15 Fun Facts About Kristen Bell

Frozen is one of Disney's most popular and successful movies ever. It had great characters, catchy songs and a touching story about the love between sisters. But most importantly, Frozen introduced the whole world to Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell! I mean, I've loved Kristen since her Veronica Mars days, but now everyone can see what a star she is! She's an amazing actor, a fantastic singer and she's also hilarious! Have you seen any of her interviews on talk shows?! You recognize her voice on the Frozensoundtrack but I bet there are a couple of things you might not know about Kristen (besides her love of sloths). So here's everything you need to know about the adorable Kristen Bell!

1. When she was growing up, she teamed up with her best friend to sing at weddings and funerals. Apparently, the two of them sang "Amazing Grace" and a ton of songs by Harry Connick Jr.

2. Kristen used to consider herself a hardcore gamer! When she was in college, she was obsessed with playing N64 games. Her favorites? GoldenEye and Mario Kart 64.

3. She might not be playing games anymore but she's still technically in video games. She voices Lucy Stillman in the Assassin's Creed video games!

4. You might not know this but Kristen was on Gossip Girl! Well, her voice was on the show. She was the voice of the mysterious Gossip Girl! 

And Leighton Meester who played Blair Waldorf worked with Kristen on Veronica Mars!

5. When she was four years old, Kristen insisted that her whole family called her Smurfette. And then she got over that and made her parents call her Matthew!

In the end, she settled on Annie after her middle name. 

6. Kristen admitted that Frozen isn't a movie that she plays very often in her household because her daughters aren't a fan of it!

7. Her first audition was back in 1992 and it was successful! She won the part of a banana AND a tree in a local theater production.

8. Kristen admitted that almost all the characters she plays are tomboys just because she's not "homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty to play the pretty girl."

What?! Kristen is gorgeous!

9. Kristen asked her husband, Dax Shepard, to marry her over Twitter! 

10. When she was volunteering in Brazil, she helped deliver two babies!

Whoa. Kristen really can do it all!

11. According to her, the only time she's ever been starstruck was when she got to meet Peter Dinklage from Game of Thrones!

That'd be my reaction too! 

12. Kristen has dessert after every meal she has. Yup, even breakfast!

I like the way she thinks!

13. She was six months pregnant when she was filming House of Lies. The show had to hire a body double just for when she was in scenes where they had to show her belly!

Do you think she got to choose her own body double?!

14. Kristen likes to live on the dangerous side. She has a motorcycle license!

15. Kristen knew from the second she read the pilot script for Veronica Mars that she wanted to play the character. Kristen was perfect for it! She brought the attitude, edge and sass to Veronica!

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KFC Made This For The Guy Who Noticed They Only Follow 11 Herbs And Spices On Twitter

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Hey, remember that guy who noticed that KFC's Twitter account only followed 11 people, either Spice Girls or guys named Herb?

You know, 11 Herbs and Spices? That was Mike Edgette's claim to fame. Dude's tweet went viral, with more than 715,000 likes and 322,000 retweets.

KFC sure noticed, and they weren't even mad that one of their secrets got out.

In fact, they started looking for ways to reward Mike for his huge tweet, including adding him and endorsing his social networking abilities on LinkedIn. 

But that wasn't everything, not by a long shot. No, Mike's heroics earned him an epic, one-of-a-kind painting of him riding piggyback with Colonel Sanders and holding a drumstick as they stroll through a rugged landscape.

I think we can all agree that this is way, way better than a LinkedIn endorsement.

Along with the painting, Mike got a personalized letter signed by the Colonel (or at least his social media team in disguise) and a box of 52 $5 gift cards.

So naturally Mike posted his awesome gifts online. Who wouldn't want to share this glorious bounty with the world? But because the internet is the internet, things happened. It was like The Twilight Zone meets X-Files meets greasy Southern cooking.

It didn't take long for Mike's post to make its way to Reddit, where a few users started speculating that there was more to Mike's story than meets the eye.

They thought it was all an elaborate publicity stunt orchestrated by KFC and Mike's employer, TallGrass Public Relations, with Mike planted to "discover" who KFC's Twitter follows — as if nobody else could ever have noticed it either.

People also pointed to the ad firm Wieden+Kennedy as the architects of this viral stunt.

For his part, Mike denied any association with Wieden+Kennedy or KFC.

And Wieden+Kennedy has definitely been working with KFC on some campaigns, but if they're actually behind this stunt, they sure haven't taken credit for it yet.

And ad companies do like to take credit for their work. 

But what do you think? Is it all some public relations conspiracy, or do the tweet and the painting make a genuine, amazing exchange?

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6 Celeb Kids All Grown Up

There's something magical about seeing an A-lister with their kids. I really don't know what it is, but these kids just seem way cooler than EVERYONE else. From the time they're born they just have way more swag than anyone else. It's not fair really, but hey that's life. And life moves fast. Don't believe me? Well just look at how quickly THESE celeb kids are growing up.




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1. Remember when Gwen Stefani's son Kingston was rocking this badass mohawk?

Talk about having a cool mom...

2. Gwen and Kingston are like the coolest mother/son combo ever. 

I do miss the mohawk though. 

3. And what about Apple Martin?

It seems like just yesterday the world was going crazy for the birth of Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's first child together.

Wait until you see what she looks like now!

4. She's practically an adult now!

She looks more like Gwyneth's best friend than daughter!

5. I won't lie to you, I was pretty pumped when Shiloh Jolie Pitt was born.

Two beautiful people reproducing? This kid will be gorgeous!

6. And she isgorgeous, of course. She's also super cool.

She doesn't care about what other people think and has the coolest fashion sense I've seen on a child that age. 

7. Doesn't it seem like it was just yesterday that Suri Cruise took the world by storm?

This Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes creation was actually born 10 years ago! WTF right?

8. Suri just celebrated her 10th birthday and she obviously partied in style. 

Happy birthday Suri!

9. Remember Violet Affleck?

She's the daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck.

10. Violet Affleck is like a spitting image of her mother.

Legit – she looks like a miniature version of Jennifer Garner and she's already 10!

11. And what about David Beckham's oldest son Brooklyn?

When the Beckhams moved to the USA he seemed a bit shy and awkward. 

12. That was almost 10 years ago, though... Now Brooklyn is basically a man.

My, how things have changed...

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12 Perfect Facts About The Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger

One of the most iconic singers of our generation is Nicole Scherzinger.

She basically does it all. She was the lead singer in The Pussycat Dolls, she was a judge on The X Factor, helping nurture the next generation of singers – AND she dances.

Whenever I hear "Stickwitu" I just hear her! She's always super fun in her interviews and she actually has a lot of random secrets hidden that we think you should know.

Starting with...

1. Despite being in the public eye, she says she has crippling shyness.

She told the UK Daily Mail. "I come from a very religious, strict upbringing in Hawaii; my grandfather is a preacher. The first time I saw one of the stage outfits I had to wear for the Pussycat Dolls, I screamed."

2. Before joining the Pussycat Dolls, she was part of the one-hit wonder girl band, Eden's Crush whose biggest song was "Get Over Yourself."

The band was formed in the wake of the reality TV show called Popstars.

3. She can kick your butt at softball and she won't feel bad about it.

4. She actually has a massive scar that most people miss.

"I haven’t had a lot of injuries but I was burnt as a child and have a big scar on my hand because of it. I was also burnt on my face and my Grandmother put this Hawaiian plant on it and it healed."

5. She has the pipes for the West End production of Cats. I mean she also has the dancing training too.

She was also in the production of Rent!

6. She is a proud Christian and says she tries to make it to church every Sunday.

7. She was the inspiration to a song by the American rock band, 311. She even dated and was engaged to the lead singer, Nick Hexum.

8. She was the judge in both the American AND British versions of The X Factor.

9. She won Season 10 of Dancing With The Stars, just a couple years after she led the Pussycat Dolls.

10. When she was a 14-year old kid, she would swim around and sing her own version of The Little Mermaid for her first acting audition...

11. She said the weirdest thing that she's ever eaten was blowfish semen: "Oh my god... Blowfish semen. It’s a delicacy in Tokyo! Don’t do it when you’re drunk man."

12. She's half-Filipino and part Hawaiian and part Russian which she got from her momma.

Her last name "Scherzinger" comes from her German-American stepdad.

COMMENT and tell us what you love about her!

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