Celebrity hobbies

    Poor old Katie Price. Will she be able to take her mind off her split from Peter by mounting a stallion and bashing some balls about? Of course, we're talking for her penchant for polo, which is definitely not an excuse to flog her own-label dressage kit masquerading as a hobby. But which other celebs have peculiar pastimes?

    There's always a dull moment at Rod Stewart's house. This is because the ageing rocker likes nothing more than taking solace in the downtown trains on his vast model railway. Meanwhile, Penny Lancaster takes the opportunity to nip out and buy some more handbags and gladrags.

    No, it's not Davina before the Garnier contract – it's School's Out singer Alice Cooper, who has ditched his hard-living image in recent years in favour of spending his days on the putting green. Other unlikely celebrity golfers include Justin Timberlake. Rock and roll!

    She's omnipresent in the UK, but Myleene Klass has also set her sights on outer space. The mugging piano-tinkler is studying for a degree in astronomy with the Open University and is also a keen supporter of the European Space Programme. Fingers crossed that they'll be launching her soon.

    The best thing about The Apprentice – Lady Margaret of Mountford – has sensationally quit the series in order to focus on her PhD in papyrology. We wonder if any of the texts she's studying are as ancient as Amstrad's technology...

    Knitting came and went as a popular choice of hobby for the likes of Sienna Miller, Madge and Gwynnie around 2005. But while the hoi-polloi soon tired of pom-poms, Tracey Ullman has kept up the art of knit-one-purl-one and has even brought out a book of patterns.

    We hope Brad has child-proofed his kitchen drawers. This is because his missus, gorgeous fruitcake Angelina Jolie, is said to have quite the knife collection. "My mum took me to buy my first daggers when I was 11 or 12", she has said. And we wonder why she is the way she is...

    Speaking of choppers, apparently there's little Tom Cruise enjoys more than clashing swords with chums such as Will Smith and David Beckham. And we're talking fencing swords, silly, as the Top Gun star even has a room in his Hollywood pile set aside for the sport.

    What a girl wants is what a girl needs. And what Christina Aguilera wants is to spend two nights a week honing her skills at Tri-Onimoes and Boggle. That's right, the teak-hued warbler is apparently obsessed with board games. All together now, "You are Buckaroo, no matter what they say..."

    If you go down to Angela Rippon's house today you're sure of a big surprise. Yep, the veteran newsreader keeps the coffers of Hallmark full thanks to her giant collection of teddy bears. At one point she owned over 80 cuddly companions – we wonder how many she takes to bed at night.