Who was in charge of health and safety here? This isn't a stuffed tiger, or a fake tiger, that's a real-life tiger diving headlong through a kitchen window on the set of the 1981 movie 'Roar', The woman in the image, backing away from the danger, is Tippi Hedren. She starred in the film, along with Gregory the tiger, who was her pet. If you've never heard of 'Roar', then rest assured it's the sort of picture that would never be made today.
The premise of the film was an American family moving to Africa to see a famous veterinary scientist. CGI wasn't an option to create the animals back in 1981, and puppet work would have been obvious, so they went with a cast of real animals who were supposedly tame. You can probably guess how this story ends; 70 people who worked on 'Roar' received injuries from animals, and some of those injuries were severe, including a scalping.
To insure one’s house, one’s car or to underwrite a life insurance policy, that is common practice. But who would pay an insurance premium for his/her thumb, legs or smile? Stars, of course.
At the top of the ranking are the legs of Mariah Carey, worth 810 million USD: The diva became, in 2006, the Gillette brand muse for the advertising campaign «Legs of a Goddess». She then took out an insurance policy with London Lloyds to protect her legs, a decision that is far from being insignificant. Among its customers, the London insurer then included several icons of music, such as Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart.
David Beckham’s body insured for 195 million USD: European champion with Manchester United in 1999, David Beckham was in 2006 the most renowned footballer of the planet. In relation to his sporting activities, he took out an insurance cover for his legs. The huge amount paid for his insurance would reportedly exceed the 103 million USD disbursed by Real Madrid for the cover of Christiano Ronaldo in 2009. The fashion model would later extend his insurance cover to his entire body.
15 million USD in insurance for Kim Kardashian’s curves: The curves of Kim Kardashian are her number one beauty asset. The reality TV star, who is crazy about plastic surgery, has underwritten an insurance policy worth 15 million USD to protect her famous butt.
The culinary critic Egon Ronay assured his taste buds: The famous Hungarian culinary critic has insured his taste buds since 1957, for the amount of 400 000 USD. An original insurance policy which allows him to cover his sense of taste without which he will no longer be able to practice his job.