42 Petty, Downright Childish Celebrity Demands That Prove They’ve Lost Touch With Reality

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42 Petty, Downright Childish Celebrity Demands That Prove They’ve Lost Touch With Reality

In case you don’t know what a rider is, it’s basically a document outlining the needs of a performer before they arrive at the venue or to the set. It has technical requirements like lighting considerations, but many celebrities have taken the hospitality requirements to strange new heights. Puppies? Really, Mariah?

Wayne’s World 2 has a great joke about Ozzy Osbourne needing one thousand M&M’s in a brandy glass or he wouldn’t go on stage that night, and while that demand sounds outlandish, it has nothing on some of these bad boys.

Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez ROF SEB CAT. CRACKED.COM She reportedly forbade anyone on set at an Adidas commercial say the name Justin, shortly after her breakup with Justin Bieber. Multiple Jasons in the crew had to go by nicknames.

Bill Cosby

ET VAULT Whenever Bill Cosby would be interviewed by Entertainment Tonight, he'd request that they send the same reporter and that she wear orange. CRACKED.COM

Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson CRACKED.COM His movie contracts give him the right ditch work and go golfing twice a week.

William Frawley

William Frawley I LOVE LUCY CRACKED.COM The actor who played Fred was reportedly a tough guy to work with. His weirdest hangup was probably the Yankees clause in his contract: he would get extra time off whenever the Yankees made the World Series, which happened 7 times over the course of the show.

Michael Jackson

According to producer/writer Sam Simon, Michael Jackson agreed to do a guest role on The Simpsons on the condition that the script be rewritten to give his character more scenes with Bart. The writers came up with a sleepover. The episode has since been pulled from syndication. CRACKED.COM

Jackie Gleason

Jackie Gleason CRACKED.COM Gleason requested that he never be addressed or spoken to by his writers. New scripts were to be left under his door. Probably a threat taken seriously, lest some poor production assistant be sent straight to the moon courtesy of Ralph Kramden.

Iggy Pop

lggy Pop - CRACKED.COM IGGYAND THE Longtime road manager Jos Grain prides himself on his bizarre rider demands, including: Seven dwarves, dressed up as those dwarves out of that marvellous Walt Disney film. Taller people are acceptable, of course. It's attitude, more than altitude, that's important here.

Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan CRACKED.COM She agreed to appear on a Russian talk show after breaking up with real estate mogul Egor Tarabasov -- if she was provided a private jet, a Russian visa, and a meeting with Putin. They... did not have her on.

Grace Jones

GRACKED.COM Among other things, Grace Jones' rider includes requests for two dozen unopened Findeclare or Colchester Oysters with an oyster knife, because she does her own shucking.

Metallica

CRACKED COM Metallica was very particular about having bacon for every meal on their 2004 tour. Eggs Bacon & Sausage ** BACON VERY IMPORTANT THAT BACON BE AVAILABLE AT EVERY MEAL AND DURING DAY They clearly had their priorities sorted out.

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise WAR OF THE WORLDS CRACKED.COM Tom Cruise asked for a fully-staffed Scientology tent to be available on the set of War of the Worlds. Wait, Tom Cruise is a Scientologist?! Who knew!

Orson Welles

Orson Welles THE BLACK ROSE CRACKED.COM Welles demanded that a coat he wore in the film The Black Rose be completely lined in real mink... despite it never being visible. I bet that coat was very comfortable! Unlike trying to watch a movie from 1950 where everyone's in brownface.

Drake

WANT DRAKE TO PERFORM AT YOUR EVENT? DRAKE RIDER REQUIREMENTS LDRESSING ROOM: PURCHASER SHALL PROVIDE AT HIS SOLE COST AND EXPENSE TWO (2) DRESSING ROOMS WITH LOCKABLE DOORS. THESE DRESSING ROOMS SHALL BE CLEAN, COMFORTABLE, AND CONTAIN ADEQUATE LIGHTING, MIRRORS, COMFORTABLE SEATING AND TOILETS WITHIN OR VERY CLOSE BY. THESE DRESSING ROOMS WILL BE FOR ARTIST'S SOLE USE. PURCHASER MUST PROVIDE TEN (10) LARGE TOWELS, FOUR (4) DOZEN NATURAL SENTED INSENSE STICKS, THREE (3) NATURAL SCENTED CANDLES, ONE (1) BOTTLE OF DR. BONNER'S PEPPERMINT YOU BETTER HAVE FOUR DOZEN NATURAL SCENTED INCENSE STICKS READY ATYOUR DISPOSAL CRACKED.COM

Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers GRACKED.COM Sellers was so superstitious about the colors green and purple that he would leave set if members of the crew were wearing them, and had rooms he'd stay in searched for the colors beforehand. Man... what did the Joker do to this guy?

Prince

Prince CRACKED.COM The Artist preferred everything in his dressing room be wrapped in cling wrap, so he could unwrap it himself. Bubble wrap sounds like it'd be more satisfying, but what do I know?

Dick Cheney

CRACKED.COM ZFOX NEWS FOX NEWS Always a fan of unbiased news coverage, Dick Cheney's downtime requirements rider requests that all televisions be tuned to FOX News upon his arrival.

Kirk Cameron

Kirk Cameron KK FAN CRACKED.COM Cameron refuses to kiss anyone but his actual wife, causing kiss scenes he's in to require CGI to paste in actresses over his wife. You'd think at that point, even God would be like, Dude. It's fine. Chill.

Jennifer Lawrence

The Mother! crew built Jennifer Lawrence a Kardashian tent, so she could de-stress. It had gumballs, it was plastered with Kardashians' pictures, and it looped Keeping Up with the Kardashians. She called it my happy place. CRACKED.COM

Ted Nugent

CRACKED.COM WHAT DOES MOTOR CITY MADMANTED NUGENT REQUIRE IN HIS DRESSING ROOM? MAN-SIZED KLEENEX! (IS THAT ACTUALLY A THING?)

Christina Aguilera

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Rihanna

On her 2010 World Tour, Rihanna's room had to have Archipelago Black Forest Candles. If the promoter couldn't get these, they had to contact Rihanna's people ASAP to find out which candles were her #2 choice. CRACKED.COM

Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey CRACKED.COM Carey demanded her dressing room contain 12 white Labrador puppies for an appearance on a British morning show. Doesn't she know that if you ever have more than 10 puppies in a room, a weird lady will try to make them into a coat?

Roger Moore

Roger Moore LIVE AND LET DIE CRACKED.COM In an extremely Bond-ian move, Moore haggled to get unlimited Montecristo cigars.

Kanye

VC e new muricol Before a speech at the Oxford Union (Oxford University's debate club), Kanye West wanted water bottles from the brand Volvic, but with the labels removed. CRACKED.COM

Fifth Harmony

CRACKED COM ING LOVES Normani of the band Fifth Harmony always requests applesauce in their contract riders, because she likes the texture. It reminds her of baby food.

Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman CRACKED.COM She pulled the movie star equivalent of calling dibs on top bunk: a contract clause that said no other cast member may receive more favorable dressing rooms.

Mary J. Blige

Mary J. Blige CRACKED.COM She requires every venue she performs at to install a factory-fresh toilet seat.

Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones asked for a 40-yard running track during the 2017 Coachella. The track was also air-conditioned. CRACKED.COM

Sean Connery

Sean Connery GOLDFINGER GRACKED COM Connery required that his name be 25% larger than any other cast member's on any promotional material for Goldfinger. Making him honestly, the perfect choice for a spy who's obsessed with telling people his name.

Cher

Cher CRACKED.COM She requires an entire separate room to keep her human hair wigs in.

Gary Busey

Gary Busey CRACKED.COM Busey once refused to film a scene set in heaven because the set was inaccurate. Busey had seen heaven during a near-death experience, and wanted to get it right, including the fact that there were apparently no mirrors in heaven.

Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck الا GONE GIRL B ... TH S CRACKED COM Affleck grew up in Massachusetts as a massive Red Sox fan. Enough so that he refused to wear a Yankees hat in the movie Gone Girl. Some people may call that unnecessary. Those people just don't understand friggin' loyalty, kid.

Lady Gaga

LADY GAGA ONCE INCLUDED A MANNEQUiN WiTH PUFFY PiNK PUBiC HAiR IN HER RIDER. GRACKED.COM

J-Lo

Jennifer Lopez doesn't like to be distracted by horrible colors. Her dressing-room rider requests a white white flowers, white tables, white room, drapes, white candles, white couches and tepid water. CRACKED.COM

Prince

Prince NEW GIRL CRACKED.COM Prince played himself on an episode of the show New Girl, and demanded that scenes including Khloe Kardashian and Kris Jenner be removed. They were. Reminding the Kardashians that no matter who you are... he's Prince.

Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen THE TOWERING INFERNO CRACKED.COM When McQueen starred opposite rival actor Paul Newman in The Towering Inferno, he insisted that the script be rewritten so that the two had the exact same number of lines. Surprised we never saw a spite-based line of McQueen's Own salad dressing.

Grimes

CRACKED.COM GRIMES likes playing with cute or fluffy creatures back- stage; at one point her rider asked for a Bulldog, French Bulldog, Pug, Pomeranian, chinchilla or Pekingese.

Jack White

CRACKED.COM Not only does Jack White insist on one bowl of fresh, chunky home-made guacamole in his dressing room... Не even provides a handy recipe to follow. GUACAMOLE RECIPE A 8 x large, ripe Hoos avocados (cur in holf the long way, remove the pit-SA VE THE PITS THOUGH-, and dice into large cubes with o butter knife. 3 or 4 stirs down, 3 or 4 across. You'll scoop out the chunks with a spoon careful to maintain the avocado in fairly large chunks.) AAAAAA 4x vine-ripened tomatoes (diced) 1/x x yellow onion (finely chopped) 1x full bunch cilantro (chopped) 4 x

CeeLo Green

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Carrot Top

CRACKED.COM Carrot Top makes sure someone is reading his rider by requesting a specific picture be painted or drawn with crayons. Не says the best drawing wins a little something. all

Adele

CRACKED.COM While on tour in North America, Adele explicitly forbade serving her North American beer.

Beyonce

Beyonce's dressing room has to be at exactly 78 degrees - no more, no less. CRACKED.COM

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