When he was 7, Vin Diesel and some friends broke into a New York theater with intentions to vandalize it. Instead of calling the police, the theater’s artistic director handed them scripts and offered them parts in the upcoming show. This became Diesel’s first acting role.
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Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team his sophomore year.
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Blue Peter pet, Petra the mongrel puppy, died two days after being introduced. A replacement was found.
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Jimi Hendrix played for Englebert Humperdinck when his regular guitarist failed to show, Hendrix had to play behind a curtain and Humperdinck says it was like having 3 guitarists behind him.
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Pierce Brosnan once worked with the circus as a fire eater!
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Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker.
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If you rearrange the letters in Vin Diesel it reveals his credo: "I End Lives."
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Until he turned 12, Robert Pattinson's elder sisters dressed him up as a girl and introduced him as "Claudia" to strangers.
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