When you went to school with a celebrity and they lie about their story

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I was listening to a pop star who was being interviewed and heard them tell some blatant lies about their background.

They claimed to never have gone to drama school or had any industry connections and miraculously was scouted.

I know this to be a complete lie. I was so surprised as to why they would lie this way. It makes no sense. It's been 20 years. No one cares that much so why lie... ?

I guess they were trying to flog something so maybe it the 'struggle story' sells better

I have mentioned it to Private Eye, where I have a contact. They said it wasn't really enough on its own, but filed it away for the event that they do something on this individual in future.

@CutthroatDruTheViolent It's because Americans, Hillary included apparently, think Spanish people are Hispanic/Latino (they speak Spanish and are often poor immigrants / minimum wage workers in the US, ironically due to history of Spain's colonisation of their country), hence all her sob stories, and lots of people getting outraged at her pretending to be an oppressed ethnic minority

Whereas I would guess most Spanish people in the US are probably expats? And (may be v wrong on this so don't crucify me) even olive-skinned / darker-toned Spanish people, those I know at least, are simply able to tan and take it as a status symbol or aesthetic choice?

Omg she did not do that !! 😂😂 I also remember seeing a post during the BLM Instagram thing by our fave Jack M. It was along the lines of her having some Greek or Cypriot (I think) ancestry and therefore she'd always felt 'othered' and 'dirty' or some such nonsense. Absolutely cringe.

Oh man no way 😂😆this is getting funnier

Oh I remember that, she was all don't look at them look at me as she always does!

Not particularly dramatic although somewhat odd. My ex DH went to a public school with a well known designer with a double barrelled surname. In an interview he said he was badly bullied at school for his double barrelled surname and for being 'posh'. Ex DH was a bit bemused as the designer didn't use the double barrel surname
until after leaving school and everyone at the school was 'posh' (except for DH who got a bursary!) so it was hardly likely he would be bullied for that!

I have a Wiki page. It makes me some years older than I actually am. I did not write it and don't know who did, but when I find them....

So it isn't always the celeb's fault (I am NOT a celeb), sometimes their publicist decides to, umm, massage the figures somewhat. I just can't work out why someone decided to massage mine UPWARDS.

Joey Barton 😆I'd completely forgotten about that!

Harry Webb!

The Margot Robbie age lie rumours were debunked - it was everywhere a few years ago. She also appeared in press when she was acting in school which also helped to confirm her age https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/we-can-prove-margot-robbie-isnt-lying-about-her-age_n_573617dfe4b060aa781a3de5

Genealogy is marvellous for outing family secrets, I've found numerous people in my family who were not who they were said to be!

Can you share the stories and just not name the celebs?

October 1940, nothing wrong with my memory 65+ years on, the 14 October I think!

I was at school with a Tory politician who claims he was horrendously bullied at school for being gay. I was in his year and nobody knew he was gay. Was surprised he said that .

Any hints as to who this is??!

Surely you all mean HilarIA Baldwin? Not plain old Hilary! She’s a bona fide Spainiard surely? ‘ow you say queue-cum-bare?!

I used to know an actress like that, albeit I was never at school with her. Either the person who wrote her Wikipedia page has underestimated her age by at least a decade, or she finished drama school and got married before she was 13.

I went to school in UK. A guy in my class became fairly famous. He tells everyone he was born and raised in Jamaica!

DH was at primary school in the same class as Liz Hurley. Annoyingly, she's never lied about her age, so I have no goss. He can't even remember her, it was only when he went to a school reunion and there was speculation about her turning up that he found out. Too busy playing football... 😂

That article doesn't prove that she was born in 1990.

I went to school with a Tory MP

Her story is she was dreadfully bullied, has a very difficult time and worked hard at school

Lying cow!

She was an utter bitch at school, mean, bike bully who got off on being abusive to us nerds. She was spoiled by her parents and didn't she love to let everyone know about it.

I nearly choked on my coffee when I heard her sob story on the TV

The whole Hilary Baldwin story is completely bizarre. Even after her entire background was revealed, she still speaks in a fake accent.

We once stayed at a holiday cottage that she owned - just booked the normal way through a standard online cottage letting site.

We neither knew that she owned it, or indeed who she was. We had some issues and tried to get in touch with the owner, but were put through to the cleaner who told us that she (Lizzie) was a celebrity and far too busy to manage her own cottage - so we looked online for her name to see whoever on earth she was.

It was a very nice cottage, but there were a few glaring omissions and important things that had been misrepresented/not mentioned in the listing.

Celebs shouldn't lie as they will always get caught out. Megan Markle claims to be 42 and says she was born on Aug 4th, 1981. But people who were in same class as her at school with her claim that she was born in 1977, making her 46. This is backed up by Megan, herself, who said that she was 2 and her sister Samantha 15 when they were separated but Samantha was born in November 1964. So she will be 60 this year, so Megan must be 46 (47 in August). (A few years older than Harry, I wonder if he knows?)

I'm far from convinced that Dick Van Dyke has made his last film yet - even at 98!