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20 celebrity degrees you'd never suspect

From Mr Bean to Bruce Lee, here's 20 surprising celebrity degree holders

Rose Troup Buchanan
Monday 05 August 2013 11:30 BST
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These celebrities seem to prove the adage that brains and beauty do go together, often in the most unusual combinations

Who would have thought that ditzy Phoebe off Friends holds a degree in psychobiology and is a credited researcher? Clarkson’s favourite man to mock, Captain Slow to TopGear viewers, studied with an ear for a different kind of noise. Meanwhile Kate Adie, the renowned broadcaster, took Scandinavian studies while at uni.

Our all-time favourite has to go to Mr T, of ‘Get Some Nuts’ fame, who studied maths. Bet you’ll never look at the maths students in the same way again.

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