Page Six<\/a>, referring to the popular British television program.<\/p>\nDavies claimed that Twain \u201cdoesn\u2019t open doors\u201d, prompting her team to race ahead of her to ensure they reached each exit first.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were basically all running to the next door, the next door, the next door through the BBC corridors to make sure that when Shania started walking, she didn\u2019t have to slow down at any point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was quite fascinating to see \u2026 It was sort of like this regimented, rehearsed line that if someone faltered, if someone didn\u2019t get to the door before Shania did, they might be in trouble,\u201d he claimed, describing it as feeling \u201ca little bit overkill\u201d.<\/p>\n
The former stage manager then dubbed Jennifer Lopez the \u201csassiest\u201d celebrity he\u2019d ever encountered.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think she\u2019s sort of perhaps built a career on being the queen of sass in a way,\u201d Davies said.<\/p>\n
The founder of The Presenter Studio explained that he also worked with J Lo behind the scenes of the BBC\u2019s popular Top of the Pops program.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe had all her dressing rooms decorated in white,\u201d Davies recalled. \u201cIt was like this white plastic film that went everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Davies explained that the dressing rooms were \u201creally old-fashioned\u201d and small.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe managed to take over a whole corridor and got all of those rooms decked out [in] white, which for the BBC back in those days, this felt very unusual,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Davies also said that the Love Don\u2019t Cost A Thing singer required a white microphone on stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of time, money, and effort was spent on making sure that J Lo perhaps felt as sassy as what she kind of wants to be backstage,\u201d Davies said, adding, \u201cThat was fun to see.\u201d<\/p>\n
A rep for Twain had no comment when contacted by Page Six, while reps for Lopez did not return Page Six\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n
As for which celebrity had the biggest entourage, Davies said Madonna arrived on set with a massive posse.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only story I can kind of remember, which I suppose is quite a funny story to share, was Madonna had a really big entourage when she arrived,\u201d he said, noting that other singers like Macy Gray show up on their own.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone\u2019s got their very specific role within quite a big machine,\u201d he explained in regard to Madge\u2019s camp.<\/p>\n
Davies recalled a minor blip when Madonna\u2019s stylist \u201ccomically\u201d left all of the pop star\u2019s outfits back at her hotel, which was a far drive from the studio.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe kind of had that one job just to bring the outfits, but didn\u2019t bring them, which I thought was very funny,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cBut I didn\u2019t see any fireworks off the back of that, and certainly the fireworks would have been hidden from Madonna.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can still have a massive entourage, but sometimes the simple things don\u2019t quite go right,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Some celebrities may seem like divas onstage, but are anything but that behind the scenes.<\/p>\n
\u201cJanet Jackson was one where we were waiting for quite a long time for Janet to arrive and expecting Janet to be really late and just hanging out on the stage with all of Janet\u2019s back-up dancers,\u201d Davies recalled. \u201cEveryone was just assuming that Janet was going to be late until someone pointed out that Janet Jackson had been there the whole time and was just sitting on the studio floor just waiting for us rather than it being the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that was really sweet to see that sometimes you expect someone to be this huge diva and to make an entrance and actually she\u2019s just been waiting there for us the whole time, which I thought was really lovely.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unlike Jackson, Simon Cowell isn\u2019t very prompt, according to Davies.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve not worked with Simon Cowell for a long time, but I know he\u2019s famous for being incredibly late when it comes to the recording of his show,\u201d Davies said, adding, \u201cI think obviously as time has gone on, the world now waits for Simon Cowell rather than the other way around.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think sometimes being fashionably late can come with the status,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Other A-listers whom Davies has found to be surprisingly down-to-earth backstage include Britney Spears, the Spice Girls and Kylie Minogue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think so many of the stories that I have are about [famous] people being really normal, nice and sweet,\u201d Davies said, sharing that, in his experience, celebrities are often \u201cthe opposite\u201d of their public personas.<\/p>\n
This article originally appeared in Page Six<\/a> and was reproduced with permission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former BBC producer Gareth Davies \u2013 who has worked with some of the biggest female pop singers in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[287944,287936,287871,287942,287905,287899,261871,287898,287928,287897,287914,287872,287865,287881,280765,262433,287939,287879,287932,287880,287919,287916,287888,278962,287890,287873,150978,287943,287923,287908,287945,287895,287874,287863,1936,430,287935,100781,287882,6741,287867,156,287946,287937,287884,287891,8619,287896,287894,287918,287934,287913,4223,47629,30641,68081,25386,9897,38157,30126,230433,287902,1385,300,65643,111,139,287864,69,287893,287924,91775,28203,287906,287907,287927,7798,46912,287912,274220,287931,287868,1551,246157,215479,38480,287909,1516,5433,287860,287886,277406,261389,287876,287885,287917,287920,287887,279999,287870,287877,112384,285479,287929,287892,287921,287878,287915,287930,287900,287889,287904,287933,6987,287875,287901,287869,287883,271727,287861,287941,109982,287938,278954,262441,287926,265268,287862,287910,287903,287911,287947,287925,287940,287866,2044,3010,25728,58450,287922,16550],"class_list":["post-584872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-the-former-stage-manager","tag-s-biggest-divas","tag-s-back-up-dancers","tag-s-camp-davies","tag-s-outfits","tag-s-popular-top","tag-s-request","tag-s-stylist","tag-the-opposite","tag-famous-people","tag-a-career","tag-a-conga","tag-a-far-drive","tag-a-little-bit-overkill","tag-a-long-time","tag-a-lot","tag-a-massive-entourage","tag-a-massive-posse","tag-a-minor-blip","tag-a-really-big-entourage","tag-a-rep","tag-a-thing-singer","tag-a-top-producer","tag-a-way","tag-a-white-microphone","tag-a-whole-corridor","tag-a-listers","tag-all-her-dressing-rooms","tag-an-entrance","tag-an-exclusive-interview","tag-and-effort","tag-any-fireworks","tag-any-point","tag-biggest-divas","tag-britney-spears","tag-celebrities","tag-comment-as","tag-davies","tag-divas","tag-doors","tag-each-exit","tag-entertainment","tag-entourage","tag-every-door","tag-former-bbc-producer-gareth-davies","tag-former-top-producer","tag-fun","tag-her-hotel","tag-her-team","tag-his-experience","tag-his-show","tag-his-time","tag-hollywood","tag-j-lo","tag-jackson","tag-janet","tag-janet-jackson","tag-jennifer-lopez","tag-kylie-minogue","tag-lopez","tag-macy-gray","tag-madge","tag-madonna","tag-money","tag-music-history","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-no-comment","tag-nz","tag-one-huge-star","tag-other-singers","tag-page-six","tag-producer","tag-quite-a-big-machine","tag-quite-a-funny-story","tag-quite-a-long-time","tag-race","tag-regard","tag-rehearsed-line","tag-reps","tag-said-the-founder","tag-sass","tag-set","tag-shania","tag-shania-twain","tag-simon-cowell","tag-so-many","tag-staff","tag-stage","tag-that-one-job","tag-the-sassiest-celebrity","tag-the-back","tag-the-bbc","tag-the-bbc-back","tag-the-bbc-corridors","tag-the-biggest-divas","tag-the-biggest-entourage","tag-the-biggest-female-pop-singers","tag-the-door","tag-the-dressing-rooms","tag-the-fireworks","tag-the-industry","tag-the-love","tag-the-next-door","tag-the-only-story","tag-the-other","tag-the-other-way","tag-the-outfits","tag-the-pop-star","tag-the-pops","tag-the-pops-program","tag-the-popular-british-television-program-davies","tag-the-presenter-studio","tag-the-queen","tag-the-recording","tag-the-scenes","tag-the-simple-things","tag-the-spice-girls","tag-the-stage","tag-the-status","tag-the-stories","tag-the-studio","tag-the-studio-floor","tag-the-whole-time","tag-the-world","tag-the-worst-celebrities","tag-their-own","tag-their-public-personas-this-article","tag-their-very-specific-role","tag-this-huge-diva","tag-this-regimented","tag-this-very-long-line","tag-this-white-plastic-film","tag-those-days","tag-those-rooms","tag-time","tag-top","tag-trouble","tag-twain","tag-which-celebrity","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}