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10 Famous People Who Are ADDICTED To Pokemon Go

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Even the biggest pop stars on the planet couldn’t resist chasing a Gyarados through Central Park.

Pokémon Go landed in early July 2016 and blew past 30 million downloads within two weeks, turning sidewalks, parks and helicopter rides into hunting grounds. It didn’t take long for A-listers to get caught in the same augmented-reality frenzy as everyone else, and several of them got caught on camera — sometimes literally — doing it. From a Central Park stampede to a late-night host setting up lures for strangers, the celebrity side of the Pokémon Go boom turned out to be just as chaotic as the app itself.

• Justin Bieber went completely unrecognized while sprinting through NYC traffic near Central Park with friend Alfredo Flores and a mob of hundreds of players chasing a rare Gyarados, a moment his manager Scooter Braun posted to Instagram.
• Demi Lovato’s addiction went public after tour mate Nick Jonas tweeted about her frustration at finding no Pokémon during a helicopter ride, and she later admitted on Elvis Duran and the Morning Show that she’d hit Level 4 and caught a Jigglypuff.
• Trevor Noah was spotted setting up lures in Manhattan’s Riverside Park and helping strangers catch a Scyther.

Bieber’s Gyarados Stampede

The Purpose World Tour had just rolled into New York when Bieber found himself swept up in a crowd of hundreds of players chasing a Gyarados sighting near Central Park. According to Entertainment Tonight, most of the pack was too locked into their phone screens to notice a pop star running alongside them. Scooter Braun’s Instagram footage of the scene is what tipped people off after the fact — Bieber wasn’t dodging paparazzi, he was dodging traffic for a water-type Pokémon like everybody else.

Demi Lovato’s Level 4 Confession

Nick Jonas didn’t mean to expose his co-headliner, but that’s exactly what happened when he tweeted about Lovato’s mid-flight frustration over an empty Pokémon radius. She retweeted it rather than deny it, and eventually came clean on Elvis Duran and the Morning Show about exactly where she stood in the game: Level 4, one Jigglypuff banked. It’s a small detail, but it’s the kind of specific admission that separates an actual player from a celebrity just riding a trend.

Level 4. One Jigglypuff. That’s the whole confession.

Late-Night Gets in on the Hunt

Trevor Noah didn’t just play — he hosted. Spotted in Riverside Park dropping lures, he ended up helping other players in the park land a Scyther, turning a solo mobile game into an impromptu group session. He wasn’t alone among the late-night crowd, either. Stephen Colbert and Josh Groban both leaned into the craze publicly during the same July launch window, alongside Jordan Fisher, Chrissy Teigen, John Mayer, Steve Aoki and Ellen DeGeneres, all of whom showed up talking about or playing the game on social media and television during Pokémon Go’s opening weeks. Fans looking for more Pokémon-flavored content since then have kept the appetite alive, whether it’s battling it out with Gigantamax Pokémon years later or just reminiscing about the summer everyone was staring at their phones outdoors.

Celebrities Aren’t Immune to the Grind

What made the Pokémon Go moment stick wasn’t just that famous people played — it’s that the app forced them to act like everyone else. There’s no VIP lane for catching a Gyarados or triggering a lure; Bieber had to run in the crowd, Lovato had to admit her actual level count, and Noah had to physically set up a lure like any other player hoping for a Scyther. That kind of forced normalcy is rare for stars who usually get read the game’s storylines and outcomes are shaped by the exact same mechanics that separate a musician’s public image from who they actually are when the cameras aren’t rolling.

Whether the app’s celebrity obsession fades or sticks around, the early tally is already lopsided: 30 million downloads in two weeks, a Central Park stampede with a pop star buried in it, and a Grammy-nominated singer publicly copping to Level 4. Nobody was chasing a Charizard on purpose for the headlines — they just got caught doing it, same as everyone else with a phone and a Pokéball.