What's the food Scarlett Johansson can't get enough
of? What show is Robert Pattinson the biggest fan of? What obsession keeps
Emma Watson motivated? Keep watching to find out what bizarre obsessions celebrities have!
Pretty Little Liars star Shay Mitchell loves to give whatever she's eating a little kick
by carrying around her favorite hot sauce in her purse. She basically has an obsession
with the spicy stuff, specifically Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce. In 2017,
Mitchell's assistant Sammy Rosenman revealed to People Magazine,
"She likes this trifecta of hot sauce, depending on what she's eating...there's
a chili oil from Africa that we fly in, there's Tabasco, and there's Sriracha."
In a 2019 interview with The Strategist, Mitchell shared that certain items she can't
live without include a portable charger, lip balm, and of course, her hot sauce. She added,
"My food is just a vessel for my hot sauce."
And one time on Instagram,
Mitchell posted a photo of packets of Sriracha sauce along with the caption:
"THEY FINALLY GOT ALL MY LETTERS! Happy national hot sauce day
also known as my own personal holiday."
Scarlett Johansson first played Black Widow in 2010's Iron Man 2. So how does one prepare for
the role of a superhero? As her trainer Eric Johnson revealed to The Hollywood Reporter,
she adopted a strict workout and diet that included weightlifting
and gymnastics. As the actress admitted to Fox411,
"The training is crazy, but you just suck it up and do it. There is a lot of strength
training and agility training and fight choreography. You go in, and you just do it."
But when Johansson isn't in the gym breaking a sweat or sticking to a diet,
she indulges in her hankering for chicken wings. As she confessed to Fox411,
"Oh my god [I am obsessed] with buffalo chicken wings,
I am addicted to them. You will have to roll me down the red carpet next time you see me."
And as this particular interview ended, Johansson could be heard whispering to her publicist,
"I can't stop eating them. I just can't get enough."
Nobody loves All Hallow's Eve the way Ariana Grande does.
Simply put, she's a diehard fan of anything and everything spooky.
"I love being scared. I think it's so much fun."
With such an affinity for Halloween, it makes sense that Grande goes all out when choosing
her costumes. In 2019, for example, she paid tribute to the Twilight Zone episode "Eye of
the Beholder," in which a woman undergoes surgery to look normal. Then in 2020, she took a break
from dressing up due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as she instead posted a photo of a black kitten with
bat wings and fangs on Instagram. The very next year, she outdid herself when she paid homage
to the classic horror film Creature from the Black Lagoon by turning herself into the title creature.
When Grande answered Us Weekly's "25 Things You Don't Know About Me" feature in 2014,
several of her answers illustrated her love for all things scary. For example, she admitted,
"I wish every day were Halloween."
And,
"I have had a sick obsession with horror movies since I was little."
She also revealed,
"I love theme parks and look forward to Universal's Halloween Horror Nights all year."
And it got especially creepy when she admitted,
"My mom thought I'd grow up to be a serial killer because I wore Halloween masks around the house."
Emma Watson has a lot in common with her Harry Potter character Hermione Granger.
And as far as obsessions go, this one sounds pretty healthy. As she once said in an interview,
"I love learning. I'm just addicted to knowledge. It just like,
makes me happy. It keeps me motivated."
In 2010, Watson was promoting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:
Part 1 and attending Brown University in Rhode Island at the same time. Although being in the
beloved films allowed her to learn about all parts of the world and work with acting greats
like Alan Rickman and Gary Oldman, it still wasn't enough for Watson. As she admitted,
"I don't think that by doing these movies I know everything.
I just feel like that's the point of being alive, to try and understand the
world that's around you. And it just keeps me in touch with real life."
Watson graduated from Brown in 2014 with a bachelor's in English literature. She marked the
occasion by tweeting a photo of herself in her cap and gown captioned with a simple exclamation mark.
It's not exactly a secret that Jason Segel is a fan of puppets. As proof,
how can we forget the vampire puppet musical in Forgetting Sarah Marshall? As it turns out, that
was based on something he wrote before the movie even existed. As he admitted to Vulture in 2011,
"I came up with the conclusion that the way I was going to jump-start my
career was with a lavish Dracula puppet musical."
"You know what? I didn't realize that it was a comedy, and then someone told me that,
and it just, like, opened the whole thing up."
And then there's 2011's The Muppets, which Segel starred
in and co-wrote. At the time of that movie's release, he noted to Vulture,
"This generation, from zero to 12, they've grown up with no Muppet movie in their lives
and that just seemed crazy to me, because it really influenced who I wanted to be."
Considering all this, it should come as no surprise that Segel
has his very own collection of puppets. As he admitted,
"Thank God I have a slightly bigger house now,
so I have one room that's sort of dedicated to puppets. But for a long time, I lived in a
one-bedroom apartment that was just crammed with puppets. It's why I'm still single."
In a 2014 interview with The Guardian,
Segel revealed that he even has a puppet that looks just like him. As he detailed,
"I have the ones I started out with as a kid and used to make films with. But now I have new ones
too. When I did The Muppets there was a Jason Segel Muppet, which I eventually got to keep.
That's really the height of arrogance. To have a puppet of yourself in your own house."
Jennifer Aniston loves staying in shape, and you can thank her obsession to yoga for that.
The Friends alum has been working with yoga instructor Mandy Ingber, and she has only
glowing things to say about the practice. As she put it in a testimonial on Ingber's website,
"When I started doing yoga with Mandy, I noticed many things: My legs getting
leaner. My arms getting stronger, and most importantly, I noticed an inner strength."
When Allure asked Ingber about Aniston's favorite move, she revealed,
"Tree pose. She is a balancer. It's funny because she's balanced as a woman, too.
Whatever balance pose I put her in, whether it's tree, half-moon, or warrior three,
she can hold those for quite a bit. Also all of the balancing moves employ the core,
and she has great abs. She's always looking to work that area."
Aniston has also even appeared in an instructional video for Ingber.
"She brought yoga into my life, and it completely changed my life."
If you ever get the chance to take a peek in Emmy Rossum's bag, you'll discover just how
much she loves cheese. In a 2015 interview with The Cut, she talked about her wellness tips,
how she maintains her physical and mental health, and her one particular obsession. As she put it,
"I have a string-cheese addiction. I can't keep them in the house. It's not something I would
eat with other people — it's not like I'll pull out some string cheese when I'm having a glass
of wine with a group of friends. It's just something I like to have when I'm on the go,
and I don't have to think about it. I guess it could be a lot worse."
In general, Rossum tries to eat clean,
but she won't deprive herself of foods that she craves. As she told The Cut in 2017,
"I eat everything. I eat sugar, I eat carbohydrates, I eat gluten-free breads."
And evidently, all roads lead back to cheese, as she also admitted,
"I love Burrata so much. I want to take a Burrata-making class."
Mindy Kaling has a very particular sweet tooth. In June 2021,
she shared on Instagram a three-minute video that she captioned "My strange addiction" as she took
fans on a taste test of her favorite kind of candy: Australian red licorice. In the video,
the actor goes through four brands of licorice, as she explains where they're made and tries each
one while also judging their color and appearance. As she admits at one point:
"When I tell people that I like Australian red licorice and then they show up at my house with
like, a licorice you get at like the gas station, I think that tastes like eating birthday candles."
During the taste test, Kaling compared the licorice to the Hemsworth brothers,
who just so happen to be Australian. For her,
choosing a brand of her favorite candy is as difficult as choosing one of those Aussie boys,
even though she quickly chose Liam as her number one. Kaling ultimately opted for a brand called
Darell Lea as her top choice, but it's safe to say that she approves of all of them.
If you need a few coins for a parking meter or a load of laundry, then Kristin
Chenoweth is your girl. As she revealed on a 2012 episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show,
she has an odd obsession with quarters. As she put it,
"I obsess on saving them. I gotta have quarters. I gotta have them in my car. I have jars of
quarters, and I stash them away, and the minute I get home from a shopping trip or any trip
I put all the quarters away and I save the quarters and I don't know what it is."
Chenoweth also noted that she probably started her collection when she was a starving actor
in New York and worried about not being able to do her laundry. According to her,
she even gets a high when she needs to use one of her quarters and goes so far as cleaning them
with Purell. And that's not Chenoweth's only obsession. As she tweeted in December 2020,
"I’m addicted to Popeyes chicken sandwich. Must have everyday. The struggle is real."
And back in 2015, she tweeted about her appreciation for a
certain Bravo reality series, as she admitted,
"Don't judge me people: I've finally gotten in bed and I'm
addicted to [Southern Charm] can't be helped."
In general, reality TV seems to be a pretty big part of her media diet,
because that same year, she told The New York Times,
"I am obsessed with the following:
Real Housewives of any county — it doesn't matter. Vanderpump Rules. Dance Moms."
Needless to say, this Broadway icon has impeccable taste.
Believe it or not, Twilight star Robert Pattinson
is a big fan of Antiques Roadshow. The British program features regular people getting their
items appraised and learning the history of their pieces. As Pattinson admitted to The Sun,
"I used to love it, I think secretly every kid did, but it's not the coolest thing to admit."
He also revealed,
"I love the faces of posh people when they think that something is going to be valued
at more than it is, and when it's under they are gutted. I also love the faces of
the genuine people who have found something in their loft. When they find out what it
is worth they are genuinely delighted and you know it's going to change their life."
And when he's watching, there's a good chance that
he has a certain soda in his hand. As he once revealed in another interview,
"I was just taking out my trash and I had, like, 300 cans of Diet Coke.
It was just like, 'How did that happen?' I don’t even remember buying them. I also
like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. My addictions are pretty much the only things I consume."
"Vodka tonic. And a Diet Coke."
It's worth noting, though, that what Pattinson says should be taken with a grain of salt,
as he's been known to fib during interviews.
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