But unlike most pretty girls, she never used her looks and position in school to bully others. She writes about astrology, games, love, relationships, and entertainment. I always had the feeling that sooner or later, she will get worldwide famous cause she just had that inner star in her. When Branson was about seven years old, his mother decided to try and remedy this, so she forced him out of her car three miles from their home and told him to find his way back by talking to people. The agency's aging fleet is finally getting a major overhaul after 30+ years. "I was a geek, I was into musical theater, which isn't perceived as the coolest thing. Everyone's a little weird in high school, and there's always a class clown, And it turns out that in this person's dad's school, their clown was very attractive and bound for fame. What was it a drawing of exactly? Some girl was always crying over something she did., Another Redditor added I know someone who was horribly bullied by Demi Lovato in middle school for being a lesbian. She was very nice, great student, great singer, nice, chill girl. Obama was a member of his high school's choir in 1977. Too bad hes been so typecast now. While in high school that seemed to remain his reputation, after graduation, his personality shifted. You don't get much nerdier than that. News on all your favorite celebs, reality TV, and movies. Getty Images. To discover more amazing secrets about living your best life,click hereto sign up for our FREE daily newsletter! Spent his time in the drama department, and was a nice guy from every memory I have. In an obituary after her death in 1993, The Telegraph described her as, "sensitive, introverted and elusive, she evolved gently, almost imperceptibly, from a genuine ingenue into an adult one. There was some drama that caused her family to move to Atlanta and then New York, and I remember her older brother was the ham of the family that wanted to get into acting first. According to Reddit user @Ghost1031, they went to the same high school and he was expelled after hiring a construction company to build additions to the school library. And obviously, he was. ", Carson was known to be a bit anti-social, despite the "Tonight Show" host's public persona as a talented television entertainer. 32 Celebrities Who Dropped Out of School - Celebrity Dropouts 1 A Splash of Excess in a Tasteful Fashion Week 2 Hayley Williams Is Our March 2023 Music Director 3 Why We're All Obsessed With. Many of the world's most revered leaders have actually been far less outgoing than their public personas would lead us to believe. Often, celebrities that seem sweet today were just straight up awful in school. He was pretty popular and was known for doing this hilarious rap/dance gig for our annual school talent show as Tiny Tim. 42. A good character deserves a powerful name. Those who went to school with Kutcher remember him as a super chill guy. As he once told Access Hollywood, "When I was 14, 15, I think it was a little less cool tobe in a band.". For others, it's too soon to tell. Dakota Fanning. 25. 1. Money didn't spoil him. 1. 5. She was OK. 30. Ford, however, does not like the busy and active lifestyle of a celebrity. 1. Jude Law didn't have the best start with his peers at school, as one teacher claims other boys grew envious of his good looks and charm. She's also spoken about being bullied while on Wizards of Waverly Place, calling Disney Channel "the biggest high school in the world.". "I wasn't a heartthrob at school," he has said. That is probably the most intense senior prank if I've ever heard of one; the cow up on the second floor is no match for this. I believe it was a specific workshop for the schools theater department, where the students got to work with the visiting actors. Albert Einstein As one of the world's most recognized and revered physicists, Einstein has often been quoted as saying, "The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative. Some people love the actor Chad Michael Murray, while others hate him. 17. Speaking about growing up, Liam said, "I used to wear my brothers' hand-me-downs, which were all too big on me. Objectively, this is kind of a fun prank but it would be such a pain for the recipient. ", The stunning Oscar winner, who always manages to wow on the red carpet, was anything but glam growing upand even confessed to some stalker-like tendencies while in high school. To this day he will never listen to or buy one of her songs because he says she's a liar and bully who only got famous because of her rich father. He also said he was a "pariah" in school, but this time in regard to the fact that all three of his older brothers had been kicked out of the same school. It's rumored that in college he would sometimes flood the basement of his fraternity's house to play "Vikings." Some of them are easy enough to believe, but there are others that are a huge surprise. Even though she has said she "had the normal high school experience," she admits, "I wasn't, like, socially comfortable, that's for sure. I havent seen him since then, so I dont know what hes like IRL these days, and I hope hes happy with whatever hes up to. I don't think there's a teenager alive who really knows how to do eyeliner correctly it's part of the rite of passage. Lizzo has admitted to being a band geek, saying that band was cool in the early days; but as she got into middle and high school, it was less so. Is Your Anxiety Sabotaging Your Relationship? Pretty much just a normal dude from nowhere that ended up mega famous. Michael B. Jordan came face-to-face with an old Chad Science Academy classmate who admittedly teased him when they were teens back in Newark on a recent red carpet for "Creed III." Lore'l, now a . I was a geek.". One Redditor has said My sister's best friend's mom went to high school with Tom Cruise in NJ. I was in every club. Super quiet and shy. I was a dorky, quiet kid in high school who didn't have too many friends. He smiles from ear-ear, gives each fan a great big hug, takes pictures with them, gives them that Johnny Knoxville laugh, and just genuinely appreciates their support. Whatever the case, his sense of humor got him somewhere at least. 38. Im really glad to see him succeed as much as he has and wish him all the best in his career (which we will watch with great interest). I didnt go to school during this time, butWill Fortewent to my high school in the 80s. It's not surprising to learn many former geeks-turned-A-list starstook refuge in their schools' bands and drama club, but you'll also find teacher's pets and straight-A students whoused the same dedication and driveto land onthe honor roll to make it after graduationin Hollywood. Police "advise the public to not engage. If memory serves me right, he was on the football team and in drama club., Another Redditor added He got along with everyone; nerds, jocks freaks, etc. Levine describes his teenage self as "very uncool" because he had "disgusting long hair and shorts down to [to my knees], cutoff shortsI desperately wanted to be Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam really badly, and I was just a nerdy, awkward kid and I was obsessed with music." One Redditor has said I was roommates with Emily Ratajkowski for a 5-week art program. While most of us now believe that Jennifer Anniston hasn't aged her entire life and is an immortal, we must remember that even such a goddess still had to go through being a teenager. James Corden. She was nice, a great artist, kind of valley girl-ish, but pretty down to earth actually, very pretty girl. I lived in the dorms with Andy Samberg at UCSC freshman year. Turns out a lot of our fave celebs were also uncool in high school! However, Redditors claim that he has always been a jerk. Went to junior/high school with model Ashley Graham. One Redditor has said My older cousin was in the same class as Adam Sandler in high school, and also went on a blind date with Sarah Silverman. xhr.send(payload); Machine Gun Kelly went to my high school when I was there. His cousin was also on the team and a year younger than me. She has also managed to make a name for herself with vocal activism in favor of LGBT rights, while still being thought of as press-shy. I was not cool.". The stunning model Karlie Kloss is another one of those models who is extremely nice and has always been so. Absolutely thrilled that shes doing so well for herself. The original Footloose was filmed at my high school, so I kind of went to HS with Kevin Bacon and Sarah Jessica Parker for a few months. We chatted for a few minutes, and she was extremely kind and friendly. One of my friends said she was a real obnoxious b****, and apparently bullied some other kid on the bus. 26. I went to high school with Joe Keery. The Real Reason Lisa Marie Presley Divorced Michael Jackson, Cooper Hefner Knows The Exact Moment His Dad Hugh Stopped Being Friends With Donald Trump. He was a basketball fan and came to most of our schools games. 2. There was a really popular girl at school and I was obsessed with her. "I was a real nerd. We werent friends ourselves, but she was friends with a lot of people I was friends in. Branson still considers himself a natural introvert and has said, "I had to train myself into becoming more of an extrovert. In the words of my Year 12 Classics teacher: Kylie Minogue was really smart and lovely. We had choir and theater together. Mariah Carey. Jones has said that she was a "straight up nerd" growing up. Ill always have respect for him because he was always on the grind and trying to get money to support his family. That's right, young Zach would go deep into the wilderness to go camping and he probably knows how to tie several different kinds of knots. He was a bit nerdy, but a nice guy. Super nice guy. Especially with her "Little Monsters" campaign orchestrated by PR talent Troy Carter, Lady GaGa has walked the delicate balance of trying to maintain an "everywoman" image while also rising to "Artpop" levels, by wearing Alexander McQueen dresses and emerging from eggs. The one thing that stood out to her after all these years was that one time he just casually filled her desk with whipped cream after saying that she preferred cats over dogs. navigator.sendBeacon('https://www.google-analytics.com/collect', payload); I went to college and had only 2 girlfriends, who honestly, weren't that great. One Redditor has said I went to high school with Natalie Portman. My Uncle went to the same High school as Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears. He would take attendance and then leave for the rest of the class, came back 5 minutes prior and would take attendance again. 34. He even did an improv show at the school a couple years back. 5. We're pretty sure Swift's penchant for showingupto surprise her fans has never happenedat her high school reunion. The thing about regular people is that they all had to go through high school and growing up, and it wasn't always pretty not even for these very pretty and successful people. Selena said of her time in school, "If my cousin wasnt the captain of the cheerleading team, I would have been destroyed. Dannii Minogue was just lovely.. Devi in Never Have I Ever is partially based on Mindy not necessarily her experience, but her personality as a nerd. "She would be in class and she'd be writing, rather than paying attention at all. 3. Back in the 80s, Depp hated being a teen idol so intensely that he shaved his eyebrows just to make himself uglier and less photogenic for teen-adoring magazines (Fun fact: Years later, Depp would . She was in the same grade as me. if( 'moc.enilnoefiltseb' !== location.hostname.split('').reverse().join('') ) { Condoleezza Rice. user uploaded a picture of the yearbook drawing. Other famous people who were in choir include Tina Fey, Alicia Keys, and multiple NFL stars. He joked that he didn't talk to a girl until he was 19 and also told the story of a boy who invited him to his birthday party because his mom told him to. Kirsten Dunst, Rami Malek, and Rachel Bilson went to school together. Literally the same person. I can believe it after all, most people are pretty multi-dimensional. According to @alienscxmon Reddit, whose dad went to high school with this iconic show host, Steve was apparently very shy and barely ever said anything back in the day. The actor Tom Cruise seems like a nice guy even if he does hold some weird beliefs. They were SO good and had such an amazing rhythm as a team. (He ended up being kicked out as well.). She also recalled an experience when she was asked to hand out invitations to a girl's birthday party that she wasn't invited to. Lena Dunham was very, very unfunny in middle/high school but otherwise just sort of awkward. She kept her normal life and her model life pretty separate and was always super sweet and down to earth. Zack Efron went to a neighboring high school. 20. And since sweet people are often the target of bullies, none of us found it surprising when Colfer revealed that he was bullied in school. ), I can also confirm that buddys natural accent and dialect is indistinguishable from any other middle-class white kid from Toronto. ", . Assuming he wasnt faking an accent the entire time he went to elementary school (I gather that is not, in his case, a safe assumption. I always feel shy in the Hollywood scene. Some celebrities went to school together, long before becoming famous. One Redditor has said that they currently go to the same school Ariana Grande graduated from. Apparently, thats not true, or at least isnt true according to Reddit There are these backstory rumors that say she was so into Harry Potter she wore glasses to look like him, but both my partner and sister are like, 'No that's bulls*it.' He has managed to keep up withhis love ofgame all this time and even had a Dungeons and Dragons cake for his 48th birthday. Despite his affinity for storytelling, a trait popularized by Daniel Day Lewis in the film, "Lincoln," the president was frequently described as a quiet man. What 12 celebrities were like at school. Getty/Joe Corrigan, Frederick M. Brown Ever wonder what celebrities were like when they were just normal, awkward teenagers? Hayek didn't get off to such a great start, however. One of Redditor@Riadyt's teachers used to be a classmate of Stephen Colbert back in the day and she recalls that he was a pretty nice guy. 29. The most memorable thing though, is I had her dad as my art teacher for a semester when I was a sophomore. Neither can we. I went to high school with Emily Ratajkowski. Christian Bale. He says he grew up around a lot of girls and realized none of them were interested in him when they would openly talk about boys around him. 8. I didnt really know her because Im two school years older but went to lots of parties etc where she was there with her mates. The title of her autobiography, "Quiet Strength," should be some indication of her personality and the obituaries written about her after her death mostly "recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature," according to author Susan Cain. However, according to Reddit, Colfer himself was not a very nice person in school and could be a bully himself I went to high school with Chris Colfer. When he re-entered school he was shy and quiet My sister in law grew up and went to school with Ryan Gosling. Jake said he was a nerd as a young teenager, saying people treated him a "certain way" based on his thick glasses. 33. The Romantic Comedy You Should Watch This Valentines Day, Based On Your Zodiac Sign, 10 Sadistic Cat-and-Mouse Games Narcissists And Psychopaths Play, Valentines Day Streaming Guide: The Best Rom-Coms To Binge On Netflix, HBO Max, And More. However, it seems that his ex-classmates certainly dislike him. There were also announcements that if people were moved by the Spirit to jump up and down, they shouldn't do that in the nearly 100-year-old balcony. That's right a high school Brad Pitt went around and drew dog poop in everyone's yearbooks. She actually had kind of a tough time making friends within the program, like she wasn't interested in doing so. After seeing Brad in all his attractive dad glory, it's hard to imagine him as a totally immature (yet still pretty good-looking) high school kid. Suddenly, after a bit, she all but vanished from the school, and I never saw her again. Apparently he super nice and friendly, and was actually class president. One Reddit user recalls My cousins lived near Ashton Kutcher and went to school with him for a bit. She wouldve been maybe 6-8 at the time and she was just a cute, polite, kind of shy kid. I had lots of crushes, but I wasn't in the popular crowd. Years later he scored the ultimate revenge of the nerd by marrying Sofia Vergara. Celebrities often like to remember their past through rose-colored glasses, and no celebrity has ever confessed to being a bully in school. Also one day he saw her crying on the bus because people were calling Britney a slut. I wanted to ask her more about the filming of the movie but I didnt since she probably heard the same 50 questions 100 times over. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP; Charles Sykes/Invision/AP; Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP. The star of Netflix's Glow has said she spent her high school years hanging out with fellow drama club members. I was surprised when I heard that she was the one whod gotten famous out of them. 8 Jerk - Tom Cruise Was A Liar. I had a couple of classes in HS with the model Karlie Kloss. That's right a high school Brad Pitt went around and drew dog poop in everyone's yearbooks. But the evidence is in this dad's yearbook. I feel a bit like I did in high school, like I don't really fit in.". LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - February comes to an end in a quiet fashion weather-wise. "I'd sit there in school and I'd be hearing people like, 'Oh my god, this party that we're going to is gonna be so awesome on Friday. These stories prove that no matter how talented, or gorgeous you may be, you were still *that* kid in high school. Sometimes it feels really, really good to be bad. Halsey was bullied in high school for being into emo bands like Panic! He was a jerk to me during classes and he claims to have had a terrible high school experience because he got bullied or something. If only this Reddit user uploaded a picture of the yearbook drawing. That's pretty extreme, even for a joke. That's how I got over being shy. The brilliant Elton John is shy? From what I was told, it was very bad lmao. Went to high school with John Legend. He's always been full of himself and sees everyone else as below him. After that I would always hum and sing the songs and dress up as Snow White. recalls that his dad has a fun drawing made by the legendary Brad Pitt himself. at the Disco. 13. Getty Images. It was more so the fact that it was a pretty small town and you didn't hear of a lot of people getting modeling contracts. Tom Hanks was in this midwestern theater troop (way before he got famous) that visited my moms high school. Unlike many, who consider dyslexia a curse, Branson calls it his "greatest strength.". Yet, if you look at certain Reddit threads or browse the internet, youll learn some interesting facts that are sure to shock you and perhaps even change your opinion about a certain celebrity. The actress Natalie Portman made it big when she was still in school. I've only ever seen him as witty and full of energy, but that might just be a face he puts on for show. 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