Mariah Carey had her request to be surrounded by 20 white kittens and 100 white doves as she turns on Christmas lights at the Westfield shopping center in West London denied on the grounds that she’s batshit crazy.
The list – known in showbusiness circles as a ‘rider’ – included being driven by Rolls Royce along a pink carpet right to the pink podium where she is to wave a wand to turn on the lights.
A source revealed the model of car had to be changed six times before she was finally happy.
Miss Carey, 39, wants confetti shaped like butterflies, her favourite insect, to shower over her at the end. She has also requested an entourage of 15 along with about 80 security guards.
However, it appears her demands for white kittens and doves – which were already proving difficult to track down – were just too much for her hosts.A source said: ‘We did manage to source the doves that we were going to release into the sky, but the kittens proved terribly difficult.
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‘In the end, it was made clear that due to health and safety, there was no way we could have the animals at Westfield.
It’s frustrating to know that those were the only demands that weren’t met. Celebrities are like terrorists except they’re more successful in their negotiations. If a bank robber with hostages had the same list of demands, there would be no less than 15 snipers ready to shoot them in the head the minute they go near a window.
