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15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

January 13, 2021

We tend to think of celebrities as something other than people. After all, they are typically wealthier beyond our imagination and live lives that aren't typical to the regular Joe Schmoe, Jane Schmane, or Louis Schmouis. What can they possible have in common with the common man? Well, you might be playing Command and Conquer: Red Alert on your PC online and be surprised when you're paired up against John Cena.

Celebrities may not live like us, but many of them have the same hobbies that we enjoy. It's just that on occasion the hobbies can be a bit more eccentric. Like Professor Slughorn's carvings of weird wooden dolls or Bob Dylan lighting up a blowtorch to make steampunk metal gates. You might be serving jury duty and wondering why Lucy Lawless is in attendance at the trial.

Take a look and see if have any hobbies in common with these eccentric celebrities.

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While working on the Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman picked the locks of filing cabinets with nuclear secrets. He was super bored in the middle of — Source: Open Culture

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama enjoys repairing watches as a hobby. — Source: US News

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Al Capone played the banjo in Alcatraz. He was part of the prisoner band The Rock Islanders, who stayed active until Alcatraz closed. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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In his 70s, Fred Astaire took up skateboarding. He stopped skateboarding only when he fell from his board and broke his wrist, at the age of almost 80 — Source: Sunday Post, The Telegraph

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The Dutch King

For 21 Dutch King Willem-Alexander worked as a passenger jet co-pilot. He flew about twice a month, as a hobby that allowed him to focus on one thingc — Source: The Guardian

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Marlon Brando became an inventor in his later years. He invented stuff for conga drums (which he loved playing), and was awarded four patents for drum — Source: 5 Celebrities Who Love Their Hobbies More Than Their Careers

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Bob Dylan loves building steampunk metal gates. lOra 13 He welds them by hand from vintage iron scraps. He says he likes gates because of the negativ — Source: 5 Celebrities Who Love Their Hobbies More Than Their Careers

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Would be better if she showed up as Xena

Lucy Lawless shows up at random criminal trials. I spend a lot of time in the courthouse of whatever city I am at, she says, and she describes it as — Source: 6 Celebrities (You Never Realized Have Terrifying Hobbies)

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John Cena is a huge Red Alert fan. OD SWITCH He's a huge fan of gaming in general, too, and has a beefy gaming PC. He loses more than he wins, he says — Source: 5 Celebrities Who Love Their Hobbies More Than Their Careers

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Very Billy

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan had a website where he posted random vintage photos. It was called PeopleAndTheircars.com, but it didn't featu — Source: 6 Celebrities (You Never Realized Have Terrifying Hobbies)

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Terry Crews is an accomplished painter. He worked as a courtroom sketch artist, and kept going when he got into football-- he painted portraits of his — Source: 5 Famous People And Their Wacky Hobbies You Never Knew About

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Barbra Streisand keeps her clothes, shoes, furniture, and other stuff in a fake mall in her basement. NITL She said I have a lot of stuff, and instea — Source: 6 Celebrities (You Never Realized Have Terrifying Hobbies)

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Professor Slughorn

Jim Broadbent CProfessor Slughorn in Harry Potter) carves bizarre wooden statues. After carving them, he paints them, dresses them, and puts human hai — Source: The Guardian

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Anton Yelchin took photos of people doing weird sex stuff. He'd lurk at night in seedy corners of Los Angeles and take bizarre, perverted photos. The — Source: Vanity Fair

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Bruce Lee wrote and translated poetry. The poems he wrote were kind of dark, and spoke about the fleeting nature of life, love and the passion of hum — Source: Open Culture

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