Saw Bruce Willis condition in 2015 working on a movie with him. They knew then already. He had giant cue cards for every scene and still blew it often. Very Sad.

Someone in Vegas on reddit once mentioned they worked at Planet Hollywood and said Britney Spears would order a lot of flowers to design bouquets to pass time because she wasn't allowed to go out much and it seemed she was very lonely and isolated.

I worked at The Biltmore Hotel in LA in the mid 80s, and was a butler for Robert Englund of “Nightmare on Elm Street”. I knew before just about everyone else that he was actually a really nice person.

I have a friend who is in a moderately successful punk band and tours small venues around the country. A few years ago, he was in Austin and posted on Facebook something like "I think I just saw a drunk Shia Labeouf in a bar yelling "DO IT" at people". A few hours later, I started seeing headlines that read "Shia Labeouf arrested at a bar in Austin".

A friend of mine told me this story when he used to work at a film studio and one of the guys he worked with was closely related to Mel Gibson. One time Gibson ended up hanging out with them - drinking, smoking, shooting the s**t. Gibson told them that he hated Harvey Weinstein, then said was a scumbag and had a weird f****d up mushroom penis. He also said he was a "really weird gross creep with women" and said something else to imply what we all know to be true now, but stopped short of outright calling him a serial [predator]. He also said everyone in Hollywood knew about it. That was 2013-2014 or so.

This was waaayyy before ‘the internet’ social media, and Twitter. When I was in college a friend of mine that knew someone that knew someone that knew someone floored us with tales that Bobby Brown was dating Whitney Houston. At the time Whitney was America’s Princess and Bobby Brown was the rough Bad Boy. “Not a chance that Whitney would allow herself to be in the same ROOM with that Bobby Brown…” Not a single soul believed him and laughed him off campus. And then…

My friend and I got into an argument because I tried to tell her how horrible Ellen DeGeneres is but she wouldn’t believe me. I felt so vindicated when everything came out about her being a bully!

A nice one: Neil Gaiman writing for Doctor Who. Was told in person by someone who is a friend of both Neil and Steven Moffat, so I knew it was true, but it wasn't confirmed for weeks.

Went to high school in Latin America from 98-02; there were rumors of Ricky Martin being gay long before he came out in 2010. For the record, I'm happy that he's able to live his truth openly now.

I went to college with a kid from Long Island who grew up around Lindsay lohan... He said her family was completely insane and that she'd probably go insane too. Kind of happened although she corrected course before it got real bad. He also said the dad used to f**k every woman in town and use his daughters clout to carouse with the women.

Okay, here’s how I missed a good — and true — celebrity rumor in progress. I was in New Orleans, volunteering at a college trivia competition. The whole tournament staff went out to dinner, drank hurricanes, and had a good time. After dinner a few of us headed into a bar, but at that point I was tired and really didn’t want to drink any more, so I immediately excused myself and went back to the hotel. Next morning a couple of my fellow staffers told me I’d just missed, by a few minutes, Jude Law walking into the bar. I’m about as far from being a movie person as is humanly possible, but I did know who Jude Law was, so I just remarked that it must have been cool to see an actual film star in the bar, and thought no more of it …. … until reading later that Jude Law had been photographed in a New Orleans bar with a woman not his fiancee. He was hooking up with his kids’ nanny, and of course for the next month it was on the front page of every tabloid rag in every supermarket on the planet. So, yeah, I missed a good paparazzi moment. But I got a good night’s sleep, which IMO was a lot more enjoyable.

I posted this a month ago in response to a similar question: When I was in High School in the 70s, in English class, we were having a discussion on what Hollywood stars were hot (not sure how that conversation started). Anyway, one of the students asked our teacher Miss W. if she thought Rock Hudson was hot. She said, "Yes, but he's gay". Everyone was shocked and asked how she knew. "I have a lot of gay friends and they always talk about who in Hollywood is gay and they tell me he's gay". What's amazing is this was pre-internet. We were in the Midwest in a small town. The only gay people we knew at the time were the Village People and perhaps Paul Lynne. (The fact that our teacher had gay friends was a shocker) At the time, my best friend was gay and in the closet (even to me). How this tidbit travelled is pretty remarkable.

I know someone who worked in Hollywood decades ago. He *detested* Bill Cosby. Like the Jell-o dude was like the worst person on earth or something.

JLo and Ben Affleck’s wedding in Vegas. A friend got married at the same place a few hours after they did, and someone who worked there showed them the marriage certificate. He told me about it before the news broke the next day.

I was at a White Stripes show on their last tour. After they played Seven Nation Army Jack said something to the effect of “that’s the last time we’re playing that”. A week later they announced they were done.

8 years ago, I was scouted as a pastry cook for Esca - one of Mario Batali's restaurants - and a friend warned me that he was a sexual harasser and liked to grope female employees if alone with them. The scandal broke a year later.

Jimmy Fallon’s alcoholism and just overall sh*ttiness. But it’s less that I had this private information and more just anyone who’s worked in 30 rock in the past 20 years knows this as an open secret

Around 2010 my friend, a massage therapist, had a guest staying in his hotel who creeped him out so much that he refused to service him again after the second day, even though the guy was leaving a 300€ tip each session. When he told his manager he didn't want to work for this guest anymore, the manager was baffled and told him it was a celebrity staying for our hometown Film Festival. It was Kevin Spacey.

It wasn’t a rumor. But I was an extra on an episode of Criminal Minds about ten years ago. AJ Cook (who played JJ) would always wear this big, puffy jacket backwards between takes. It was April and pretty warm out. I remember thinking, “she’s got to be pregnant.” Why else would you be wearing a big jacket that covered your front. About a month later, she would announce she is pregnant.

When john dunsworth (Mr lahey) died... he was a close family friend so we knew when he went to the hospital and then we were called when he died. So sad.

Rumors that Rob Halford (Judas Priest's lead singer) was gay were so commonplace for so many years that by the time he actually did come out in the late 90s, the reaction was pretty much "Well, *duh*. Tell us something we don't know."

Not really a rumor but when Michael Jackson died I knew about 10 mins before it went out on the news because my sister was a news reporter at BBC and text the family before she went live..

I worked with somebody who had been an assistant to Bryan Singer. They said he was basically a predator who constantly hired and abused attractive young men.

I remember jokes about R. Kelly peeing on kids way back in the ‘90s, but for some reason everyone was shocked and disgusted when the blockbuster docuseries (or whatever) came out in 2016 or so.

Growing and being a recruit for football the Jerry Sandusky stuff at Penn State was pretty known . My host for the weekend I went there made it clear “ you don’t hang out with Jerry!”

Jared from Subway didn’t lose weight by exercising and eating subs. Because when he came to visit the beach in Florida he frequented my acquaintance’s sold him [substances]. And also said he was a huge douche.

A local music promoter made it very well known that Jacob Hoggard from Hedley was a sexual predator years before he was charged with [being a predator]. He probably saved a lot of local women from a lifetime of trauma by taking that stance because he refused to bring them to our city. When the news broke, no one was surprised.

Jimmy Saville. Rumors and jokes were circulating in the early 90’s

It wasn’t long before the news broke but I went to a Jonas Brothers concert and saw Joe wasn’t wearing his wedding ring and then a week later he filed for divorce.

This was a while ago but I knew that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s marriage was in trouble years before they filed for divorce. A friend of my mother’s works at Teterboro, which is the small airport near NYC that handles small/private planes, so lots of celebrities fly in and out of there. (He’s seen plenty of stuff but this is the only story I know.) Right when he opened the door to the plane onto the tarmac, he saw JLo recoiling from a slap across the face and and Marc yelling, “THERE WILL BE NO DIVORCE!”

I was aware Carrie Fisher had likely passed before the plane she passed on had taxied in to the gate at LAX. Aviation is a small world.

When I was a kid, I went to summer camp. One of the girls at camp lived near one of the golf courses where Tiger Woods would frequently play in tournaments. Everyone in the community knew he was sleeping with a number of different women.

Whitney Houston’s death. I was working in emergency management for the Seminole Tribe of Florida and it included the Hollywood Hard Rock. The Beverly Hilton called the Hard Rock and asked my bosses how they handled Anna Nicole Smith dying in our hotel and what to do for PR, the press, guests etc. It was crazy to me that someone at Hilton came up with that idea almost immediately to call Hard Rock for advice. They only disclosed that it was a VIP guest, less than an hour later it was on TMZ.

I knew about Josh Duggar years before the news of his revolting abuse was made public. Lots of people did.

Met Andrew Keegan once. Talked to him for a couple hours. He didn't describe it in so many words, but he was obviously in the process of creating what would eventually become his "new religion." I used to search "Andrew Keegan cult" every few months until stories started showing up about Full Circle & their illegal kombucha operation

For many years there were articles and even podcast episodes claiming Will Smith and Jada didn't have your traditional heterosexual monogamous relationship. When the slap happened at the Oscars I remember thinking: "yeah, that tracks with everything that I've heard".