Bob Geldof has permanent eye problems after being bitten by a spider around two years ago. Bob Geldof has eye problems after being bitten by a spider. The singer-turned-charity campaigner is still suffering the effects of a nasty encounter with an angry arachnid a few years ago. He said: "I got bitten near my left eye by a spider about two years ago when I was on a trip to Africa and now it puffs up once or twice a month." Bob is not the only star to have problems with spiders. Eva Mendes had to have hypnotherapy to overcome her arachnophobia - an irrational fear of spiders - which started when she was a child. The actress - who admits her fear became so bad she would not even sleep in a room if she had seen an eight-legged nasty there - said: "There was no swaying clock or anything like that - so I was disappointed by that. I do not know what she did but it really helped because now I will see one and I will be cool with it. "When I was a little girl if I ever saw one I would have to have somebody kill it." |