Famous Personalities with Aviophobia - fear of flying on airplanes:
- Singer Aretha Franklin has an extreme fear of flying. She won't travel on airplanes, even for concerts clear across the country.
- Actor and screenwriter Billy Bob Thorton has cancelled television appearances that required him to get on a plane.
- Muhammad Ali, former champion boxer.
- Bob Bechel, political analyst.
- Ray Bradbury, science fiction writer.
- Cher, singer/actress.
- Florence Henderson, actress.
- Glenda Jackson, actress and member of British Parliament.
- Michael Jackson, singer.
- John Madden, sportscaster.
- Bob Newhart, comedian/actor.
- Ronald Reagan, former U.S. President and actor.
Other Celebs with Phobias:
- Actress Natalie Wood was hydrophobic - her accidental death by drowning in the ocean in 1981 was very strange and unsettling for those who knew her well.
- Tennis champ André Agassi has a phobia of spiders, according to Brooke Shields in a statement to the press in October 1996.Supernatural novelist Anne Rice has stated that she fears the dark.
- Actress Kim Basinger has a phobia of wide, open spaces.Film director Alfred Hitchcock had a peculiar fear of eggs, according to biographer Donald Spoto.
- Country star Lyle Lovett reportedly is afraid of cows.
- Pop singer Michael Jackson appears to have a phobia of germs (referring to his obsessive wearing of a surgical-style mask when out in public).
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