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Anne Hathaway: Five Fun Facts

1. Anne Hathaway kept the butt pads she wore to become a ''Fat Size 6'' as fashion assistant Andy in The Devil Wears Prada. "I have every good intention to have it framed," she told Harper's Bazaar, "and have a little plaque underneath it that says, ANDY'S ASS."
2. At 15, Anne Hathaway had her first professional audition. "I'd take a train, go into the city and smile for a Cheez Whiz commercial," she told the New York Times in 2002. "I really didn't find it fulfilling."
3. Anne Hathaway played her first princess role in 1998, in her high school's production of Once Upon a Mattress.
4. After training extensively as a soprano, Anne Hathaway performed as a member of the All-Eastern United States High School Honors Chorus at New York City's Carnegie Hall in 1999.
5. Anne Hathaway was originally cast in Katherine Heigl's role for the hit comedy Knocked Up. But she backed out "because it was going to show a vagina – not mine, but somebody else's. And I didn't believe that it was actually necessary to the story," she told Marie Claire in 2007.

Ashley Tisdale: Five Fun Facts

1. Ashley Tisdale wore silver Doc Marten boots to her junior prom with pink shoelaces underneath a bright fuchsia dress with six layers of tulle.
2. Ashley Tisdale used to ride horses in competition. "Nobody really knows that," she told Girls' Life magazine. "I stopped at, like, 13.".
3. As a tween, Ashley Tisdale had major crushes on the Backstreet Boys and Hanson: "I actually was into Zack Hanson back in the day."
4. Ashley Tisdale has a maltipoo named Blondie, which also happens to be her nickname on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.
5. Ashley Tisdale is the first female artist to ever debut with two songs simultaneously on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Both were songs from the High School Musical soundtrack.

Avril Lavigne: Five Fun Facts

1. Avril Lavigne learned how to use a Weedwacker at age 12 and earned $15 a yard as a lawn landscaper.
2. In 1999, Avril Lavigne won a radio contest to sing a duet with Shania Twain in Ottawa. "As soon as I walked out in front of 20,000 people, I'd never smiled so much in my life – it was like perma-smile," she told EW. "I thought, 'this is what I'm going to do with my life.'"
3. Avril Lavigne earned ''Most Valuable Player'' honors two years in a row as the right-wing on a Napanee, Ontario hockey team. She once beat up a goalie and said of the experience, "It was awesome!"
4. Though her style sense has changed since her early career, Avril Lavigne still loves to wear black nail polish.
5. On Avril Lavigne's wedding day, her chauffeur drove her to the wrong California estate, where another wedding was being held. Thankfully, the driver of her vintage Rolls Royce quickly found the right location.

David Archuleta: Five Fun Facts

1. David Archuleta's American Idol idol is Season One's Tamyra Gray. "I was like, 'I want to do that!'" he told PEOPLE.
2. David Archuleta once serenaded American Idol's first season finalists, including winner Kelly Clarkson, with Jennifer Holliday's "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." "I'd sing that song 300 times a day for months," he told PEOPLE.
3. When he went back home to Murray, Utah while on Idol, more than 10,000 fans packed the Murray High School football field to see the 17-year-old junior. Cheerleader Sarah Tucker called him "the biggest thing Murray ever had."
4. Clay Aiken's got the "Claymates." Taylor Hicks has "the Soul Patrol." And David Archuleta's fans call themselves, "The Archies."
5. Former teen heartthrob and fellow Utah native Donny Osmond gave David Archuleta advice. "Just enjoy the process because it is 15 minutes of fame, so enjoy every [one] of those 15 minutes," he recalled to the AP.

Demi Lovato: Five Fun Facts

1. Demi Lovato won her coveted role in the Disney Channel's Camp Rock after singing Christina Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man" for a group of Disney executives.
2. Of NOT having a crush on the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato told the Washington Post, "I think I'm, like, the only girl in America who doesn't. It's kinda weird because you're hanging out with your friends and all of a sudden there's hundreds of girls screaming at them and you're like . . . why?"
3. So who is Demi Lovato's dream duet? "I hope to do a collaboration with Kelly Clarkson. [She] has been my idol growing up. [That] would be the biggest dream come true."
4. Despite reports of a feud, Miley Cyrus shelled out some tips for success to Demi Lovato at a Disney concert. "She was like, 'I hope you're very successful,'" Lovato said.
5. Demi Lovato thinks Hilary Duff has been a great role model. "I'm sure she made mistakes, but you never saw them," Lovato told EW. "I think it's really cool that someone can grow up and continue to be looked up to by young girls."

Hayden Panettiere: Five Fun Facts

1. Hayden Panettiere told USA Today that Heroes costar Adrian Pasdar gave her these words of wisdom: "Always wear my undershorts, never go nude or buzz my head. Unless it's for an Oscar."
2. When Heroes was picked-up by NBC for a full season in 2006, Hayden Panettiere bought herself a Porsche Cayenne SUV. "I almost ran over Kanye West this morning!" she told Entertainment Weekly.
3. After filming 2005's Racing Stripes in South Africa, Hayden Panettiere chose to stay in Africa to complete her freshman year of high school. She also learned how to ride a zebra on set.
4. When Hayden Panettiere moved to L.A., she found a friend in Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter Rumer. "I stole my pink belly-button ring from Rumer,"she told PEOPLE
   
5. Although she plays a cheerleader onscreen, Hayden Panettiere only cheered for one game as a kid, "but it was the only game our team won that year!" she told Parade in 2007.

Hilary Duff: Five Fun Facts

1. Hilary Duff got a dental makeover, complete with veneers, after reportedly chipping her teeth on a microphone during a performance.
2. Hilary Duff's hockey player boyfriend, Mike Comrie, bought her an early 20th birthday present: a Mercedes-Benz G-class SUV (retail price: more than $ 100,000). "I opened the garage, and I was just like shocked, just standing there," she told PEOPLE.
3. Hilary Duff has her own celebrity doll, and she also designed its clothes. Duff the doll wears a polka-dot dress with a red sash.
4. For the satire War, Inc., Hilary Duff played an Eastern European pop star, Yonica Babyyeah. "I had to sing off-key," she told PEOPLE, "But the accent made it easy."
5. Hilary Duff and her pet Chihuahua Lola appear in the video game, The Sims 2: Pets.

Jonas Brothers: Five Fun Facts

1. The Jonas Brothers wear purity rings as a symbol of their mutual pact to remain celibate until marriage. "It's a personal decision," Nick told PEOPLE in the magazine's Jonas Brothers Special Collector's Edition. "It's another way for us to be different."
2. As a kid, Nick Jonas "had this Batman costume that I wore all the time," he told PEOPLE. "It was awesome. I would run around in my backyard and be Batman."
3. The Jonas Brothers' youngest brother, Frankie, is often referred to as "the Bonus Jonas." But the littlest JoBro – who has his own band, Webline – is nicknamed, "Frank the Tank." "I have it engraved on a brass ring I got at Disney World," he told PEOPLE.
4. Joe Jonas' favorite fan gift is a hippo. "Someone adopted it for us at a wildlife reserve," he told PEOPLE. "It's named Jonas Brothers."
5. As a kid, Kevin Jonas was teased about his ears. "They made fun of my Spock ears," he told PEOPLE. "I was such a dork." He also revealed that he has "freckles in the form of a star" on his neck.

Kristen Stewart: Five Fun Facts

1. Kristen Stewart was recommended for the Twilight role of Bella by Into the Wild costar Emile Hirsch. Hirsch had previously worked with the vampire flick's director Catherine Hardwicke on Lords of Dogtown.
2. Kristen Stewart and Twilight costar Robert Pattinson used Last Tango in Paris as the inspiration for their onscreen romance.
3. Kristen Stewart's family has pet wolves.
4. Kristen Stewart sang and played guitar in Into the Wild. During her audition with director Sean Penn, "I played 'Blackbird,' and I botched it. But he called me later and said, 'Do you want to do this?' And I was like–'yeah!'" she told The Detroit News.
5. To prepare for a role as a stripper in indie flick Welcome to the Rileys, Kristen Stewart learned how to pole dance by visiting a New Orleans strip club. "I danced on the bar there three nights this week, and my legs are covered in bruises," she told EW.

Leighton Meester: Five Fun Facts

1. Leighton Meester was a blonde before going brunette to audition for Gossip Girl. "They said, 'Please, you can't wear a wig.' So I dyed my hair before I even got the part. That's a big deal but I'm glad I did!" Meester told the AP.
2. Leighton Meester, who has aspirations to release an album, recorded a song for the soundtrack of her 2007 horror-comedy film Drive-Thru.
3. Although her Gossip Girl character, Blair Waldorf, is often labeled a bitch, Leighton Meester says she relates to Blair. "Blair's shortcomings are because of her insecurities," Meester told the AP. "She feels all this pressure to be perfect: to be the most beautiful, the most popular, the most loved."
4. Gossip Girl shoots on the same stage occupied for ten years by HBO's The Sopranos at Silvercup Studios in Queens, N.Y.
5. Leighton Meester loves Valentino, who, she told WWD, "is one who never misses." But she wouldn't drop cash on fashion like her character Blair: "I would never just walk into the Valentino boutique and go, 'I'm gonna take this leopard-print gown.' You can never wear it again, it's so memorable. You'd want to borrow it for the red carpet."

Lindsay Lohan: Five Fun Facts

1. Lindsay Lohan turned down Rachel McAdams' part in Mean Girls. "I couldn't be that mean on screen yet," she told Allure. "My very young fan base would have hated it."
2. Lindsay Lohan's favorite room service meal? "You can't go wrong with chicken fingers at a Holiday Inn," she tells In Style.
3. Lindsay Lohan admires the fashion sense of her replicas, calling her ''My Scene Goes Hollywood'' doll, "chic" and "Parisian," while her Madame Tussaud's wax figure is decked out in Chloé.
4. Lindsay Lohan bought a $1.9 million, 2,100-sq.-ft., three-bedroom condo just off Sunset Strip in 2005, but never moved in. She sold it a year later.
5. Lindsay Lohan's favorite workout regimen is push-ups. "I'll just drop and do them," she told PEOPLE. "People think I'm a little bit crazy for it, but I've gotten pretty good

Miley Cyrus: Five Fun Facts

1. Despite her own substantial earnings, Miley Cyrus still gets a $300 monthly allowance from her dad.
2. Miley Cyrus' non-star character on Hannah Montana is also named Miley, but was supposed to be named Chloe.
3. Hannah Montana weighs heavily on Miley Cyrus, specifically the character-switching wig: "It's so itchy, and anytime it gets wet, it weighs 20 pounds."
4. Miley Cyrus wears a special ring, but not that kind: "My dad gave this to my mom and my mom gave it to me."
5. Miley Cyrus' parents made a deal that she live at home until she's 20. The agreement included adding a hip Miley-tailored section to the house with a separate bedroom and sitting room.

Milo Ventimiglia: Five Fun Facts

1. Milo Ventimiglia has a birth defect: his self-described "crooked" mouth, which he explains as dead nerves causing his lower lip to lie limp. "It's so cute," Heroes costar Hayden Panettiere tells USA Today. "It's a flaw, and I hate perfection more than anything in the world."
2. When Milo Ventimiglia was struggling to make it as an actor, he had a backup plan: "I thought about ditching it to be a mechanic," he told PEOPLE in 2008.
3. In 2000, Milo Ventimiglia traveled solo through Europe, where he spent his 23rd birthday in the small town of Ventimiglia, Italy, where his surname originated.
4. Milo Ventimiglia lived with Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley when the two costarred on The Bedford Diaries.
5. Of his Heroes character's occupation as a male hospice worker, Milo Ventimiglia said, "I showed up for the cast photo shoot with scrubs on and Greg Grunberg's in his cop outfit, standing tall, hand on his gun, and I'm like, 'Oh man, I'm a murse [''male nurse'']. Not a doctor, a nurse.'"

Rihanna: Five Fun Facts

1. Rihanna is extremely proud of her booty. "I keep working at it as I want it to be perfect," she told the News of the World's Fabulous magazine. "It makes my clothes look good – and guys like it!"
2. After signing to Jay-Z's Def Jam Records in 2004, Rihanna was excited to meet one of her idols. "[Beyoncé] wrote me a note that said, 'When you get onstage, just let loose. Have fun. You're in control,'" she told Rolling Stone.
3. Rihanna made a cameo appearance in the 2006 cheerleading romp, Bring It On: All or Nothing, which starred Hayden Panettiere.
4. Rihanna was inspired by Brandy's 2004 album, Afrodisiac, when she worked on her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad. "When I was in the studio that was the album that I listened to all the time and I really admired that every song was a great song," Rihanna told Entertainment Weekly.
5. Rihanna was presented with the 2007 Venus Breeze ''Celebrity Legs of a Goddess'' award by Gilette. She insured her legs for $1 million and told PEOPLE they were her main focus when exercising.

Selena Gomez: Five Fun Facts

1. Both Selena Gomez and Nick Jonas wear promise rings as a symbol of chastity. "That was something we bonded over," Gomez told PEOPLE.
2. Selena Gomez is a budding chef, whose specialty is chicken with Hawaiian teriyaki sauce. "If she cooks, I clean," her mother Mandy Teefey told PEOPLE. "If I cook, she cleans."
3. Camp Rock star Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez are BFFs. "She's been my best friend since I was 7 years old and we did 'Barney' together," she told the AP.
4. Selena Gomez, a self-described "shoe girl," spends her $150-250 weekly allowance at Aldo and Forever 21.
5. Miley Cyrus considered her YouTube parody of Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato a compliment. "Elvis says imitation's the greatest form of flattery," Cyrus told Popstar! magazine. "I mean if we offended (Gomez and Lovato), we’re super sorry, but we were, like, just having fun."

Vanessa Hudgens: Five Fun Facts

1. After Hawaiian vacation photos of Vanessa Hudgens and High School Musical costar Zac Efron were published in 2007, fans dubbed the two "Zanessa" and posted dozens of YouTube video tributes to the tween power couple.
2. Vanessa Hudgens admitted to Tyra Banks that she "loves" Matt Damon. "I was 14 years old and I met him. I completely freaked out. Like, I did to him what my fans do to me. I was like, 'Ohmigosh, I love you so much, can I have your autograph?'"
3. Vanessa Hudgens has three closets dedicated entirely to shoes. Her favorites are Christian Louboutin stilettos.
4. While dating teen heartthrob Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens has had to contend with her feelings about his ubiquitous groupies. "I am, the girl who will get jealous," she told PEOPLE in 2006.
5. Along with real-life love Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens won a 2006 Teen Choice Award for best on-screen chemistry in High School Musical.

Five Fun Facts

1. Growing up, Zac Efron had a crush on Tyra Banks. "She was the first poster I had on my wall. I had it on my ceiling!" he told Seventeen. "And I had a bunk bed, so she was, like, really close. It was the famous purple bathing suit shot."
2. Not all of Zac Efron's vocals in High School Musical belong to him. "I didn't even sing on the first album," Efron tells Rolling Stone. "It wasn't my voice in the movie. Even though I wanted to do it...I felt extremely guilty."
3. Zac Efron says no to sex scenes. "I want to save a little bit of that young image that I've earned from the Disney Channel," he told The San Luis Obispo Tribune.
4. Zac Efron was Punk'd in April 2007 by High School Musical costar Ashley Tisdale and Ashton Kutcher. The set-up: He was accused of letting men steal a cash box from a clothing store.
5. Zac Efron was scheduled to attend his first year at USC, but deferred after landing his HSM role.