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MOUSE TRAP A gerbil got Ricci by a nose
Christina Ricci: Justin Kahn/WireImage.com

WORST

CHRISTINA RICCI ''I got three gerbils when I was little. I was nuzzling [one of them] because I was only 3, and she bit on my nose and wouldn't let go. She was just dangling off my nose.''

LAUREN GRAHAM (''Gilmore Girls'') ''My manager gave me a singing Santa who sings dirty Christmas carols.''

AARON ECKHART ''My brother when I was a kid gave me dried orange peels. I was mad.''

GARCELLE BEAUVAIS-NILON (''NYPD Blue'') ''I love my mother to death, but she got me this sweater with reindeer that had antlers with these jiggly bells on them around the breast area.''

NAOMI WATTS ''A sewing kit. I was 15.''

MICHELLE BRANCH ''One of those ugly, horrible sweaters from my grandma. Grandmas always get the bad sweaters. So you're just like, 'Give me the cash, come on.'''

CHRIS KLEIN ''A pair of really preppy, nasty-looking, light suede slacks.''

HAL SPARKS (''Queer as Folk'') ''Every Christmas I get sweaters that are three sizes too big and two years too late.''

MARK RUFFALO ''A self-standing salad bowl and 10 bars of Ivory soap.''

KIERAN CULKIN ''I got the worst thing -- it was one of those belt-backpack things... and that was the only thing I got for Christmas. I got a backpack, three shirts.''

AMY BRENNEMAN (''Judging Amy'') ''A silver-plated panther.''

ANDY DICK ''My dad gave me a full-length mirror when I was 9.''


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