Britney collects dolls, Depp prefers skeletons

London: Hollywood celebrities lead lives that are far from normal and their hobbies reflect their tastes for the rare and the avant.While pop princess Britney Spears likes to spend money on porcelain and antique dolls, `Pirates of the Caribbean Star` Johhny Depp likes to buy pigeon skeletons in his spare time, reported Sun online.

`Ghost` actress Demi Moore has devoted a large part of her home to display her doll collection, even though husband Ashton Kutcher is spooked by her expensive hobby. `Forrest Gump` star Tom Hanks has a secret collection of typewriters and it has become such an obsession that he has to pay a fortune to ship them from all corners of the world. Angelina Jolie kept an extensive collection of antique knives around the time she was divorcing hubby Billy Bob Thornton, though it is not known whether she had discarded the hobby for the safety of her six young children with partner Brad Pitt. `Pulp Fiction` director Quentin Tarantino collects old board games relating to TV shows, while Nicole Kidman has a rare collection of ancient Judean coins. `King of Pop` Michael Jackson had a collection of Egyptian harps and horse carriages among the thousands of oddball items he purchased over the years. `24` star Kiefer Sutherland has a collection of 28 new and classic Gibson guitars. He keeps them all at a record studio he launched to help aspiring bands get record deals. But the weirdest collection belongs to German supermodel Claudia Schiffer who has a strange love for insects and buys paintings of them and hangs dried bugs on her walls. Bureau Report