0
The number of spleens Keanu Reeves, Burt Reynolds and Geoffrey Boycott have between them (they’ve all had their spleens removed).
0
The number of cups of coffee Steven Spielberg has ever had in his entire life.
1
The number of O levels achieved by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
1
The number of shoelaces the film director David Lynch always leaves untied.
1
The number of castaways on Desert Island Discs who has been allowed to take a living person as a luxury – it was Dame Edna Everage who insisted on taking her bridesmaid, Madge Allsop. According to the presenter, Sue Lawley, ‘I reminded her that the luxury had to be an inanimate object. She assured me that Madge was exactly that. So I allowed it.’
1
The number of kidneys Mel Gibson has (it’s a fused horseshoe kidney).
The number of times a week John Grisham shaves (before church on Sunday).
1
The number of times Elvis Presley visited the UK (it was in 1960 en route from Germany to the US when he stopped at Prestwick Airport in Glasgow and signed a few autographs).
2
The number of times Chuck Berry was sent to prison (for violating the Mann Act – by taking a girl across state borders for ‘immoral purposes’ – in 1962; for income tax evasion in 1979).
2
The number of times Paul Scofield refused a knighthood.
2
The number of times Kate Beckinsale won the WH Smith Young Writers Competition for prose and poetry.
2
The number of webbed toes on his left foot Ashton Kutcher has.
2
The number of weeks younger than Gary Numan Gary Oldman is.
The number of butterflies Carol Vorderman’s great-grandfather had named after him.
2
The number of months in jail Ozzy Osbourne served for burglary in 1966.
3
The number of times a week Jim Carrey’s Labrador, Hazel, gets a professional massage (she lives in a $20,000 three-room dog house).
3
The number of times Cher’s parents married – and divorced – each other.
3
The number of patents held by the American champion boxer Jack Johnson (the first patent was filed while Johnson was in jail at Leavenworth).
3
The number of years Samuel L. Jackson was Bill Cosby’s stand-in on The Cosby Show.
3
The number of nipples Mark Wahlberg has (one was airbrushed out of the Calvin Klein underwear ad).
3
The number of days in jail Zsa Zsa Gabor spent in 1989 for slapping a cop.
The actress Salma Hayek was expelled from a Louisiana boarding school for setting alarm clocks back three hours.
4
The number of schools Dizzee Rascal was expelled from in five years (in a fifth he was excluded from every class except music).
4
The number of hours Missy Elliott spends every day on her hair.
4
The number of Mickey Rooney’s weddings that took place in Las Vegas (he was married eight times in total).
4
The number of years before Albert Einstein started speaking.
4
The number of counts on which Stephen King failed his army medical (flat feet, limited vision, high blood pressure and a punctured ear drum).
The number of years for which the legendary singer Edith Piaf was blind (from the ages of three to seven).
4
Clark Gable used to shower more than four times a day.
4
The number of years to which Lord Jeffrey Archer was sentenced in 2001 for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
5
The number of years in jail James Brown served, in two sentences (two years in 1988 for carrying a gun and assault, having previously served three years for theft when he was a teenager).
5
The number of sons George Foreman named George.
5
The number of octaves Mariah Carey’s vocal range spans.
5
The number of gallons of water Julio Iglesias once had flown from Miami to LA so he could wash his hair.
6
The number of fingers Gemma Arterton and Sir Garfield Sobers were born with on each of their hands.
6
The number of TV screens in Ice Cube’s Navigator sports utility vehicle.
6
The number of toes the great darts player Eric Bristow has on one of his feet.
6
Kurt Cobain once bought six turtles and put them in a bathtub in the middle of his living room. When the smell got too bad, he and a friend drilled a hole in the middle of the floor as a drain.
7
The number of dwarfs Iggy Pop once requested to accompany him on stage.
8
The number of years before Stephen Hawking could read.
8
The number of dollars an hour Axl Rose used to earn for smoking cigarettes (for a science experiment at UCLA).
9
The number of days Sir Paul McCartney spent in a Japanese jail in 1980 for drug possession.
9
The number of siblings Susan Boyle has.
11
The number of siblings Dolly Parton has.
11
The number of times Russell Brand has been arrested.
12
The number of siblings Perry Como had (he was a seventh son of a seventh son).
13
The number of brothers and sisters Celine Dion had.
The number of schools Sylvester Stallone was expelled from in 11 years.
14
The number of siblings Charles Bronson had.
16
The singer/songwriter Dido once dropped 16 glasses of white wine and a tray on Stephen Fry when waitressing at Cafe Flo in London.
17
The number of days in prison to which Sophia Loren was sentenced in 1982 for tax evasion.
27
The number of children Evander Holyfield’s father had.
27
Mel Gibson broke the school record for the most strappings in a week: 27.
45
The number of days Mark Wahlberg spent in jail at the age of 16 for his part in a robbery in which two Vietnamese men were beaten.
56
The number of curls child star Shirley Temple always had.
80
The percentage of Halle Berry’s hearing in her left ear that was lost after an ex-lover beat her.
Oprah Winfrey once approached Aretha Franklin as she got out of a limo and convinced the singer that she was abandoned. Aretha gave her $100, which she used to stay in a hotel.
180
The IQ of the actor James Woods (way above MENSA entry level).
303
Katie Melua played the deepest underwater concert when she went 303 metres below sea level on Statoil’s Troll A platform in the North Sea.
360
The degrees by which Daniel Radcliffe can rotate his arm.
400
Melissa Joan Hart can recite the mathematical expression ‘pi’ to 400 decimal places.
500
Penelope Cruz has more than 500 coat hangers in her collection.
1390
The number of minutes for which Garth Brooks signed autographs at the 1996 CMA Music Festival without taking a single break.
2,000
President Jimmy Carter (1977–81) developed the knack of reading at speed and was once tested and found to have a 95% comprehension rate reading at 2,000 words a minute.
The name of Lindsay Lohan’s fashion line.
25,000
The number of dollars raised by William Shatner for a housing charity when he auctioned a kidney stone.
50,000
The number of dollars W.C. Fields kept in Germany during World War II, ‘in case the little bastard wins’.
100,000
The number of pounds Catherine Zeta-Jones’s parents once won in a bingo game.
174517
Primo Levi’s concentration camp number, which David Blaine has tattooed on his left forearm.
300,000
Dolly Parton insured each breast for $300,000.
600,000
Mariah Carey bought Marilyn Monroe’s childhood piano for more than $600,000 at auction.
1,000,000
Keith Richards insured the third finger of his left hand for £1 million.
5,000,000
Bruce Springsteen insured his voice for $5 million.
1,000,000,000
Jennifer Lopez insured her body for $1 billion.
