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Emma Watson
  • Emma Watson, also known as Hermoine Grainger, is the “most dangerous” celebrity to search for online because many sites use her name to trick people intodownloading malicious software or to steal personal information

Amy Winehouse
  • Amy Winehouse was kicked out of school for piercing her nose at the age of 13
  • Amy Winehouse died at the same age as Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain… the 27 club? Is it a fact?

Dirty Comic Artists
  • One of the creators of Superman, Joe Shuster, also drew S&M and bondage comics that were so despicable that they were banned by the Supreme Court. Their publisher, a mobster turn porn peddler was sentenced to jail
  • The creator of the original Star Trek series, Gene Roddenberry created another TV series in 1971 called ‘Pretty Maids all in a row’ about a gym teacher engaging in intercourse with his students. Scottie from the original series even casted in it as the lead actor’s partner
  • Dan DeCarlo drew Archie for almost 50 years. However, he also drew pinups for a girlie digest called Humorama

Reality TV
  • UK show Strictly Come Dancing sold to 38 countries and had a peak audience of 13.3 million vieweds which was almost a 50% audience share
  • It costs SGD$750,000 to make one episode of a reality TV show compared to SGD$3 million for a sitcom
  • More than 3000 people auditioned for Afghan model in 2009. Only 10 were women
  • 1 in 10 UK teenager would abandon their education to be on reality TV
  • Susan Boyle’s audition on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 was watched by over 120 million people on YouTube
  • 1 in 4 show on US primetime is a reality show
  • Gordon Ramsay said expletives over 80 times in one episode of Kitchen Nightmares
  • In 2010, Malaysia casted for Imam Muda where contentents were pitted in tests of Islamic theory, and challenges included counselling teenagers, preparing corpses for burial and Quran reciting. The top prize was a new car, a job as an Imam and a scholarship in Saudi Arabia
  • Reality TV actually started on the radio in 1947 with Candid Microphone

Oscars
  • The oscar statuettes were once made of plaster – during the war
  • Only one wooden statuette was ever presented. It was to a ventriloquist dummy (Charlie McCarthy)

Three stooges, The
  • The three stooges were made up of six men
  • Three of the men were actually brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp)

James Bond 007
  • James Bond Casino Royale is actually based on Ian Flemming’s first Bond novel
  • There have been seven American Bond Girls, four English , three French, two Swedish and one each from Japan, Malaysia, Switzerland , Italy, and Poland
  • Bond was born in Germany
  • Roger Moore was the oldest Bond actor at 58
  • The Bond franchise has raked in almost $4 billion dollars
  • Sean Connery’s wife doubled for actress Mie Hama in a water-dive scene for You Only Live Twice

Chaplin, Charlie
  • Charlie Chaplin once won 3rd place in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest

shrek
  • The voice of Shrek (by Mike Myers) came from the accent that his mother would use when telling him bedtime stories

Barney
  • The actor playing Barney the purple dinosaur, David Joyner, is originally from Illinois, but moved to Dallas later in his life. A separate actor voiced Barney, Bob West. He is a graduate from Trinity University, named one of the top schools in the nation by US News; and now he’s making funny voices for a living


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