Hobbies of Celebrities

Sep 7, 2010
Toby Welch

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Most of us have hobbies we do for a diversion or to pass the time. They make us interesting and can provide stress relief. Celebrities are no exception.

Just like your friends and your relatives, celebrities have some interesting hobbies.

Celebrities Love Sports

Actor Charlie Sheen is a huge fan of professional baseball. Above all others, Sheen is an avid Cincinnati Reds fan and in his spare time you often find him at a game. He also collects baseball cards. In 1998, two dozen rare baseball cards that Sheen owned but had loaned to the Official All-Star Cafe, a sport-themed restaurant in Times Square, were stolen from a display case. The 24 cards were valued at $170,000.
Former U.S. President George W. Bush is also a major league baseball fan. From 1989 to 1994 he was the managing general partner of the Texans Rangers. He has amassed a collection of over 250 autographed baseballs. In the book Play Ball, Mr. President: A Century of Baseballs Signed by U.S. Presidents, Bush was quoted as saying, ""I never dreamed about being President, I wanted to be Willie Mays."

Celebrities Volunteer

Pamela Anderson, actress and model, supports charities in her free time. Her most beloved charities are PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), The California Wildlife Center, Heal the Bay, The Prince's Rainforest Project, and the Oceanic Society.
Brad Pitt, actor and film producer, donates a great deal of his time and money to charities. His favourite project is rebuilding homes for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina and ensuring they are as green as possible. He is also involved with Doctors Without Borders, Global Green U.S.A., Global Action for Children, ONE Campaign, and the Daniel Pearl Foundation.
Robin Williams, actor and comic, supports charities in his spare time. As his web site points out, "Williams takes great joy in supporting causes too numerous to identify - covering the spectrum from health care and human rights, to education, environmental protection, and the arts."

Celebrities Love to Exercise

Jennifer Aniston, actress, director, and producer, does yoga in her free time. In an interview with People magazine, Aniston claimed yoga keeps her toned and emotionally balanced.
Mariel Hemingway, actress and writer, also loves to do yoga.
Carmen Electra, actress, model, and dancer, does kickboxing.
Country crooner Anne Murray partakes in many sports in her spare time. The ones she enjoys the most are golf, tennis, and cross-country skiing.
Movie star Tom Cruise loves his new pastime - fencing.
Movie star Cameron Diaz snowboards whenever she can.
Horror writer Stephen King goes for walks in his free time.

Celebrities Do Things with Their Hands

Rod Stewart, the British singer and songwriter, was exposed by the science editor of the U.K. Daily Mail newspaper for his favourite pastime - he loves to build model railways. Stewart created a spectacular replica of New York's Grand Central Station, complete with 100 feet of track as well as buildings and figures in 1940s period attire. The impressive layout appeared on the cover of a 2007 issue of Model Railroader and Stewart called it and honour that meant more to him than doing the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
Actor Sylvester Stallone likes to paint with watercolours in his spare time. Some of his paintings have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Johnny Depp, actor, director, and humanitarian, likes to play guitar.

Celebrities Play Games

Will Smith, actor and musician, loves to play chess. He spoke of his love for the game in an interview with the U.K. newspaper The Independent, "It is cool to play chess. My father taught me how to play chess at seven and introduced beautiful concepts that I try to pass on to my kids. The elements and concepts of life are so perfectly illustrated on a chess board. The ability to accurately assess your position is the key to chess, which I also think is the key to life."

Celebrities Collect Things

Hank Williams Jr., a country music singer, has a gun collection. The ones he treasures the most are the guns that belonged to his father, Hank Williams Sr.
Actress Whoopi Goldberg collects Fiesta ware, a line of designer ceramic dinnerware.
Larry Hangman, the actor best known for his role as J.R. Ewing on the hit TV show Dallas, collects flags.
Angelina Jolie, actress and philanthropist, collects knives and daggers.
Actor Billy Bob Thornton likes to collect baseball "gimme" caps - anything with a logo on it.
Actress Reese Witherspoon collects Tupperware.
David Beckham, soccer star, collects luxury cars. His garage houses Bentleys, Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Porsches, Hummers, BMWs, and an Aston Martin.

Celebrities Like to be Outside

Timothy Dalton, a Welsh actor best known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill, loves to go fishing.
Pop star Ricky Martin goes skydiving in his free time. As he said in an interview with People magazine, "It's the closest thing to flying; you have the sensation that you own the world."
Actor Liam Neeson likes to go fly-fishing. As he said in a New York Times interview, "'I'm very absorbed in fly-fishing. There's incredible paraphernalia. Each rod is totally different and has a different action, action being the sway of the rod and how it throws the line out. There's an art form in casting. Basically what you're trying to do is imitate a fly. I'm not terribly successful at catching fish,' he added, 'but that's not why I do it really."
Actor John Travolta loves to fly in his spare time. He currently holds ten jet licenses.
Golfer Tiger Woods loves to go diving; he bought a 61-foot dive boat in early 2010.

Celebrities Cook

Country music superstar Faith Hill likes to cook in her free time. Hill's favourite holiday recipe is Faith's Coca-Cola Cake. Click here for the recipe: People.com/people/archive/article/0,,20245741,00.html

Perhaps one of these celebrity hobbies will inspire you to take up a new hobby of your own.

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