Fearne Cotton has taken a leaf out of Prince Charles’s book by chatting to trees and she even believes she possesses psychic powers.
The TV and radio presenter, 40, revealed a recent conversation she struck up with an unruly conifer because she wanted to find out if it objected to being pruned.
She says: “I asked if it was OK to proceed and notified the tree it was in the name of growth.
"There was no direct answer and one wasn’t really needed. It was more a moment of respect and an attitude of humbleness to nature that I had previously overlooked.”
And she hasn’t stopped at foliage.
Fearne also had a chin-wag with Mount Kilimajaro before climbing it for Comic Relief in 2009.
She writes in her book Bigger Than Us: The Power of Finding Meaning in a Messy World: “Standing at its base I felt tiny and knew I needed support from the mountain for the climb.
“I’m so glad I had that dialogue with the mountain.”
Fearne also told how she was strolling by the Thames in London when she “sensed someone was about to fall in”.
A lady in a wheelchair then careered into the water nearby before being dragged out by the woman’s partner.
Fearne writes: “How on Earth had I picked up on this event 10 minutes before it had even happened? "There are too many variables for it to have been a coincidence.”
