Posted 1 hour agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret Down30 Celebs With Extremely Wild And Weird Side QuestsPinkPantheress is a champion chess player!by Kristen HarrisBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink Have you ever played "two truths and a lie" with someone who reveals a fact about themselves that left you speechless? Or had a friend who casually dropped a jaw-dropping story completely out of nowhere? Sometimes, I have the same reaction when I find out about a celebrity's really out-of-left-field interest, hobby, or accomplishment. Here are 30 celebs with wild and interesting sidequests: 1. In 2025, comedian Matt Rife and YouTuber Elton Castee purchased Ed and Lorraine Warren's home - which inspired iconic horror films like The Conjuring and Annabelle - and occult museum. In an Instagram video, Matt said, "This might be the most important and prominent piece of paranormal history in the world." View this photo on Instagram Instagram: @mattrife Matt also said that the purchase made him "the legal guardian" of the "haunted collection" that includes the allegedly haunted doll Annabelle "for at least the next five years." He said, "We do not legally own the items, but we are the legal guardians and caretakers of the items." Leon Bennett / Getty Images 2. In 2025, PinkPantheress won the under-25s Grand Slam chess tournament. Sharing pictures on Twitter, she said, "did my biiiiiig onneeeee today."🥇did my biiiiiig onneeeee today #under25s pic.twitter.com/8WGKF6Nmwu- pinkpantheress (@pinkpantheress2) July 3, 2025 Twitter: @pinkpantheress2 Being a gifted chess player runs in her veins - her aunt is Susan Lalic, who's an International Master, Woman Grandmaster, and five-time British Women's Chess Champion. In a previous Reddit AMA, PinkPantheress said that, if she wasn't a musician, "genuinely... i'd be a chess player. my family are all chess players, don't believe me .. google susan lalic, that's my auntie." Jim Dyson / Redferns / Via Getty 3. David Arquette is passionate about clowns - specifically Bozo the Clown, whom he bought the rights to in 2021. Not only did he love the circus character as a kid, but he also wants to "rehabilitate" people's perception of clowns after the success of the It movies. MEGA / GC Images / Via Getty In 2023, he told ComicBook.com, "I don't know, my great-grandparents were in vaudeville. So it might be something about that - the traveling sort of circus element. There's something in my blood that I just love that; there's something in the wrestling world that's very kind of circus. I lived in Chicago sort of in a few years early on and fell in love with Bozo the Clown there and then went to the Ringling Brothers and then saw the whole circus, and it just kind of blew my mind. I was like, OK, I love this whole world. So I've always loved it." MEGA / GC Images / Via Getty 4. Wu Tang Clan rapper GZA dropped out of high school his sophomore year, but that didn't dampen his passion for quantum physics. Starting in 2011, he's been giving lectures at prestigious institutions like Harvard and New York University. Jeremychanphotography / Getty Images In 2012, he told Rolling Stone, "I never went to a university and linked up with, you know, quantum and astrophysicists and things of that nature. But it's not like this is what sparked the idea for me to want to do this album [Dark Matter]. It was an interesting experience. I went to MIT and met with Penny Chisholm, a marine biologist. She was looking at viruses, bacteria, all kind of stuff. It was actually new for me to be up in there. It was a great experience. I went over to Harvard and spoke to David Kaiser, who is a quantum physicist. I met with him today and a few other quantum physicists. We sat down, we had lunch. I just had a chance to meet several professors, students. You know, scientists." Daniel Knighton / Getty Images 5. In 2019, Mandy Moore hiked 17,600 feet to South Base Camp on Mount Everest with alpine guide Melissa Arnot Reid, who's sumitted six times. Mandy told the Hollywood Reporter, "Trekking soon became challenging, more because of the altitude than the walks themselves. Sometimes we'd gain 3,000 to 4,000 feet of elevation in a day, walking five or seven hours; some days, we walked just three. We were not running a marathon. Bistari, bistari means 'slowly, slowly' in Sherpa, and it was our motto. We made sure that we weren't maxing ourselves out." Alberto Rodriguez / Variety via Getty Images She also said, "On day seven, when we reached Base Camp, it was stunning. But every day had something like that. At every turn, there was a moment where you're like, I can't believe this exists in the world. Getting to Base Camp definitely felt momentous, but it was the entirety of the journey that was the reason why we were there. It really wasn't about getting to this one point. Melissa said that after big trips, there's a bit of an emotional hangover. And after checking off the goal of Base Camp, I definitely felt a little e