After many years spent as an omnivore battling heart disease and having undergone quadruple heart-bypass surgery in 2004, the former United States president became a vegan in 2011. Clinton took the dramatic turnaround in his health one step further and teamed up his Clinton Foundation with the American Heart Foundation to offer healthy lunches to more than 12,000 schools across America. A trimmer Clinton also inspired actress Michelle Pfeiffer to give up meat …

As an eighteen-year-old, Caine was called up to the British Army's Royal Fusiliers and deployed to South Korea, following the North's invasion. Despite being sympathetic to communism, the experience left him repulsed by the ideology. More recently, the decorated actor has called for the reintroduction of national service in Britain to give young people "a sense of belonging, rather than a sense of violence". In 1985, Caine was among the audience for Fashion Aid, which involved the "performance wedding" of actress Jane Seymour and wallflower Freddie Mercury …