We're sorry Bengals fans but having a former boy band frontman as your team's most famous fan doesn't exactly provide you with street cred or the toughness you'd hope for. For those of you unaware of who Nick Lachey is, he is the former lead singer of the multi-platinum '90-00s boy band 98 Degrees. The collective peaked in the early 2000s before disbanding in 2002 but recently has come back together to tour for nostalgic fans.
But despite our jabs at Nick Lachey being soft for his boy band past, he's been in a few scuffles holding down his Cincinnati Bengal counterparts. Back in 2012, Nick Lachey was removed from a Chargers/Bengals game after a Chargers fan continuously stuck his finger in the pop singer's face. He took to Twitter to cheer on his Bengals brethren following the debacle and ever since then has been leading the celebrity charge for the team.
To insure one’s house, one’s car or to underwrite a life insurance policy, that is common practice. But who would pay an insurance premium for his/her thumb, legs or smile? Stars, of course.
At the top of the ranking are the legs of Mariah Carey, worth 810 million USD: The diva became, in 2006, the Gillette brand muse for the advertising campaign «Legs of a Goddess». She then took out an insurance policy with London Lloyds to protect her legs, a decision that is far from being insignificant. Among its customers, the London insurer then included several icons of music, such as Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart.
David Beckham’s body insured for 195 million USD: European champion with Manchester United in 1999, David Beckham was in 2006 the most renowned footballer of the planet. In relation to his sporting activities, he took out an insurance cover for his legs. The huge amount paid for his insurance would reportedly exceed the 103 million USD disbursed by Real Madrid for the cover of Christiano Ronaldo in 2009. The fashion model would later extend his insurance cover to his entire body.
15 million USD in insurance for Kim Kardashian’s curves: The curves of Kim Kardashian are her number one beauty asset. The reality TV star, who is crazy about plastic surgery, has underwritten an insurance policy worth 15 million USD to protect her famous butt.
The culinary critic Egon Ronay assured his taste buds: The famous Hungarian culinary critic has insured his taste buds since 1957, for the amount of 400 000 USD. An original insurance policy which allows him to cover his sense of taste without which he will no longer be able to practice his job.