Even if our efforts to be among the rich and famous do not succeed, we have one important advantage over many famous people: we are real.
Yes, this is not a reservation. Some of the supermodels, brand mascots, composers and authors are nothing more than the imagination of highly creative people. And we will tell you about the most famous fictional celebrities.
10. Allegra Coleman
Supermodel and actress Allegra Coleman graced the cover of Esquire in 1996, and in an accompanying article, writer Martha Sherrill stated that Coleman would be "Hollywood's next dream girl." An article about Allegra described her relationship with actor David Schwimmer, and said that Quentin Tarantino himself allegedly broke up with Mira Sorvino for the sake of an affair with Coleman.
After the magazine hit newsstands, agents lined up to get Coleman, only to find out that the article was a highly successful hoax created by Sherrill.
For actress Eli Larter, who portrayed Coleman, it all ended beautifully. She eventually landed the lead role on Heroes a few years after the rigging.
9. Betty Crocker
Betty Crocker became America's second most famous woman in a 1940 poll, behind Eleanor Roosevelt. Quite a decent result for an advertising image that did not exist in reality.
Initially, on behalf of Betty, they responded to letters sent to the Washburn Crosby Flour Company. And in 1936 her first portrait appeared, in which the features of the company's employees were combined. Over the next years, Betty's face changed, only the red jacket in which she was wearing remained unchanged.
At her peak, Betty received 4,000 to 5,000 emails daily. Moreover, many men offered her to marry them. We can say that Betty Crocker is one of the "culinary symbols" of the United States, she has taught American cooking for more than a dozen years.
8. Alan Smithy
If someone does not want to indicate their own name in the credits of a film, TV series or video clip, Alan Smithy will always come to the rescue. After all, this famous director, who shot such masterpieces as "Shrimp in a Frying Pan", "HellRaiser 4: Blood Relationship", "Gypsy Angel", "Spirit Frenzy" and many others is just a pseudonym.
It was first used in the credits of The Death of the Gunslinger (1969). During filming, actor Richard Widmark had a fight with director Robert Totten. Because of this altercation, Totten was replaced in the director's chair by Don Siegel. And when the shooting of the film was over, neither Totten nor Siegel wanted their names to appear in the credits.
7. Caroline Keane
Sorry Nancy Drew fans: it was Edward Stratemeyer who created the famous detective series. When Stratemeyer didn't have enough time to write every story he imagined, he hired a group of authors (E. Squire, Harriet Adams, and Mildred Benson) to help create the popular detective girl book series. All together, they united under the pseudonym Caroline Keane.
6.Aimi Eguti
When fans of Japanese girl pop group AKB48 found out that its newest member, 16-year-old singer Aimi Eguchi, was actually a computer model combining the "best" characteristics of each of the other 6 members, they were surprised.
After all, Aimi has already become famous as the most beautiful in the group, starred in a commercial and even posed for the cover of the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. Not bad for a computer girl.
5. Pierre Brasso
In pursuit of high art, some critics cannot distinguish between a monkey "scribble" from an avant-garde artist's painting. Proven by chimpanzees by Peter.
In 1964, journalist Eke "Daku" Axelson tried to prove that critics cannot distinguish contemporary avant-garde art from monkey drawings. To this end, he recruited chimpanzees to help him, gave him a brush, canvas and oil paints. And the work began to boil.
Paintings by Pierre Brasso, exhibited at an art exhibition in Gothenburg in 1964, have received praise from critics.
“Pierre Brasso paints with powerful strokes, his brush wriggles on the canvas with fierce sophistication ... Pierre is an artist performing with the delicacy of a ballet dancer ...”, wrote art critic Rolf Andenberg.
Even when the hoax was revealed, Anderberg continued to defend the opinion that Pierre-Peter's paintings were the best in the exhibition. The "artist" himself, a few years after the scandal, was transferred from Sweden to the Chester Zoo in England, where he spent the rest of his life.
4. Taro Tsujimoto
Before you - the pride of Japanese hockey, which in fact never existed. Taro Tsujimoto is a hoax dreamed up by the general manager of the Buffalo Sabers in 1974 after he got tired of the incredibly tedious draft process. This is what the NHL calls the transfer of rights to young hockey players who meet a number of selection criteria.
Since the NHL was really looking to expand its talent base outside of Canada and the United States at the time, few had reason to doubt Tsujimoto. This up-and-coming Japanese hockey player playing for the Tokyo Katanas Club (also fictional) was reported by several leading news sites until they learned it was just a hoax.
By the way, the name Taro Tsujimoto still appears in the official handbooks for the Buffalo Sabers team.
3. Casey Nicole Swenson
It is unlikely that many Russian-speaking users of the Runet are familiar with this name. But Casey was one of the Internet celebrities of the "foreign Internet" in the early 2000s.
For two years, Casey spoke openly about her fight against leukemia on her blog, which was read by thousands of people. When Svenson's death became known in the summer of 2001, her fans began to study her life and quickly discovered that her entire story was just a fake created by bored housewife Debbie Svenson, who created her own website and posed as Casey's grieving mother. Interestingly, she did not take money from people sympathetic to Casey.
2. Jack Dawson
Many were convinced that the story of the handsome titanic protagonist James Cameron was based on the story of a real person. But this is just fantasy. Let's face it: even if Jack Dawson had been a true passenger on the Titanic, he could never have matched the man Leonardo DiCaprio brilliantly portrayed.
Yes, there was indeed Dawson on the ill-fated ship, but not Jack, but Joseph. And James Cameron found out about it after he shot his Oscar-winning film. Joseph was a stoker on the Titanic and was among the victims of the ship's wreck.
No one noticed his death, and did not claim his body. Joseph Dawson was buried in the Canadian city of Halifax, at the Fairway Cemetery. And after the release of the film "Titanic" a real pilgrimage began to his grave. Well, dubious luck, but this poor fellow is not destined otherwise.
1. Sherlock Holmes
We're sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Sherlock Holmes, the genius London detective, is one of the most famous fictional celebrities.
However, its creator - writer Arthur Conan Doyle - once said that Holmes' character is largely copied from Professor Joseph Bell. He worked at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital and could determine the character, occupation and past of a person from insignificant details.
Despite his fictional history, Holmes not only outlived his creator for a long time, but in 2002 became an honorary member of the English Royal Society of Chemistry. In honor of the famous detective, a special silver medal was created, and Dr. John Watson presented it to Holmes (that is, he tied a ribbon with a medal around the neck of the sculpture). Not a physician, but a chemist - a full member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a great admirer of stories about Holmes.
By the way, not only Sherlock Holmes is fictitious, but also his place of residence - house 221-b on Baker Street. For a long time such a house did not exist, but when Baker Street began to expand, this number became one of the numbers from 215 to 229, which were assigned to the building cooperative Abbey National. And for many years there was a secretary in the cooperative, handling a huge amount of correspondence that came to the name of Sherlock Holmes.
With the establishment of the Sherlock Holmes Museum at 239, 221b Baker Street was also created. This made it possible to hang a sign with the name familiar to his fans on the "house of Sherlock Holmes". It was only after some time that he received an official mailing address 221b, Baker Street, London, NW1 6XE.