Celebrity Funhouse: New Optical Illusion Sees Famous Faces Turn Ugly

A wild new video shows the ugly side of A-List celebrities such as Liv Tyler, Tom Cruise, J Lo, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Cindy Crawford, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie!  (And to think of the collective billions those stars have spent to look super-beautiful!)

The video creates an odd illusion by having the viewer stare at a cross hair point in the middle of the screen, directly between the photographs of two winsome, glamorous superstars. At the start, the celebrities' perfectly gorgeous visages seem as lovely as always.

As the pace of the video picks up, the celebrity mugs start to stretch and become distorted, with eyes opening far too wide (like Joan Rivers after her fiftieth face lift) and chins grotesquely stretching down longer than Jay Leno's.

The researchers responsible for the eye-popping video have yet to fully discover the reason why our brains create the face-destroying effect, but it is enjoyable to watch some of the world's most beautiful faces turn ugly, albeit briefly. You may watch the video for yourself below:

Girls (Panic) on Film: Duran Duran Return with Controversial Supermodel Video

"Trust us...we bagged a lot of babes with this look!"

Harkening back to their heyday in the super-glamorous 1980s, enduring rock band Duran Duran have returned to form in a hot new video featuring a host of 90s supermodels!

The English band, who scored Number One after Number One hit in the 80s and 90s, were also in the vanguard of groups who became popular by making sensuous and sexy videos with heavy rotation on a new cable music channel called MTV. Often filming in exotic locations such as Sri Lanka or Paris, the group topped the charts with songs like "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Is There Something I Should Know". One of their very first videos for the song "Girls on Film" featured topless models and was banned from airplay on the burgeoning MTV network.

Fast forward some thirty years, and the group's latest song "Girl Panic" features a bevy of former supermodels including Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Helena Christensen, and Eva Herzigova (Hey, didn't all these ladies show up in George Michael's "Freedom 1990" video?). The beauties star as female versions of the male band-members, and the spicy video also features some Girl-on-Girl make-out action! Even band member Simon LeBon's model wife Yasmin makes an appearance. Naturally, this has caused both MTV and VH-1 to ban the video. (We've come a long way from 1981, haven't we, baby?)

You can check the super-sexy video out on YouTube below: