18 Celebrities Who Love to Pull Pranks on Others
Actors, musicians, and other celebrities like to pull pranks on each other. They do it on set or at any other place they happen to meet. The funny thing is that pranksters become more and more inventive, and after playing practical jokes on their friends successfully, they share the results online for everyone to see.
Will Smith put a popsicle stick under his wife’s strap.
The actor often plays tricks not only on his colleagues but also on his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Once, he got bored and put a popsicle stick under her bra strap. In addition, he took a photo of it and posted it on Facebook, saying, “I wonder how long before she notices.”
A couple of hours later, he posted a selfie with his wife and the stick, captioning it, “She noticed.”
Rihanna broke into another person’s bedroom.
Rihanna is a big fan of Jimmy Kimmel’s traditional pranks. But once the singer decided to pull a prank on the TV host himself. She made a deal with his wife that she would let her in at night, and broke into Jimmy’s bedroom at 1 a.m.
Kimmel looked flabbergasted when the singer and her backup dancers began to jump on his bed, throw banknotes and confetti, flash the light on his face, and sing one of her hit songs.
Millie Bobby Brown threw water balloons at Noah Schnapp.
Noah Schnapp was a recognized prankster on the set of the series Stanger Things. Once, Millie Bobby Brown and other film crew members decided to pay Noah back and pull a prank on him.
This is how this happened. Millie called Noah at 4 a.m., pretended she was crying and asked him to come over. Noah went to comfort the actress and found himself at a car park where there were trash bins filled with water balloons. First, the actress told him that she had a gift for him, and then the entire crew raided him with water bombs.
Taylor Swift joined Keith Urban on stage.
Taylor Swift once pranked her friend Keith Urban right during his concert. She appeared on the stage dressed as a member of Kiss. Together with other musicians and dancers, they made a great performance — they danced and sang along.
Even though Keith tried to stay serious and continue singing his song, he failed and started laughing. But eventually, he pulled himself together and finished the song to everyone’s joy.
Daniel Radcliffe changed Robbie Coltrane’s phone into Turkish.
While filming Harry Potter, the young actor played a joke on his co-star Robbie Coltrane. He took his phone and changed its settings from English to Turkish. The prank worked out: the infuriated Coltrane was unable to make calls and had a hard time finding anyone on set who could change the settings of his phone back to English.
Later, Radcliffe apologized to Coltrane, and they were good again.
Conan O’Brien took over Pete Cashmore’s job for one day.
In the early morning of April Fools’ Day, Conan O’Brien announced that he bought Mashable for $3,500. The website employees played along and changed the website’s usual blue color scheme to orange color. Pete Cashmore, who is Mashable’s CEO, just had to accept the bitter truth.
However, the coup lasted only one day, and the following day everything returned to normal.
Rob Mallard put provocative notes into Charlotte Jordan’s props.
The Coronation Street star revealed that he played childish pranks on his co-star Charlotte Jordan on set. He would put little provocative notes into her props which the actress had to discover right during the take. The actor did it to see if Charlotte would be able to keep her face straight and laughed if she couldn’t.
Christopher Briney pranked his co-stars with music.
Actress Minnie Mills spoke about an unusual prank her The Summer I Turned Pretty co-star Christopher Briney played on them. According to her, the actor would hide small speakers somewhere in other actors’ makeup rooms. Then he would connect them to his smartphone and play a random song, like some Spanish track. So, his co-stars couldn’t understand where the music came from and how to turn it off.
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan tried to convince people that she was distantly related to Mindy Kaling.
The Never Have I Ever star liked to confuse other people by saying that she and Mindy Kaling were distantly related. She revealed it at Jimmy Fallon’s show. But her favorite thing was watching other people’s faces when she finally told them this wasn’t true.
Justin Theroux would jump out of the wardrobe to frighten Jennifer Aniston.
The actress revealed that her ex-husband liked to prank her by hiding in a wardrobe or a bathroom. Once, she was busy cleaning and returned to the bedroom only 30 minutes later. Her significant other was patient enough to stay in the wardrobe for all this time just to jump out and scare her as soon as she entered the room. So, Aniston just asked him, puzzled, “Have you been in there for like 25 minutes?”
Jack Whitehall took over Charlie Wernham’s Twitter.
Charlie portrayed Robbie Roscoe in Hollyoaks from 2013 to 2016. This is why his Twitter followers were quite surprised to see his 2022 tweet where he begged the producers to take him back to the show. His followers, however, were rather quick to understand that his account had been taken over by some pranksters. Wernham confirmed it later, saying, “This is what happens when you leave Jack Whitehall unattended for 30 seconds with your mobile.”
Henry Cavill put on a mask to pull a joke on Will Smith.
Henry Cavill found a way to attend Comic-Con without fans recognizing him. He also used the occasion to pull a joke on a colleague who was busy signing autographs. The actor pretended to be Will Smith’s fan.
Later, Cavill shared a video on his Instagram where we can see that he put on the V for Vendetta mask and approached Will Smith sitting at the table. At first, Will took the guy for a fan. But then Cavill took off his mask, surprising Will. They laughed, and then Henry Cavill went to other actors sitting, asking them to sign his T-shirt.
How Viggo Mortensen and Karl Urban pranked each other
As Urban revealed, once during the filming of The Lord of the Rings, he was woken up in the middle of the night by a phone call from his agent who promised to buy him new socks if he would just get on his flight as planned. After Urban responded with confusion, his agent instantly realized what had happened, simply saying, “Viggo.” Evidently, Mortensen had called Urban’s agent pretending to be Urban and said that he would not fly without his lucky socks.
Urban took his chance to prank Mortensen back 10 years later when both actors were promoting their movies in Spain. Urban told every member of the press he could that Mortensen had bought a farm, 1,000 goats, and gotten really into making goat cheese. Interviewers asked Mortensen about his new business so much that the fake story made its way to the news.
Aubrey Plaza pied everyone on set.
The actress convinced everyone on the set of Spin Me Around that there was a long-time Italian tradition of getting pied in the face to celebrate a picture wrap. First, she pranked 10 actors from the main cast. And when they found out the truth, they helped her pie the rest of the filming crew. Eventually, almost no one on set managed to escape this fake Italian tradition.
Leonardo DiCaprio pretended to be Jonah Hill’s fan.
This prank took place right in a New York street and got on cameras of ordinary passers-by. Jonah Hill was standing outside a restaurant when Leo suddenly ran up to him with his phone pointing at him. Hillah looked pretty scared. “It was funny! I was totally taken off guard,” he said. “I was scared.”
Eventually, Hill realized that it wasn’t a crazy fan but his old friend. The actors hugged and laughed together.
Akshay Kumar left his co-star Rakul Preet Singh in the middle of a puddle.
Akshay posted a funny video on his Instagram in which he and Rakul can be seen strolling happily before hitting a big puddle in the middle of the road. Like a good gentleman, Akshay assisted Rakul in stepping over the puddle by placing bricks there.
But when Rakul reached the center of the puddle, Akshay suddenly ran away, leaving her stuck. Rakul struggled to stay upright before losing it and falling into the puddle. Then she took off after Akshay — probably to take revenge on him.
Jennifer Lawrence spray painted Chris Pratt’s face.
During the promotion tour of the movie Passengers, Chris Pratt would publish photos on his Instagram where he made fun of Lawrence by cropping her face out of the photos.
Eventually, Lawrence who is not on social media decided to take revenge on the prankster. She went to Hollywood Boulevard and spray-painted Chris Pratt’s face on the movie poster placed on the city tour bus.
Amy Schumer took a dive in front of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
The comedian decided to prank Kanye and Kim right on the red carpet. Many photographers managed to capture her dramatic fall to the celebrities’ feet, and they looked quite abashed.
Schumer confessed that she decided to pull this prank because Kanye and Kim stole the spotlight. She also added that this dive was the funniest joke she’d ever pulled.
Have you ever pulled pranks on your friends? Tell us about them.