34 Notoriously Bad Celebrity Tippers

by Deb on April 24, 2008

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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:

  1. Madonna - Doesn’t always leave a tip, when she does it’s a cheap one.
  2. Kelly Presten – Notoriously bad tipper. Most of the time she doesn’t leave a tip at all.
  3. Gwyneth Paltrow – Doesn’t leave a decent tip. It’s speculated she has trouble calculating the proper percentage.
  4. 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.
  5. Tobey Maguire – Doesn’t always leave a tip, and when he does it isn’t generous.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Bobby Brown – Rude to wait staff, lets his kids run amuk and left a $10 gratuity on a $250 restaurant tab.
  9. 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?
  10. Kirsten Dunst – According to one server she’s whiny and smells bad. Left nothing behind after racking up a $223 bill.
  11. Dan Marino – Wouldn’t talk to server directly, had to have a member of his entourage handle it. Tipped $10 on $210.
  12. David Lee Roth – Is known to be demanding and send food back. Tips 10%.
  13. 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.
  14. Rupert Everett – Listed as one of the worst tippers ever.
  15. David Byrne – The Talking Heads frontman is considered one of the worst tippers ever because he doesn’t leave anything, ever.
  16. Molly Ringwald – Bar tab was the equivalent of twenty-five cents for each round of drinks her large entourage consumed.
  17. Diddy – Left a $40 tip for his meal – a dinner for 15 people.
  18. Richard Dreyfuss – Bad tipper and high maintenance “whiny” client.
  19. Michael Moore – Once left less than $20 on a bill totally $452.52.
  20. Jesse Jackson – Left $20 on a $228 tab.
  21. John Kerry – Left $20 on a tab of over $700!
  22. 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.
  23. Tiger Woods – Doesn’t tip because he says he doesn’t carry cash.
  24. Usher - Never tips and always tries to get someone else to pick up the bill.
  25. Rachel Ray – Tipped $1 on a $10 tab. Probably didn’t want to go under her $40 a day allowance.
  26. Victoria Beckham and Katie Holmes – Dined together in an upscale restaurant and didn’t leave a tip.
  27. Tom Green – Once left $15 on a $175 tab.
  28. Paul McCartney – Once left a restaurant too drunk to leave a tip.
  29. 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.
  30. Marty Stuart – Leaves 7% – his wife is very demanding.
  31. Don Henley – Very demanding, keeps staff members on their toes, tips 15%.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. Marion Jones – Left $3 on a $45 tab.

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Anok October 7, 2009 at 9:37 pm

Here’s an idea – do what we used to do when the “big players” used to try and come into our restaurant after several other places and accounts had reported that they refuse to tip at all (even crossing out the added gratuity for large parties right off the bill, taking up the entire dining room, and not tipping eeh staff who worked only for them all night long).

REFUSE TO SERVE THEM.

The “superstar” execs from the big company that constantly did this to servers found that they no longer had a place to throw lavish dinner parties because every restaurant in town black balled them. And they were quite vocal about why.

I don’t care who you are…but if you don’t want to pay for service, then you won’t get service.

KyLyoness40391 October 8, 2009 at 4:20 am

PDXFOODDUDE has the most sensible take on the subject..and I pretty much agree with everything he had to say…As a server I am proud to say that I believe that I am an above average server 95% of the time yes I can occasionally “Get in the Weeds” and my service is not what I would like it to be and I understand when my tip might not be as high as normally expected..I take it like a woman and go on..But when I am on game and give excellent service and receive $4 on a $100 yes I turn into one of those whinny complainers that some of you like to vent about…But let me throw this out If you go to lets say, your auto mechanic and get a new set of tires and you decide that they were too slow at putting them on and getting you back on the road or maybe you go to the family doctor and decide your wait is too slow and you decide that you are just going to pay these professionals just 10% or so of their bills because you think thats all they deserve…hmmm well that just wouldnt go over at all would it?!!So why do people think it is acceptable to do that to their servers IF they provide you with the excellent you are expecting???….As for the celebrities that is not the majority of clientel at most establishments so its really not of importance to most of us servers…To all my fellow servers remember the good does come with the bad and to keep your head up because that next table will probaly make up for that demanding 10 top that tipped you 5% on a 300 dollar bill!!!

Lucifer Haynes October 8, 2009 at 4:57 am

Ah be a black niggah an’ I never be tippin’ the white man be cuz be keepin’ me down

rufusdufus January 4, 2010 at 6:51 am

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LOLcakes January 5, 2010 at 10:35 pm

There is no tipping in Asia and service is excellent….why? BECAUSE ITS YOUR JOB.

wayne January 8, 2010 at 8:08 pm

only white trash like dog the bountyhunter could spend 250.00 at a Chilies but then again look at his huge ass wife ! everyone knows blacks dont tip anyway so why is this list suprising ? furthermore 10 dollars is enough of a tip for a waiter waiting on 2 to 4 people 15 max this whole ides that I sould tip a perchentage of the cost of my meal is ridiculous the waiter is doing the same amount of work for a 20 dollar mael that he is doing for a 100 meal

Chasity February 5, 2010 at 3:48 pm

O WOW ! ALL DEM CELEBRITY R UGH EWWW . “Bobby Brown Mariah Carey Marty Stuart Usher Bobby Brown Bill Cosby” .

Chasity February 5, 2010 at 3:51 pm

O WOW ! ALL DEM CELEBRITY R UGH EWWW . “Bobby Brown Mariah Carey, Marty Stuart, Usher, Bobby Brown, Bill Cosby” .

kelly March 12, 2010 at 5:33 am

Why don’t all of you bust your ass on your feet for hours in a row & then think you don’t deserve a tip. It’s common sense. You tip at a restaurant, when you get your hair cut, when you valet park your car, get your car washed, etc…. it’s common knowledge.
Are we not supposed to put money in people’s jar when they are performing on the street trying to make a buck or are they just playing because they like to?
LOL cakes- go wait tables for one shift. I bet you couldn’t handle the first hour. This Country knows to tip. You’re all a bunch of cheap asses!! Don’t go out to eat if you can’t afford to tip. From the looks of it, none of you that comment can spell correctly, so why on earth would you have enough brains to know that a lot of jobs IN THIS COUNTRY rely on tips!
Wake up. It’s 2010.

Mike March 16, 2010 at 8:30 pm

Add Jeff Donovan to the list. $1.41 on $38.59 for a moderately upscale lunch in Miami.

james March 16, 2010 at 9:43 pm

Elvis Costello sucks at tipping

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