While some of the stories in our list are amusing or charming, this one is just gross. When she was only fourteen years old, Kimberley McCullough was asked to kiss a co-star while she was filming 'General Hospital.' That would have been fine, if it weren't for the age difference. The co-star in question was twenty-two years old. McCullough has never disclosed the identity of the co-star, but claims he was on set making sexually charged 'jokes' about kissing a minor on the day that the kiss was supposed to happen.
Needless to say, McCullough refused to go through with it. That wouldn't have been an easy decision to make or stand by as a child actor who was expected to do as they were told, but McCullough was resolute, and so, in the end, the director had to make do with a kiss on the cheek instead of the scene he wanted. You'd like to think that this would never be allowed to happen now.
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.