childhood

As with many rare phobias, causal factors for people with bananaphobia can be hard to determine, but experts say it can often stem from childhood.

Mr McGuinness is currently on day four of his challenge, cycling on his dream childhood bike - the Raleigh Chopper - from Ecclefechan to Strathaven.

“When it did crop up occasionally through my childhood, it could have been happening in a different country for all we knew. It just felt so far removed,” she said.

He had worked with Petticrew and Boyle, childhood friends who grew up near each other in Catholic West Belfast, a decade earlier on an anti-drug film, and was instrumental in casting them.

Roberts went on to say that his desire to transform America was rooted in childhood trauma.