Super toilet cleaner for Madge
She’s always full of loo-py demands
We feel quite smug when we remember to clean our bathroom once a week, but for someone like Madonna, that’s nowhere near acceptable. The singer is moving to Lisbon, Portugal to support son David’s football career, and she’s trying to recruit household staff, all of whom will have some strict rules to adhere to – including cleaning her toilets FOUR times a day.
“You are never off the clock with Madonna,” an insider tells heat. “She works hard as an artist and expects all those who work for her to be just as committed. Her housekeepers in Lisbon will need to wash all the rugs and curtains daily, as Madonna has allergies. She is extremely dirt-phobic and the toilets must be scrubbed with different disposable brushes four times a day. The children have hundreds of toys that have to be sanitised in boiling water or antibacterial wash daily. Imagine taking 2,000 pieces of Lego and washing them every day – that’s pretty exhausting.”
The 59-year-old singer is relocating to Lisbon with her four youngest children, David, 11, Mercy James, also 11, and five-year-old twins Esther and Stella, so that David can train with the Benfica football team’s youth academy. She’s also recruiting Portuguese teachers for them, who won’t have to clean any toilets, but will have their work cut out.
“She always expects staff to perform more than one function,” our source tells us. “The teachers are expected to double as nannies, chauffeurs and even umbrella holders if the weather is not good. She wants the translators to also be personal assistants. Besides shopping for macrobiotic foods, which can be pretty hard to find, the assistants must run her nightly bath at exactly the right temperature and put the exact amount of $400 French oil into the water. If Madonna checks the bath and the temperature is wrong, she will drain it and the assistant has to do it all over again.”
Sounds great – where do we apply? ■