TROY - BANA SMARTENS UP

TROY star ERIC BANA is making an effort to wear smarter clothes whenever he collects his two children from school, because he was starting to feel like "a bum" in his jeans and T-shirts.

The Australian actor, father of KLAUS, six, and SOPHIA, three, admits that his sense of style began to develop late in life and, as a result, he's often feeling too dressed down.

He says, "Occasionally I like wearing a shirt with a collar. I was taking the kids to school, and some days I felt like a bum compared to all of the men in suits.

"So now I wake up and reach for a shirt so I don't look like a mechanic at the school gates...

"I began to get interested in clothes after I met my wife, REBECCA, who has a great eye. As my career advanced I got to compare great clothes with average ones, and now I know what looks good on me. Actually, I'm becoming a bit of a clothes slut."