A different side of life - famous faces can inspire us to show our own quirky side

With Halloween giving us all an excuse to let our quirky side out, Rita de Brún celebrates oddness and looks at the celebrities who aren’t afraid of letting their whimsy show.

Quirky is a word often used by the bland to politely describe the oddballs and eccentrics whose behaviour they loathe or envy.

Rarely the sort to publicly succumb to a zany compulsion, the overtly dull tend to keep their true colours submerged.