Angelina Jolie, Zac Efron and Justin Timberlake eat bugs, and so do 2 billion others – which celebrities munch crickets, spiders and locusts for health and protein?

Jul 20 , 2020

Eat up your bugs, kids, or no ice cream – Angelina Jolie taught her kids how to love crickets and spiders. Photo: YouTube

Insects are a regular staple to more than 2 billion people across Asia, Africa, South and Central America, and are a good source of protein – and now even the A-listers eat them

What do Angelina Jolie, Zac Efron and Justin Timberlake have in common? They love eating bugs. Hardly surprising, as insects are regular staples to more than two billion people worldwide in vasts areas across as Asia, Africa, South and Central America – and represent a remarkably solid source of protein. But which other A-list celebrities are fond of these creepy critters?

Angelina and kids

Fancy going to the Jolie household for dinner? Angelina Jolie and her kids love eating insects and spiders and have been doing so for years. Angelina says that her boys love to eat crickets. And she told the BBC while making a docu-film in Cambodia in 2011 that after starting with crickets you then move up to tarantulas. Bugs are part of their regular household diet. She says that Maddox and Pax eat crickets like they are Doritos.

Nicole Kidman

Another frequent bug eater is actress Nicole Kidman who says she is one of the two billion people in the world that eats them. In Vanity Fair’s Secret Talent Theatre Kidman eats a four-course bug meal and is definitely not grossed out by it. She starts off with hornworms which she says taste chewy and moist. She also tries mealworms which she says taste fruity. Crickets she describes as “awesome” and she also recommends fried grasshopper.

Zac Efron

In a new travel documentary Down to Earth showing on Netflix this July, High School Musical actor Zac Efron travels the world to discover “new perspectives on some very old problems” and the star is seen eating bugs in some episodes.

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