From Lady Gaga’s 24-hour assistant to Shirley MacLaine’s personal cocktail maker and Snoop Dogg’s full-time blunt roller: a look at the ridiculous jobs A-listers have hired people for

Many celebrities have hired people to meet their demands, be at their beck and call, and manage the staff.

Whether it’s a full-time stump roller, personal back scratchers, someone to escort you up and down a flight of stairs or a 24/7 assistant who even has to sleep in the star’s bed, it seems like there’s something for literally everything a career within Hollywood. .

Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Lady Gaga and Robert De Niro are among the stars who have hired ordinary people for very special jobs.

Celebrities often pay a handsome sum to compensate an assistant with an unusual request.

And Shirley MacLaine is the latest celebrity to hire someone for a crazy 24/7 job and become her personal cocktail maker.

She is looking for a personal assistant who can make her a fancy cocktail every night, whenever she wants.

Here, MailOnline looks at the ridiculous jobs celebrities have taken up.

Shirley MacLaine – personal cocktail maker

Shirley MacLaine is looking for a personal assistant who can make her a cocktail every evening.

The Hollywood icon, 90, is looking for a new personal assistant who can fulfill a very specific requirement: enjoying a ‘cocktail’ with her every evening.

The actress seems to be in a particularly reflective mood lately, with insiders telling DailyMail.com that whoever gets the job should be able to ‘discuss her films and career’ while they sip their drinks.

With a celebrated career that has seen her shine on both screen and Broadway, Shirley certainly has an abundance of stories to share with a future collaborator.

‘Shirley recently asked friends if they could recommend her a personal assistant. She gave her friends a short list of requirements for the job, the insider told MailOnline exclusively.

‘The key requirements she has set are that applicants must be available for a cocktail with her at 5pm and be able to discuss her films and career afterwards. Night after night.’

Naturally, the Steel Magnolias actress was asked by friends if there were any other qualities she would like her future assistant to have.

The source added, “When someone close to her asked if there was anything else going on, the Oscar winner shrugged her shoulders and said she thought that would be enough.”

As well as being able to spend quality time enjoying drinks with the acting legend, the actress has promised to be ‘very generous’ when it comes to pay – which is negotiable.

Snoop Dogg – full-time blunt roller

Rap legend Snoop Dogg made headlines when it was revealed that he has a full-time blunt roller that he pays $50,000 a year.

The flamboyant American rapper, 53, has been a full-time joint roller since 2016, with his former employee once revealing he smokes up to 150 marijuana blunts a day.

In 2022, his collaborator known as Renegade revealed that she had rolled more than 450,000 joints for Snoop during that time.

‘I calculate it at more than 450,000. I eat about half a pound a day, which is 75 to 150 joints,” she told radio hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie “O” Henderson.

Kyle said he once spent time in California with Snoop, who told him he learned how to roll joints from the late hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur.

“He said, ‘I’m going to teach you something Tupac taught me,’ and he showed me how to roll a blunt,” Kyle explained.

Mariah Carey – stair aid

Pop diva Mariah Carey, 55, is said to have demanded a ‘stairs assistant’ when she appeared on British comedian Alan Carr’s The Friday Night Project.

She famously “doesn’t do stairs,” but how she gets around isn’t the only question Mariah is particularly asking about.

The rumor about Mariah’s transport demands was started by Alan Carr who, after the singer’s appearance on Channel 4’s The Friday Night Project in 2008, claimed she demanded a ‘stairs assistant’.

But the star has made other demands, including once ordering her dressing room to be divided into two: a “comfortable living area” on one side and a “makeup and hair area” on the other.

Busy patterns on any surface were strictly prohibited, a full dinner and tea set had to be available and only a £200 bottle of vintage Bordeaux would suffice.

Mariah also reportedly once asked for twenty white kittens and a hundred white doves in her dressing room and needed an assistant to hand her gum.

Another rumor has it that she once demanded vitamin water, not so she could drink it, but so she could wash her dogs.

Lady Gaga – 24/7 assistant

38-year-old Lady Gaga is said to have demanded that her former friend and assistant Jennifer O’Neill be available 24/7 and even sleep in the same bed.

Jennifer sued the singer, seeking nearly $400,000 in overtime, plus further damages, after serving on Gaga’s “beck and call” from 2009 to 2011.

She worked for the singer for one to two months in early 2009 and for 13 months from February 2010.

The judge said both parties agreed that she was expected to be available at all hours of the day when needed.

Judge Paul Gardephe ruled that Jennifer’s on-call time may be eligible for overtime compensation.

Jennifer said she was paid a lump sum of about $50,000 a year when she was first hired and $75,000 a year the second time by the pop singer, who in a list published by Forbes magazine is estimated to have earned $80 million in the first six months of her career. this year.

Gardephe noted that attorneys said Gaga, listed in the lawsuit by her birth name — Stefani Germanotta — and Jennifer often slept in the same bed because Jennifer never had her own hotel room while on tour and had to attend to Gaga’s needs all night.

Jennifer had stated in a statement that when Gaga was watching a DVD in the middle of the night and got tired of it, she would wake her up to take the DVD out and replace it.

“Every day is a work day for her, so every day is a work day for the rest of us,” she said.

“There’s no, ‘We’re staying in, we’re going to sleep.’ There’s no, “Let’s put on sweatpants, go to the movies and be friends.” It doesn’t work that way,” Jennifer said.

She claimed she worked 7,168 hours of unpaid overtime and now owes more than $380,000, according to a report in the New York Post.

In her statement, Gaga had testified, “You are not given a schedule. You don’t get a schedule where you switch on and play at your desk for four hours and then switch off at the end of the day. This is the moment I need you, you are available.’

Robert De Niro – personal back scratcher

Robert De Niro, 81, admitted in a Manhattan court in 2023 that he ordered his former “office wife’s” assistant to scratch his back and angrily declared, “You got me!”

It was revealed in court that he treated her like an ‘office lady’ and asked her to perform menial tasks including washing his sheets and scratching his back.

The actor faced allegations that he discriminated against his former assistant Graham Chase Robinson in a four-year legal battle that went to trial last October.

His former collaborator Graham accused the actor of gender discrimination while working for his company Canal Productions.

Robert’s company initially sued Graham for improperly spending the company’s accounts.

On the second day of the trial, Robert became nervous and furious as he took the stand to fight allegations that he had subjected Graham to years of profanity, unwanted physical advances and misogyny.

In a surprising moment, while on the stand, the Oscar-winning actor confronted his accuser and said before a stunned courtroom, “Shame on you, Chase Robinson! God da**it! I’m sorry.’

Graham began working for Robert in 2008 as his assistant and eventually rose to vice president of Canal Productions. It was reported that she had a salary of $300,000 when she resigned in April 2019.