ford was a carpenter. He landed the role of Han Solo in the original Star Wars film. “I was quite surprised when I was offered the part,” Ford later said.
Before Taylor Lautner was a vampire, he was a junior world karate champion for several years running.
Tom Hanks had an asteroid named after him which was called “12818 tomhanks”.
Before becoming a movie star, Harrison Ford was a master carpenter – a craft he still does as a hobby.

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