10 weirdest celebrity collections: from irons to underwear

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Millions of people around the world collect something. Stamps and coins, postcards and toys, books, magnets or even unusual plastic cups can become an exhibit in someone's collection. Celebrities are no exception in this regard. Sometimes their hobbies turn out to be very unusual, and in their makeshift museums you can find very unexpected items.

Mikhail Shirvindt

Collecting irons began with theft from Mikhail Shirvindt. Once in a souvenir shop in Crete, he picked up a small object, which he turned in his hands for a long time. And when, together with his wife, the TV presenter went out into the street, he realized that he had taken out a small souvenir iron from the shop. The copper iron was only five centimeters long and was most likely used as a paperweight. During a trip to Austria, Mikhail Shirvindt saw two tiny irons in a tobacco shop window and realized that he could not live without them now. His collection includes many unusual irons: aluminum, brass, porcelain and plastic. There were examples of both souvenir and fully functional ones. Now, however, this passion of Shirvindt Jr. has subsided, especially since in recent years he rarely meets specimens that were not in his collection.

Vladimir Shainsky

The famous composer has been collecting his underwater collection for many years and proudly showed it to everyone. Among the exhibits collected by Vladimir Yakovlevich were corals and shells, starfish and a stuffed ball fish, which he caught with his own hand during spearfishing. He added to his collection only what he himself got from the bottom of the sea or ocean.

Quentin Tarantino

The filmmaker is capable of surprising not only with non-linear plots in his films, but also with a very unusual hobby. For many years, the creator of Pulp Fiction has been collecting board games. True, not everyone can be included in the number of Tarantino's exhibits. He only collects those related to TV shows, movies and series. By the way, earlier he also collected retro food boxes, but later gave up this hobby.

Rod Stewart

The British performer, whose name is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, tirelessly creates new routes for his toy trains. In his house, an entire floor is occupied by a toy railway, and he himself devotes at least four hours a day to modeling, creating copies of roads with pedantic accuracy. Even on tour, he goes, having previously included in the rider the requirement to have a huge modeling table in his room.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Today, the actor can only boast of a collection of cowboy boots, which he takes care of with his own hand. But busts of Soviet leaders looked much more unusual in his house. In his office one could see busts of many political leaders of the USSR. Later, he began to add larger sculptures to small exhibits, which he placed around the pool. Schwarzenegger's wife could no longer bear this. Once she collected all the statues and took them somewhere, leaving only a small bust of Lenin on her husband's desk.

Dustin Hoffman

The collection of the actor and producer will make everyone who sees it smile. It is hard to imagine that hundreds of Teddy bears stand, sit and lie in a special room in Dustin Hoffman's house. The main thing is that the collection is constantly growing, because the fans and friends of the actor, after they learned about Hoffman's hobby, began to give him cubs at every opportunity. Dustin himself never ceases to please.

David Lynch

The collection of the creator of the series "Twin Peaks" is capable of striking to the core. The filmmaker is not interested in weapons, coins and other platitudes. His first collection contains dead flies, which, according to Lynch, are "like birds, only smaller." The second is an incredible amount of used chewing gum. They supposedly remind Lynch of the human brain. However, if something absolutely incredible and not too pleasant for an ordinary person is sent to him, like a human internal organ floating in formalin, the director will gladly accept.

Johnny Depp

It seems that the actor is capable of becoming a collector of everything that one can imagine. At various times, he collected hats and everything that ever scared him, including dried bugs, skeletons of pigeons and images of evil clowns. But now his collection contains hundreds of Barbie dolls. At first, he bought them for his children, and after they grew up, he no longer wanted to say goodbye to the collection. Moreover, in it, for the most part, there are exclusive items like dolls of celebrities and even Depp himself in the images of Jack Sparrow and the Mad Hatter.

Nicolas Cage

The actor is a big fan of comics, and therefore he turned them into a hobby. Cage's collection numbers, it seems, thousands of copies, but the actor was especially proud of the very first Superman comic book released. Unfortunately, due to financial problems in 2012, Cage sold it for more than two million dollars.

Reese Witherspoon

The charming "legally blonde" is a passionate collector of vintage lingerie. Among the exhibits of the actress you can find magnificent corsets, negligees and even pantaloons. She finds all this in flea markets, which she regularly visits in order to replenish her collection. And Reese Witherspoon is also interested in unusual plastic dishes.

The desire to collect in an incredible amount of different, sometimes very unexpected things, for someone is a great pleasure, but for someone it turns into a painful passion. Psychologists say that by choosing a collectible, you can learn a lot about a person. So what do domestic stars prefer to collect? And what can their collections tell about themselves?