Paula Abdul, speaking with Las Vegas radio show Mark and Mercedes in the Morning this week, revealed a bizarre Hollywood connection that didn't even involve Kevin Bacon: it turns out Michael Bolton used to babysit Paula when she was a kid.

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“He never paid attention to me because he was too busy jamming and aspiring to be a great singer song writer and hanging out with other musicians in our neighborhood," Abdul said of Bolton's prowess as a babysitter.

“I'll just put it this way... we did not get along very well... I was seven," she said. "We had an L-shaped couch, and every time he would go out of the room, I would run on my knees to lock the door and I ran over a sharp pencil that was stuck between the cushions.