Hollywood actors and Celebrities taking Fin.

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#1

I cant believe so many are taking this shit. Many admit to it, and others are rumoured to be on it. Plus, many admit to having hair transplants (and we all know that transplant docs encourage their patients to go on Finasteride right away).

The drug is mentioned a number of times in the hit TV show ‘Entourage’ for example, which is a comedy that also tries to give an insight into real life in Hollywood etc. Propecia is definitely a big player out there. No doubt about it.

My point is, there are bound to be doctors in Hollywood that have had to treat people for the side effects we are all experiencing.

Just a thought.

#2

One would have thought so. Things will slowly come to the surface.

I’m sure there are pressures from different angles keeping the likes of this hush hush.

Realistically speaking of course it would take someone half-important to really make any waves. I don’t think finasteride is popular to that point where its a household name is likely to get PFS just yet. Just on the balance of probabilities, i mean.

#3

Well, it’s kind of like the rumours that many in Hollywood are on low dose Accutane to keep their faces looking prestine. Justin Timberlake was a name that came up; but, I am sure that there are many others. I still believe that if one of these big shots got into trouble, they would still be brushed under the carpet; and, how would we even know? I mean it is not like they spontaneously combust.

#4

One of the guys in “a few good men” sued for removal of bowel caused by accutane and won big. A number of hollywood stars supported him in the trial and even testified.

#5

What is said about finasteride on ‘Entourage’? I loved the first season of that show, I might download the rest of them now.

#6

I watched all entourage and only ever heard a rogaine reference.,…

#7

Yes, I knew about that case. I know that it made it into the limelight, but it was still brushed under the carpet, so to speak. It’s like it was one of those freak things that happened, and he got screwed. It’s like, he was involved in some freak car accident: and, how can anyone prevent that?

The fact that he took the drug for “purportedly” mild acne doesn’t really work to scare people: I think it does the opposite and proves to people out there that you need to be hyper-aggressive when confronted with something, if you want to make it out there, no matter what the costs. We are all, pretty much of the view: that one should let sleeping dogs lie, or else? I don’t think that view is shared by many out there, unfortunately; and, how could it be, given that others don’t know what we have been through?

#8

Turtle to Jonny drama 'I’m gonna kill myself by eating all your Propecia pills"

tvfanatic.com/quotes/shows/entourage/season-3/page_7.html

There was another time too…trying to remember it.

#9

Billy Crystal

I saw an interview he did a few weeks ago and thought he had propecia face.

Have a look at the hairline and face here:

imdb.com/media/rm2611984384/nm0000345

And here:

imdb.com/media/rm2079168768/nm0000345

Is it just me or did his hairline stay despite the years while he developed the androgynous face of a woman-man? I know he’s getting older but I bet we would find a bottle of Propecia in his medicine cabinet.

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#10

Yeah there’s gotta be a lot of holly wood guys on propecia. Like the guys who have obvious receding hairlines, but it never goes anywhere. Like Ben Stiller comes to mind… I always suspected leonardo dicaprio to be on it because he is getting older and he obviosly would lose a lot of appeal if he lost his hair. Alec Baldwin has to be on propecia, he’s like what 50 years old, maybe older?

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#11

Jenny McCarthy has stated that she wants a bald boyfriend. Here is a quote from an article I saw recently:

So, yes, lots of guys in Hollywood have used this crap
Can you imagine, this stuff is so potent that men can’t get it up with Jenny McCarthy?

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#12

It says… joking about her singlehood status right before it? :unamused:

#13

I wonder if Tom Cruise is taking finasteride. He has a full head of hair and very little body hair at the age of 50: storminforms.com/wp-content/ … chest.jpeg

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#14

I dont think hes talking it, as I understand it scientologists are not supposed to take any drugs.

#15

Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe has had a receding hairline, no body hair (although swimmers usually shave themselves), and is suffering from depression and insomnia: smh.com.au/sport/swimming/th … 27ic8.html

Thorpe has had too high testosterone levels before (finasteride reportedly raises testosterone in the beginning) and his father is bald: theage.com.au/news/national/ … 04071.html

Thorpe has also gained weight, grown love handles and lost body hair according to this picture: goldmedalmel.typepad.com/.a/ … 970b-800wi

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#16

These threads are dumb, just because someone has good hair and has depression or doesn’t have body hair it doesn’t mean they must use Propecia. :laughing:

Ian Thorpe has battled with alcoholism and depression for a while edition.cnn.com/2014/02/03/sport … index.html

It’s a little known fact that many men don’t have much body or chest hair or have depression and have never used Propecia.

#17

Agreed, Luckfax.

Meanwhile, we have celeb journalists recommending that young celebs TAKE Propecia:

dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/reha … g-hairline

If you want to email the editor responsible for that story, he’s Edward Gleave:

edward.gleave@dailystar.co.uk

#18

I don’t agree. In order to get publicity to the dangers of Finasteride, we need celebrities, who suffer from side effects, to go public. Unfortunately some sufferers also take many other medications, like Michael Jackson, and the role of Finasteride in their decline cannot be determined.

#19

True, but I think what Luckfax was saying in this particular case is that it’s silly to speculate on a celeb’s use of Propecia unless there are more reasons to suspect such.

Obviously if the celeb (or some friend/relative) says he DID use it, then we’re pretty sure that’s cause to start looking more closely at the whole case.

Or, if a celeb is clearly balding – and under, say, 50 years old – that’s cause as well.

in 2006, when The Da Vinci Code was out – Entertainment Weekly asked Tom Hanks how he got his hair like that and he said he’d consulted a “hair chemical expert.”

That of course was BS, because the only way on earth he could get his hair like that was by using Propecia. So the New York Post did a story to that effect, quoting a NYC dermatologist backing up the premise:

vh1.com/celebrity/2006-05-24 … true-love/

In the ensuing years, it seems evident that Hanks stopped taking Propecia, because his hair is back to its pre-Da Vinci days.

#20

If a celebrity admits or even hints that they have had some sort of problem from using Propecia then that is definitely worth focussing on, but to just play random guessing games based on some health symptoms they have had is stupid.

I mean Philip Seymour Hoffman didn’t seem to lose much hair in recent years, got fatter and maybe depressed enough to take hard drugs. Must’ve been the Propecia right? :unamused: