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Emily Blunt says she nearly killed Tom Cruise while filming a stunt driving scene after ignoring his desperate warnings to brake, convinced she knew better than one of Hollywood’s biggest action stars behind the wheel “Tom Cruise is in the passenger seat, not his favorite place to be. I don’t think it’s in his fabric to like being a passenger in a stunt driving scene.” “So we start, I tear down this path, and Tom’s being very quiet behind me. Suddenly, as I approach the right hand turn, I hear him going, ‘Brake, brake, brake.’” “‘Oh, god. Oh, god. Brake, brake, brake! Brake the car! Brake the car!’ And I left it too late and drove us into a tree. And I almost killed Tom Cruise.” “When I first heard him say ‘brake,’ in my head I went, ‘Oh, shut up.’ As if I thought I knew more about stunt driving than Tom Cruise.”

Shia LaBeouf says he got arrested after slapping and grabbing Alan Cumming’s ass at a Broadway show, only to find himself surrounded by six cops and terrified for his life inside a police station “Alan Cumming walks past me, and all I think about is the leather pants and him winking at me. So I give him a slap on the ass because I think he deserves it.” “I slapped and grabbed him. Like, I grabbed a whole cheek because I wanted the party right here in my pants. I wanted to grab the whole party.” “I get in there and this dude says, ‘Oh, Whitey’s here. It’s time for snitching.’ And I’m thinking, ‘Oh boy. Oh man.’ So my possum is like, ‘You got to do something, man. You got to do something. You’re going to die in here.’”

Caller: Dave, my dad runs our family business, and it has $5 to $6 million in debt. My three brothers and I are expected to inherit it, and the business is worth around $10 million. But I disagree with how my dad runs it, and the thought of taking it over is causing me a lot of stress. What should I do? Dave: You need to understand that you’re looking at a bear trap. Caller: But this is a $10 million business. Walking away feels like throwing away a huge inheritance. Dave: An inheritance isn’t worth it if it costs you years of misery. Your dad and your brothers aren’t likely to change how they operate, and you’re going to be stuck dealing with the consequences. Caller: So I should walk away from the family business? Dave: If they’re going to keep piling on debt, you need to be willing to walk away. Tell them you’re not joining a business that keeps borrowing money and putting itself in a deeper hole. Caller: Even if it means giving up millions? Dave: Your peace of mind matters more than an inheritance. Don’t let the promise of a $10 million business trap you in a situation you already know you don’t want. Sometimes the smartest financial decision isn’t figuring out how to inherit the business. It’s having the courage to walk away from it.

Dolph Lundgren thought he had beaten cancer after 5 years of clear scans, only to discover more tumors had returned and one had grown so large that doctors could no longer remove it “They found a tumor in my kidney in 2015, and they took it out. They did a biopsy, and it was cancerous.” “For 5 years, everything was fine. Then in 2020, they found a few more tumors around that area.” “The surgeon called me and said, ‘It’s grown now. It’s too big. We can’t take it out.’ It was the size of a small lemon.”

Richard Branson says British Airways tried to destroy Virgin Atlantic in a shocking “dirty tricks” campaign that involved impersonating his airline, stealing passengers, digging through his trash, and spreading damaging rumors to the press “They had a team of people behind locked doors at British Airways who would be ringing up our passengers, pretending to be from Virgin Atlantic, telling them that the Virgin flight was delayed and then switching them onto British Airways.” “They had teams of people going through my rubbish bins, and if there was a journalist that I'd talked to, they would be going through the journalist's rubbish bins.” “The amount of rumors they were managing to get the press to write about was becoming very dangerous and very damaging.”

Tom Cruise reveals how he challenged his makeup team to cut a six hour prosthetics process down to just one hour, refusing to take no for an answer and using a stopwatch to make them faster every single day while filming Mission: Impossible at the same time “I said, ‘Listen, we're going to get it down to an hour.’ And these are brilliant makeup artists, by the way.” “They just kind of looked at me. I was like, ‘No, we can do it.’ They're like, ‘I don't think so.’” “I got a stopwatch and we just put on each part every day, how they did it faster and faster.”

Richard Branson says he came within minutes of jumping to his death over the freezing North Sea, writing a heartbreaking final message to his wife before preparing to leap into the water, until one look at the giant balloon above him changed everything “I didn’t think I had a lot of chance of survival, so I wrote a short note to my wife, telling her how much I love her.” “I’d lost all communication with the outside world, so nobody knew where I was. The chances of survival were very, very, very unlikely.” “I put my parachute on, put a life vest on, climbed back on top of the capsule and prepared to jump. I knew these were the last few moments of my life.” “I looked up and saw the balloon and thought, ‘Screw it. I’ve got the biggest parachute in the whole world right above me. The balloon is the parachute. What on earth am I doing?’”

Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals O.J. Simpson was originally considered for the Terminator, while he was supposed to play Kyle Reese, before one conversation with James Cameron changed his path “When I got involved, I remember they told me that it was O.J. Simpson was the Terminator. And I was supposed to play Reese.” “As I was sitting there having lunch with James Cameron, for some reason or the other, I started talking more and more about the Terminator.” “When I read it, I had just seen Westworld with Yul Brynner playing a machine. There was something off about him, but you couldn't identify exactly what it was until later on when you saw them take him apart and fix him.”

Tom Cruise says he spent months preparing Emily Blunt’s 85 pound exosuit for Edge of Tomorrow, only for her to struggle with its weight before he told her to “stop being a wuss” and later became overprotective after discovering she was secretly pregnant. “I’d spent months prepping it and working on it,” Tom said. “He told me to stop being a wuss. It was the best thing just to make me laugh because I was like, ‘If he hugs me right now, it’s over.’” “During reshoots, Tom was confused about why I wasn’t doing all the stunts. Eventually, I told him, ‘Because I’m growing a human.’” “He started helping me downstairs. He was almost overboard. I was like, ‘Tom, I’m fine. I can do stairs.’”

Tom Cruise says his new Mission: Impossible movie may be the biggest practical action film ever shot, with no CGI, dangerous helicopter stunts, and a shocking admission that he used to fly without a license “I think in terms of action, this is probably the largest practical action film ever shot. Like when you look at the films, there’s no CGI.” “We’re going through Paris, the motorcycle, it’s just full on cars, you know, we’re all doing our own stunts.” “The helicopter sequence is just incredibly exhilarating and very dangerous. There’s really only one country that would allow us to do it.” Graham Norton: “Were you flying without a license previously?” Tom Cruise: “Yes.” “I had to get my helicopter license fast. I fly aerobatics in airplanes, but helicopters are very different. We’re flying very low, very close to rock faces in a chase.”

At 23, he lost $2.1 million on a single job after his biggest client went bankrupt. Now he’s $330,000 in debt, and Dave has a blunt message for him. Caller: Dave, I’m 23 and own a business. I spent $2.1 million completing a contract for a major aeronautics company, but they filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy without paying me. Now I’m $330,000 in personal debt. Should I file for bankruptcy? Dave : You made a huge mistake. You became the bank for a company that should have been paying you as the job progressed. You funded the entire project without deposits or progress payments. Caller: So you don’t think bankruptcy is the answer? Dave: No. You’re 23 years old, you’ve completed around 30 jobs in two years, and you clearly know how to run a business. You got burned by a company that took advantage of you, but that doesn’t mean your career is over. Caller: How do I come back from $330,000 in debt? Dave: Change your business model. Get money upfront. Require progress payments. Never finance a client's entire project with your own money again. You have the skills to rebuild this thing, but you have to stop making the same mistake. Dave: You’re not finished. You’re 23. Learn the lesson, get back to work, and pay off what you owe.

Tom Cruise says he kicked an actor in the balls nearly 50 times for a movie stunt, leaving his own foot swollen for a week “In movies, they use a leather strap running through their groin to protect themselves during the kick.” “It’s an old cowboy technique. Paul Newman used it in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” “I ended up having to do it almost 50 times, and my foot was swollen for a week from kicking him in the balls.”

David Letterman says he went from thinking self driving cars were absurd to loving Waymos, only to roll down his window and tell one to “f*** off” “I used to think that was preposterous. I used to think, where do we live? Neptune? We got self driving cars?” “I started out hating the idea of autonomous cars. Now, I'm thrilled by the idea of autonomous cars.” “I pull up next to Waymo, put down my window, and I'm looking right in there at nobody... I leaned out and as loud as I could, I said, ‘Hey, [expletive] you, Waymo!’”

Zlatan Ibrahimović says David Beckham was so determined to avoid singing in front of his new teammates at PSG that he ended up singing the English national anthem, only for Zlatan to refuse to help him “First day, second day, third day, ‘David, you have to sing now.’ And he said, ‘Okay.’ So he stood up and he said to me, ‘Help me.’” “And he started to sing the English anthem. And I look at him, ‘My friend, I cannot sing the English anthem.’” “Everybody was looking at him and he was getting red in his face. He was not feeling comfortable, but that's our way of presenting ourselves.” “I can say he's not a good singer, whatever you think.”

Tom Cruise says he trained to hold his breath underwater for six and a half minutes for Mission: Impossible, but the craziest part is what happened after filming: he sometimes forgot to breathe during meetings “We wanted to do it in one shot. So they were very, very long shots. I'd have to hold it consistently, you know, safely up to four minutes almost for every take.” “We were committed, everyone was there, the camera was set up, and I'm just like, ‘What am I going to say?’ It was too late to say no.” “You have these free divers that came in and trained me how to do it and it's... It's not pleasant.” “My body's not using as much oxygen, but we also did stuff to bring the heart rate down lower.” “I trained for a long time to the point when I finished the sequence, there'd be times I'd be sitting there talking in meetings and I wouldn't breathe. I'd realize I am not breathing and I had to turn my autonomic system back on to breathing again.”

Caller : Dave, my husband and I are $4.5 million in debt, and I didn’t even know how bad things were until a foreclosure notice arrived. We owe money on our house, a business warehouse, credit cards, and back taxes. Are we going to lose everything? Dave : You’ve got to stop operating on blind optimism. You need a tactical plan to save this business, or you need to shut it down. Caller: My husband has been handling the finances. I didn’t realize how deep we were in until everything started falling apart. Dave : You cannot have one spouse making massive financial decisions while the other is completely in the dark. You’re married. You’re in this together. Caller: Should we sell the warehouse and our luxury cars? Dave : Put them on the market. You’ve got to start making hard decisions and right size your life. Caller: What if the business can still recover? Dave : Then show me the numbers. Not hope. Not wishful thinking. A real plan that proves you can make money. If there’s no logical path to profitability, stop throwing money into a sinking ship. Caller: I’m afraid this could destroy our marriage. Dave : I’ve been through bankruptcy myself. You’ve got to face the truth together, get everything out in the open, and start making decisions as a team. Because at $4.5 million in debt, you’re not just fighting to save a business. You’re fighting for your entire financial future.

Caller: Dave, my wife and I make $240,000 a year, but we’re carrying around $1.5 million in property debt. We owe $520,000 on our home, have three rental properties, and a line of credit we used for down payments. I’m starting to feel overwhelmed. What should I do? Dave: You’re way too leveraged. You make good money, but your lifestyle is keeping you from getting out of debt. Caller: Should I sell some of the rental properties? Dave: Sell one, two, or maybe all three. Get yourself back on solid ground. Caller: Even if the properties are investments that could build wealth over time? Dave: You’ve got to get your financial house in order first. You can’t keep piling on debt and expect everything to work out. Caller: What if I decide to keep one or two? Dave: Then you need to attack that line of credit and pay off the properties one at a time. No more playing around with debt. Caller: So the goal is to simplify everything? Dave: Exactly. You make $240,000 a year. That’s a great income, but if you’re buried under $1.5 million in debt and can’t breathe, something is wrong. Stop trying to build wealth with borrowed money and get back on solid ground.

Charlie Sheen says he wasn’t fired from Two and a Half Men, he was “traded,” admits he was rooting for the show to struggle after his exit, and believes Ashton Kutcher’s debut should have been the series finale “All I know is my fault, all I know is their fault. They went and stayed in my personal space, and granted, my personal space might not have been the most private place in the world. It got in the way of work. It got in the way of the relationships.” “I like to think that I didn’t get fired, I got traded, you know? For a player to be named later.” “I was impressed with what Chuck said recently, that it really broke his heart that his star had had to go away. He said that they tried to find their way and it was rough and they’re still trying to find it.” “When you take away your anchor, you tend to go adrift. So, I felt bad for them for like a nanosecond. Joking. I was actually kind of rooting for it.” “I thought the intro to Ashton’s character, with the urn and by the window, was one of the great TV moments ever. The show should have ended there. Not the whole run, that episode, right?”

Charlie Sheen says a high school teacher once threatened to kill him with a chainsaw after a fight over a Chicken Supreme sandwich “I finally got a date in high school. My car was in the shop, and I asked my teacher if I could borrow his car. He said no, so I begged and pleaded. He still said no.” “I snapped and fired a Chicken Supreme at him across the room. It hit the wall next to his head and exploded, hitting him with sandwich shrapnel.” “He kicked open my door holding a chainsaw, saying, ‘I'm going to kill you.’” “After the cops left, I turned to him and said, ‘Sorry about the chicken thing.’ He said, ‘Sorry about the chainsaw.’”

Tom Cruise says he blacked out at 9.5 Gs while flying a real F 14 for Top Gun, but when he woke up, his pilot put him through an even crazier experience “When I made my deal, I said, ‘I've got to fly in the F 14.’ I had to be filmed in the F 14 live.” “We pulled like nine and a half Gs and I kind of blacked out. When I came to, I was like, ‘Okay, so now I'm going to go get it done so I can do the next take.’” “He pulled up so hard and for so long. My head literally was touching the ground because the G force had my spine. I was going, ‘Bozo, Bozo!’”