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But fame hasn’t stopped Sandra from sticking to her farmgirl roots.<\/p>\n
She tells it like it is.<\/p>\n
And, according to a recent article in Vogue<\/i><\/a>, chickens are IT.<\/p>\n “Back in California, she keeps chickens named for comediennes: Carol Burnett, Wanda Sykes, and a Phyllis Diller, until she was revealed to be a rooster and rechristened Phil Diller,” reveals interviewer Jason Gay.<\/p>\n Rest assured, her California chickens are not a flight of fancy. Sandra has a history with hens, a longstanding rapport with roosters \u2026<\/p>\n “When I was like 12, I had a chicken named Colonel Sanders and he was not a chicken chicken,” she told Dennis Hensley<\/a> a few years ago. “He liked people. He would stand on the top of your handlebars while you were riding your bike through the neighborhood.”<\/p>\n Can’t you just see it now?<\/p>\n Something a bit like this:<\/p>\n Photo courtesy of Nana & Baba<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sandra Bullock riding a bicycle with a chicken on her handlebars. I mean, hey, who hasn’t done that? (Confession: I haven’t, but I want to now.) Most of us chicken lovers can’t claim super-celebrity status (outside of our own households, … Continue reading ![\"gift_gab-rooster_rides_bike-1247\"](\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gift_gab-rooster_rides_bike-1247.jpg\")