(Originally posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007)
“The 9” on Yahoo! recently devoted a segment to what celebrities are afraid of, reporting that Oprah Winfrey is afraid of chewing gum and Johnny Depp is afraid of clowns. Here are some other surprising discoveries.
–*German Nobel Prize winning author Gunter Grass is terrified of beef jerky
–*Actress Uma Thurman is afraid of the letter “Q”
–*Winona Ryder is terrified of Delftware
–*French President Nicolas Sarkozy is frightened of blue water in the toilet bowl
–*Paris Hilton is afraid of large men stepping on ducks
–*Ethan Hawke fears vestigial tails
–*Chuck Norris turns pale at the sight of fat men wearing little coats
–*Billy Bob Thornton gets the heebie-jeebies seeing Hasidic Jewish men wearing nothing but towels
–*Angelina Jolie is terrorized by paisley
–*Jade Jagger’s spine tingles at the sight of midgets riding bicycles
–*Christian Bale cowers at beautiful female members of the German Red Army Faction starring in pornographic movies
–*Christina Ricci is afraid of talking margarine bowls
–*Britney Spears fears the runes on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV
–*Carol Channing is horrified by isosceles triangles
–*Nick Nolte is afraid of the words “I love you” written in Japanese kanji script
–*Danny DeVito fears rapidly rising fizz
–*Michael Jackson runs at the sight of afterbirth
–*Courtney Cox’s hair rises at the sight of cartoon fish drawn to look like Don Knotts
–*Ron Howard turns tail at the sight of sponges
–*Omar Epps is horrified by ejaculated blood after a catheterization
–*Rachael Ray fears the Hindenburg disaster
–*And Dame Judi Dench is scared shitless whenever she hears dolphins talking in sonar
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