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Otherwise known as: acting

30 White Lies, Huge Fibs and Glaring Omissions Made by Celebrities

December 28, 2023

As a very English man once said, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” That’s never been truer than now, in the golden age of celebrity and reality television. Ultimately, it shouldn’t trip anyone up when a celebrity lies — they’re just acting, after all.

And yet, some of these fibs really stuck in our collective, societal craw…

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Taylor said she wanted to be excluded from the narrative in Famous Swift but was called out for lying by Kim Kardashian via Snapchat. Kanye West apparently got Taylor Swift's consent to include her in his single through a phone call. Unbenkownst to Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian recorded the chat and posted it online. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Eddie Redmayne had to audition for Elizabeth I. Не claimed he knew how to ride a horse. Не didn't, so first time he tried, he nearly fell off and died. Elizabeth's Tom Hooper later directed Redmayne again in Les Miserables and inserted a gratuitous horse scene purely out of revenge. CRACKED.COM — Source

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P. Diddy bragged about his private jet. Then said gas cost so much, he had to ditch it. Turned out though that there was no jet registered under his name ... under any of his many names. Diddy clarified that he meant part of a plane-a wing-and, technically, someone else owned it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Celebrity Lies

Khloe Kardashian bragged about baking. But her Instagram pies looked a little familiar. Sweet Lady Jane bakery owner Jane Lockhart confirmed they were her pies, quipping, I thought, 'She has to be kidding me.' I want to say, 'Good job. You want a job here? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mila Kunis auditioned for That '70s Show. She said she'd be 18 on her birthday. That was technically true, but not on her next birthday. Or the one after that, or after that. She was 14. Luckily, when the producers found out the truth, they were amused enough to let her keep the job. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Robin Thicke claimed credit for Blurred Lines. Then Marvin Gaye's estate sued. Thicke then changed his tune, pointing at his producer and claiming Pharrell had written it all by himself. Не said he couldn't have written anything because he'd been high on Vicodin at the time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Manti Te’o

Manti Te'o said his girlfriend died of cancer. The story pushed him to a a Heisman Trophy. Girlfriend Kekua wasn't real. Te'o claims he only learned he'd been catfished right before the winner was announced. But he also claimed to have met Kekua in person ... years before the catfisher made contact. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bill O'Reilly witnessed all sorts of combat. In the Falklands, Northern Ireland, El Salvador ... News sites found he was lying. For example, he said he saw nuns get shot in the back of the head in El Salvador, but he didn't step foot in the country till months after the conflict. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rapper Tyga claimed he grew up in Compton. Then made a video about growing up in the Valley. Tyga later said that this video was scripted. To this day, the public doesn't know which story is the truth, so we just have to be satisfied with knowing that at least one of them was a filthy lie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scott Thompson was Yahoo's CEO. Не claimed a bachelor's in computer science. His B.S. degree turned out to be BS, as came out during a shareholder struggle over seats on the board. The college he cited didn't even offer a computer science major when he would have gone there. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Doors

Jim Morrison said his parents were dead. They were alive-he just didn't like them much. Morrison's father did eventually try to mend the rift, reaching out to the singer and writing a supportive letter to a parole board after he was arrested for indecent exposure. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan had to do community service. She handled Whitney Houston's body bag. Or so she claimed, calling it an annoying chore criminals shouldn't have to do. The coroner's office debunked the story. No one in the probation program came near Houston, who was never even in a body bag. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Rick Ross raps about non-stop hustling. Не even took his name from a drug kingpin. Не was actually a prison guard before rapping. After the story broke, Ross originally denied it, but the media managed to get ahold of pay stubs that proved it was true. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Meg and Jack White said they were siblings. Then the news found their marriage certificate. And no, they weren't siblings AND married. Jack later explained he thought when band members are relatives instead of lovers, fans care more about the music, not the relationship. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Brian Dennehy

Actor Brian Dennehy said he'd been a Marine. For years, he bragged of his Vietnam service. Не was actually stationed in Japan ... in the Marines' athletic department... and he left before anything major started in Vietnam. The truth came out in the 1998 book Stolen Valor. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Joaquin Phoenix said he was engaged on Letterman. Within 24 hours, he admitted it was a lie. There's plenty of joking on late-night, but he'd feigned enough seriousness that the story was reported as true by various outlets-including ABC, whose original story about the engagement CRACKED.COM remains online to this day. — Source

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Die Hard

In his Die Hard fall, Alan Rickman was supposed to get dropped on the count of three. They dropped him before three, to get a look of pure shock. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In order to get a role in Bohemian Rhapsody, Ben Hardy said he was a drummer. Не was not. Hardy knew nothing about the instrument before he signed on to play Queen's drummer, Roger Taylor. The actor began practicing for two weeks, ten hours a day so he could master just one song. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Human Centipede

Tom Six deliberately left out a huge detail when he pitched The Human Centipede (First Sequence). SIAMESE TRIPLET In order to get investors on board for his twisted movie, the writer/director told them that it would be about a surgeon sewing people together. Six never mentioned that the people would be sewn ass to mouth. To his surprise, the movie's financiers ended up loving the final product. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In order to avoid price-gouging, fans, and journalists, Lucasfilm convinced everybody they were shooting a CRACKED.COM horror film called Blue Harvest... HALVEST HORROR BEYOND IMAGINATION BLUE HARVEST when they were really filming Return Of The Jedi. — Source

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CRACKED COM Werner Herzog forged official documents so he could film in a Peruvian military restricated area. It worked and he made the award-winning film, Aguirre: The Wrath of God — Source

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Matt Stone and Trey Parker

To get funding for CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL Matt Stone and Trey Parker shot a three-minute preview, complete with costumes and songs, and, as Parker says, went around to people and said 'Hey, we need finishing money for our movie. They'd leave out that they also needed starting money, as they would be starting over from scratch. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Apocalypse Now

CRACKED.COM Laurence Fishburne lied about his age to secure his casting in this epic film. Не said he was 16 to get the part of a 17 year old. Now Не was only 14 years old. — Source

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How did Ali G (Sacha BEAT TO Baron Cohen) manage to convince prominent figures to do an interview with him in Da Ali G Show? Не invented an official production company to trick his marks. Posing as Somerford Brooke Productions, Cohen convinced these people that they were doing a legitimate interview. GRACKED.COM — Source

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According to Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi, in 1987 CBS executives refused to grant Ralph Bakshi and him a contract unless they had the rights to something already well known. Bakshi went nuts and said he owned the rights to Mighty Mouse. FRITZ g) - MILE - THE NEW ADVENTURES MIGHTY OF MOUSE The execs bought the lie. After leaving, Bakshi said, Find out who the hell owns Mighty Mouse, quick! This was arguably the start of the New Golden Age of Cartoons. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sony really didn't like the idea of actors playing themselves in THIS IS THE END. So Seth Rogen lied and assured Sony they would shoot the movie in a way that would make it easy to cut around it, if they didn't like it. Which of course wasn't the case, as almost every scene in the movie makes it pretty clear they're playing themselves. CRACKED.COM — Source

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COMMODORE HAD MISTAKEN PETER MOLYNEUX'S COMPANY TORUS FOR THE NETWORKING COMPANY TAURUS. НЕ DIDN'T CORRECT THEM AND ACCEPTED 10 FREE COMPUTERS TO DO A JOB НЕ WASN'T QUALIFIED FOR. XBOX 360 XBOX FABLE III FABLE IL FABLE boy - M rec PETER USED HIS NEW COMPUTERS TO CREATE A GAME COMPANY THAT WOULD GO ON TO BECOME LIONHEAD STUDIOS-CREATORS OF THE FABLE FRANCHISE. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Multi-award-winner Betty Thomas owes her directorial debut to a lie. IC CONCER SUPPORT DE The Second AKE N CANCER city TOGETHER ACT She told a Variety reporter she would be LDA'S CLUB directing an episode of John Ritter's series G Hooperman, and even though she was called about the lie by the show's producer, she wound up directing the Christmas episode because no one wanted it. GRACKED.COM — Source

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PUBLISHERS IN 2003 WEREN'T INTERESTED IN A COMIC BOOK SERIES ABOUT ZOMBIES. ROBERT KIRKMAN So creator Robert Kirkman told them The Walking Dead was about an alien invasion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gone Girl

If Tyler Perry had known Gone Girl was based on a book, with fans who wanted it adapted their way, he'd have turned it down. His agent, who knew about this, didn't tell him the movie was based on a book until after he took the role. CRACKED.COM — Source

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