Basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal is the latest celebrity to admit that he believes that the Earth is flat – joining a bafflingly large list of famous people who believe the conspiracy theory.

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‘Shaq’ joins fellow NBA star Kyrie Irving and others as he said on his podcast, ‘I drive from Florida to California all the time, and it’s flat to me. I do not go up and down at a 360-degree angle, and all that stuff about gravity.

‘Have you looked outside Atlanta lately and seen all these buildings? You mean to tell me that China is under us? China is under us? It’s not. The world is flat.’




Former WWE wrestling star AJ Styles said – in the wake of comments by Kyrie Irving – that the theory shouldn’t be discounted.

Styles said, ‘I’m not a ‘flat-earther. I’m just saying there is some stuff about it that makes sense. I don’t think you can handle it.’

NBA star Kyrie Irving said in a podcast, ‘This is not even a conspiracy theory. The Earth is flat… I’m telling you, it’s right in front of our faces. They lie to us.’

Other NBA players came out in support of him, with the Golden State Warriors Draymond Green saying: ‘I can make a round picture with my iPhone today on the panorama camera and make it look round.

‘So, I don’t know. I’m not saying I think it’s flat or round. I don’t know but it could be.’

Scarily, the internet is full of people who believe the earth is really, genuinely flat – inspired by bonkers YouTube channels and weird e-books.

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Many are not religious fundamentalists – or mad – but instead believe that we’re victims of a massive conspiracy, orchestrated by NASA, to fool people into believing the Earth is round.

And celebrities believe it, too – and they’re not all as eccentric as former reality star Tila Tequila (remember, the one who was kicked off Celeb Big Brother for posing in front of Auschwitz?).

Last year, rapper B.o.B. – aka Bobby Ray Simmons Jr – revealed that he thought the Earth was actually flat.

Simmons said, ‘No matter how high in elevation you are…the horizon is always eye level…sorry cadets…I didn’t wanna believe it either,’ he wibbled.

‘Don’t believe what I say, research what I say. I’m going up against the greatest liars in history … you’ve been tremendously deceived.’

The original Flat Earth Society fizzled out after the Soviets launched Sputnik – a satellite which reappeared at intervals and seemed to prove the Earth was round – but a new, defiant group of Flat Earthers have reappeared on the Flat Earth forums.

The forums are adamant the Earth is flat – but very emphatic about the fact that it IS NOT carried through space on the back of a giant turtle.



Current Flat Earthers adhere to a wide variety of beliefs – some truly insane – but some of the core beliefs of current Flat Earthers are below.

Here are ten reasons people believe the Earth is flat 1. The Earth looks flat – so it must be flat Honestly, this is one of their reasons – and the main one cited by intellectual heavyweight B.o.B. in his recent meltdown. 2. It’s cheaper to fake journeys into space than it is to journey into space And a global conspiracy has been embezzling all that money ever since the 50s 3. Satellite photos are ‘easily faked’ And the global conspiracy has been doing so for five decades. 4. ‘Day’ and ‘night’ are created by the sun orbiting in a circle above, then beneath the North Pole The sun also moves sideways – hence winter and summer. They think of everything! 5. People who think they’ve flown round the Earth have just travelled in a big circle round the North Pole The Earth is like a pancake, with the North Pole in the middle, see. 6. It all stays together because there’s a big ice wall round the edge The oceans don’t spill off because there’s a wall of ice – called Antarctica. The Flat Earth society admit to being ‘curious’ as to what lies beyond this. 7. Gravity doesn’t exist Instead, the Earth is constantly accelerating upwards, so the force of gravity is like being pushed into your seat in a car, see? 8. Earth is accelerating upwards due to ‘dark energy’ It all tallies with Einstein, the maniacs boast, as Einstein whirrs gently in his grave. 9. Photos from aeroplanes look curved because of the windows … and satellite shots look rounded at the edge due to the ‘spotlight’ under the sun, which is only a few thousand miles up. 10. An experiment proved that a six-mile stretch of water was flat Except it didn’t really. It was famously misread by previous Flat Earthers, who weren’t the brightest crayons in the pack.