Peaches: Calling Baby Apple Was Bananas

Bob Geldof's daughter Peaches yesterday warned that Chris and Gwyneth's one-week-old girl Apple faces years of taunting at school.

Peaches, 14, whose middle name is Honeyblossom, said: "At primary school I got teased a lot, just as little Apple will."

Fellow pupils used to shout: "Oi, Peaches, are your parents bananas?" Other taunts which still annoy her include "I'd like to take a bite out of that peach" and "Look at those peaches".Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow have joined celebrities such as Geldoff and his late wife Paula Yates who opt for the unusual. Peaches said: "Why do the rich and famous give their children such ridiculous names?

"Mine has haunted me all my life, and will continue to do so. I am named after a fruit. This doesn't make sense at all."

In her Sunday Telegraph column, she added: "When I tell people my name, most laugh incredulously. I'm always asked to repeat it twice." But her name is normal compared to rocker Frank Zappa's daughter Moon-Unit and David Bowie's son Zowie.

And it does help her stand out from the crowd.

She said: "It's exotic, it's not boring. It also gives me (or so I like to think) an air of mystery."

Source: Mirror.co.uk