34 Notoriously Bad Celebrity Tippers
You’d think with all their money, celebrities would be good tippers. This isn’t always the case. Certain celebrities are notoriously bad tippers. Check it out:
- Madonna - Doesn’t always leave a tip, when she does it’s a cheap one.
- Kelly Presten - Notoriously bad tipper. Most of the time she doesn’t leave a tip at all.
- Gwyneth Paltrow - Doesn’t leave a decent tip. It’s speculated she has trouble calculating the proper percentage.
- Barbra Streisand - Doesn’t always tip. When she does it’s $10 for a bill of over $450. She’s very high maintenance and demanding and no one ever wants to wait on her.
- Tobey Maguire - Doesn’t always leave a tip, and when he does it isn’t generous.
- Bill Cosby - Once left a $3 tip on a $350 order. He probably thinks the waitstaff needs to stop taking from others and get a real job.
- Ricki Lake - Once left a tip of $8.00 on a $142.44 bill. This after she let her young son run around the restaurant unattended - and he supposedly made a big mess.
- Bobby Brown - Rude to wait staff, lets his kids run amuk and left a $10 gratuity on a $250 restaurant tab.
- Sean Penn - He and three others had New Orleans waiters waiting on them hand and foot. The tip left on a $450 tab? Absolutely nothing. There are lots of instances of Sean Penn stiffing waitstaff. How many people do you think have spit in his food by now?
- Kirsten Dunst - According to one server she’s whiny and smells bad. Left nothing behind after racking up a $223 bill.
- Dan Marino - Wouldn’t talk to server directly, had to have a member of his entourage handle it. Tipped $10 on $210.
- David Lee Roth - Is known to be demanding and send food back. Tips 10%.
- Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman - He and his wife are considered to be very high maintenance. They expect the VIP treatment and only tip %5. At a TGI Fridays in Waikiki they paid $10 for a $250 tab.
- Rupert Everett - Listed as one of the worst tippers ever.
- David Byrne - The Talking Heads frontman is considered one of the worst tippers ever because he doesn’t leave anything, ever.
- Molly Ringwald - Bar tab was the equivalent of twenty-five cents for each round of drinks her large entourage consumed.
- Diddy - Left a $40 tip for his meal - a dinner for 15 people.
- Richard Dreyfuss - Bad tipper and high maintenance “whiny” client.
- Michael Moore - Once left less than $20 on a bill totally $452.52.
- Jesse Jackson - Left $20 on a $228 tab.
- John Kerry - Left $20 on a tab of over $700!
- Britney Spears - Once tipped a valet by dropping change on the ground and telling him “there’s your tip”. Also paid a $26 tip on a $500 tab.
- Tiger Woods - Doesn’t tip because he says he doesn’t carry cash.
- Usher - Never tips and always tries to get someone else to pick up the bill.
- Rachel Ray - Tipped $1 on a $10 tab. Probably didn’t want to go under her $40 a day allowance.
- Victoria Beckham and Katie Holmes - Dined together in an upscale restaurant and didn’t leave a tip.
- Tom Green - Once left $15 on a $175 tab.
- Paul McCartney - Once left a restaurant too drunk to leave a tip.
- Regis - Once left cruise staff a $60 tip for an entire week’s worth of personal service. His wife is said to be very high maintenance and the ship’s crew was happy when she left two days early.
- Marty Stuart - Leaves 7% - his wife is very demanding.
- Don Henley - Very demanding, keeps staff members on their toes, tips 15%.
- D’Angelo - Once left $7.00 on a $250 tab. The tab should have been over $500, mind you, but the r&b singer and his entourage nagged until they got a discount.
- Mariah Carey - Once had her people call ahead to a restaurant to let them know she was arriving with a very large party. The restaurant stayed open late, and Mariah and crew were very diva-ish with their demands. Despite keeping staffers jumping and a high tab, no one left a tip.
- Marion Jones - Left $3 on a $45 tab.
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23 comments
Hmmm… I will look at these names and remember them. I won’t pay to see their movies or to listen to their music. When I do it is basically a tip since you can get all that stuff for free anyway. What comes around goes around.
Right, because you have heard one story from each of them I’m sure you know their tipping patterns. Maybe the TGI Fridays that you and your friends work at are lousy at what you do so you dont get tipped well
proof?
and where is the proof? this list could be made up speculation.
Most restaurants charge an automatic 15% gratuity on large orders and or parties. The more posh the establishment, the more likely they do autograt.
In the EU 10% is the norm. Which is exactly what some of these allegedly gave. Some sources would have been nice.
Granted, because they have made a large fortune off of a reputation, they should be a little more generous and try to give back. This whining about tips is getting old. Maybe they didn’t like the service. And If they are being charged ridiculous prices for meals, percentages shouldn’t apply. 10% used to be acceptable and now it makes the list of bad tippers? Businesses pay you less while you complain about the consumers not making it up in tips. Only in America do people complain about not getting hand-outs while the large business reaps the benefits.
Proof or it never happened!
How about a list now of the big tippers?
you auto-grat me, you aren’t getting another cent
you don’t auto-grat me, you’re probably getting 25%
@candyaddict - It’s in the works…
The Dog spent $250 at a TGI Friday’s. WTF? Who does that?
In North Carolina as a professional waiter that makes $2.40 an hour I would like to explain why tip percentage has gone up. Cost of living and minimum wage increases have never made my wage go up in the ten years I have been waiting tables, but it has been reduced twice. I work in a 4.5 star environment and we never autograt at dinner. The reason I make 20 percent (at least) is because I earn the tip. I am not owed anything. AutoGrat is somewhat the norm on large parties and alot of people assumed the grat is added if you got a zero tip. I get to proudly tell large parties that we never add gratuity we earn it. TGI fridays give me a break
the standard tip has now gone up to 15%, and that if the server just gets your order right and brings you refills on your beverage. Plus if you have never served or been involved with the food industry i dont think you should even be allowed in a resturant. that would solve alot of the cheapoes.
Here’s a few more.
I worked in an A.C. Casino for 15 years. Ben Affleck was playing poker and winning big while J-Lo hovered nearby demanding drinks (stiffing the waitress) and playing Diva. Ben won a little over $10,000 and at the end of his play, he threw the dealer a $500. tip. J-Lo jumped in, took it back and threw two $25 cheques back to the dealer. It wasn’t even her money and she was being stingy with it. Thank God Ben divorced that cheap whore.
Dennis Rodman is another stiff. The dealer on a craps game gave change back to Rodman that included a white $1 cheque. Rodman cursed at the dealer and threw the cheque away in ignorant fashion like he was too good to take a dollar cheque. Unfortunately, in doing so, he hit some old lady in the head with the cheque. When she saw the orange-green hair and realized who he was, she started makikng a big fuss over how “hurt ” she was. Dennis threw the bitch a $100 cheque and told her to go the F*** away which she promptly did. She got her reward for bad acting and couldn’t run to the cage fast enough to cash in.
The dealers got nothing.
Roger King got a Host fired because he couldn’t find a couple decent Atlantic City Hookers to pleasure him. (Really, there’s no such thing!) The host threatened to go to the DGE (Div. of Gaming Enforcement) and complain. The host was hired back and paid for all his lost hours, AFTER King went home. Can’t go against the favored clientelle, at least not to their fat f***ing face.
\Gene Hart, the “Voice of the Philadelphia Flyers”, before he passed away was loud obnoxius and never never never EVER tipped. Good riddance I say.
When you are spending big, you can’t expect tips to be in the regular 15-20% range. A server doesn’t deserve 20% on a $300 bottle of wine, because they are doing the same work as a $30 bottle. Tipping should be relative to work done, not cost of meal.
Tipping is not a compulsary thing. Be thankfull they do tip when they do.
BTW i work in a high level food establishment in London. A few of the people above visit. If they tip fair enough, its not the end of the world if they dont.
It’s all well and good to say that the T(o)I(nsure)P(omptnous) should be on work performed, but we pay TAXES on a percentage of the bill, whether there is a TIP or not. When restaurants begin paying their staff a proper wage, and not expect the customer to subsidise the staff’s wages, then maybe servers will reduce the airing of grievences. It’s always the rich pukes that demand everything for nothing. I used to work in the service industry, and I always TIP at least 20%, if the service is good. I really hate auto-tip on up to a 6-top.
You can’t keep Don Henley on the list. 15% is customary. 20% is better, but, only if they did a really good job. Anything else is gravy. Anything less is crap. But, if someone is giving 15%, you can’t say he/she is a bad tipper.
Some establishments, staff and service get the tips they deserve..period. I love to see them choke on crappy tips.,
Especially when the tip reflects the food or service, not to mention the personal hygene of the wait staff.
I guess I must be crazy, if all these people with money tip so bad. My tips start at 20% and can go up or down based on service.
and whats wrong with 15 percent?,(henley)
thats no where near a bad tip!!
michael….why doesnt your owner pay for your work. then tips are not expected. ..if your making 2.40 an hour, your owner is getting over. I know you dont claim all that tip money either….
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