14 celebrities who were roommates in college

Some celebrities had very recognizable college roommates.From studying abroad together to Harvard residence halls these celebrities share a bond.Here are seven pairs of celebrities who spent time in college together.Sometimes, it can be hard to picture a celebrity as anything other than how you see them today.But all celebrities have a past. For many celebrities, this past includes collegewhich, for some of them, meant spending some time bunking with a fellow future famous person.So, from Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones to Kirsten Gillibrand and Connie Britton, here are the celebrities you may be surprised to learn were once college roommates.Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones have remained friends.Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones both attended Harvard in the late '60s. They got along so well they ended up living together for all four years. (One year, they lived in Mower Hall, which also housed Al Franken a few years later, according to Harvard's website.)The pair stayed friends throughout college, and long after graduation, tooJones gave a speech vouching for Gore's character at the Democratic National Convention in 2000, and co-hosted the Nobel Peace Prize concert after Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for "An Inconvenient Truth."Kirsten Gillibrand and Connie Britton studied in China together.Before Kirsten Gillibrand and Connie Britton were a US Senator and successful actress (respectively), they were Dartmouth undergrads who roomed together on a study-abroad trip to China in the '80s."We were quite adventurous," Gillibrand told HuffPost. "We'd spend every weekend going someplace new in China and seeing and experiencing different things."Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson went to the University of Texas together.In 1989, both Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson were sophomores at the University of Texas, Austin. According to Interview magazine, they met during a playwriting class and hit it off (mainly because Wilson had a habit of bringing newspapers to class, which "pedantic" Anderson found intriguing), and decided to live together. A few years after moving in together, they co-wrote the short film "Bottle Rocket," which launched the careers of Anderson and Wilson (as well as his brother, Luke).See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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