- Eh, eh, hey, how are ya?
I'm Mike Tyson and I like to raise pigeons
in my spare time. (imitates pigeon)
Celebrities are known for a lot of different things.
Some are known for things that are better than others,
but between the spectrum of good and bad
there's a strange gray area that some
celebrities like to indulge in.
Let's call it the area of the weird. (laughs)
You'll see what I mean in a minute.
Here are the 10 strangest hobbies of famous celebrities.
Number 10 is Mike Tyson raises pigeons.
Former heavyweight boxing champion of the world,
Mike Tyson is famous for his lisp, face tattoo,
and biting people's ears off,
but did you also know that he raises show pigeons?
Yeah, it's a passion. (squawks)
Iron Mike attends the National Pigeon Association's
annual Grand National Pigeon Show every single year,
and even gave the opening address at the convention,
encouraging a new generation of pigeon enthusiasts
back in 2015.
Seriously people, you can't make this stuff up.
Apparently, he's been raising pigeons since he was a kid
in the slums of Brooklyn, New York
and even won his first fight at the age of 10
after a neighborhood bully killed one of his
beloved pets in front of him.
Tom, you shouldn't have done that.
Number nine is Paris Hilton hunts frogs.
Oh, the idle rich have always had strange hobbies.
Whether it's fox hunting, butler racing,
or whatever else, but heiress and supposed DJ
Paris Hilton is an avid frog hunter.
Yeah, you heard that right, the chick that says
"that's hot" also goes "die, froggies."
I guess the simple life of being cruel to service staff
isn't enough because Paris and her sister Nicky
also hunt frogs with methods she claims are humane.
This self-proclaimed animal rights activist
owns a number of ranches and her own island
populated with frogs that she stalks like a lion,
catches in a bucket, and then releases them
back into the wild so she can hunt them again.
Oh, my bad, so she doesn't kill them,
she just traps them and then releases them
'cause that's totally, totally normal behavior
for a multi-millionaire.
(coughs)
Number eight is Shailene Woodley makes toothpaste.
Okay, I know it's like $2 at the store,
but that's just still too much.
Historically, growing up a child actor
doesn't turn out well for you,
but Descendants and Divergence star Shailene Woodley
went a very different direction, making her own toothpaste.
The actress believes in living her life
with creativity, kindness, and gratitude,
and her hippie 2.0 lifestyle translates into
only wearing thrift store clothing, social activism,
and apparently, like I said, manufacturing her own
organic toothpaste from household products.
What is that, Drano?
Yeah, that should work.
I'm not exactly sure the American Dental Association
would approve, but Shailene shared with her fans her recipe,
using clay, bentonite, coconut water, and peppermint oil.
What the hell is bentonite?
She also makes her own lipstick from roasted beets,
eyeshadow from spirulina, and deodorant with baking soda,
which probably makes one of the ripest talents in Hollywood.
Shailene, looking good, vegetable,
vegetable face, you're weird.
Number seven is Steve Wozniak plays Segway polo.
Steve Wozniak, AKA the Woz, is known for co-founding
Apple Computers with Steve Jobs in a small garage
in Los Altos, California, but did you know
that he's also an avid Segway polo player?
Yes, you heard me right, Segway polo,
where instead of horses, players ride around on Segways
and whack balls into a net, is a thing.
Wozniak was one of the evangelists for the Segway,
among the greatest product flops in history,
yet he remains a believer in the goofy powers of it.
Polo remains a sport of the wealthy,
because of the cost of the horses,
but at $6,000 a pop for each two-wheeled whip,
Segway polo is a sport of tech billionaires
and their entourages.
Zuckerberg.
Wozniak.
Still, the Woz considers Segway polo his passion,
and plays every year in the Segway Polo Championships
in Cologne, Germany called The Woz Cup.
The Woz Cup, yep, okay, that's,
that's a thing, I don't even have a joke for that.
That's just, that's a joke in and of itself, okay,
we'll just give it to him.
Number six is Angelina Jolie collects daggers.
Angelina Jolie has always had an edge to her,
with her striking beauty and sometimes unorthodox roles,
but she's also a collector of knives and daggers.
Seriously though, what's uh, what's wrong with that?
Her passion for knives began at
Renaissance fairs as a child.
Today, Angelina uses her vast fortune
to collect knives from around the world
and from various periods in history.
Jolie demonstrated her knife skills on Conan O'Brien's
show in 1998 by flipping a butterfly knife into stab mode
and, well, it went all right.
Later, she drew controversy in 2008 for giving
her then-seven-year-old son Maddox his first knife.
Well, she justified it by saying that the knife was dull
and it was meant to teach him about defending himself,
and assured the public that her blade collection
is locked away from her 100+ kids.
Okay, that's not an exact estimate.
I don't know how many kids she has, but it's a lot.
Number five is Leonardo DiCaprio collects action figures.
You'd probably figure that good old Leo
would be way too busy starring in every single
Martin Scorsese movie and dating the hottest
models to play with toys.
But believe it or not, Leo is an avid collector
of action figures, particularly Star Wars and He-Man,
and has a vast array of vintage toys.
Much like a super-nerd that you'd find at Comic Con,
Leo has enough discipline to keep his toys
in their original packaging so they maintain their value
so that he can auction them off for profit.
In 2009, he sold an original He-Man for $9,000
and a Jawa figure from Star Wars for $5,000.
Well, that's a lot of money,
except that doesn't he make millions off of movies?
Man, times must be tough for Leo.
Number four is Leslie Mann rides a unicycle.
Leslie Mann has had us all laughing
as the beautiful counterpart to lovable oafs
like Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, and Paul Rudd
in all of her husband, Judd Apatow's movies,
but perhaps her greatest talent is on the unicycle.
It all began when Leslie was just 10,
when she got her first unicycle for Christmas,
and after teaching herself how to ride,
she eventually learned tricks like cycling backwards
and jumping off curbs.
She once told Ellen DeGeneres "I'm really good at it"
on her daytime talk show before demonstrating
her bonafide unicycling skills live on television
and challenged Ellen to ride,
but the host gave it a hard pass.
Yeah, no kidding, why would you want to
break your skull open?
But she's not alone, other celebrity unicyclists
include Chris Martin from Coldplay
and comedian Adam Corolla.
Well, hey, it's weird, but it's a better trend
in Hollywood than Scientology.
Number three is Sergey Brin does high-flying trapeze.
If you were to google tech bajillionaires
with strange hobbies, you will likely find Google founder
Sergey Brin, who has a thing for high-adrenaline sports,
his favorite being high-flying trapeze.
Since he didn't run away to join the circus
and instead built one of the most powerful
and richest companies in history,
Brin spends his leisure time flying in the air.
The Russian-born tech mogul attributes this passion
to taking risks, like they did during the garage days
of Google, and since he pushes his mind to the limits,
he does the same with his body.
He even began his death-defying hobby
way before Google was even a verb
in a local San Francisco circus training class.
Yeah, I just created a product that's gonna change
the world, but also, (hums)
Number two is Azelia Banks practices witchcraft.
The 212 rapper is more famous for her controversial
behavior, like her Twitter feuds with Sarah Palin,
brawling on airplanes, and calling out the descendants
of slave owners for reparations,
but she's also a bonafide witch.
In 2016, Banks admitted that she'd been
practicing witchcraft for three years,
and even shared a video on Twitter of her apartment
closet where she sacrifices animals.
The video, that I definitely can't show you in full,
contains blood-stained walls, feathers,
and dead chickens on the floor,
that horrified much of her fan base
and elicited a strong condemnation from,
you guessed it, PETA.
But Banks claims she learned the practice from her mother,
who practices white table magic,
and credits her success in music and life to the practice.
Oh, and she's also confessed that she handles
her offline beefs with people by cracking eggs
with a spell in their path to curse them.
Hey, can I make you breakfast?
Crack, you're cursed. (cackles)
And number one is Johnny Depp collects Barbie dolls.
♪ Come on, Barbie, let's go party ♪
If you thought Johnny Depp couldn't get any stranger,
oh boy, did you know that he also collects Barbie dolls?
Seriously, one of the highest-paid actors in the world,
a grown man in his 50s, has an enormous
and eclectic collection of Barbies,
from vintage to custom-made.
Depp confessed on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2015
about his Barbie collection, that includes
Barbie versions of Marilyn Monroe, Beyonce,
Paris Hilton, and, um, himself.
He said, and I quote, "it's one of the things I'm good at."
He claims that his addiction began as a way
to bond with his daughter, Lilly Rose.
He's even said that he uses Barbies to develop
his iconic characters like Jack Sparrow and Willy Wonka.
Oh yes, the rum, the rum, but the Barbies first.
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I'm gonna go raise so pigeons. (squawks)