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Matt Damon Hates Snakes, Plus 15 Other Strange Celeb Phobias

Matt Damon and I are pretty much not alike at all, but one thing we could bond over: we both hate snakes. Apparently Damon was so squeamish around the reptiles on the set of his new movie “We Bought a Zoo,” that his co-star Scarlett Johansson made fun of him.  “He was definitely sweating a bit, and maybe the sweat formed in the corner of his eye,” she told People. “I said, ‘Matt, these kids are practically juggling the snakes. Hold it together.’” Johansson recalled watching Damon “cry like a baby and rock back and forth when the snakes were spread all over the set.”

Hey, lay off him Scarlett! I’m right there with you, Matt. Snakes are just not right. Click through to check out some other notable — and notably strange — celeb phobias.

Matt Damon Is The The New Baldy On The Block

In April, Jake Gyllenhaal went bald for his role as an LAPD office in “End of Watch.” Then Joseph Gordon-Levitt shaved his head onscreen in the trailer for “50/50,” while Channing Tatum was spotted sans hair after beginning to film “GI Joe 2: Cobra Strikes.” Now, we have a new member of the Chrome Dome Club. Keep reading »

Tobey Maguire Sued Over Illegal Poker Games

I sort of love the idea of richie rich celebrities gathering in swank hotel rooms for illegal high-stakes poker games with an $100,000 minimum buy-in. Apparently, this is what Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and other assorted Hollywood high-rollers have been up to. I imagine there were lots of cigars at these games, not to mention tomfoolery that would make a gossip columnist drool all over themselves.

So how did we find out about these underground poker games? Because Maguire, along with Nick Cassavettes (the director of “The Notebook”) and Gabe Kaplan (the star of “Welcome Back Kotter,” who I’m guessing is like the crazy older uncle of the group) just got sued over them. Keep reading »

Michael Douglas And Matt Damon To Kiss In A Liberace Biopic

“I just saw Matt…and I was teasing him. I was saying, ‘Bring a lot of ChapStick, babe.’”

—Michael Douglas pokes fun at Matt Damon, his co-star in an upcoming biopic about Liberace and his younger lover. For some reason, we thought we’d see Matt make out onscreen with Ben Affleck first, but we will take it. [E! Online]

After the jump, Matt’s thoughts on his big kiss scenes with Michael.
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Quickies: Meet Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dog And Enema Man & Matt Damon Going Into Politics?

  • You can’t make this stuff up: Alan Simpson, the former senator of Wyoming (i.e. an old white dude), was on Fox News and called rappers Eminem and Snoop Doggy Dogg by their it-is-hereby-decreed-new-names, Enema Man and Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dog. DYING. [Dlisted]
  • Father Of The Year Michael Lohan plans to divebomb his daughter Lindsay at court tomorrow with a host of “Celebrity Rehab” cameras in tow. [TMZ]
  • You knew this was coming: Bobbi Kristina Brown allegedly has a sex tape. Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown’s daughter is going balls to the wall with bad decisions lately, isn’t she? [Media Takeout]

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Ben Affleck And Matt Damon Working On A Wife-Swapping Movie

My, how far Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have come together in the past 13 years. They’ve gone from being 20-something bachelors doodling math equations on mirrors to both being stand-up citizens with wives and multiple children. So I kind of love that their next movie together is about … two friends who swap wives. “The Trade”—which Ben is writing with his younger brother Casey, and in which he will presumably star alongside Matt—tells the real-life story of two Yankees pitchers in the 1970s, Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson, who decided to trade wives. Mrs. Peterson moved in with Kekich while Mrs. Kekich went to sharing a bed with Peterson. When word got out about the situation, a scandal erupted. Keep reading »

Matt Damon Is “The Talented Mr. Ripley” Again

Is it just me, or does Matt Damon look like Tom Ripley impersonating Freddie Miles, Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character in “The Talented Mr. Ripley”? In actuality, he was out promoting “True Grit” on “The Late Show with David Letterman.” [NYC, 12/16/10] Keep reading »

All Matt Damon Wants For Christmas Is …


Matt Damon is as hot as he is concerned about cleaning drinking water. What a babe! So, to help his charity raise funds around the holidays, he made this adorbs ad showing off his crappy Christmas presents from years past. (Warning: If you are a Snuggie fetishist, this is sweet, sweet porn.) Anyway, instead of buying crap for the people you love, why not buy this rad water bottle which gives 100 percent of its profits to the Water.org charity? Good idea, great internet vid. [Bitten And Bound]
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You Can Adjust Me Anytime, Matt

Shortly after leaving my apartment yesterday morning, Matt Damon showed up on the set of “The Adjustment Bureau,” in which he plays a charismatic congressman with a thing for a mysterious ballerina played by Emily Blunt. [NYC, 12/1/09] Keep reading »

10 Celebrity Strip Club Adventures

In kinda the sweetest gesture ever, in a backwards sort of way, Matt Damon reportedly brought a posse to the New York Hustler Club, including his wife, Luciana Bozán Barroso. Instead of getting a lap dance from an actual stripper, Matt was perfectly content getting down with the mother of his children. A witness said, “He bought dances for his friends. His wife was dancing for him. The club normally doesn’t allow civilians to dance, but they made an exception for him.” [NY Post]

Since for some reason, men are obligated to go to strip clubs to assert their manly virility, it’s nice to hear that there are men out there who realize their wives are sexual beings and find them more compelling than random women in g-strings. These other celebrities weren’t so charming on their strip club jaunts. Keep reading »