Listicle: 10 weird products celebs tried to make us buy

Erykah Badu and Gwyneth Paltrow sold incense and candles scented like their lady parts. “Hold my loofah,” said Sweeney. Her line of $8 soaps, she claims, is made with water in which she’s actually bathed. The bars, created with soapmaker Dr. Squatch, have sand, sea salt and shea butter as other ingredients. They smell like pine, Douglas fir and moss. Sweeney hopes it inspires guys to “start cleaning themselves”.

Snoop has launched everything from nursery-rhyme albums to rolling papers. His Doggie Dogs brand, launched in 2022, does exactly what one would imagine: Gives doggos gangsta fits, with weed-leaf bandanas, boom-box plushies, blinged-out bowls, and hats with Snoop-style braids. “If my dogs ain’t fresh I ain’t fresh,” Snoop says. It’s a small part of his $160 million empire.

Rogen’s brand, Houseplant, is basically Pottery Barn, if it got high with Goop. It sells sculpted ashtrays, chic tableware and candles for the classy stoner. Launched in 2019, it’s since expanded to include THC-infused sparkling water. Not into getting high? No problem. Join the vibe with drug-free housecoats, sleep masks and coffee sets.

You can Rock And Roll All Nite, but if you die through it, consider the rock band’s line of caskets. A Kiss Kasket comes with band photos and logo. “I love livin’, but this makes the alternative look pretty damn good,” Gene Simmons said while advertising it in 2001, noting that the coffin doubles as a drink cooler. Not into burials? There’s a KISS urn, too.

Fox and her “twin flame” Machine Gun Kelly dropped a nail polish line in 2022. Pick from Past Life (blue), Deep Breath (moonstone glitter), and Brutal Honesty (emerald green). It’s delightfully weird, like their relationship. (Remember when he wore vials of her blood?) Fox links the colours to astrology, hibernating animals and seasonal shifts. One shade, she says is “charged with strong sexual energy.” Naturally.

Nelly turned his hit song into a real drink in 2002, delivering energy boosts in apple and berry flavours. While the song was full of expletives and innuendo, the drink is vitamin-packed, non-carbonated, wholesome. “Whatever you use to attract the opposite sex, that’s your pimp juice,” Nelly says. 50 Cent, Kanye and Ice-T have since launched their drinks too.

Yes, from the opening lines to Lose Yourself. No vomit on the menu. Instead, there’s spaghetti with meatballs (or “rabbit balls”) and spaghetti sandwiches, neither of which are made by Eminem’s actual mom. There’s also a bottled spaghetti sauce if you want to take Slim Shady home. Next, grab a burger at the Wahlbergs’ Wahlburgers and finish with gelato from Cher’s Cherlato.

The Kardashians launched the Kardashian Kard in 2010. The debit card was aimed at teens and was marketed as a way “for parents to monitor their children’s spending, while teaching them money management skills”. But it came with a tonne of hidden fees. A US Attorney General called it troubling and predatory. Teaching kids financial literacy by putting them in debt? A Kon job.

In 1997, Tyson famously bit off part of Evander Holyfield’s ear during a WBA World Heavyweight Championship bout. Tyson temporarily lost his boxing license, and was fined $3 million, but has fully monetised the moment. In 2022, he launched Mike Bites: Ear-shaped fruit-flavoured cannabis gummies. The tagline? “We promise they taste better than the real thing… or at least that’s what Mike tells us.”

In 2021, the rapper teamed up with art collective MSCHF to drop Satan Shoes. They featured an inverted cross, pentagram and a drop of real human blood (extracted from employees) in the soles. He modelled the sneakers in the video for his song Montero (Call Me by Your Name), which also features him giving Satan a lap dance. The shoes were made using modified Nike sneakers. Now, that’s blasphemy!