FIRST BIG PAYCHECK SPLURGE

Did you ever splurge on something after your first big paycheck? Here are some celebrities recalling what they splurged on with their first big payday:
– Timothée Chalamet told GQ he took his first big paycheck from a Disney commercial, and like a true New Yorker, his first splurge was on “nosebleed Knicks season tickets.” He then spent afternoons trying to sell off the tickets after school.
– Selena Gomez bought a “Louis Vuitton laptop bag” with her first big check. She pretended she was a “little businesswoman who needed to carry all her important things,” but really, it held her “lip gloss” and “laptop.”
– Jennifer Aniston bought a little white Mercedes that had a ‘for sale’ sign that she passed by for almost two years. And one day, I bought it, and then I drove it and then drove it again, and it never drove again. It was a lemon, and that’s why it had been sitting there. “So that was just a nice 25-year-old mistake.”
– Sylvester Stallone once had to sell his beloved bullmastiff, Butkus, to an acquaintance for $50. When he sold the first “Rocky” script, he went to see his friend and begged for his dog back, but the friend refused because his kids now loved the dog. Stallone ended up paying the guy $3,000 to get Butkus back.
– Cardi B splurged on a $60,000 Patek Philippe watch because her friends told her, “You a rapper, you gotta shine, you gotta bust it!”
– Stranger Things star Joe Keery says all he wanted was a hot dog. “A Chicago dog. I went back home to Chicago, and I went to The Wieners Circle and got a hot dog. A Chicago dog.”
– John Boyega, with his Star Wars paychecks, bought two lion sculptures that sit on the edges of his bed, a saxophone lamp, a Spartan helmet, and a small metal knight that dispenses toilet paper. “I’m just a big fan of weird things,” he said.
– Emma Watson used her Harry Potter paychecks to get a “sensible” Prius. “It’s not the prettiest car on the road, but it’s good for the environment,” she said. “It’s sensible and boring — like me.”
– Rupert Grint used his Harry Potter money and “went through a phase with loads of animals. I had alpacas, pigs, yeah, it was a whole thing. I think I was 16…” He adds, “It was chaos. Alpacas are insane.”
– Oprah Winfrey said, “The thing that I splurged on was really good towels,”
– Awkwafina treated herself to a “Gucci handbag and Ableton software.”
– Tom Cruise once shared that with his first ever paychecks, he put family first. “I paid for my sister’s college education. And then I bought my other sister a car.”
* Oh, up yours, Tom Cruise.
* And now, all these actors, they’re on strike and out of work. Bet you wish now you’d hung on to that money.
* I work in radio. With my first radio paycheck, I got my dining room table out of hock.
* Dang. Now I really want a hot dog.
* PHONE TOPIC: What did you splurge on with your first big paycheck? Was it worth it?