What the Plank? Celebrities Get Straight and Narrow (Photos)

By Kiki Von Glinow Posted Jul 6th 2011 08:00PM

Forget purse dogs, Hummers and star tattoos, when it comes to the celebrity world's latest craze, 'everybody's doing it' seems to be an understatement. So what is it that's got everybody from Rosario Dawson to Justin Bieber getting down (literally) this time? Planking.

No it's not pirate slang or a crude euphemism, it is literally the act of laying light as a feather, stiff as a board -- like a plank of wood.

But before we delve too far into the art of laying still, that so many celebrities have already mastered, let's first engage in a bit of planking 101 -- from what we've learned there are several important planking rules to live by. One can plank on anything and everything. One should enlist a friend to photograph said planking. One must post said photograph to every and any social networking site with a certain level of strategic apathy. One should once again show off said planking skills on as many late night talk shows as possible.

Take Rosario Dawson for example, ever since she was introduced to the 'sport' just a couple of weeks ago, she's been a planking pro -- getting flat on an elephant, on some stairs, on her hair and makeup table.

"I just discovered it last week," Dawson told Chelsea Handler before giving her a tutorial. "You lay face down and you have your hands at your sides and you point your toes."

Sounds simple enough. But planking isn't always that innocent.

"I've always wanted to do it with you on your desk," Dawson told Jimmy Kimmel in an interview before planking on the late night show host's set desk.

Usher, who never falls flat, even got his two little ones -- Usher Jr. and Naviyd -- in on the craze, planking on a piano.

But that's not all, Justin Bieber planked on a boat, Katy Perry planked on a yacht and Chris Brown planked on a circle. Kristen Bell planked on a railing, Ellen Page planked on a traffic cone and Flavor Flav planked on a truck bed.

So what is it about this straight and narrow game that has everyone from rappers to dramatic actresses hitting the ground? Honestly, we have no idea.

Tags: ellen page, justin bieber, kristen bell, rosario dawson

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Saturday 09 July

By montana

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Great ..Hollywood is doing it so all the pathetic followers in this World will do just that...follow. Get lives people , look at all the babies who now have stupid names thanks to their stupid Mothers who grew up watching Soap Operas.

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Oh how I wish those days would return. Just Plank them on top of one another and ship em right back to their Motherland, Africa

Sunday 10 July

By suegee

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Do these people have nothing better to do with their time?Typical people with too much money and too much spare time. They ought to get out in the real world and do something real, like volunteer,redistribute some of their wealth in a useful way. They are so irrelevent today and useless.

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