Self confessed animal lover Leona Lewis had a recent close encounter of the arachnid kind during a photo shoot for the cover of her upcoming album. The winner of UK talent show X-Factor in 2006 supposedly screamed when someone on set disturbed a nest of poisonous spiders, shutting down the shoot for two hours.

Pest control was called in to make the set safe again before Leona was able (or willing) to continue working.

A source on set had said “Leona was the first to see them and was petrified – frozen in fear and shaking”.

I can’t say that I blame her!