What they lied to fame

Who has not ever resorted to a “lying” to beautify an anecdote, conquer someone or get a job? Apparently, almost everyone because, according to an investigation by psychologist Robert S. Feldman, from the University of Massachusetts, Human beings lie much more than they are willing to admit.

Feldman’s hypothesis, of course, does not exclude public figures. Famous also fall into the temptation to hide, deceive or create false news – fake news – In order to improve your image, generate empathy or ensure paper In the competitive entertainment world. And although they are always under the microscope of public opinion, the seduction of a carefully elaborate history seems, in certain cases, to be very tempting.

For example, Rebel Wilson Charismatics It was a few years to get the role of Fat Amy In the movie Perfect notes And, from there in more, he had a series of incidents with the amount of candles that his birthday should blow. In fact, in 2017, Rebel led to a major European publishing house that published a series of notes that assured that The actress lied about her real name, her story and her age.

In one of the trial hearings, Rebel, whose real name is Melanie Elizabeth Bownds, said he never lied about his age, but always avoided talking about the subject.

Before becoming the protagonist of the third season of Bridgerton, Nicola Coughlan was part of the cast of Derry Girlsa British series in which he played a fifteen -year -old teenager, despite the fact that, in that time, he had already overcome the thirty barrier. In several interviews, the actress confessed that for a long time The program producers forced her to hide her true age to keep the character’s freshness intact.

During an interview in 2009, Comedian Steve Rannazzisi reported how he had escaped from the southern tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. For several years the actor related his experience in different media until, in September 2015, confessed that the story was not real: “I wasn’t at Trade Center that day. I don’t know why I said that. There are no excuses. I’m very sorry, a lot,” he wrote in his X account.

After several networks of the networks will detect their false Spanish accent, Hilaria Baldwin, “the Spanish woman of Alec Baldwin” (as she was known in the middle) had to admit that she was not born in Mallorca, Spain, but in Boston. Hilaria Baldwin, who is actually called Hillary Hayward-Thomas, managed to hold his lie for a decade despite the fact that, according to a note from Vanity Fair magazine in Spain, in the family tree of Hillary there is some Czech blood, some German blood, much of Anglo-Saxon, but no Spanish descent.

In an attempt to achieve greater popularity, the Mexican actress Lucía Méndez, famous in Latin America for participating in soap operas such as Diana Salazar’s strange return o Nobody love, He uploaded a trucada photo in which he was hugging George Clooney and director Alfonso Cuarón, during the 2013 Venice Festival edition of the 2013 Venice Festival. After a few minutes, the Twitteros discovered the deception and immediately Méndez claimed that it was an error made by the people responsible for their social networks.

The pop world also has its little lies and great deceptions. During the 1980s, the pop queen and her publicists built a story about Madonna’s arrival in New York. Legend tells that Madonna Louise Ciccone reached the big block full of expectations and dreams, but with only ten dollars in her wallet, a story worthy of a soap opera. However, It has already been more than clear that his arrival in New York was not so dramatic or austere.

Every time we evoke the figure of Elvis Presley, the first thing that comes to mind is the iconic image of the King of Rock with its pints, its dark hair and its enigmatic blue eyes. However, few know that Presley really was blond. When Elvis created his emblematic look, he understood that black hair would highlight his face. In fact, during the first years of his career, The singer came to dye his hair with shoes for shoes.

Milli Vanilli was a duo that quickly reached fame in the 1990s. However, it is also synonymous with the greatest scandal in the history of pop music. At the end of the eighties, Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan They were two very popular young people in the nightlife of Münich who dreamed of being pop stars, although they did not have a great musical talent. However, in the morning, producer Frank Faria, creator of the Boney M group in the seventies, hired them to turn them into the “faces” of Milli Vanilli.

The duo became a world phenomenon and took Grammy as revelation in 1990, a prize that the Academy withdrew them When Farian himself, to cover himself from the complaints of the true interpreters of Milli Vanilli’s songs, revealed to the press that Pilatus and Morvan did playback on songs played by other singers. “All our dream became a true nightmare,” Fab Morvan admitted years later. Farian left the scandal and created The Real Milli Vanilli, while Pilatus and Morvan never managed to overcome the consequences of that episode.

One of the pillars of the master plan Luisito Rey to turn his son, Luis Miguel, into a mega Mexican star, was falsifying his nationality. In fact, the “Sun of Mexico” is rather the “Sun of Puerto Rico”, since Luismi was born on that Caribbean island and not in the state of Veracruzas the singer and his father said. Shortly after the truth came to light in 1991, the then president of Mexico, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, granted Luis Miguel the letter of naturalization, who legally turned him into a Mexican citizen.

The myth of Julio Iglesias and the three thousand women who would have gone through their bed has lasted over several decades. The rumor was disseminated by the British newspaper Daily Mirror When the singer was still in a couple with the mother of his older children Enrique, Julio and Chabeli. According to a note that Iglesias granted to the journalist Mabel Galaz of the newspaper The country Upon learning of the publication of Mirror, the singer was surprised, but quickly instructed his representative so that he did not denied the news.

After participating in two of the saga movies Harry Potter, Robert Pattinson confessed that he had many difficulties in achieving a new acting work. To justify that two -year “bump”, Pattinson admitted that he lied in several interviews by ensuring that during that period he did not work because he had taken a course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, One of the most prestigious theater schools in the world, although in reality he was never a student of that institution.

In a note to Vanity FaiR, Mila Kunis revealed that he lied to get the role of Jackie Burkhart in That ‘70s Show. The producers were looking for an 18 -year -old actress, but Kunis was only 14. All deception collapsed at the time of signing the contract, since the young woman needed a clause that guaranteed the presence of a teacher in the set, to continue with her secondary education. The producers left the difference and decided that the character Jackie, finally, was 16 years old.

Something similar happened to Guillian Anderson when he crossed the casting process for the role of agent Dana Scully, from File X. Anderson said that producer Chris Carter was looking for a 27 -year -old actress, but she was just 24so he did not hesitate to lie about his age to keep the role of the FBI agent who made her famous worldwide.

Ben Hardy, fulfilled his dream of personifying Roger Taylor in Bohemian Rhapsodybut before, he had to resort to a hoax. Bryan Singer, director of the film, asked if he could record a song to demonstrate his ability with the battery and Hardy accepted, implying that he already dominated the instrument. Determined to get the role, he bought a battery and hired a teacher to record the demo and, later, to learn to execute each of Queen’s songs that were part of the film.

The Spaniards Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz and Paz Vega They arrived in Hollywood with a solid acting trajectory, great dreams and scarce mastery of English. However, despite his unquestionable talent, Each of them tried to hide their lack of fluency in English through tricks and small deceptions.

Banderas had a repertoire of four phrases to appear at the castings, one of them was I Can it (“I can do it”)In fact, his tactic led him to get a leading role in The kings of mambo. Paz Vega achieved his protagonist in Spanglish Almost without knowing the language and Penelope, with a style very similar to Antonio, he repeated two lines: How are you? (“How are you?”) And I Want To Work Withnny Depp (“I want to work with Johnny Depp”).

In 2006, the writer and screenwriter James Frey had to publicly admit that he had exaggerated the personal experiences that overturned in his book A Million Little Pieces, Published in 2003, in which he reported his past of addictions, crimes and jail.

Thanks to several testimonies that denied their story, It could be known that Frey was imprisoned only a few hours and not for months, as described in his supposed biography. Oprah Winfrey, who had interviewed Frey for his inspiring history and, in addition, had recommended the book in his show, confronted him live and asked for explanations. The author acknowledged that the publishers ignored him when he offered them A Million Little Pieces As a fiction book, but he did sign a contract when he “reclassified” it as an autobiography.