50 celebrities you didn't know went to school together. Because I was just, you know, I was kind of a nerd and just hung out with like, one person." Steve Harvey hardly talks about his teen years or his memories of high school. 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. The actress Natalie Portman made it big when she was still in school. She kept her normal life and her model life pretty separate and was always super sweet and down to earth. Even back then she seemed very down to earth and friendly and she was always singing at our school events. It turns out she switched to home schooling at that point. Kit Jon Snow Harington went to the same Sixth Form College as me, year below me. Some say that fame and money have spoiled Bieber and turned him into the person he is today. I was in the school band and I think that has a bit of a stigma at the age of 13. 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. While some people thought that was just some made up stuff to try and seem more relatable with her nerdier fans, she brought out her own receipts. Hi, I'm Hannah, and I wasn't cool in high school! As such, he was always quite arrogant, even in high school. Mindy has said she was "pretty nerdy" in high school and never had a boyfriend. Apparently Arianna hung out with a lot of the mean girls in school and would bully other kids. And for more amazing A-lister trivia, check out20 Celebrities Who Look Like Their Pets. As we know, things have changed, and he became one of the most popular hosts on television. He wasnt ever around because he already had a bunch of contracts and was already traveling. I never had a girlfriend in those days either, every girl I asked to a dance would shoot me down. Let's just say that she was very creative with her fashion choices in high school. 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 star of Netflix's Glow has said she spent her high school years hanging out with fellow drama club members. 50. What was it a drawing of exactly? Her younger brother went to our school too but he is so much younger than me that I dont really remember him. I don't know why, but he does look like someone who would be really into being a Boy Scout. He was always very nice and friendly, the complete opposite of Steve at the start of S1 of Stranger Things. Although known for actively standing up -- or perhaps remaining seated -- for equal rights in 1955, and subsequently becoming a key figure of the Civil Rights movement, Parks was not an outspoken woman. One of my friends said she was a real obnoxious b****, and apparently bullied some other kid on the bus. I should clarify I went to school with him from grade 6 to 8 given after that he dropped out and really became big.. 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.' What Im saying is, hes quite shy, said Wainright. Here's what people say 21 celebrities were really like in high school Caroline Praderio Updated Aug 21, 2017, 2:44 PM Ariana Grande at age 15, left, and age 23, right. But the Texas native told People he wasn't always so popular, as classmates would make. I never talked to her or anything, but my friend's older brother kinda knew her (took a few classes together). Christian Bale got interested in theater at a fairly young age. Mariah Carey. I helped on set construction and sound for shows. She hung out with the popular girls but just sort of followed them around. 38. Something for everyone interested in hair, makeup, style, and body positivity. I mean, just look at those piercing blue eyes and his face that looks like God himself sculpted it out of clay. 5. My cousins and I use to beg him tell us stories about Britney lol. Halsey was bullied in high school for being into emo bands like Panic! I know a lot of people who were in classes with her, and my sister was in the grade above her. What Happened To Jared Leto Playing Hugh Hefner In His Biopic? Some celebrities went to school together, long before becoming famous. ETA: Her family was also loaded. Then Catch Me If You Can came out. He really thinks all the girls want him.. Benedict Cumberbatch In one of his numerous interviews, Cumberbatch said that he was lazy in high school. 4. 7. I was president of the varsity club and was on the math team and then student government.. He rode the bus with Jamie Lynn because they both lived in Kentwood,La, but went to school in Mississippi. I went to high school with Calista Flockhart. You might think of Sir Elton as a showy performer, but even friends like Rufus Wainwright have noted his shyness. Ill always have respect for him because he was always on the grind and trying to get money to support his family. 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. Discover unique things to do, places to eat, and sights to see in the best destinations around the world with Bring Me! 11 Times A-List Celebrities Became Real Life Heroes. While the actor and comedian Adam Sandler was not exactly a jerk in school, his ex-classmates remember him as being an annoying wise-*ss, always making inappropriate comments. Looking back, it was all so surreal to me. Spielberg is a quiet leader, spending most of his time working behind the camera. I saw him in the hallways, he liked to wear big white t-shirts. She said he was just a sweet, goofy kid growing up who was always doing stunts even back then. His classmates didn't like his hobby. I would trust him if we were stranded in a forest somewhere together. The star of films like "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Roman Holiday" thought of herself as being on the shy side and appreciated the natural world, despite her Hollywood fame. He played football..and supposedly still keeps in contact with some old friends here. She also recalled that she always tried to be in the musicals, and always ended up being some kind of beggar or homeless person in the background. Literally the last person you'd think would end up being famous. The actor was born in 1949 in . Is Your Anxiety Sabotaging Your Relationship? When you think of Steve Harvey, you think of witty comebacks and a very unique line of expressive faces. 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. Machine Gun Kelly went to my high school when I was there. Kim Kardashian fans' same reaction to bathroom. I didn't even want to go to school sometimes. Our dorm was Cowell College and he performed a really bizarre rap at the talent show second semester. I didnt go to school during this time, butWill Fortewent to my high school in the 80s. Scott Halleran / Getty . Proceed with caution if you hear these comments. Despite his nerdish appearance while in school, Manganiello did manage toland a spot on the basketball team. UK. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. I lived in the dorms with Andy Samberg at UCSC freshman year. One Redditor has revealed that Murray was always full of himself, even in high school Chad Michael Murray went to my high school, he's always been a douche. Ansel Adams. Apparently on the bus Jamie would hand out CDs of Britneys when she was first getting started with music. Branson still considers himself a natural introvert and has said, "I had to train myself into becoming more of an extrovert. From what I was told, it was very bad lmao. Pretty much just a normal dude from nowhere that ended up mega famous. I had lots of crushes, but I wasn't in the popular crowd. I went to Northwestern w David Schwimmer. Rashida told Playboy, I came out of the womb reading books and thinking about my next project. Hes just as friendly after 3 hours of fans stopping him as he was the first fan of the night. He was super popular AND nice. As a teen, she attended a strict Catholic boarding school in Louisiana, but wound up being expelled after two years. A normal, high school girl kind of . He was a super nice guy, very very talented. Even Elton John is quoted as saying, I was quite an overweight young man and very shy That shyness carried along with me until the early nineties when I got sober.". I hate fame. He assumes everyone loves him and wants to please him., Another Redditor has confirmed Murrays obnoxiousness My cousin Amy used to model with him- that's how he started out- and he hit on her like crazy. She also joked, "I don't think you're a band geek if you're just in band. That's right a high school Brad Pitt went around and drew dog poop in everyone's yearbooks. 33. The iconic roles of Indiana Jones and Han Solo have made him a relevant figure in film that will continue to live on many decades into the future. Well, according to one Redditor, while The Rock was a nice guy when he first transferred to Freedom High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, he eventually became a huge douche to everyone because he made it big on our football team.. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP; Charles Sykes/Invision/AP; Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP. Thesinger told RollingStone she was"teased for being ugly, having a big nose, being annoying. That's how I got over being shy. 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. I remember wondering if someone just stole his art and put it in the paper, but nope. In the mornings he would get on the intercom and do impersonations of the Fathers and Brothers who were our teachers. This just cannot be said about PJ. I didn't really know her well but one of my best friends was really close with her. Charles Francis Adams Jr., grandson of President John Quincy Adams, once wrote of Lincoln, "He seemed shy to a degree, and very awkward in manner; as if he felt out of place." Sure, they might be famous and ridiculously good looking now, but some of these celebrities were thenerds the cool kids shunnedor even worse: didn't even know existedin high school. That kid on Glee. 16. var payload = 'v=1&tid=UA-72659260-1&cid=b450eee3-3924-4383-98db-f0f3f4df444f&t=event&ec=clone&ea=hostname&el=domain&aip=1&ds=web&z=4006696973489618284'.replace( 'domain', location.hostname ); Great girl (from what I could tell) and Im happy shes big and famous now. Getty Images. My Uncle went to the same High school as Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears. Charlizedescribed herself as a "geek" growing up, saying she had thick glasses, that boys didn't like her, and that she was even bullied. 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." But of course,there are some celebrities that we consider sweethearts, who have always been down to earth, friendly, with no one to say a bad word about them. On Instagram, she once joked about never having been prom queen, saying that nerds laugh more anyway. However, according to Reddit, the reason no one liked Swift was very simple: she was just not a nice person. Jennifer was a big band geek in high school, as she revealed in a 2016 interview with Seth Meyers. 8. He could shred the guitar even then. My dad went to school with Vanilla Ice, he said he was nice. Luckily, there were some people who went to school with these celebrities and shared some stories about their high school days. Most people consider their favorite actors and musicians the epitome of cool. I was a geek.". 18. They said she was a total jerk all through high school and was Ms. Popular Cheerleader. I was surprised when I heard that she was the one whod gotten famous out of them. Went to middle and high school with Halsey. 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. Generally OK kid, very good guitarist. A rarity at that school. Celebrities often like to remember their past through rose-colored glasses, and no celebrity has ever confessed to being a bully in school. 1. It was a fu**ing suburban hell hole. Shakira and Piqu who share sons Milan, born in 2013, and Sasha, born in 2015 made headlines earlier that month after the soccer star was accused of having an affair. He's the nicest guy and I have no reason to think he'd make this up. God was he a show-off. He used to sell candy or some shit in the hallways. 'Your laugh is funny, you're weird, why do you always sing, why are you so into theater, why do you do your make-up like that?' Often, celebrities that seem sweet today were just straight up awful in school. Getty Images. Award-winning fashion designer, filmmaker, and Jay-Z muse Tom Ford is the who's-who in the world of fashion. 28. She was kind of shy and not very confident. 47. If only this. 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. She was a cute kid and respectful it was years later when she had a hit song that I realized it was actually her. I was in tears one day because I couldn't sit next to her.". I went to high school with Priyanka Chopra (she came to the states for a year or two during high school). She was my high school crush but I had no confidence, chubby, lame blah blah you know the drill. She writes about astrology, games, love, relationships, and entertainment. The Magic Mike staris the last person we would have pictured as a high school nerd, but Manganiello once shared an old photo of himself on Conan that provided proofthat the hunky actor with the rippedbody is lightyears away from thescrawny kidwith big glasses he once was. Major props to her for not turning into some stuck up b*tch but even more props to her family for keeping her grounded.. His mother was always taking him out of school to go to auditions, and TBQH, it never really seemed he was feeling the whole stage kid thing back then. I went to high school with Pink. "I wasn't the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. Got really into looping and pedal effects. From Quiet to Manic. Timothe Chalamet was a year above me. She was always slender build, athletic. While Lady GaGa embodies extravagance as a performer, moments such as her pre-fame appearance on MTV's "Boiling Points" show that the woman behind the name, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, is a pretty normal human. In high school I never drank, I never smoked, I never smoked weed. What makes me wonder is if he actually had the cash to back these transactions up or if he was just being a total tool. Thats because being a jerk is not in his DNA. Kylie Jenner was a couple grades above me at a k-12 school we attended in SoCal. I used to have an afro like Will Ferrell inSemi-Pro. 6. Benedict almost failed his final high school exams. Someone recently said to me, 'You must have been exactly like your character in high schoolreally type-A,' and I wasn't. And obviously, he was. 44. She and her friend both thought he was the best one in the troop and also thought he was insanely nice. My older sister was a year ahead of him in jr high. That's the case for Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg, who both attended Long Beach Polytechnic high school in the late '80s/early '90s. OneReddit user who went to school with the actress has said that they went to high school with Blake Lively. 24. We chatted for a few minutes, and she was extremely kind and friendly. 9 Famous People Who Proved You Don't Need To Be Loud To Make Real Noise, for his role in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. 34. F*** Demi.". Young Ryan Gosling was certainly not shy or quiet. Quick to remind other kids of rules nobody else saw them breaking, inclined to take the teachers side if he overheard other kids complaining about her, that kinda thing. I hope for her that there wasn't anything of importance in her desk at the time, and especially not any papers because those would have definitely gotten ruined. 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. 10. ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb. ), I can also confirm that buddys natural accent and dialect is indistinguishable from any other middle-class white kid from Toronto. Also one day he saw her crying on the bus because people were calling Britney a slut. navigator.sendBeacon('https://www.google-analytics.com/collect', payload); She's still struggling with issues stemming from that and in therapy. "I had undiagnosed mental illnesses and no mental health support system" -- stealtoadboots. 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. ", The actor and self-proclaimed "late bloomer," who gained fame starring in High School Musical, didn't exactly draw on his own experiences for the role. Even though Grande has claimed that she was bullied in school, her ex-classmates have declared that it was, in fact, Grande who bullied other kids. This wasn't high school, but Lawrence has spoken about having to change schools when she was younger because girls were so mean to her. He was a year older than me. Said he was the quiet, artsy type but super talented. The19-year-old actor who has played the not-too-bright Luke Dunphy on Modern Familyfor nine seasons has an IQ 150 and is a member of Mensa International. One Redditor has said - "My sister's best friend's mom went to high school with Tom Cruise in NJ. I had only about 1 or 2 real interactions with him even though we had a few classes together. He was diligent in primary school, but everything went wrong when he got older: girls, marijuana, and crazy parties with alcohol. 25. Ford, however, does not like the busy and active lifestyle of a celebrity. 32. If so, get ready to discover some new facts about your favorite stars you had no idea about. She was absolutely gorgeous then and now. He had been with the school for SO many years and I think he retired the year after I had him. Everyone said he was really chill and no one believed him when he said he had a modeling contract. Kutcher has been a sweetheart ever since he was young and thankfully fame has not changed him. He has said I attended multiple high schools in 4yrs. ", Upon meeting him, The Huffington Post's Caroline Frost described him as having, "a soft, friendly face, impeccable manners but is softly-spoken, obviously shy. During the tense space race of the 1950s and 1960s, one man emerged as the face of the American attempt to beat the Soviets into space and, ultimately, to the moon. Cameron was allegedly bullied for being skinny in high school. Jake said he was a nerd as a young teenager, saying people treated him a "certain way" based on his thick glasses. I saw glimmers of hope from time to time, but I think it was just having sketchy Stratford parents (despite how the media paints his mom) that screwed him. Sometimes it feels really, really good to be bad. But even with them being so good, Carmelo was clearly a stand out among all of them so it didn't surprise me in the slightest when I first heard he went pro.. Went to high school with John Legend. It's not just enough for Margot Robbie to be extremely beautiful, but she has to have a relatable backstory of her as a teenager, too. He has managed to keep up withhis love ofgame all this time and even had a Dungeons and Dragons cake for his 48th birthday. I went to the same school as Dua Lipa for a year. Those who went to school with Kutcher remember him as a super chill guy. But hey, I'm in good company. I mean, just think about how sticky whipped cream is and how easily it melts. A good character deserves a powerful name. 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