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

  • Ashton Kutcher, who has always been a hit with the ladies, has webbed toes, and has revealed them on TV.
  • Tom Cruise has an asymmetrical face.
  • A far cry from her upper-class role on Gossip Girl, Leighton Meester was born in prison; her mother was serving time for smuggling drugs.
  • Ryan Cabrera has a tattoo of Ryan Gosling's face on his leg.
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