If you look past that dreadful excuse for a pencil mustache, you'll see Jimmy Fallon staring back at you, wearing a comedy mullet wig to make you laugh. OK, it's not a wig, it's his real hair - but again, this was very much the fashion of the times Fallon grew up in. Amazingly for someone with such a cheeky personality, Fallon once considered himself destined for the priesthood. His mind was still on the church at the time his yearbook photo was taken, but he'd soon change both his ways and his mind.
Like many of America's most prominent comedians, Fallon got his start on 'Saturday Night Live,' staying with the show for six whole years before branching out on his own. After trying his hand at acting in movies like 'Fever Pitch,' his first experience as a chat show host came in 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' back in 2009. He's chopped and changed shows a few times in the ten years which have come since, but the basic format remains the same - as does Fallon's popularity.
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.