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Billy Bob Thornton is freaked out by antiques?

"Sling Blade" star and Angelina Jolie ex Billy Bob Thornton is reported to "get real weird" around antiques, so much so that he stays in only hotel rooms that are antique-free.

Stars -- they have phobias just like us!

Johnny Depp and Diddy are terrified of clowns, a condition known as coulrophobia.

Soccer star David Beckham, a neatnik who arranges his shirts by color and prefers perfectly lined-up soda cans in his fridge, suffers from ataxophobia -- fear of disorder.

Celebs with aviophobia: Cher, Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Aniston.

Bronx Mowgli? Can celeb tots survive their names?
From Apple to Zolten, the famous get creative when it comes to naming

Give a Bronx cheer to singer Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and rocker Pete Wentz. The pop star gave birth to a son Thursday night and called him Bronx Mowgli, adding another entry to the list of strange names given to babies by their famous parents.

Perhaps the youngster will find kinship with another outer-borough inspired child — Brooklyn Beckham, son of pop star Victoria Beckham and soccer player David Beckham (can a Staten Island kid be far behind?).

Maybe little Wentz will hit it off with Sunday Rose, the daughter of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban born this summer, or Harlow Winter Kate, who was welcomed by parents Nicole Richie and Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden in January. Or maybe he will join a strangely-named-children support group, along with Kal-el Coppola Cage (actor Nicolas Cage’s son, who is named after Superman) and Penn Jillette’s kids, Moxie CrimeFighter and Zolten (Zolten is the maiden name of Jillette’s wife and, the comedian claims, the name of Dracula’s dog).

And that’s not to mention Jermajesty Jackson, musician Jermaine Jackson’s son; “My Name Is Earl” star Jason Lee’s son, Pilot Inspektor; Blue Angel, daughter of U2’s The Edge; and Apple, daughter of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay’s Chris Martin.

While these unusual names always make for great headlines and an interesting topic around the water cooler, what will happen to Bronx and Apple and Pilot Inspektor when they grow up? Will their unusual names, in addition to the oddity of being born famous, feel like a burden, or will they come to appreciate the uniqueness?

Peaches Geldof, daughter of Irish singer and Live Aid creator Bob Geldof, has sisters Fifi Trixibelle and Pixie. In 2006, she told Australia’s The Advertiser in 2006: “I hate ridiculous names. My weird name has haunted me all my life.”

But now, at age 19, Geldof seems to have experienced a change of heart about her quirky moniker. “It haunted me in my youth, but now I like it,” she told TODAYshow.com. “I always got teased about it at primary school, being named after a fruit. Now people find it appealing. I like my name. I think it’s sexy and unusual.”

And Geldof has put that image to good use, as the face of lingerie company Agent Provocateur (and as a staple of London’s gossip pages). She also said she is designing a clothing line for “women of any age."

Geldof said other strange-named progeny of celebrity parents “should learn to accept it and be happy they have a name that is different than everyone else’s … If a parent wants to name a child something they find interesting, it’s always a good thing.”

Besides, she added, “I’d rather be called Peaches than Jane.”

However, not all children of celebrities are thrilled by the unusual names given to them. Tallulah Belle Willis, the 14-year-old daughter of actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, reportedly plans to say toodle-oo to her outlandish name. Bruce Willis told talk-show host David Letterman last year that the teen planned to legally change her name to Lula, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The actor added that he was allowing his daughter to change her name because he never liked his own. “I didn’t care for my name,” he said, according to the Chronicle, “… especially after my father told me that he named me after Bruce Wayne, playboy millionaire.”

You can say that again
There are some names, such as George, that are not out of the ordinary — except when shared by a father and his five sons. George Edward Foreman, the two-time heavyweight boxing champion turned pastor and maker of Lean, Mean, Fat-Reducing Grilling Machines, bestowed the same name to each of his boys, George Jr. through George VI.

George III, also known as Monk, says his father jokes about naming all of his children the same thing because he was hit in the head too many times as a boxer. But Monk says the real reason is more sentimental.

Foreman Sr. met his biological father at 27 and learned he had siblings he never knew. “He said, ‘No matter what, this is never going to happen to me.’ He started spreading that name around … [his children] know where they came from, and that’s what the name is all about.”

Monk said it’s not as confusing as it sounds. “We grew up with nicknames,” he said. “Nobody was called George except for my father.”

He was about 6 when he realized it was “actually comical” to share a name with his siblings. The name Monk came from his father’s childhood nickname, Monkey. It stuck all the way through high school, and as an adult he started using his given name professionally.

Monk is now 25 and manages all of his father’s business affairs. Over the summer, the family starred in a reality show, “Family Foreman” on TV Land, which chronicled life at their Houston-area ranch.

G3, as he also is known, said it can be challenging when people he encounters already have an opinion of him based on sharing a famous name. “By the same token, if I have to choose, I would always choose being named George Foreman because my reputation precedes me. I don’t have to focus on making a good impression. I just have to maintain the impression that people have of the Foreman name.”

It’s influenced his life in a positive way, he says, because he’s motivated by his father’s rise from a poor childhood to being a boxing champ, as well as a successful preacher, grill master and author.

“When I may doubt myself, I know that anybody can do it,” he said. “That always drives me.”

Following a family tradition
Actress Soleil Moon Frye, best known as the child star of ‘80s sitcom “Punky Brewster,” said she’s always loved that her name is one of a kind.

“I really liked having an odd name, and I loved that there was a story behind it,” she said, adding that she was born in August, “a celestial time,” and her name means sun and moon. Her extended family all had “really wild names.”

She and her husband, producer Jason Goldberg, carried on the tradition with their two daughters, Poet Sienna Rose, 3, and Jagger Joseph Blue, who was born in March.

“Poet was a name my husband and I loved really early on,” Frye said. “We came back to it. We’d never heard it on a child before.” On Father’s Day, as they were debating names, they saw a sign about Edgar Allen Poe and a poet and decided it was fate. They call her Poe for short.

Jagger came about because they liked the name for either a girl or boy. They did not know which they were having, but they knew they wanted something with strength. “[She was] so strong in my belly, kicking and punching,” Frye said. “Such a strong little being in there.”

Joseph was after Frye’s late godfather, and Blue, whom they sometimes call Jagger, was a name she’d always loved.

Their children inspired Frye and two new-mother friends to found an eco-friendly baby store in Los Angeles, The Little Seed, with an online store at http://www.thelittleseed.com/. Open since October 2007, the store in Larchmont Village provides everything from toys to clothes, nursery items and other baby gear, all organic.

Frye said that with more people choosing unusual names for their children, the next generation may pick traditional ones just to be out of the ordinary. And if her girls one day decide to become a Sue or a Jane, she’ll be fine with the choice.

“Whatever they feel is representative of them,” she said, “I am totally comfortable with.”

Nick Nolte, 67:



Yeah, we were just as dumbfounded as you to realize that People declared Nick Nolte the Sexiest Man Alive in 1992, a year in which competition was apparently slimmer than Victoria Beckham in airtight Spanx. The actor, then 51 and coming off the success of "The Prince of Tides... more," was called "sexy ... very sexy!'' by a dewy Christina Applegate, while the magazine enthused that he was a "big-lug Adonis with the heart of gold -- sometimes known as the Bad Boy Reformed." Except his bad boy days weren't quite over. A decade after his Sexiest honor, Nolte was busted for DUI, which resulted in an epically unflattering, Hawaiian-shirt-and-electrified-hair mug shot that set the standard by which all celebrity police snaps are measured. He pleaded no contest and has continued to work steadily. And despite the occasional airport crash session and a tendency to dress like his homeless character from "Down and Out in Beverly Hills," he's still someone's sexiest: Last year, at the age of 66, he welcomed a daughter with girlfriend Clytie Lane.

Jude Law, 35:



A few weeks before Jude Law was named Sexiest Man Alive in 2004, he poked fun at his comeliness on "Saturday Night Live," singing, "I took one look in the mirror / And I could clearly see / That there was one perfect thing in it / And that thing was me ... / I ... moredon't need to really act / I don't need a big heart / I don't need to be nice / I don't need to be smart." He then added, "I am -- that's just a bonus." Alas, he wasn't smart enough to stay away from his kids' nanny while engaged to Sienna Miller, a brief encounter that turned them both into tabloid targets and began his transformation from dashing to kinda undesirable. That reputation was further cemented following his breakup with Miller in 2006. Law started playing the field, with the tabs linking him to starlets such as Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan and even Kimberly Stewart, with whom he was allegedly spied enjoying an al fresco grope-fest earlier this year. Not exactly the escapades of a guy whose devotion to his three kids added significantly to his Sexiest cred. Jude proved he can still bring the pretty in "The Holiday," but the unsightly porn-stache he's rocking for "Sherlock Holmes" means his erstwhile dreamboat status remains submerged, although we're holding out hope it may eventually resurface.

Tom Cruise, 46:



When Tom Cruise was named Sexiest Man Alive in 1990, his "Rain Man" co-star Valeria Golino rhapsodized over his eyes, "not their color. His regard -- the way he looks with them. They're very alive.'' And, indeed, that glowing assessment was repeatedly backed up... more by the reputation he carefully cultivated as Tom Terrific both on the screen ("Top Gun," "Jerry Maguire," "Mission: Impossible") and off (devoted husband to Nicole Kidman, until he blindsided her with divorce papers; and his purported heroics, which included rescuing passengers from a burning sailboat by sending his yacht crew to retrieve them). But in May 2005, Cruise's eyes switched from being "very alive" to being very maniacal as he pounced on Oprah's innocent sofa in the name of new girlfriend Katie Holmes, who, like a multitude of others, had once harbored a crush on the star. "I'm in love!" he effused while pumping his fists and falling to his knees. "I can't be cool. I can't be laid-back. It's something that has happened, and I feel I want to celebrate it. I want to celebrate her. ... She's an extraordinary woman." The Big O later admitted of Cruise's unhinged behavior, "I was not buying," and she wasn't alone. TomKat's ookily PDA-filled and blatantly PR-driven courtship was met with heaps of skepticism and scorn, but it wasn't the only thing that irrevocably dinged Cruise's formerly Teflon image. The much-ridiculed romance with the progressively more dull-eyed Holmes dovetailed with his increased proselytizing about Scientology, which took the form of criticizing Brooke Shields for taking antidepressants to treat her postpartum depression (he suggested vitamins and exercise, which likely prompted many a mom to conclude that Dr. Cruise wasn't nearly as sexy as Matinee Idol Cruise). Then came his wild-eyed confrontation with Matt Lauer, who questioned his sentiments on the "pseudo-science" that is head-shrinking. "You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do," the actor jabbed. "Matt. Matt. Matt, you don't even -- you're glib." While the public implosion of a megastar isn't an easy thing to watch, it was impossible to look away from Cruise's self-made meltdown. Other lowlights included Katie's conspiracy-surrounded pregnancy, complete with an at-home sonogram machine and rumblings of a silent birth; the messy end of Cruise's 14-year relationship with Paramount over what studio head Sumner Redstone deemed his "creative suicide"; TomKat's spectacle of an Italian wedding, which included a kiss at the altar so drawn out that guests began shouting "stop!"; and their endless photo ops with Suri, whose noise-free delivery and mysterious first few months, when she was kept completely out of the public eye, has sadly given way to looking terrified amid the frequent flashbulb explosions. At this stage, a Cruise comeback remains a longshot, because no matter what role he's playing -- a hero on the big screen or a doting husband and father in real life -- his "alive" eyes now scare the bejeezus out of us.

Mel Gibson, 52:



It's a testament to Mel Gibson's former sex-symbol standing that he could strut around in a weapons-grade mullet in several of those "Lethal Weapon" movies and still be considered gorgeous. And gorgeous he was, with his dreamy blue eyes and self-assured swagger... more helping him land People's premiere Sexiest Man Alive cover in 1985, a Sexiest Classic honor in 2002, and a Sexiest Man With the Most Kids (seven) nod in 2005. Sure, his face has weathered like rich Corinthian leather, but his rugged appeal deepened along with his wrinkles. At least until July 2006, when Gibson's baby blues stared out from a mug shot after he was busted for DUI. Turns out Mel went all Mad Max on the arresting officers, making appalling anti-Semitic remarks and dubbing one policewoman with the unflattering nickname "sugar t--s." While the Oscar winner immediately sought treatment and issued a mea culpa, saying, "I disgraced myself and my family with my behavior and for that I am truly sorry. I have battled with the disease of alcoholism for all of my adult life and profoundly regret my horrific relapse," the damage was done, and we fear the magnetic twinkle in those peepers may be gone forever.

Russell Crowe, 44:



Russell Crowe was named one of the "Awesome Aussies" in People's Sexiest Man Alive issue in 2000, the same year he won over audiences (and inspired many an appreciative Maximus Hunkiness quip) with his rippling-muscled, Oscar-winning performance in the ... moretunic-tastic "Gladiator." The actor, who won us over with his ability to balance vulnerable, passionate and savage in "L.A. Confidential," possessed "the thoughtful, coiled danger, the unfakable maleness" necessary "to become one of Hollywood's most wanted actors," Time magazine gushed at the time. And, for a while, that's what happened. He emerged unscathed from his liaison with Meg "America's Sweetheart" Ryan and scored his third Oscar nomination for "A Beautiful Mind." But his sexiness-sapping pugilism and self-important tendencies grew with his fame. In 2002, Crowe aggressively confronted a British TV producer who edited out his poem-laced acceptance speech at the BAFTAs, supposedly shouting, "Who on earth had the [bleeping] audacity to take out the Best Actor's poem?" Incidents like this led him to get the "South Park" treatment, which had him hosting his own TV show with the spot-on theme song, "Fightin' Round the World" ("He fights his directors and he fights his fans / It's a problem no one understands"). The hilariously prescient parody -- it would be three more years before he was arrested for winging a phone at a New York hotel concierge in a fit of anger because he couldn't get a call through to his wife Down Under -- also featured a trusty tugboat sidekick named Tugger, who attempted suicide rather than listen to his moody song stylings. The reaction was understandable. Crowe, seemingly tone deaf to his bloviations, boasted in 2005 that his song "Raewyn," penned after the breakup of his band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, is "the only song I've written that has made both men and women cry, think, and call their parents -- usually in that order." And while the thespian has lost some of his luster at the box office in recent years (his latest, "Body of Lies," for which he gained 50-plus pounds, earned so-so reviews and returns) and has turned down potential blockbusters (he dropped out of Baz Luhrmann's epic "Australia" over money, saying, "I do charity work, but I don't do charity work for major studios"), he'll try to turn things around with "Nottingham," in which he plays both Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Of course, Russell might have more luck regaining his "Gladiator" yumminess without the aging hippie ponytail he's sporting for the film. Not that he cares about our opinion. "The question of whether or not I am an honorable man is something I'll let the most important people in my life judge," he told the London Independent in November 2008. " ... I can assure you that I'm not an angry man. I think I'm beyond caring about misconceptions."