A Few Interesting Celebrities

It has become a popular hobby to watch and read about celebrities. Some have drawn a great deal of attention to themselves as a result of painfully bad behavior, while some have made a much more positive name for themselves.

How much better would the lives of these famous folk be if there were at least one Angelina Jolie, who recovered from some extremely bad press, for each Paris Hilton.

Jump to an article about a few interesting celebrities that have been in the news recently...

• 50 Cent
  
  Born Curtis James Jackson the Third on July 6th in 1975, 50 Cent is an African-American rapper who rose to fame after his first two albums, and selling over six million albums worldwide.
• Brad Pitt
  
  Born William Bradley Pitt in Oklahoma on the 18th of December in 1963, he has since become one of the most prolific actors in the popular motion pictures of our time, but he began by being raised in Missouri shortly after his birth.
• Britney Spears
  
  Born on the second of December in 1981, Britney Spears has become one of the most recognizable popular icons today, and still remains in a class that has seemed to fuel the many various tabloid stories entwined around her fame.
• Jennifer Lopez
  
  Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on July 24 in 1969, and has since created a plethora of intriguing albums mixing Latin and pop influences, as well as pursuing acting roles that have truly given her a large repertoire from which to draw much success from.
• Jessica Simpson
  
  Born July 10th in 1980, Jessica Simpson has since become one of the biggest pop stars to make the leap into films and television, and rose to fame throughout most of the late Nineties with other luminaries of popular music such as her former husband Nick Lachey and fellow chanteuses Britney Spears and her sister Ashlee as well.
• Lance Armstrong
  
  Armstrong began competing in adult competitions from the age of fourteen as a triathlete, and soon became understood that an aptitude for cycling was his skill, receiving an invitation to join the Junior National Cycling Team in training at the age of seventeen.
• Mariah Carey
  
  Born on March 27th in 1970, Mariah Carey has since seen a meteoric rise to stardom even through many varied opinions about her talent, and attacks on her personality.
• Michael Jordan
  
  Michael Jeffery Jordan was born in 1963 on February 17th, and retired from the scene from which he exploded when others were beginning to make names for themselves, throughout his prolific career from the Eighties to the Nineties he has been a truly outstanding basketball player and coach.
• Shakira
  
  Born Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll on the second of February in 1977, Shakira has come to be known for her provocative dancing style, and for her aid in bringing Latin music further into the mainstream of popular culture with her songs.
• Tiger Woods
  
  When Tiger Woods first appeared on the professional golf scene in 1996, his long driving is one of the hings that impressed fans the most. Yet when he didn't upgrade his equipment in the following years, several of his opponents came closer to him and even caught up in the standings.