Just when you thought celebrities couldn’t get any weirder, along comes Ashley Tisdale and her husband buying hundreds of books to impress a fancy magazine.

It was the High School Musical icon’s turn to invite Architectural Digest into her L.A. home, but panic set in when Tisdale realised that her lovely bookshelves – shelves to hold books – were completely empty of books.

“These bookshelves, I have to be honest, actually did not have books in them a couple days ago,” she shared in a video from her living room during the tour.

Her solution was simple: get her husband to fill them insanely quickly. “I had my husband go to the bookstore and I was like, ‘You need to get 400 books.'”

While her hubby, Christopher French, wanted instead to buy books “over time,” Tisdale had no time for such normal shenanigans. “Obviously my husband was like, ‘We should be collecting books over time and putting them in the shelves,” she added. “And I was like, ‘No, no, no, no.'”

Some people were unsurprisingly bemused by Tisdale’s revelation. After someone on Twitter wrote, “I… am speechless,” Tisdale backtracked. “Let’s clear this up. There are some of my books from over the years in there but yea 36 shelves that hold 22 books I did not have and any interior designer would have done the same. They do it all the time, I was just honest about it,” she explained.

To be fair, Hollywood is all about keeping up appearances. The rest of the home was  also pretty nice, Tisdale having decorated the place herself after recently launching her own interior design company.

And it’s not the weirdest thing to emerge from an Architectural Digest tour: remember when Dakota Johnson had her house filled with limes and then later revealed that she was actually allergic to the fruit? Weird.

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