Keegan Allen on Juicy Celeb Stories with Justin Bieber, Zac Efron, & Taylor Swift

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Actor Keegan Allen is hanging out with us at the Young Hollywood Studio where he is showing off his lovely photography book 'Hollywood', and in that same vein, we pick out a few particularly juicy pics from his Instagram feed and persuade him to tell us the story behind them! Get the deets on his encounters with Justin Bieber, Zac Efron, Simone Biles, Taylor Swift, and more!
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What's going on guys? Hanging with me right now I have Keegan Allen, and in honor of his new book Hollywood, we have picked some photos on your Instagram of you with some Hollywood people and we want to know the inside scoop of what happened in this photo. And we're going to start off with something that's pretty risqué, but I'm into it. All right. Here we go.
Oh, yeah. Me and Ian, uh, it was during the final season of shooting, uh, Pretty Little Liars. Whenever we do love scenes, ooh, sexy scene. We will not wear clothes and we wear these little um, socks uh,
On your feet?
Yeah. Well, yeah, I'm wearing. Oh, yeah. Here's me and Zac Efron. Oh, I love Zac. I'm making the like, whoa, face. This was on the red carpet of a movie that he did called uh, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. Not obvious at all that I, I didn't remember the exact way that that was said. Um, but yeah, it was really fun. He's, he's great. He's such a cool dude and he's shredded, man. That guy is like ripped. He's really ripped. He really knows how to like, to lift weights really well. Because when I try and do weight lifting, I don't look like that after and I'm, I'm a little frustrated.
Maybe you should work out with Zac.
I'm going to start working out with Zac. Let's work out, bro. So, as you can see, Justin's holding a little cup of tea. Uh,
Look at how little he is.
Yeah. So I saw him walking down the street with his bodyguard and me and my mom had just got our nails done because my mom, uh, makes me get my, my hands manicured.
Nice.
Because I, I like have a, I like pick my nails too much. And like so she always would be like, let's go get our nails done together. So me and my mom went to get our nails done and I saw him and I'm like, oh dude, I should go get a photo with him. Like that'll be so cool. It'll be such great content. He was just starting to blow up but people knew who he was. So like people were coming out of the like sewers. What? And they were like, Justin Bieber. And I was like, what the hell? It was really interesting. And then I saw him at the nail place where I saw him in there again but like years later, recently, like last summer. I was with my mom. Oh my gosh. We were getting our nails done and I saw him and he's very intimidating when he's in public. I like kind of love it. Wait, but it's great. He sat in the nail place and he was just like, he made eye contact with everybody under 30 in there. Like if you even try with your phones and like I took my phone and I was like, no, man. I'm not. But then I came up to him after and I was like, dude, check it out, man, remember? And he's like, oh, yeah, I do actually remember that. I was like, sick, man. All right.
Aw, that's so cute.
That was it. Okay, cool. Simone Biles. She came and visited set. She's amazing. Uh, she's in my book too. She's like a real American hero to me. She really is. She's just incredible. And, uh, we, we I hung out with her all day and I showed her around the set of Pretty Little Liars and it was just great. It was a really, really fun day and a very fond memory. I look back on all the time. Really amazing. Oh, good. So this, uh, what happened was James was, so James was doing his Broadway show Of Mice and Men. There was a lot of people in the room. And we're like, we should just do this. It would be really fun, funny. Let's do it. But the problem with this photo is nothing dies on the internet. It lives forever. And so just a couple days ago, my friend, uh, was in a group chat and he's like, they sent this as a joke to him and they're like, dude, is this you and Franco together? And I'm like, oh, yeah, the internet. James is amazing. And and that was, that was fun. We were, we were, we were not naked like completely. You're wearing socks. Yeah, until we did a movie called King Cobra which is we were naked in that. So then, there's Johnny Depp. Oh, so cool. And I know he's in your book. He was on a panel with I think it was for like the movie Cry-Baby with all the people from Cry-Baby. It was amazing. And as he was leaving, it was funny. He was outside out back behind the like screening by himself. No one was there. And so I was there and I was just like, and I was just standing there with my camera and then I was like, hey, man. And he's like, hey. And then we talked for 20 minutes uninterrupted. It was really, really special. He gave me really great acting advice. Really cool.
Is there anything that stands out that he gave you advice for?
Yeah, he talked about like being on a television series as a young actor. He did 21 Jump Street. We talked about just acting and how like weird the business is in the industry. And he's just like, yeah, I did Cry-Baby because I really wanted to like do what I wanted. I was like, oh, man, I'm going to do what I want. Um,
He's so cool.
He is really cool. He was so sweet. I mean, no one, he didn't need to take the time with me, but he did and he was just really, really a sweet guy, really wonderful. So Selena Gomez took this photo. Funny story though, when I took this photo, I was like, we should write music together. This is years ago, okay.
You said this to Taylor?
Said this to her. And she's like, yeah, sure, like give me your number. But back then, you know, we didn't really, the phones were weird back then. It was like 3G. The iPhones different. So I, I went back to my seat and I, I was with Sasha from our, from my show and I'm like, hey, do you have anything to write on? And she gave me her eyeliner pen and a piece of confetti which was the worst thing to write on. And, uh, I wrote my number but then I ran over to Taylor and I was like, here's my number. But then I realized, okay, so you take charcoal and you put it in confetti and then you fold it and it just becomes nothing. It ultimately is just a smudged piece of confetti. And I was like, here you go. And she's like, all right. And I was like, see ya. And then I left and that was it. This is on the set of the movie The Wash. Snoop. There he is. Look at, yeah, I know. Deee-loog, dude. Saw, dude. Um, yeah, had a Polaroid with me and I was like, can I take your photo, Mr. Dogg? And he was like, he's like, only if we get in it together.
That you called him Mr. Dogg?
Mr. Dogg. Yeah. He was, he thought he was, he was like, no, it's, it's just Snoop. Um,
That was it. All right. So that's the stories of all the images. We made it through all the images.
Made it through all the images. You're a good storyteller. Oh, man, thanks.
To hear about how he's super Hollywood, get his book Hollywood. Thanks, Keegan. Thanks, Keegan.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Keegan Allen
Featured guest, sharing stories from his book and Instagram
- Ian Harding
Featured in a photo with Keegan Allen from Pretty Little Liars
- Zac Efron
Featured in a photo with Keegan Allen at a movie premiere
- Justin Bieber
Featured in a photo, encountered at a nail salon
- Simone Biles
Featured in Keegan Allen's book and visited the Pretty Little Liars set
- James Franco
Featured in a photo with Keegan Allen from his Broadway show
- Johnny Depp
Featured in a photo, shared acting advice with Keegan Allen
- Taylor Swift
Keegan Allen tried to give her his number, mentioned in description
- Selena Gomez
Mentioned as part of the cast/talent
- Sasha Pieterse
Co-star from Pretty Little Liars, helped Keegan write his number for Taylor Swift
- Snoop Dogg
Featured in a Polaroid photo with Keegan Allen
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