LABEOUF PAID FATHER TO BE HIS GUARDIAN

Actor SHIA LaBEOUF had to pay his father to accompany him during his early acting career - because he wasn't allowed on set without a guardian.
LaBeouf landed the lead role in Disney TV show Even Stevens when he was just 14, but was not allowed to work on the show unless he was accompanied by an adult.
Although the 21-year-old was estranged from his former drug addict father at the time, he paid him a wage to hang around the studio - which allowed the teenager to begin his acting career.
And LaBeouf is grateful he found himself in such a peculiar situation, because it finally allowed him to bond with his dad.
He says, "I had to pay my dad to be a father to me. Before I landed the role in Even Stevens, I barely knew my dad, but because I was a minor I needed to have an adult on the set.
"Dad had just been released from a veterans' hospital, where he'd gone through drug withdrawal. So I paid him $800 a week to be with me.
"For him it wasn't about being with a son he loved. He was rent-a-dad. He was getting some money and staying off drugs. That's when I started to develop a relationship with him.
"In a very real sense the business gave me my father back."