re: What celebrities had the biggest difference between their public and private lives

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J Edgar Hoover

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I was about to post something like, "no one's mentioned J. Edgar Hoover yet, but..."

Anyway, I don't buy the Hoover stories. The claims are implausible. It basically all ties back to one woman who claimed that she'd go to high-class Manhattan parties and Hoover would be sitting there holding court in a beautiful evening gown.

Now, if you'd told me that they'd found a trunk full of lingerie in Hoover's house after he died, or that he'd been busted hurriedly removing make-up by a surprise visitor, that might be believable. And I would think, "Hoover was probably a secret cross-dresser."

However, the notion that he just sort of mingled at somewhat pubic social events in a dress, and no one other than this one (possibly batshit crazy) Manhattan socialite ever mentioned it, just doesn't ring true for me.

Morgan Fairchild. She always played the role of a bitch. In real life she was the nicest person. Met her a few times. Just met Brie Larsen. Everyone paints her as a bad personality, but she was super nice and friendly. I mean the fact that she was laughing at my cornball jokes means she can't be all bad!

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Didn’t he and the rapper get crossways over Amish paradise?

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Coolio claimed that although he first rejected Weird Al's request to spoof the song, he later understood that he could not halt the production owing to fair use copyright regulations.

Later, Coolio gave Weird Al's suggestion some thought. He told the IPR students, "I sat down, and I really thought it out," he told the students at IPR. "I was like, 'Wait a minute.' I was like, 'Coolio, who the f**k do you think you are? He did Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson didn't get mad.'"

Coolio said his ego stood in the way. "I was being too magnificent and too terrific about myself and that's not what you want to do," he said.

Weird Al parodied Coolio in "Amish Paradise" by giving his hair cornrows that pointed upward and filming in an Amish neighborhood. On the Billboard Hot 100 list, the parody from his Bad Hair Day album peaked at position 53.

Later, Coolio and Weird Al made up. He said, "I've since apologized to him. Again, that was so stupid. ... That was a stupid thing for me to do. That was one of the dumbest things I did in my career."

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Didn’t he and the rapper get crossways over Amish paradise?

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That was Coolio, and he was mad at Weird Al initially.

Coolio had sampled other music for Gangsta’s Paradise, so Coolio didn’t have exclusive rights. Weird Al reached out to the record company, and they gave permission. Coolio was never informed.

Weird Al reached out to Coolio to smooth things over. Eventually, Coolio also apologized to Weird Al for how he had handled the situation. Telling him he should have been honored that one of his songs was parodied.

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She is a fire starter, dont care what anyone says.

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Yes

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Natural beauty

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That may be pushing it a bit.

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And lived next door to Micky. Would babysit his daughter.

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What celebrities had the biggest difference between their public and private lives

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LSUCoyote

LaWanda Page

She played Bible toting Aunt Esther on Samford and Sons

She also had a stand up routine that was raunchy. ( As a kid ai worked the concession stand at the facility and I thought..well that's not her acting persona)

Keith Richards - despite the obvious tropes, he has supposedly been dry since like 1981

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley - supposedly actually true that they were essentially teetolaters when it came to substances. Their addiction was women lol

Bob Dylan - I think he claims that every song he's done since like 1972 was as a born again Christian in the service of Jesus Christ