Credit: Disney (left) Paris Hilton via Instagram (right)
Have you ever seen a celebrity when visiting Disney Parks? I remember one time I saw stylist Betsy Johnson in New Fantasyland at the Magic Kingdom of Walt Disney World. She had a Disney cast member guiding her, but that didn’t stop guests from asking her for a photo. It is safe to say that you can imagine how many times some celebrities should be interrupted during their vacation at Disney.
More recently, reality show star, singer, DJ and entrepreneur Paris Hilton appeared on the YouTube show, Hot Ones, on the First We Feast channel. The popular YouTube program often has celebrities who answer interview questions while eating more and more spicy chicken wings.
Well, during the show, Paris Hilton explained how she was able to go to Disney World and feel more like a “normal” Guest, and not one that everyone is looking at or arriving at and asking for a photo.
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warmPresenter Sean Evans told Hilton: “I heard stories about you going to Disney with full dentures to disguise yourself as photographers”, which Hilton acknowledged and went on to explain other cases where she had more than 50 cameras following each her move, and what she would do to trick them and escape. Some hacks included dressing up her friends in a blonde wig and giving them a fake Chihuahua to look like her dog, Tinker Bell.
Also, if you are a big enough fan to give your dog the name of the Peter Pan fairy, it looks like it would be obvious that you are a big Disney fan. So, I can totally see why Paris Hilton would use fake prosthetics if it meant that she could enjoy the park without others trying to invade on her vacation!
You can watch the full interview here:
As you can imagine, Hilton is not the first celebrity to go to Disney Park in disguise. In fact, Channing Tatum (Step Up, 21 Jump Street) was seen once in disguise while riding the Tower of Terror, according to Cinemablend. The actor decided to ride in a Santa Claus suit with a full beard. It seems likely that this was a joke, because if Tatum was trying to avoid looking at him, a Santa Claus suit is not the best move, although it covers most of his face!
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Super model and presenter of America’s Next Top Model, Tyra Banks also went to Disneyland in disguise. Banks stated in an interview,
“I went to Disneyland and I love going, I’m obsessed with Disney, I’m obsessed with the man Walt Disney, actually. I like to go, but I want to be with everyone and go out, and not just always having to go through the back door. So I put on a disguise. It was an older woman thing. I put on one of my mother’s wigs, because she likes gray on the wigs. So I took one of her wigs, put on her old-fashioned glasses and she has this kind of leopard, big T-shirts, I put on this and a brooch, a brooch will make you look old … I have a story behind: ‘Yes, my husband invented those car seat covers that are still like the car seat covers, like the taxi drivers did and i have so many bills left over that, darling, i decided to do those things that go through the doors. I am very happy, we (are) here from Detroit and I am very happy because I love Walt Disney. ‘”
The late pop sensation Michael Jackson was known to visit Disneyland in disguise as well. Take a look at some images of Jackson with his ex-wife, Lisa Marie Presley, wearing a cap, sunglasses and what looks like a fake mustache.
Do you know other celebrities who had to wear a disguise at Disney? Let us know in the comments below.