What you might not know about the American author
The 'Thelma & Louise' star once competed in the US Olympic semifinals for archery! Just two years after picking up the hobby in 1997, she placed 24th out of 300 women, which wasn't enough to qualify for the 2000 Summer Olympics but was enough to impress us all.
Margot Robbie reportedly has surprising talent as a tattoo artist. She said in an interview that she's done over 50 tattoos, with her own tattoo gun and, according to her, she's only getting worse.
Never thought upholstery and rock 'n' roll go together? Think again. Before forming The White Stripes, Jack White was an upholsterer, and he loved it so much that he formed a band with fellow upholsterer Brian Muldoon, which they called The Upholsterers.
Though he couldn't solve his relationship with Selena Gomez, the pop star could solve the Rubik's Cube. His two-minute solving time was impressive, even though the world record is 4.22 seconds.
The rapper is also a master jet ski racer! So masterful, in fact, that he placed sixth in the world at an international competition in 1993.
The hilarious late night host and comedian has an even funnier hidden talent: tap dancing. O'Brien reportedly took lessons as a young boy, and still tries to show off when he can.
Jennifer Garner: actress, mother, clogger. She has admitted to possessing many "hillbilly" talents, including playing the spoons, but the wooden-shoe dance takes the cake.
The actress is also an avid accordion player. She told LA Times Magazine, "I also think it's a very romantic instrument, and it channels all the things I love—French culture, Tom Waits—and all the things I try to make my house look like."
This actor's hidden talent is probably one of the weirdest: he's a dog whisperer. According to Paul, he can detect the sex of a dog just by petting its back, and he proved it on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live.'
The folk legend has created quite the side hustle out of his surprising hidden talent of iron sculpting. Over the years, Dylan has shown his work at several galleries in New York.
Remember that weird double-jointed kid in school who would twist their arms all the way around? Yeah, that was Demi Lovato.
Swifties know the singer loves to bake for her friends, but she's reportedly taken a keen interest in making jam and jelly specifically. She reportedly watched her mother make homemade grape jelly every year, and it's said she has her own secret line of the sweet spread.
The 'My Name is Earl' star was a professional skateboarder in the '80s and '90s, as well as a close friend of Tony Hawk.
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In 2012, the singer asked her followers to send their teeth in the mail and she received over 1,000, which she then turned into clothes and jewelry. This moonlight teeth-crafter tried to take up the hobby again in 2014 while being treated for an eating disorder, but the center she was in vetoed the craft.
Before finding fame in 'Twilight,' Taylor Lautner showed real promise in martial arts! He started karate aged six and won many junior world championships before becoming an actor.
Sydney Sweeney has burst onto the public stage as a talented actress in shows like 'Euphoria,' 'White Lotus,' and 'The Handmaid's Tale,' but what many don't know is that she's also a talented car mechanic. For the past while, the actress has been sharing her process of fixing up her "dream car," a 1969 Ford Bronco, with her fans via her TikTok side account @syds_garage, E! News reports. The actress shared in October 2021 that the car officially runs, "Ran into bumps along the way with the transmission, but finally got the right valve and she's good! Now to start the fun stuff - interior!" And on January 14, 2023, she revealed that the car is "finally driveable."
And if that weren't enough, Sweeney is also a trained mixed martial arts fighter, as she told Kelly Clarkson on her talk show last year that she got "very into" fighting and trained with Ronda Rousey's MMA Sensei.
Brad Pitt remains a fixture in Hollywood but between film shoots and red carpets he's been taking up a very different art: sculpting. The actor made his debut as a sculptor in September 2022 as part of a group show at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland, alongside the work of musician Nick Cave and artist Thomas Houseago, for the exhibition titled 'We.' Pitt had nine works on display, including his first ever sculpture, from 2017, 'House A Go Go': an 18-inch miniature house made out of tree bark, crudely held together with tape," reports CNN. The star reportedly started his journey with ceramic art after his divorce from Angelina Jolie in 2017, and in an emailed statement to The Art Newspaper, Pitt said of his artistic turn: "For me it's about self reflection... It was born out of ownership over what I call a 'radical inventory of the self'. And getting really brutally honest with me and taking account of those I may have hurt and the moments I've just gotten wrong."
Something about the actor's vibe doesn't scream juggler, but juggler he is! He has performed on TV and proved he can alternate and change the direction or shape of his juggling objects.
We all know celebrities are extremely talented when we see them in character onscreen or hear them rocking out on the radio, but there is so much we don't know about them. More specifically, many celebrities have one or two, perhaps less refined, skills that don't get nearly as much air-time.
Click through to find out which strange hidden talents might be found on these stars' surprising CVs.
Celebrities with surprising hidden talents
Did you know that Taylor Lautner won junior world martial arts championships?
CELEBRITY Fun facts
We all know celebrities are extremely talented when we see them in character onscreen or hear them rocking out on the radio, but there is so much we don't know about them. More specifically, many celebrities have one or two, perhaps less refined, skills that don't get nearly as much air-time.
Click through to find out which strange hidden talents might be found on these stars' surprising CVs.