Celebrities, even those on the D-List, have often been known to make outrageous demands on movie shoots, or concert tours when they stay over in a hotel. But these 10 take the cake and throw it against the wall when it comes to satisfying their needs.
10. Eminem requires a PlayStation for video games, ping-pong table, basketball hoop, giant flat-screen TV, personal masseur – and “whatever kind of fast-food exists on the continent.”
9. Rock group Depeche Mode must have a dozen drumsticks from Kentucky Fried Chicken and 10 tuna sandwiches – five on white bread and five on brown, displayed on a bed of lettuce on a tray covered in Saran Wrap.
8. Christina Aguilera requires organic fruits and vegetables, soy milk and soy cheese, along with Flintstones chewable vitamins, Nesquik and Coca-Cola. No Pepsi. No diet.
7. Rod Stewart refuses to tolerate any light in the hotel room for his afternoon nap. He sends a special “darkening” team to the hotel in advance to seal all cracks. And, he asks for 13 soccer balls.
6. Geri Halliwell demands air-conditioning – even when performing for the troops in tents overseas – along with a fridge in her makeshift desert dressing room filled with soy milk and fruit juice. She needs a computer with full Internet access available at all times.
5. Justin Timberlake requires an entire hotel floor, private fitness studio, an extra-large stereo, along with Nintendo and PlayStation. The floor’s air conditioning filters must be changed on his arrival. Door handles must be disinfected every few hours.
4. Vice President Dick Cheney requires all televisions in his room to be tuned to Fox News; a pot of decaf coffee and four cans of ‘Diet Caffeine Free Sprite; copies of The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal every morning and that his staff be notified in advance of any hotel gifts left in the suite.
3. Mariah Carey demands that her hotel suite be fitted with gold faucets. A new toilet seat must be installed before her arrival. Her own bed linens are delivered in advance. Only her own videos may be played on the two DVD players she demands for her room. Both Carey and her dog bathe only in French mineral water.
2. Britney Spears requires a private phone line in her dressing room and threatens to sue the promoter if the number gets published or anyone calls her. She asks for General Foods International Coffee, Cap’n Crunch, Fruit Loops and Pop Tarts in he dressing room.
And the celebrity who makes the most outrageous demands:
1. Jennifer Lopez’s suite must be painted and furnished completely in white, with white lilies and white roses, her favorite flowers. White candles prominently placed, preferably with Paris perfume, “Diptyque.” Her sheets must be of Egyptian cotton with a thread count of at least 250. Room temperature set at exactly 25.5 degrees Celsius.”
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Posted December 3rd, 2007 by AnnP
I'm Mariah Carey and this is a lie
Why should I believe that this is Maria Carey? How would you proof?
It's true and you know it.
Wow absurd bizarre and no wonder Dick Cheney is so misinformed IU would be too if the only news I got was from rupert mrudochs thugs.
Well, who can blame some of them? They are "stars," I guess and deserve some pampering.
*sigh*
pay them enough money and they will. If you can't, then you'll just have to settle for demanding that your whopper come with onions BUT NO TOMATO.
Depeche Mode, Christina Aguillera, Britney Spears, and Dick Chaney's request are "reasonable" I think. The others are a little outrageous with the exception of Rod Stewart.
this is all obviously bullshit.
That thread count on J. Lo's sheets must be a misprint. 250? I know that's wrong because she's not made of wood. Anything under 1000 is sandpaper.
well J-Lo is from the streets.. the hardcore streets. In the hood we don't get Egyption Cotten with 1000 thread count. I think she's keeping it real with 250. That's how you know she's hot.. she sleeps on only 250tc, like everyone from the ghetto.
Actually a thread count of 250 is the same as a thread count of 1000. The marketing departments for linen manufacturers advertise their sheets with a thread count of 1000, though it still just means the sheet has a thread count of 250, but each thread is plied(smaller threads twisted to make a bigger one). Plus the greater the thread count the tighter and more comfortable the linen.
I didn't know anything about thread count! Thanks for sharing.
"A lot of times people put things in their rider to see if promoters even take the time to read them."
Ya rly. I forget the band, but they demand a bowl full of M&Ms with zero blue ones in it. If they find blue ones, then the promoter has not read the instructions sent and they might not have set up all the sound equipment correctly and whatnot.
I belive that was Van Halen. Pretty clever, really.
Some of those other ones are kinda realistic. I mean, if I was vice president, I would sure want to be informed ahead of time of an anonymous gift for me left at the front office.
But some of those are far too outrageous to be just a test to see if they will read the demands... I mean, new toilet seats? Disinfected door handles? New air filters immediately installed? Private Fitness center? Those are the hallmarks of a total germophobe. And Justin Timberlake is slime.
what happens to all those old Mariah toilet seats?
and where can I get one?
TREACLE: U R ONE SICK FOOL
This is it?
Some of these aren't really that outrageous.
If I liked Tuna and KFC then I would ask for them backstage. It's not like they asked for all of them to be shaped like Saturn and to be individualy wrapped 14 times...no more, no less.
A lot of times people put things in their rider to see if promoters even take the time to read them.