{"id":1551,"date":"2026-05-11T12:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gleamgrid.co.za\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:26:19","slug":"6-celebrities-who-dont-take-showers-and-proudly-admit-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gleamgrid.co.za\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/6-celebrities-who-dont-take-showers-and-proudly-admit-it\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Celebrities Who Don\u2019t Take Showers And Proudly Admit It"},"content":{"rendered":"

You won’t believe which A-list stars are confessing they barely ever shower! While you’re scrubbing every inch of your body on the daily, these famous faces are proudly preaching an all-natural\u2026 and honestly, kind of stinky, alternative. From Oscar winners to sitcom legends, a shocking number of celebrities have admitted to skipping showers for days, weeks\u2014or even longer\u2014citing everything from better skin health to just plain laziness. Get ready to be disgusted, because Hollywood’s hygiene secrets have finally been exposed, and these six celebs might be a lot filthier than you ever imagined.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jake Gyllenhaal<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Jake Gyllenhaal shocked the world when he declared to Vanity Fair that he finds bathing “less necessary, at times,” adding that “there’s a whole world of not bathing that is also really helpful for skin maintenance”. He later tried to pass the whole thing off as a joke, though even after his “clarification,” many fans were left seriously doubting his cleanliness and wondering what that “world of not bathing” actually smells like.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Brad Pitt<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Brad Pitt has a long, filthy history of turning showering into a competitive sport. His former roommate Jason Priestley admitted that they played “disgusting” games in their struggling-actor days, making bets to see which one “could go the longest without showering,” and the winner was always Brad. And his questionable hygiene wasn’t just a phase: in 2009, his Inglourious Basterds co-star Eli Roth revealed that he had to teach Pitt how to use baby wipes instead of just skipping showers and walking around “ripe”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ashton Kutcher<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Ashton Kutcher gave a truly nauseating breakdown of his minimalist cleaning ritual, explaining, “I wash my armpits and my crotch daily, and nothing else ever,” a statement that unsurprisingly sparked a massive online backlash. After years of people ridiculing him as the “stinky” one in his marriage, the That ’70s Show alum finally defended himself, desperately insisting that he does shower and that the whole controversy was “the craziest thing of all time”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mila Kunis<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Mila Kunis shares her husband’s bizarre bathroom philosophy, and she even has an excuse for it. The Bad Moms star freely admitted, “I don’t wash my body with soap every day,” while also revealing that she sometimes skips showering entirely after intense gym sessions. And her questionable habits go way back: she told the Armchair Expert podcast that she barely bathed her newborn children because growing up in the Soviet Union without hot water meant she “didn’t shower very much anyway”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dax Shepard<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Dax Shepard not only pioneered this gross-out shower debate by arguing that using soap every day is “insane” and wipes away natural oils, but he also took things to a whole new parental level with his wife. The couple made the revolting confession on The View that they routinely wait for their two daughters to start visibly smelling or to appear “stinky” before forcing them to bathe, sometimes letting a full five or six days go by without water touching their kids.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kristen Bell<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Kristen Bell owns her lack of personal hygiene with zero shame and plenty of sarcasm, cheerfully admitting to the world, “I have bad hygiene, I am going to go ahead and be honest with you”. She caused an uproar online alongside her husband Dax Shepard by backing up their policy of waiting for their kids to “stink” before throwing them in the tub\u2014essentially turning their family home into a science experiment to see just how long everyone can survive without basic cleanliness.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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