Posts tagged "leona lewis"

"X-Factor" winner Leona Lewis has become nearly as famous for her vegan, animal-friendly ways as for her music, but it turns out the singer isn't an equal-opportunity animal lover. Lewis is afraid of cats, reports Monsters and Critics.

Why share this catty confession now? "A cat jumped on me the other week," Lewis said while promoting her Labyrinth tour on Ustream. "They scare me. It hissed and scratched my legs -- I didn't know what to do! So I got up and shook my leg, but she was stuck to it. It was an evil cat. I don't like evil cats."

Well, we're not big fans of "evil" cats either (other than, of course, Mr. Tinkles). But considering Lewis' involvement with the World Society for the Protection of Animals and the fact that she's even posed in the buff to support animal rights, we're a little surprised that she made such a casual comment on the matter.

Does this proclamation get your hackles raised? Or do you think it's only natural that even an avid animal person like Lewis could harbor distaste for a domesticated animal? Tell us in the comments below.

More from AOL: Get all the latest "X-Factor" scoop at PopEater.

Get this: Pop singer Leona Lewis was walking down Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles last week shopping for some fancy duds, when she spotted a homeless man sitting tight with a leashed white bunny. When she asked the man what he was planning on doing with the animal, he replied, "Don't know -- probably eat it."

On the spot, the vegetarian X Factor winner asked how much she could pay him to rescue the bunny, the Sun reports, and after he asked for $20, she generously dropped a Benjamin (that's, er, a $100 dollar bill) into the man's hands before scurrying home with her new friend (whom she's since named Melrose). Leona's new pet will roam her Hollywood Hills garden, likely alongside her Rottweiler, Rome.

This isn't Leona's first animal rights act. Last year she turned down a $1.6 million offer from UK department store Harrods to open their summer sale, because the shop sells furs.

Call us crazy, but considering her gracious act, we're going to take the vegetarian, animal rights activist's smash hit, "Bleeding Love," a tad more literally from now on.

Source