is BRITNEY SPEARS really gone MAD????
Britney’s list of demands to London hotel
Pop diva Britney Spears has demanded a long list of hotel
room facilities for her visit to England in June.
The Womaniser singer has reportedly made several requests
to London’s Dorchester hotel where she will stay in June when her ongoing Circus tour comes to England. She has demanded humidifiers, Marilyn Monroe DVDs and 100 watt light bulbs, reports China Daily.
Spears has also asked for fresh flowers, celebrity magazines and women’s novels for her room.
Britney may only be staying in the city for two weeks but
she knows exactly what she wants. She’ll be bringing all herown pillows for ultra comfort and her security will sleep outsideher suite every night,” said a source.
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The mother-of-two has also requested tickets for West End
theatre productions, as well as a place to horse ride and a map of running routes around the nearby Hyde Park from the hotel.
The source added: “Britney is also hoping to make a private visit to Kensington Palace. She has decided she will travel by private plane to Manchester - then fly straight back to London.”
she is diva-eing always!
Here are some other 'mad' requests:
Riders exist at all levels of the musical food chain but obviously the higher their profile, the more that artists can get away with. Take for example Marilyn Manson. The shock rocker demands every room he enters to be chilled to a deathly freeze with air-conditioning on full, a never-ending supply of Coca Cola and a bottomless bucket of ice. Add to that Haribo gummi bears, mini chocolates, Doritos, soy milk, assorted Kool Aid-sweetened, Hanson's cherry vanilla and microwave popcorn – just your typical diet for a Satanist. Manson is often named one of the worst offenders even sending out riders to journalists who are granted a simple interview with him.
Then there’s Prince. One of his demands includes having a physician on hand before every show to inject him with a Vitamin B12 shot. His rider also specifies that it is "absolutely necessary" that all food in the dressing room "must be covered by clear plastic wrap" until he uncovers them.
Iggy Pop once made a bizarre request for seven dwarves. To top it off, he also demanded American Spirit cigarettes (which he doesn’t smoke) and broccoli (which he hates). Questioned about this bizarre request, his response was that he wanted the broccoli so he could throw it in the bin – obviously to express his hatred for it. It’s anyone’s guess as to why he wanted the dwarves.
More recently, Pharrell Williams of N.E.R.D. fame has been making a name for himself in the diva stakes. One of his latest requests included having his team of 26 people given a proper pampering. This included being supplied with a mammoth 20 crates of Grey Goose vodka, 15 magnums of Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque champagne and another mammoth 20 crates of Bacardi rum. If that wasn’t enough, he also demanded that they be entertained by belly dancers while making their way into the alcohol while a Rolls Royce would be provided to drive him wherever he wanted to go. All at a bill of close to $100,000 Australian!
Jennifer Lopez is another artist who likes to make sure that she gets exactly what she wants - even at charity events! While attending the recording session for the charity single ''What's Going On,'' she demanded a trailer of substantial size, furnished all in white with flowers, tablecloths, drapes, candles, and couches, a VCR and CD player, and 43 music CDs selected by her covering all the latest R&B, hip-hop, and salsa. Oh, and she also demands that her coffee be stirred counter-clockwise only.
But the true diva award certainly must go to Mariah “doesn’t do stairs” Carey. Some of her demands have included bunny rabbits, puppies, and kittens to keep her company backstage, Cristal champagne, a box of bendy straws to sip it with, and the requirement of a special attendant to take care of all her needs. Once she even asked an attendant to dispose of her used chewing gum! She’s even picky about the kind of bottled water that may be kept in the dressing rooms. The rider states, “16-oz plastic bottles of Evian are the only acceptable bottles of water for the dressing rooms." The rider for her dressing room even has a separate list for her backing singers! There are many truly fascinating stories involving this diva. Once during a tour of China, she apparently needed four vehicles to carry her sixty pieces of luggage – including the 350 pairs of shoes that she brought with her. Another time she sent 20 assistants to redecorate the toilets in a music store before an album signing to ensure the toilet paper was in her preferred shade of pink! The woman puts everyone else to shame in the diva stakes.
http://www.theblurb.com.au/Issue51/TalesRider.htm
But the prize for craziest pop star requirement still stays with Van Halen, and their infamous 'no brown m&ms rule':
We finally have proof of the mother of all insane tour rider demands, Van Halen’s request for “No Brown M&Ms,” thanks to the Smoking Gun. Written in 1982 and coming in at an astounding 53 pages, the band’s oddball demands range from “herring in sour cream,” countless bottles of alcohol and a “large tube of KY jelly.” But it’s in the rider’s “Munchies” section where we find “M&Ms (Warning: Absolutely No Brown Ones),” meaning someone at each venue was given the job of plucking the brown M&Ms away from their yellow, green and orange candy-shelled counterparts. Keep in mind, this is 1982, so there were actually two shades of brown M&Ms at the time, with the standard brown and tan, which was eventually eliminated to make way for blue.
That infamous request for no brown M&Ms spawned both an urban legend (now confirmed) and a joke in Wayne’s World 2. Why the outlandish demand? According to the Smoking Gun, “If brown M&M’s were in the backstage candy bowl, Van Halen surmised that more important aspects of a performance — lighting, staging, security, ticketing — may have been botched by an inattentive promoter.” Nowadays, Van Halen has moved away from banning brown M&Ms and instead request normal things like tutors and room to practice martial arts.
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/12/11/van-halens-infamous-no-brown-mms-tour-rider-emerges/
What's so "MAD" about that, I have wilder requests when I go to hotels, they usually charge me extra
humidifiers £100 each
Marilyn Monroe DVDs £30 each
100 watt light bulbs £10 each
Fresh flowers £10 each flower
celebrity magazines £18 each
women’s novels £25 each
wel,,,,,,,,,,,,,dont judge the man or woman under the mango tree hahahah
I've resorted to playing my most un-britney like music in order to reassure myself of my musical taste.
you're right I'll have to take that back... no man can let such an insult go unchallenged...
exlied - That is the most insulting thing anyone's ever said to me on QL. I've reported you to admin.
besides, she can afford it...
see ur INBOX plz
as you can probably guess I am not a collector of her works! Good to see you are a fan though..... probably her and Peter Andre make up most of your collection...
exiled - easy tiger! I think Womaniser was the name of a song she sang!
These are pretty tame acutally. I've heard far worse requests made by heads of states and other stars.
still u doubt that she is not mad .i think they all do this only to keep them in limelight or u can say in lamelight.
the womanizer singer???? I didn't realise she batted for the other team now....
whew..............man...you really got me wooried the first time...the 2nd post DOES CLARIFY YOUR INTENTIONS.....GO FOR IT
Well this offer was only for Britney Spears and not Granny Spears
Good Fortune always comes knocking at your door...when you are sh*tting in the toilet!! :)
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hey smoke.....watch out for the old lady from yesterdays post who wanted it 4 times on the floor for 100 bucks.....................
She can have me any time. On the bed, on the table, on the rug, on the floor!
Good Fortune always comes knocking at your door...when you are sh*tting in the toilet!! :)
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Doesn't sound too outrageous to me, compared to what I've heard other celebrities command. When you're paying top whack to stay in one of the top suites in a top hotel you're entitled to a few requests I think.
I think she should meet AUSTIN POWERS who really wants to shaaaag
Poor girl.
She is so insecure and unhappy that she feels all these things can make her special.
What she really needs is her family back and she can't have them. So she is making do with second best .
AP
oh well, typical stars..
none of those requests are outrageous.. ive heard worse like heart shaped soaps and vanilla scented curtains... lol!