Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet, I am your most amazing
host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Celebrities that went into
hiding.
Before we delve deep into the corners of this video, I just want to ask you guys watching
to tell me who your favourite celebrity is and also where you would go and hide out if
you needed to lay low for a while.
Okay, what does celeb land have for us today…..
coming in at number 10 of the Celebrities who went into hiding we have Taylor Swift.
Thank goodness she is back now, but Taylor Swift went into hiding for over a year following
the PR disaster that was the first half of 2016.
As most of you know, I am team Taylor all of the way, but yeah… the media crucified
the poor gal.
Following her break up with Calvin Harris, the Hiddleswift Drama and Snakegate, she was
done.
Between the summer of 2016 and the Autumn of 2017, she was seldom seen in public, hiding
her face when she was.
There were even rumours she was secretly hauled up in London and wearing a dark wig in public.
Some people even thought she exited and entered her New York apartment in a box!
Some fans were livid when a screen was erected to hide her from public view at her friend
Abigail’s wedding.
Luckily, she stormed back on to the scene with her 2017 Album, Reputation, which addressed
a lot of the reasons she went missing.
From Taylor Swift to Susan Boyle – it is a natural transition at number 9.
While it took Taylor a good 10 years in the public eye to snap, Susan Boyle, the unlikely
success story of Britain’s Got Talent in 2009, shot to fame quickly and could NOT handle
it.
Susan has Asperges Syndrome, which made dealing with the spotlight more of a challenge for
her.
After the finals of Britians got talent, Boyle hid out at her home in Blackburn to avoid
media attention.
These days she still struggles to deal with it, and although she does step out to promote
her music and tour, when she isn’t performing, she lives a very private life.
8 - Dave Chappelle While the award winning comedian is back in
the spotlight, Dave Chapelle took an 8 year hiatus, with sporadic performances in between.
Up until 2006, Chapelle was riding a wave of success.
Esquire called him the comic genius of America, he had won several awards, a documentary of
his own and a 50 million dollar contract deal with Comedy Central.
Despite all that, Chapelle walked away from it all to live on a ranch in Ohio with his
wife and family.
However, in 2013, he dipped his toe back in the full time waters and these days is pretty
firmly back in the spotlight.
Next up, we have a famous 60s Sex Icon who caused a scandal that shook Britain, leading
her to quit the spotlight and go into hiding age 22
7 - Christine Keeler Christine Keller was at the centre of the
Profumo affair.
The affair was such a scandal as Keeler slept with both a Russian naval officer and John
Profumo, the Secretary of state for war.
Obvious a beautiful young socialite kandoodling with high ranking English and Russian officers
during the cold war was a cause for concern and eventually Keeler was crucified by the
public and sent to jail for nine months for perjury.
When she was released, she had two short lived marriages, following which she pretty much
became a recluse.
6 - Greta Garbo Three time Academy Award nominated Actress
Geta Garbo absolutely hated the spotlight from the start, which caused friction between
her and the studio.
Despite being a darling of the screen in the mid 1920s 1930s she snubbed awards ceremonies
and social functions.
She decided to retire from acting in the 1940s and preferred to live a life of solitude.
She reportedly said to a friend, I was tired of Hollywood.
I did not like my work.
There were many days when I had to force myself to go to the studio…
I really wanted to live another life.
5 - Jennifer Hudson Poor Jennifer Hudson has a devastating ordeal
to contend with.
Hudson rose to fame in ** so it made international news when her mother, brother and nephew were
shot dead at their home in Chicago.
Hudson then went into hiding for months to try and cope with the ordeal.
She said her faith helped her through the dark times.
Eventually, when she was ready to emerge from hiding, she secured an opening performance
to the 2009 Superbowl.
4 Agnetha Fältskog Abba were HUGE NEWS in the 1970s and early
80s, making it as a small Swedish band to international superstars after they won the
Eurovision Song Contest in 1974.
Agnetha and band member Bjorn Ulvaeus had a relationship, eventually getting married
and having children.
The pair slipt and Bjorn wrote The Winner Takes it all.
When the band finally split in 1982, Agnetha tried to go it alone but from 1988 she took
a 17 year hiatus from public life, moving back to Sweden, but to the isolated area of
Ekero.
3 Michael Jackson Michael Jacksons mental struggles are a much-discussed
topic.
The King of pop found fame as a child, then went it alone in the 1970, reaching the pinnacle
of his success in the early 80s with Thriller. Jackson’s mental state started to decline
significantly towards the end of the 90s and by the turn of the millennium, he was plagued
with child sex abuse accusations.
This led to Jackson gradually retiring from public life and having to close his personal
sanctuary and hide out, the Netherlands ranch in 2008.
Jackson became more and more reclusive until money troubles forced his hand into a come
back.
Another star who had a meltdown and subsequently went into hiding for a while, we have Britney
Spears at number 2 Britney became famous at a young age, and
it is a tale as old as time really; she struggled to deal with it.
Following her time in the Mickey Mouse Club, the Baby One More Time singer had become a
huge international success before the age of 20.
After a break up with N Sync Front man, Justin Timberlake, Britney started going off the
rails a bit.
In 2007, she shaved her head and had a break down.
Spears then spent around 5 months in hiding after checking herself into rehab.
Arguably, she needed a bit more time to heal, but these days she is back in the spotlight
and seems more stable.
A controversial one for number one, but if it is true it will be the biggest and best
celebrity hide out conspiracy of all time, we have Elvis.
The king of Rock reportedly died in 1977 after dropping dead on the toilet.
The star had suffered some drugs related health issues and his weight had sored.
However, a lot of people think that the star simply burned out and faked his death so that
he could retire from public life, indeed there have been strings of Elvis sightings over
the years, especially John Burrows Gate.
If Elvis is alive now, he would be in his 80s and would have successfully managed to
evade public life for 40 years.
So, that is our list!
What do you guys think to these celebrity hiding stories
and do you think Elvis is still in hiding?
Let me know in the comments section below….