It’s the thought that counts? Many celebrities — from Drake and Ed Sheeran to Lady Gaga and Eminem — have gifted their A-List friends some pretty weird presents.
The “Hotline Bling” artist made headlines in November 2022 when he gave his friend DJ Khaled several high-end toilets for the producer’s 47th birthday. The Louisiana native later took to Instagram to share his excitement about the gift.
“Listen, this is not no regular toilet bowl,” Khaled explained in a video at the time. “My brother Drake just bought me and my family about four big toilet bowls. This is called a Toto toilet bowl.”
He continued: “I’m not even joking, Drake, we been wanting this. Me and my queen been talking about getting Totos for the whole house.”
One month prior, Sam Smith shared an NSFW gift that the “Shape of You” singer sent them while appearing on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “Oh, my God. … It’s actually wild. I thought it was a joke, but it’s a six-foot-two marble penis,” the “Stay With Me” crooner told host Kelly Clarkson in October 2022. “It’s two tons, and I’m gonna have to get it craned into my house.”
Sheeran, for his part, defended the gift and its backstory during an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert that same month. “Elton John has been involved in my career from the get-go, and he buys me weird gifts,” the British songwriter said. “Just, like, odd gifts, like, sexual sort of objects.”
The “Shivers” singer went on to explain that he purchased a phallic-shaped statue for the “I’m Still Standing” performer. “I gave it to him for his birthday, and Elton was over the moon about it. And then it got out in the press that I had done it,” divulged Sheeran. “I would be doing interviews, and people would be like, ‘Well, can I have one?’”
The Grammy winner then revealed that Smith asked for one of the pieces of art while recording at a studio near Sheeran’s house.
While John inspired the “Bad Habits” artist to gift some bizarre gifts, the legendary musician has been on the receiving end as well. In 2019, Eminem gave his longtime friend two diamond-encrusted cock rings after John married husband David Furnish.
“Eminem bought me and David matching cock rings when we got married,” the “Hold Me Closer” musician told the Guardian at the time. “That was his gift. They sit there, like the crown jewels, in this beautiful box on satin cushions. They’re wonderful to look at.”
Keep scrolling to see what unique gifts some celebrities have sent to one another over the years:
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Weirdest Presents Celebrities Have Given to Each Other: Drake, Ed Sheeran and More
It’s the thought that counts? Many celebrities — from Drake and Ed Sheeran to Lady Gaga and Eminem — have gifted their A-List friends some pretty weird presents.
The “Hotline Bling” artist made headlines in November 2022 when he gave his friend DJ Khaled several high-end toilets for the producer’s 47th birthday. The Louisiana native later took to Instagram to share his excitement about the gift.
“Listen, this is not no regular toilet bowl,” Khaled explained in a video at the time. “My brother Drake just bought me and my family about four big toilet bowls. This is called a Toto toilet bowl.”
He continued: “I’m not even joking, Drake, we been wanting this. Me and my queen been talking about getting Totos for the whole house.”
One month prior, Sam Smith shared an NSFW gift that the “Shape of You” singer sent them while appearing on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “Oh, my God. … It’s actually wild. I thought it was a joke, but it’s a six-foot-two marble penis,” the “Stay With Me” crooner told host Kelly Clarkson in October 2022. “It’s two tons, and I’m gonna have to get it craned into my house.”
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Sheeran, for his part, defended the gift and its backstory during an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert that same month. “Elton John has been involved in my career from the get-go, and he buys me weird gifts,” the British songwriter said. “Just, like, odd gifts, like, sexual sort of objects.”
The “Shivers” singer went on to explain that he purchased a phallic-shaped statue for the “I’m Still Standing” performer. “I gave it to him for his birthday, and Elton was over the moon about it. And then it got out in the press that I had done it,” divulged Sheeran. “I would be doing interviews, and people would be like, ‘Well, can I have one?'”
The Grammy winner then revealed that Smith asked for one of the pieces of art while recording at a studio near Sheeran’s house.
While John inspired the “Bad Habits” artist to gift some bizarre gifts, the legendary musician has been on the receiving end as well. In 2019, Eminem gave his longtime friend two diamond-encrusted cock rings after John married husband David Furnish.
“Eminem bought me and David matching cock rings when we got married,” the “Hold Me Closer” musician told the Guardian at the time. “That was his gift. They sit there, like the crown jewels, in this beautiful box on satin cushions. They’re wonderful to look at.”
Keep scrolling to see what unique gifts some celebrities have sent to one another over the years:
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Drake and DJ Khaled
The Canadian rapper gifted the record producer and his wife, Nicole Tuck, multiple luxury toilets for their home.
“@champagnepapi real talk – my Queen and I been wanting this for our house!! ?? thank u my brother!!,” the “All I Do Is Win” performer wrote via Instagram in November 2022. “Nahhh this No regular toilet ? this that TOTO! Same model as the ones in the embassy ?? I LIKE WHAT DRAKE LIKE!! Love brother!! Thank you for the gift ?.”
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Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith
The “Perfect” crooner gave the “Unholy” artist a penis statue after being inspired John’s affinity for unique presents.
“Oh, my God… It’s actually wild. I thought it was a joke, but it’s a six-foot-two marble penis,” Smith shared during a TV interview in October 2022. “It’s two tons, and I’m gonna have to get it craned into my house.”
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Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thorton
While the pair was married in the early 2000s, they gave each other necklaces that contained each other’s blood.
“The necklaces were a very simple thing,” the Bad Santa actor later explained in June 2018 during the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s “HFPA In Conversation” podcast. “‘Hey, let’s poke our finger with a pin and smear a little on there, and when we’re away from each other, we’ll wear the necklace.’ That was that easy, but by the time it came out in the press, it sounded like we were wearing a bucket of blood around our necks.”
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Eminem and Elton John
In honor of the “Rocket Man” singer’s nuptials to Furnish, the 8 Mile star gifted the couple two diamond-encrusted cock rings.
“They sit there, like the crown jewels, in this beautiful box on satin cushions,” the British pianist told The Guardian in October 2019. “They’re wonderful to look at. I don’t know if any guests we’ve had have used them. God, I hope not. They’re kind of sacrosanct. The fact they came from Eminem makes it even better.”
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Katy Perry and Russell Brand
The pop star bought her now-ex-husband a $200,000 trip to space with Virgin Galactic one year before their 2011 split.
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Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds
The Pulp Fiction star sent the Deadpool actor and his former wife, Scarlett Johansson, 10,000 bees, a beehive, a couple of beekeeping outfits and a lifetime subscription to the American Beekeepers Journal.
“The next thing I know, I’m making honey and what’s fantastic about this is that you know it’s actually a great security system because a lot of people are afraid of alarms, some people are afraid of guard dogs,” Reynolds admitted during a 2009 appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman. “But I don’t know anyone who’s not afraid of terrible, terrible swarms of bees.”
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Lady Gaga and Ryan Murphy
Before making her acting debut on American Horror Story: Hotel, the “Born This Way” songstress puked in a plastic bag during the first day of shooting the series and gave it to the television writer.
”I threw up on the way in a Ziploc bag in my Rolls Royce, and I saved it and brought it for Ryan Murphy,” the Grammy winner said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight in December 2015.”He was like, ‘Oh, you think you can disgust me? You can’t.’ The thing is, you think you can’t get anything past him, but then he met me.”
