30 Rumors About Celebrities That People Were Aware Of Before The News Came Out

8 years ago, I was scouted as a pastry cook for Esca - one of Mario Batali's restaurants - and a friend warned me that he was a sexual harasser and liked to grope female employees if alone with them. The scandal broke a year later.

A guy I knew was on tour as a roadie for Whitney Houston, and he reported that she was on [substances] YEARS before it was common knowledge. No one could believe it; she had such a squeaky clean reputation!

I was at a White Stripes show on their last tour. After they played Seven Nation Army Jack said something to the effect of “that’s the last time we’re playing that”. A week later they announced they were done.

Jimmy Fallon’s alcoholism and just overall sh*ttiness. But it’s less that I had this private information and more just anyone who’s worked in 30 rock in the past 20 years knows this as an open secret

I was aware Carrie Fisher had likely passed before the plane she passed on had taxied in to the gate at LAX. Aviation is a small world.

It wasn’t a rumor. But I was an extra on an episode of Criminal Minds about ten years ago. AJ Cook (who played JJ) would always wear this big, puffy jacket backwards between takes. It was April and pretty warm out. I remember thinking, “she’s got to be pregnant.” Why else would you be wearing a big jacket that covered your front.

About a month later, she would announce she is pregnant.

JLo and Ben Affleck’s wedding in Vegas. A friend got married at the same place a few hours after they did, and someone who worked there showed them the marriage certificate. He told me about it before the news broke the next day.

When john dunsworth (Mr lahey) died... he was a close family friend so we knew when he went to the hospital and then we were called when he died. So sad.

I worked with somebody who had been an assistant to Bryan Singer. They said he was basically a predator who constantly hired and abused attractive young men.

Not really a rumor but when Michael Jackson died I knew about 10 mins before it went out on the news because my sister was a news reporter at BBC and text the family before she went live..