Everyone’s scared of something, whether it be heights or spiders. But some fears are a little more niche than others.
Celebrity phobias definitely fall into that category. Take the woman with a Michael Jackson phobia as an example of that.
But it turns out that fearing a famous face isn’t reserved for those of us living outside of Hollywood.
Even celebrities like Billie Eilish get a bit jittery around household names.
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The person she’s afraid of? None other than Eminem.
And he had the perfect reaction to hearing about this.
The Birds of a Feather singer first made the revelation during an interview with Noisey a few years back.
She said: “I was scared of Eminem. My whole life. Always. I, dude, terrified. That dude freaked the f**k out of me. Oh my God.”
Whilst nobody would want to end up on the wrong side of the rapper, a phobia might be taking things a little far.
Once word of this fear got to Eminem, he decided to respond in the only way he knew how – by inserting his response into a song.
In ‘Alfred’s Theme’, he rapped: “Homicidal visions when I’m spitting like this / But really I’m just fulfilling my wish of killing rhymes which is really childish / And silly, but I’m really like this, I’m giving nightmares to Billie Eilish.”
It’s not clear whether or not these lyrics helped soothe Eilish’s fears.
Fans online had a lot to say about the whole situation, with many finding it hilarious.
There were some people who even confessed that Eilish scared them
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One YouTube user said: “All her music videos are creepy as hell and Eminem’s the one giving her nightmares??!!!”
To be fair, we can’t help being scared of certain things.
For example, there’s people who are terrified of the ocean. Thalassophobia affects approximately nine percent of all adults, and can severely impact some people’s quality of life.
There’s also chromophobia, which is the fear of colours.
One man opened up on TikTok about his experiences with the fear, which has forced him to live in a bedroom completely deprived of colour.
His colour-lacking room features plain white bedding, white furniture and even black-and-white polaroid photos stuck up on the wall. His designer black water bottle sits on his desk alongside a white AirPods case, a black charging stand and various black and white accessories.
Here’s hoping that Eilish can quash her fears of Slim Shady. Maybe a collab would be good motivation?
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Topics: Celebrity, Music, Billie Eilish, Eminem
Eminem once lifted the lid of the difference between his three personas which each had their own name.
For a guy who took so much effort to tell us that his name is (what, who, chka-chka) Slim Shady, that’s just one of three ways you know him.
Eminem, Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers are all one and the same, but to the famous rapper, there’s a clear difference between the three as they were each names for one of his personas.
All you have to do is look at his album titles to tell, as he’s made some from the perspective of the different personas.
His second and third albums are titled The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP respectively and each is meant to be from the perspective of a persona.
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His fourth was then titled The Eminem Show, while years later he released The Marshall Mathers LP 2 so there’s no real secret here.
The rapper once told Spin magazine that he had three different personas, one for each of his different names, and they all represented different things about him.
He said: “Slim Shady is the name for my temper or anger. Eminem is just the rapper, Slim Shady is the attitude behind him, and Marshall Mathers is who I am at the end of the day.”
Eminem later told Time that basically he’s a guy called Marshall Mathers who has a rap alter ego called Eminem and that alter ego has an alter ego of his own called Slim Shady.
He pretty much says as much in his song ‘Without Me’ from The Eminem Show, singing: “I’ve created a monster, because nobody wants to see Marshall no more, they want Shady, I’m chopped liver.”
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Major fans of his music will pretty much be able to tell which persona he’s performing as in any of his songs, knowing the difference just from the lyrics and performance.
Over the years of his career, there are some songs he’s not so pleased with, including one track he no longer performs.
The 2002 diss track ‘Cleanin’ Out My Closet’ centres around the rapper’s strained relationship with his mother Debbie, but he later released an apology in the form of song ‘Headlights’ where he explicitly said sorry for the previous track.
“That song I no longer pay at shows and I cringe every time it’s on the radio,” is in the tune along with the lyric ‘at the time I was angry’.
The lyrics also say his mum ‘got it the worst’ and that she’s ‘still beautiful’ to him because she is ‘his mum’.
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Topics: Eminem, Music, Celebrity
I you were wondering what Billie Eilish’s main takeaways from 2024 are, then look no further as she’s just revealed a few of her favourite moments from the last 12 months.
The 23-year-old songstress’ career has gone from strength to strength over the last year, following the release of her third studio album and her global tour.
She dropped Hit Me Hard and Soft back in May and it has since become the second most-streamed album on Spotify of the year, beaten only by Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poet’s Department
Her song ‘Birds of a Feather’ was the third most-streamed track too, so all in all, it’s been a great year career-wise for Eilish.
For the eighth year on the trot, she sat down to discuss her continuing success with Vanity Fair – while also opening up about how she’d been just as lucky in love too.
The colour and style of Eilish’s hair aren’t the only things that have changed since her first sit down with the publication in 2017.
“This is the first year in my life that I keep forgetting how old I am,” she laughed. “I can’t believe where my life has gone, and where it is now.”
The superstar explained she was extremely proud of herself and her brother/collaborator Finneas for all of their achievements in 2024.
“I have the most monthly listeners on Spotify in the entire world,” she gushed. “I released my album, went on tour again, I made so many new friends, adopted another dog – it’s been a friendship-filled year.
“I and Finneas won an Oscar for ‘What Was I Made For?’ I can’t even really describe how amazing that was, and then it was like we were the youngest people in history to win two, or something crazy.”
Billie Eilish revealed she has had a 2024 filled with ‘good sex’ and friendships (YouTube/Vanity Fair)
Eilish then looked at footage from last year which saw her discuss her hopes for the future and some of her aspirations – most of which involved the risk of death.
She said she wants to tick off skydiving, bungee jumping and stunt driving, adding: “I really want to do stuff like that, things that I could die because of.
“I want to adventure so bad,” she said. “I definitely want some more piercings, I want some more tattoos, another dog, be hanging out with your family, be making new friends, be having new friends, be having good sex.”
The ‘Ocean Eyes’ singer then admitted that her had nailed most of her 2023 pledge to herself and had already got the ‘good sex’ thing sorted.
Eilish also announced she has reconnected with pals from the past too, having previously spoken out about how she ‘lost all of her friends’ after gaining fame, so this year, she wanted to work on that.
She explained: “I’ve done nothing but make friends all year and gotten so close with people that I wasn’t with before, became friends with people I used to be friends with again, and just like…it’s just been a year filled with friendship. Which honestly, even though I was saying a lot of things that I want to do, that was the thing that I wanted to do, and I really did it, and it was awesome.
“And yes, I’ve had a lot of good sex. So, you’re welcome, Billie!”
The musician, 23, has achieved some incredible success this year (Sarah Morris/WireImage)
Although we’re not sure who’s putting a smile on Eilish’s face and satisfying her in the bedroom these days, it doesn’t stop fans speculating about her love life.
The singer’s sexuality has become a regular topic of conversation, much to her displeasure – while her song ‘Lunch’ and her presence on Charli XCX’s remix of ‘Guess’ sparked a ton of speculation.
At the time, Eilish said: “That song [Lunch] was actually part of what helped me become who I am, to be real. I wrote some of it before even doing anything with a girl, and then wrote the rest after.
“I was never planning on talking about my sexuality ever, in a million years. It’s really frustrating to me that it came up.”
Eilish also voiced her frustrations at the media for focusing so much on who she fancies, while opening up on the moment that she realised she liked girls.
She said: “I’ve been in love with girls for my whole life, but I just didn’t understand until, last year, I realised I wanted my face in a vagina.
“I was never planning on talking about my sexuality ever, in a million years. It’s really frustrating to me that it came up.”
The star clarified that she liked both boys and girls in an Instagram post in 2023, which concluded with her saying: “Leave me alone about it please, literally who cares.”
Eilish later told Rolling Stone that she had somewhat overreacted, but needed to take back control.
“The whole world suddenly decided who I was, and I didn’t get to say anything or control any of it,” she said. “Nobody should be pressured into being one thing or the other.
“It takes a while to find yourself, and I think it’s really unfair, the way that the internet bullies you into talking about who you are and what you are.”
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Topics: Sex and Relationships, Celebrity, Billie Eilish, Music, LGBTQ
Billie Eilish has opened up on the difficulties of ‘losing all of her friends’ when she ‘got famous’.
The singer, 22, rose to fame when she was just 14-years-old with her debut single ‘Ocean Eyes’, written and produced by her brother Finneas O’Connell.
Her first studio project When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? rocketed to number one in the US and UK charts, gaining the title as one of 2019’s best-selling albums.
Arguably the highlight of her career came after winning her second Academy Award for ‘What Was I Made For?’ for the Margot Robbie-led Barbie film in 2023.
Despite such success, it can be a lonely place at the top, as Eilish recently explained to Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver on the BBC podcast Miss Me?.
The 22-year-old said that being famous had made it hard for her to keep her old friends.
In fact, she claims she lost them ‘all’.
“I suddenly was famous and I couldn’t relate to anybody,” she said. “It was tough. It was really hard.”
However, Eilish did clarify that her best friend Zoe stuck by her, but that was it.
The rest of her so-called friends were subsequently also her employees.
Billie Eilish has opened up on fame and some of its downsides. (BBC)
“And then it was my 20th birthday and I remember looking around the room and it was only people that I employ. And all 15 years or more older than me,” she continued.
After one of her employees quit working for her and cut all ties, Eilish said: “It was the worst thing that happened to me. And that made me realise like ‘oh wait, this is a job’.
“If they left me they would never see me again.”
Eilish has since made the decision to get in touch with her old mates.
“Exactly a year ago, I reconnected with a bunch of old friends and now, I have so many friends,” she said.
“I have a crew now! I could literally cry about it. It’s been the greatest thing that’s happened to me.”
The singer admitted she lost most of her friends when she became famous. (Shirlaine Forrest/Getty Images for Live Nation UK)
“I cried… and it’s literally because I actually have friendship now again.”
The singer noted that after hearing Allen’s ‘Smile’ song, it inspired her to make new pals.
In the 2006 track, Allen sings: “But with a little help from my friends / I found the light in the tunnel at the end.”
After all, friends are the family you can choose.
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Topics: Billie Eilish, Celebrity, Music
We all have those dreams every now and again when it feels like they really did happen.
Maybe you’re quickly texting the group chat to make sure everyone is in fact alive or double-checking there isn’t a bath full of chocolate in the house.
Or, if you’re Billie Eilish, perhaps you end up breaking up with your boyfriend.
And it was actually a dream about the one and only Christian Bale that she says made her ‘come to her senses’.
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Look, when you know, you just know. And the moment the ‘Bad Guy’ singer woke up, she knew.
Eilish was recently chatting to Chicken Shop Date host Amelia Dimoldenberg at an Oscars Nominees ‘Pre-Luncheon’ Luncheon when they sort of stumbled onto the topic.
Dimoldenberg asked her and brother Finneas O’Connell if they wrote their big 2016 debut hit ‘Ocean Eyes’ about the blue-eyed Cillian Murphy.
And the songwriting siblings jokingly agreed they ‘probably’ did.
O’Connell added: “I probably wrote it about Cillian, yeah. Big fan of Cillian’s eyes in Dunkirk.”
Although Eilish was quick to hop in with: “Batman is the one though.”
Dimoldenberg asked: “Is that your favourite superhero?”
And while the ‘What Was I Made For?’ singer admitted she doesn’t ‘really know much about superheroes’ she did specifically like 2008’s The Dark Knight.
The Christopher Nolan film stars Murphy as Scarecrow with Heath Ledger as the Joker and Christian Bale in the role of Bruce Wayne (Batman, obviously).
And then it was time for Eilish ‘to be real’ after the mention of the superhero movie.
She said: “A couple years ago I had a dream about Christian Bale and it was at a little cafe in the sunlight, and it made me realise that I had to break up with my boyfriend at the time.”
Unsurprisingly, Dimoldenberg stood jaw-dropped by the revelation as O’Connell absolutely cracked up.
“No, like genuinely. I woke up and I came to my senses,” EIlish continued. “It’s over.”
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The 22-year-old didn’t name any names about just who her Bale dream led to her dumping but she was most recently linked to Jesse Rutherford, 32, before breaking up last year.
Before that, Eilish was reportedly linked to Matthew Tyler Vorce and also Q – who appeared in her Apple TV documentary.
Users on X reacted to a video of the interview as they thanked Bale for his ‘service’ and said Eilish ‘should live up to the standards set in her dreams’.
