Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson has admitted she suffers from an irrational fear of birds. "Something about wings and beaks and the flapping, " the 27-year-old told New York magazine’s Vulture supplement in a recent interview. "I’m terrified of them. That still hasn’t gone away... I was terrified of the peacocks on set (of her new movie We Bought a Zoo). Like, ‘Ahh, don’t get too close.’ They’re like, mean."

Scarlett is far from the only famous name in Hollywood to suffer an irrational fear of something. From Orlando Bloom's swinophobia to the astraphobic Madonna, here's our selection of the top 10 strangest celebrity phobias...

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Scarlett Johansson 'terrified' of birds