What's Your Fav Celeb Story

Nerve, the topical resource for the perverted, which I obviously check religiously (for the film reviews), has come out with a tepid read of the 40 best celebrity rumors ever.

The golden age of celebrity rumors may be coming to an end. As Britney Spears spreads her legs to the world and Nicole Richie gets arrested driving north in the southbound lane, truth may at last have outstripped semi-fiction.

Here are my fav’s from the countdown:

29. Angelina Jolie and her brother had an incestuous relationship
At the 2000 Oscars, Angelina Jolie raved, “I’m so in love with my brother right now,” and the siblings shared a long kiss on the lips. Many viewers claimed to have seen tongue, igniting the rumor that the actress and her brother, James Haven, were sleeping with each other

26. Courteney Cox bleaches her . . .
In these heady times, bleaching your anus for aesthetic reasons is totally normal. But way back in the mists of the early 2000s, anus-bleaching was still ever so slightly unusual.

22. Michael Jackson slept in a hyberbaric chamber
In September 1986, the National Enquirer ran a page-one photo of the King of Pop sleeping in a large glass tube over the headline, “Michael Jackson’s Bizarre Plan to Live to 150.”

17. Marilyn Manson, sitcom star
Did Marilyn Manson have a rib removed so he could auto-fellate? Did he play nerdy Paul Pfeiffer on late-‘80s sitcom The Wonder Years?

1. Richard Gere and the gerbil
Throughout the ‘80s, accusations of gerbiling (i.e. “coaxing a live gerbil into your rectum for the purposes of sexual pleasure”) haunted several D-listers, including a news anchor in Philly and a Cleveland Browns linebacker, before permanently latching onto Gere, who was allegedly rushed to the hospital for emergency rodent removal. Hearsay ballooned into the most famous celebrity rumor in history when someone faxed dozens of Hollywood offices a fake ASPCA press release claiming that Gere had “abused” a gerbil.

Check out the rest of the list here.