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

  • Matthew Perry lost part of his middle finger in a car door.
  • Jonah Hill had to go to the hospital for bronchitis while filming Wolf of Wall Street. For seven months, he was snorting vitamin D (almost) daily, pretending it was cocaine.
  • Channing Tatum played a bartender in Ricky Martin's "She Bangs" music video. He made $400 for the role.
  • Bill Murray was arrested when he was 20 for trying to bring 10 pounds of marijuana on a plane.
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