Legendary, apocryphal or just plain untrue stories of celebrities

I actually live in the same town as the guy who, as a kid, played Mikey. His kids go to school with mine. No, we don’t discuss pop rocks on the sidelines of soccer games.

Rod himself acknowledges the rumors, and just laughs at them. He asks. “What am I supposed to have done, sucked off an entire football team?”

Rod isn’t gay but has had so many gay friends and band mates (starting with Long John Baldry) that he doesn’t bat an eyelash at such talk.

Lucille Ball claimed to have intercepted a spy ring’s radio transmission on her fillings…

Quoth Snopes: Undetermined.

wow Snopes drops the ball.

She most certainly spread the story herself.

Alice Cooper is Eddie Haskell from Leave it to Beaver.

The undetermined part is whether it happened for real.
From the Snopes link.

A 19-year old Elizabeth Taylor fixed up men with co-star Montgomery Clift while they were making A Place in the Sun.

Then they need to fire their editor.

I linked a video of, amazingly enough, Television comedienne Lucille Ball claiming radio transmissions picked up on her fillings led to the capture of Japanese spies. So, the claim, as written, is unarguable.

If they meant “Claim: Television comedienne Lucile Ball picked up radio transmissions on her fillings which led to the capture of Japanese spies. Status: Undetermined.” then they need to fix that.

You might want to check the thread title. :slight_smile:

I had a friend in high school who insisted that this would true and would not be convinced otherwise.

The odd thing about this is that this friend’s vision had been seriously impaired her entire life and she was almost completely blind by the time Marilyn Manson became famous. So while she may have remembered what Josh Saviano looked like during his Wonder Years days, she was really in no position to judge whether Marilyn Manson bore much resemblance to him.

So…you’re saying she wasn’t bullshitting?

Eddie Haskell became porn star Johnny Wadd.

There’s a rumor that Keith Richards has had all of his blood replaced in order to kick a heroin addiction.

I was never quite sure about Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull and the Mars bar.

There was also a story that she couldn’t hit the high notes until she was hit in the head by a falling object when the group was bumming around on St. Thomas, USVI.

Not true. (it was a three musketeers)

That author Ann Rule got the contract to write a book about Ted Bundy because she knew him. Not true. She got the contract BEFORE anyone (including Bundy) was a suspect.

That Hillary Clinton is a lesbian who has had many abortions!

Gene Simmons had a (part of) cow’s tongue grafted to his own.

Cecil Adams is Ed Zotti.