Paul Mescal has a tomato phobia
Paul Mescal is terrified of tomatoes. The 26-year-old actor has revealed that he has a phobia of the fruit and that ketchup is the stuff of nightmares due to a traumatic childhood memory. Paul told the Off Menu podcast: "It's a fear of tomato, like Heinz ketchup. "I used to go to a childminder after school, and she was lovely, but one day she decided for a snack that she would put an easy single slice of cheese out, spray Heinz ketchup on it, rolled it up, and was like, 'Here you go'. "I said, 'No thank you, I'd rather not have that.' "She thought I was getting cheeky and she slapped me. It wa...