Celebrities

A lot of successful people get to the point where they’re on top of their profession and start to get bored and want a new challenge, or want to use their fame and fortune to try to turn what should be a hobby into a full blown second career. Unfortunately for our ears, in many cases that means actors, athletes, models, and so forth all trying to become musicians despite the small problem of havin

Being popular means that you have a certain influence on people. Namely, since celebrities are followed by a large number of fans or admirers...

There’s nothing that quite beats the high of scoring a goal or standing at the top of a podium as your national anthem rings...

Being a celebrity can result in all kinds of unfavorable situations. When you're famous around the world, you rarely get any privacy and you encounter some really strange individuals. A lot of famous people have stalkers, some stars have been in just the weirdest situations with their personal stalkers and have managed to get out of them alive. Check out some of the strangest stories about celebri

When you get to be a big enough celebrity, you’re often asked to endorse things. Sometimes they make sense, like when Michael Jordan tries to sell you overpriced sneakers, or Paris Hilton makes a commercial for herpes. Wait, no, sorry, she actually endorsed cheeseburgers. Serves us right to make assumptions without paying attention to what the ad was selling. Anyway, some celebrity endorsements, l

The phrase 'from rags to riches' is often used to describe a struggle against all odds and is frequently applied to celebrities and their life stories. Many of the world's most famous celebrities have had it tough in their early days but have managed to rise from the ashes of their troubled past and live out their dreams. Even though they are rich and successful, you might not have known that the

Stephen King is one of the most prolific authors of all-time. Even if you’ve never read one of his works, you’ve seen it in some variation, be it miniseries or movie adaptation. King almost always writes about his home state of Maine, but even beyond all of these otherworldly events taking place in that one mostly rural state, the Stephen King universe has more connections running through all of h

Sometimes a celebrity hits a wall in their career, or gets bored, or just doesn't want to do it anymore. So, like anybody else, they quit and decided to do

Despite what Charles Barkley wants you to believe, athletes really are role models. They might not want to be, but they really are. These are the people we

Copyright law is a complicated mess at times, which allows for it to be abused and manipulated by big corporations. But anyone can file a claim, no matter who they are or how frivolous the claim may be. Here are nine strange copyright controversies.