FROM attending A-list parties, travelling the world by private jet to enjoying expensive shopping sprees, the rich and famous live the most luxurious lives – for the most part.
But while they can afford all the finer things in life, that’s not to say they aren’t guilty of letting their standards slip from time to time, and slumming it like the rest of us.
In fact, sometimes their bad habit confessions have left fans stunned, and just recently talk show host Jonathan Ross, 63, admitted he rarely showers.
Speaking to Josh Widdicombe on the Parenting Hell podcast, he said: “I sometimes go at least a week without showering – at least. So does [my wife] Jane sometimes.
“We’re like a couple of hamsters in their own straw in that bed.”
But it’s not just Jonathan who has admitted to some strange shower habits, with tonnes of other celebrities also making some rather unusual bathroom confessions over the years…
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Snacking in the shower
Hollywood superstar Jessica Biel caused confusion when she admitted she loves to eat in the shower and desperately wants her strange habit to catch on.
The 42-year-old actress revealed in December she loves to snack in the shower, and even drinks her coffee while she’s cleaning herself.
In a recent TikTok she addressed the camera directly to share the secrets of her success and encourage other people to get into it.
“I’m just so thrilled everyone is so interested. I really want to start a movement, a shower-eating movement,” she said.
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“I think, for people who are multitasking, it’s just going to be a relief in so many ways.”
The biggest tip to shower snack success, according to Jessica, is to make sure you keep your mouth shut so the water doesn’t get in.
It also helps to have a ledge in your shower to balance your snacks on so they don’t get soaked.
Amanda Holden’s sexy slip-up
Listeners of Heart Radio’s breakfast show got more than they bargained for when host Amanda Holden revealed she and her husband Chris like to get frisky in the shower.
In a conversation with her co-host Jamie Theakston about which way Brits stand in the shower, the 53-year-old said she gets in the shower, then usually turns around.
“So, you’re facing towards the shower to begin with?” Jamie asked, leaving her to inappropriately add: “But only for sex…like…”
Amanda leapt to correct herself, saying she meant to say “seconds” to which Jamie cheekily responded “that’s another discussion for another day!” as the pair giggled.
‘Peeing in the shower is really good’
She’s known as the Queen of Pop but Madonna, 65, still has the ability to “gross us all out”, according to David Letterman.
Back 1994, the iconic pop star appeared on his show, and revealed it was “good” to pee in the shower.
As part of a bizarre, expletive ridden appearance where she also asked David to smell her underwear, Madonna revealed she also thinks it’s “really good” to pee in the shower.
“No I’m serious, seriously, peeing in the shower is really good,” she told the startled host to much laughter of the audience.
“It fights the athlete’s foot. Urine is like an antiseptic, it’s all got to do with the enzymes in your body.”
“Don’t you know a good pharmacist?” David quipped back.
Only washing ‘the important bits’
Loose Women co-host Stacey Solomon, 34, shocked her fellow panellists and viewers when she admitted she frequently goes days without showering.
The mum of three confessed she only washes “the important bits” on days where she doesn’t feel like taking a full shower.
She also added she didn’t think daily showers were good for “your hair and your skin and stuff”.
The confession set X (formerly Twitter) on fire with some people calling Stacey “absolutely minging” for her hygiene habits.
However others admitted they sympathised, saying they often didn’t find time for a daily shower.
Cold showers to cope with sex scenes
Oscar-winner Emma Stone had a secret shower tip for getting through all the raucous sex scenes she had to film for her starring role in the film ‘Poor Things’.
The 35-year-old starlet would take cold showers at the end of a shoot to “wash the day away”, according to a tip from her intimacy coordinator on set.
In Poor Things, Emma plays Bella Baxter, a woman whose insatiable sexual cravings meant a lot of uncomfortable shoots for Emma.
Her intimacy coordinator gave her exercises to do in the shower to make sure she was okay with what she was filming.
Elle McAlpine told Vanity Fair Emma’s days would be “bookended” with cold showers to help her cope.
“It can make you feel quite vulnerable,” Elle explained. “Your body is an incredibly smart vehicle, but it sometimes doesn’t register what’s fantasy and what’s not.”
‘Mortifying’ builder blunder
One contractor got more than he bargained for when he turned up at musician Myleene Klass’s home, only to accidentally see the singer starkers.
In 2018, Myleene tweeted: “Just walked straight out of the shower, smack bang into the builder and now my daughter wants me to apologise to him for ‘scarring his mind.’
She added that her “face was on fire” when he later chatted to her, saying: “I can’t make eye contact and he’s just chatting away..I genuinely hoped he hadn’t recognised me…not the case.”
The 46-year-old songstress talked about the embarrassing mistake to her friend and radio host Carol Vorderman.
She said she had been showering when her daughter came running in asking where the dry shampoo was.
Wanting to help, Myleene hopped out of the shower to go and fetch it, saying: “So I ran out to go and grab it, not knowing that my boyfriend had let the builder into the house.
“We basically, in front of my daughter, ran straight into each other. I was absolutely mortified.”
The builder wasn’t too fussed however, with Myleene saying he had got in touch after she posted the incident on Twitter, saying he was “a hero down the pub”.
Washing ‘pits, t**s, holes & soles’
Hollywood power couple Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher caused a huge debate when they declared they only washed their kids if they could see visible dirt on them.
Mila, 40, and Ashton, 46 – who were co-stars on That 70’s Show and have been married since 2015 – share two children together, Wyatt Isabelle, nine, and Dimitri Portwood, seven.
In an episode of Dax Shepard’s podcast ‘Armchair Expert’ they admitted their kids were not bathed frequently – and Ashton and Mila kept similar habits.
“If you can see the dirt on them, clean them. Otherwise, there’s no point,” said Ashton.
“I don’t wash my body with soap every day,” Mila admitted. “But I wash pits and t**s and holes and soles.”
Peeing in the shower quip
While competing in the 2019 series of ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here’, Caitlyn Jenner had her fellow campmates in stitches over her clever quip about peeing in the shower.
The 74-year-old was part of a chat with three other castmates – Roman Kemp, Myles Stephenson and Amy Whyment – who all confessed they often peed in the shower.
Adele Roberts then asked Caitlyn if she had ever peed in the shower as the boys discussed “making a game out of it” by trying to aim their stream down the drain.
Caitlyn, who was known as Bruce Jenner before she transitioned in 2015, had the camp cracking up as she replied: “Put it this way, it’s not as much fun as it used to be.”
Showering… on the loo
Glamorous former Countdown star Carol Vorderman recently traded in life in her £2.6 million mansion for a £100,000 luxury campervan – but living on the road doesn’t come without hitches.
The 62-year-old recently revealed she has to shower while sitting on the toilet due to the tiny bathroom space in her home on wheels.
Explaining the unusual bathroom situation, Carol said: “In my van, I’ve got a little shower area. When I say little, I mean little – tiny.
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“So small that you can’t actually stand up in it. So I designed it so there’s a loo in there, a compost toilet, so you sit down – because when you stand up to have a shower you need more room for your arms.
“Whereas if you have a sit-down shower, which you can perfectly well do, you don’t need as much space in the van.”
