John Travolta’s hotel rider: he will only be massaged by men & he brings his own sheets to hotels. Also, aluminum foil on the windows. [The Blemish]
Ew, Zac Efron looks so ‘roidy in this photo. [Wonderwall]
Michelle Monaghan in satin polka dots… meh. [Go Fug Yourself]
Ava DuVernay got a job and it involves fashion! [LaineyGossip]
Is Axl Rose joining AC/DC? [Dlisted]
Julianne Hough looks different to me. Her brows, maybe? [Moe Jackson]
Brooks Ayers claims he’s really & truly sick. [Reality Tea]
Rhonda Rousey looks nice here. [Popoholic]
Does Kim Kardashian have a Turkish body double? [Starcasm]
Miley Cyrus celebrates the 10th anniversary of Hannah Montana. [Socialite Life]
An essay from a woman who regrets motherhood. [XOJane]
James Franco talks about his college classes. [OMG Blog]
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I work in a 5-star hotel in which guests pay twice as much for a night than I make in a whole month, and bringing own sheets doesn’t seem odd too me – those things are disgusting, even in a so called luxurious place and I truly understand it. If I were rich, I’d probably travel with my own mattress. As for all the other stuff – he’s John Travolta, I expected nothing less.
I bring my own sheets and pillow cases ! Those sheets are gross and you don’t know if they’ve even been washed. I also bring a thin blanket so I don’t have to touch the comforter (yuck).
Me too. I bring my own sheets, pillowcases and A BIG CAN OF LYSOL. I lysol the crap out of the fixtures, door knobs and remotes.
@ Borgqueen
Yes, can’t forget the Lysol ! I spray it all down too, every little thing ! I saw an undercover news report once, the cleaning staff would use the SAME dirty rag to clean each bathroom. They use the rag on the toilet, on the counters, and sinks, and also the drinking glasses and then use the same rag for the next room, and next room…just spreading gross germs. I can’t…I just can’t lol.
Ummm…really? Because I stay at Sofitel a lot. The sheets smell clean….so they’re not? I already spend ten min wiping the room down with antibacterial wipes and now I have to bring my own sheets too?
I just want to know what kind of arrangement JT has with his wife. I love his Bob Shapiro in ACS.
I don’t work in rooms, but my colleagues who work as maids say that they usually use 2 rugs (one for the toilets and the other one for everything else) to clean 2 or 3 hotel rooms, because they won’t get more. They don’t clean the toilet and the table with the same one (they say they don’t), but there’s a big chance your toilet was cleaned with the same rug as your neighbors’. The owners sleep on cash, but try to save on everything – cleaning supplies included.
There is not enough employees, so one maid has to clean apx. 10 rooms, which is a lot and when they’re running out of time, they have to skip some steps – usually it’s vacuuming, but when there’s some dirt on the floor and the sheets seem clean, they won’t change the sheets. But even when they do – it doesn’t mean it’s completely hygienic. 1) Excuse me for being graphic, but the mattresses are the dirtiest things in the world, because people are pigs and they regularly pee, shit and vomit on those things (their pets do that too). 2) In our hotel (again – 5 stars, so it should mean something), the sheets are washed on the special economy cycle, designed to save money, so everything is washed in a pretty low temperatures and each cycle lasts less than an hour. Then it’s transported and stored in dusty carts and closets – so it might smell clean, but it’s not exactly germ-free.
@ Norman Bates’s Mother
The chance of them getting the toilet rags and the “other” rags mixed up is easy as they are all white. You really can’t tell which is which. Either way, it’s obvious they are spreading germs by re-using the same rag for more than one room. That is very gross. Not only that, do you really think the cleaning staff changes their gloves after cleaning each washroom? They probably wear the same damn gloves to clean the bathroom and make the bed. Gross. I’d love to know how often the comforters get washed.
@me – They’re not white in our hotel. The toilet rags are red and the other ones are a different color. When the lady who checks the rooms sees that someone used the red rag on anything other than the toilet, the hell breaks loose, so I doubt any maid risks it. I can’t tell you about the gloves.
The entire situation is a viscous cycle. The general order from the hotel manager is that everything should be clean and that the maids should use a different rag for everything. The maids would like to do that as well, because they are the ones, who later have a contact with those germs, so it’s in their best interest to make everything clean and hygienic. But then – when they go to the laundry room, they only get a limited amount of rags, because the hotel owner, who also owns 20 other hotels and comes here twice a year, thinks that the person responsible for ordering supplies is spending too much money and put a stop on making new orders. But there’s zero communication between the manager and the owner, when it comes to the issue of supplies. When there is a complaint from the guests, he shouts at the poor maids for being slobs, who don’t want to use enough rags and when they try to explain the situation, no one will listen, cause they are just lowly cleaning ladies bad-mouthing a rich old man who employs them.
Rags ARE pretty pricey after all. 😉
@ Norman Bates’s Mother
Ultimately, it’s the owners of these hotels who should be responsible. I mean how much do rags even cost? They are cheap lol. I am sure when ANYTHING goes wrong, the cleaning staff are the ones who get the blame, which is not fair. They are just people trying to make a living. I am sure it’s probably the same situation with the gloves. They are probably only given a few to use per shift, which is so gross. But damn hotels make so much money. This stuff shouldn’t even be happening. Makes me wonder what else they do to save costs.
Stop it! Are you ever staying at a hotel knowing all of this? Ugh! I think I might start going camping…
oh sweet Jesus. Well, I’m 99% positive the sheets/duvet cover/pillowcases are pressed, as is laundry when I send it out. So even if it’s washed on a low temp cycle, the heat from the iron should kill anything.
I have encountered bedbugs in hostels plenty. But Sofitel is posh (presumably 5 star? Idk) and housekeeping pays attention to detail, so I figured I had better odds of escaping thoroughly disgusting surfaces. Will def be doing some recon when I’m there next month.
I remember seeing an expose on hotels during an episode of “market place” (Canadians will know what that is :P). and yeah even if the really expensive hotels weren’t that clean. They talked to a maid (her voice was modulated, face wasn’t shown) and she said that they aren’t given enough time. So some things either get skipped on or just get a quick wipe down.
The foil on the windows reminds me of Better Call Saul.
and Elvis, he did the foil on the windows too.. well his plebs did, had to be done beforehand.
And after reading the above about cleanliness of hotels – 5 star even – I got itchy just thinking about all the places I’ve stayed and ugh, the sheets and bathroom. I always thought it was the remote control that was the dirtiest thing in the room. And never drink out of any provided glasses.
Happy Easter everyone! Hope the weather is warm and the sun is shining on you and your family this weekend 🙂
Hmm. I sometimes bring my own duvet and pillow to our annual Tahoe timeshare, however, I always wonder what if the place has bed bugs? You certainly don’t want to bring those back to your own place! In hotels and other rental lodging, I check for bed bugs in mattress crevices.
I was staying at a place in NYC last summer…didn’t see any evidence of bed bugs but by the end of my 3 night stay, I did have two bites on my wrist that looked like the proverbial breakfast-lunch pattern of a bed bug. I quarantined all our clothes at home and no sign of them further.
I always wonder about the germ factor of the blankets, bedspreads, tv remote, carpet but hadn’t heard about a rag being used for everything in all rooms–yuck!!! Will start packing my own anti-bac wipes!
I worry about bed bugs too. The thing is I make sure before I leave, I fold all sheets and put them in a tight bag and they go directly into the washer when I get home. There are ways to check for bed bugs. You lift up the corner of the mattress and check for small red spots (at least that’s what I was told). Either way hotels are gross, no matter how expensive.
It makes sense that some people are creeped out by hotel sheets but we are talking about John Travolta here. Somehow I dont think the man who was widely reported to frequent bath houses is too hygiene conscious. I think its a precautionary measure to keep the bedsheets from turning into tabloid evidence. Imagine if someone could prove that his bed sheets contained semen from another man. Not even Marty Singers threat of court action could stop a tabloid from publishing that. Also, the obsessive blacking out of his hotel room windows is very telling.
I read an interview with JT once where he made a reference to cutting out all the tags in his clothing because they scratch him – which, btw, is a symptom of ADHD (because your brain can’t block out the nerve signals). Dude has sensitive skin, he probably brings 600-thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets with him.
I have to cut my labels as well.They do scratch.Or some long sleeved tops I have to wear inside out so all stitching is out as some especially with lycra they have little piece of plastic inbetween to keep stitching in place. I used to work in hotel as maid during half term and weekends in collage years ago and I was told to take used towel from floor (that needed to be replaced)and clean bathroom with it -glasses everithing.I remember how deputy head of housekeeping said make sure u do glasses first and then sink bath ant toilet last no other way round…(like this is just ok thst u used that person towel to clean their bathroom-but if they’ve been to wet been told to use dry towel from other room).Bedspreads r never changed only after really big accidend -vomit,poobor blood.Iven when guest spilled something it was just let dried (if no visible demage)and used again.This was 4+ hotel.And since i bring my Dettol wipes everywhere and towels as well.Sheets were used new every day .So sheets dont bother me.
Yup – I would definitely bring my own mattress, too, if I had the money. I actually worked with a musician who travels with his own mattress and while he’s an eccentric jerk whom EVERYONE is terrified of offending but talks sh*t about him behind his back ALL THE TIME, that was one point I didn’t disagree with him. He also travels with his own (young & hot male) masseuse and (not so young & hot) chiropractor – and doesn’t have as nearly as much money as Travolta – so clearly, JT needs new management.
Lol it’s all a bit silly… what is going to happen if you’re exposed to a few germs? Ohh the dangers of a stronger immune system! And don’t give me any “ohh my cousin’s friend’s sister’s kid has no immune blah blah danger”
If something isn’t visibly dirty, get over it. Like don’t lick the toilet or eat off the floor and you’ll probably be fine. If you’re that worried, wear flip flops in the shower. Your skin is your largest organ and is there to keep nasties our of your body. Your butt cheeks touching a not 100% sanitised toilet seat is not dangerous to you.
Antibacterial-ing everything you ever come in contact with is so bad – helping breed superbugs. My dad is a mircobiologist! It’s the truth.
You can live how you like and so can others. Why does it bother you if people like to be clean? Yeah who loves sleeping on unwashed sheets with semen from the previous person who stayed in your room? Do you have any idea the type of crap that goes on in hotel rooms? It’s f*cking disgusting. You go ahead and sit on that germy public toilet seat and sleep in those sheets. Some of us aren’t in to that.
@word,
you’re exaggerating and twisting Sarah’s words.
No one wants to sleep on dirty sheets. No one wants to use an obviously dirty toilet. However, if you can’t tell something’s dirty, it’s likely not a threat to your health, and, therefore, talking about wiping everything down does seem extreme and unnecessary.
LOL ok seriously, who would believe that body double is Kim? They are no where near the same size. Also, they do look a lot alike in the face…but remember that’s not Kim’s real face.
Zac Efron has always been in shape. Why did he have to go all Hulk just to play a lifeguard? That makes no sense. Not a fan of that.
Happy Easter to those who celebrate it, and to those who don’t Happy Weekend!
Thank you! Enjoy the Easter weekend!
Happy Easter! All the chocolate bunnies!
I was going to post something snarky about John Travolta requesting hot, male massage therapists, but indeed, he doesn’t even hide it anymore, not even after the scandal from a couple of years ago. I’m apalled. If I owned a massage parlour, I would only offer him the Brunhildes of my stuff.
He is sketchy as heck
I think Julianne H got her lips pumped, and she is wearing way more eye makeup then usual..and maybe her brows are a little more grown in too…
Happy Easter/Happy weekend to all! It’s Peeps time!!!🐰
John Travolta needs to lay of those wiglets.
Wow, Kim and that model both have lips that look waaay too big. Gross. I will jump for joy when the natural look comes back into style. At least get natural looking injections/surgery
I think it’s funny that people just assume there was a random doppleganger for Kim out there and don’t realize this Turkish woman had work done specifically to look like Kim….obvious nose jobs, lip injections, cheeky stuff, boobs, everything she could do to herself to look like Kim. This is what the world’s come to? Somebody kill me now.
That xojane mom is TERRIBLE. All I hear is ME, ME, ME. 1) why the hell is she married and a mother at 20 years old?? 2) All I hear is that life isn’t all about her anymore. She cares more about having a perfect flat stomach and being ‘beautiful’ than caring for her own child. She lost the baby weight in two weeks, yet was STILL consumed by her vanity. What a piece of work. This is not the voice of PPD either. She is simply a horrible person.
No, i have to disagree. She is not a terrible mother. She is a hormonal, exhausted mother with little to no sleep. If i have to call someone terrible, it would be the husband/ father. Having eye surgery after the wife just gave birth sounds like something only an inconsiderate person would do. He has to help more around the house, and give his wife some much needed emotional support. Poor lady no wonder she is miserable.
I disagree that she’s terrible, as well. This is only temporary, in fact I was sure that a “regret” story would’ve been about a mom who was 1 year out, 5 years out, maybe even 10, but 8 weeks? Yeah, she’s got time. In time, she may change her mind, weigh the pros to the cons and think of these first two months as a stepping stone. I’ve had 5 and had legitimate regret after my second born. Idk why, but now? I couldn’t live without her, she’s an awesome person and looks exactly like me.
I do agree that she needs more support. Maybe he needed emergency surgery, Idk, but it put her in a tough situation, similar to single motherhood, and that’s never easy. As far as her age? Please, there’s nothing wrong with being 20 and married with a child.
And I totally understand the vanity of trying to get your body back. Most of us do, and that pudding that replaces your former abs, is a bunch of boo, boo. Don’t even get me started. Never owned a hard body, but that after baby tummy was just depressing. Happy Easter!
She’s only 8 weeks at the time of the article. Her hormones are kicking her mental state in the ass. She’s not terrible. She’s admitting – publicly – to something that happens to a BUNCH of us. She’s too new to this to regret motherhood, but she FEELS like everything is over. Her husband had surgeries, so she’s getting no help with either the baby or recovering her body. She will improve, but her current state is something that happens to a lot of women post-childbirth. It’s valid, and it doesn’t make her vain or selfish.
I think it was a bit early to be blogging about it because she will get hammered when this thing goes viral, and that won’t help her get better from all this.
That said, seeing that will make other moms who are self-flagellating with guilt over similar feelings understand that they are not alone.
Motherhood is not bullsh**…but it feels like it from time to time.
This. I think this woman doesn’t really express herself too well. “I regret being a mother” is, quite literally, one of the sentences people would most hammer you for if you say them out loud in a medium as public as a forum. But she’s basically just describing post-partum depression.
My first impulse was “wow, what a horrible person.” But when she talked about the knife drawer, it became clear that she is struggling with mental illness or severe PPD. Being hormonal, exhausted and stressed is normal during the postpartum period – suicidal is not.
Based on the attached photos, John Travolta has very hairy hands.. ick! maybe the stuff he used to grow his hair on his head back made him hairy everywhere else.. jajajaja
And to all the peeps in the EU.. lots of love and thoughts to anyone affected by what happened in Belgium .. this world is a scary place.. CB is a great escape
But xojane article rAng very true and familiar to me, But I feel the other might regret writing such a scathing article About how motherhood sucks and she’s totally Tied down And hates the restrictive lifestyle of a stay-at-home mother at only 8 weeks postpartum.
Oh, I don’t know about regret. Some people might judge her, but they would be the types who judges everything anyway. Any sensible person would know motherhood can be very hard. My mother said she hated being so huge when pregnant, and not being able to regain her figure afterwards. She admitted to going a bit crazy when my sister and I cried so much and she didn’t have any adults to talk to for much of the day. She also said she’s always loved us, and that she began to appreciate motherhood as we grew older, so I have no problem with her honesty.
I think an important part of modern feminism is having choices. For so many of us, all we’ve heard is blah blah gift of life, motherhood is bliss. In order to make the best choice it is important to hear all sides to the story. Some women absolutely regret having a child and had they known the truth would perhaps chosen otherwise (if they even had a choice to begin with). A friend just had a baby and had an absolutely brutal birth experience (two rips and a cut, massive blood loss). She had no idea birth was so gory and wished someone had shared that with her. She’s an intelligent woman but didn’t get the personal insight to know what was possible.
The picture of Franco is life.
I used to really like Travolta, these days he is just creepy. His acting in the OJ miniseries is positively atrocious.
Travolta brings his own sheets so there is “evidence” left behind of his activities.
He was in Whistler staying at the Chateau. When he went to the spa he requested a male to massage him. He asked the masseuse to use his elbow to massage a certain part of his anatomy. Travolta was asked to leave. This is a true story. It happened about nine years ago. Gross!