Has TV and film star Ray Winstone gone animal crackers?

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Ray Winstone, who stars in the apocalyptic new film Noah, has revealed that he turns to his pet pigs, Babe and Kelly, when he has something on his mind.

Ray, 57, told the Sunday People: "I get more sense out of them than I do out of myself."

The actor, who stars as a warlord in biblical epic Noah with Russell Crowe, Emma Watson and Anthony Hopkins, regularly talks to the two large Norfolk Blue porkers.

"I sit there and I have a chat with them,” he says.

The star keeps the animals in the grounds of his home in Epping, Essex, which he shares with wife Elaine and actress daughters Jaime and Lois.