You might not take a woman brave enough to leave the house wearing heelless platforms or a vest made of Kermit The Frog plushies for a paranoid health nut, but well-placed tattles claim eccentric pop tart Lady Gaga is so terrified the radiation emitted from cellphones will give her a brain tumor that she gets one of her entourage to key in numbers for her then hold the phone away from her head while she speaks.

And you thought Howie Mandel had OCD.

“Even though there’s no firm evidence, it’s really freaked her out,” a chatty member of Gaga’s entourage yapped to The Sun this week. “One of her team has to hold the phone so it isn’t too close to her head. She then listens on the phone loudspeaker.”

According to the insider, the request is just the latest in a series of bizarre demands from the “Poker Face” phenomenon. Gaga is also accused of ordering members of her security team to carry her to various events because she has only designated a certain amount of time each day to walking.

“Everyone around Gaga tries to tolerate her annoying and weird behaviour because they know it’s likely to be just another phase.”