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Concierge.com posted a list of the world’s worst (celebrity, obvs) hotel guests. Most of them you’d expect. But…
As detailed in the book Great Reservations, by two former staffers of the Four Seasons Chicago (the project was shelved, sadly, just before it was about to debut, though excerpts made it into the press), [Nicole] Kidman issued demands that would make an obsessive-compulsive proud. Once, in advance of what was to be only a 12-hour stay, she had assistants ship a set of pink, 800-thread-count Italian sheets to the hotel, along with pages’ worth of diagrams and instructions for making up her bed. Then she never bothered to actually show up. And in 2006, the London Independent reported that Kidman had the staff at the Dorchester replace the standard 60-watt lightbulbs in her room with 40-watt bulbs. Perhaps she just needs a better makeup artist?
40-watt lightbulb? That’s like two candles and two whiskies.
(When I am 50 there will be a show on HBO called “The Six Wives of Xenu 8.0” and it will be all about Tom Cruise and his exes. Reanimated Tom Cruise will play Tom Cruise!)
