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Your Highness: Celebs Who Reigned at Prom and Homecoming
As if being rich, good-looking, and successful wasn’t enough of an insult. Do you know the darkest secret in Hollywood? Well, despite all the stars that claim to have been soo dorky and soo awkward in high school, the truth is that many of them weren’t. They were cheerleaders, student government leaders, and, well, just plain popular. These celebrities aren’t just Hollywood royalty—back in high school, they were actual royalty on their schools’ homecoming and prom courts.
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Dakota Fanning
In her relentless quest to have the most fabulous childhood in history, Fanning managed to become a beloved movie star before the age of ten and then capped it off by being crowned the homecoming queen of her private Los Angeles high school in 2010. This is after she was crowned a homecoming princess the year before.
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Halle Berry
Despite being biracial in a mostly white high school near Cleveland, Ohio, Berry was a popular student, class president, captain of the cheerleading squad, and editor of the school paper. But when she was voted prom queen in 1984, other students accused her of cheating. She was found innocent, but only held on to the title after the school flipped a coin to be “fair.”
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Matt Morrison
He coaches the drama geeks and social misfits on Glee, but in real life, Morrison was the prom king at the Orange County High School of the Arts in 1997.
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Cindy Crawford
It’s amazing that Crawford was around to be voted prom queen of DeKalb (Illinois) High School in 1984, what with her already-burgeoning modeling career and all. Not to mention how tough it must have been to graduate as the valedictorian, too.
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Meryl Streep
Streep is so all-around perfect now, she must have had a difficult adolescence, right? Yeah, not so much. She was a cheerleader and the 1967 homecoming queen at Bernards High School in New Jersey, and is remembered by friends as a friendly, outgoing, lovely, talented, and supernaturally fantastic human being. And she dated the lead singer of the J. Geils Band.
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Andy Dick
He may be a train wreck now, but in 1983 at Joliet West High School, Dick was voted homecoming king. He embraced the comedic potential of his name with the slogan, “Don’t vote for a jock, vote for A. Dick.”
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Rosie O'Donnell
For a while she was known as the Queen of Nice, but in high school, she was the Queen of Practically Everything. At Long Island’s Commack High School, she was the homecoming queen and prom queen and senior class president, and she was voted “class clown.”
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Paula Abdul
She was voted Most Likely to Succeed at her high school in Van Nuys, California, but being homecoming queen was the least of her accomplishments. She was also the head cheerleader and then became a Laker girl, renowned choreographer, pop star, and current noted crazy person.
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