MOVE over Mariah and Madonna!

That was the cry from harassed staff as Chris “The Diva” Thompson prepared for his first World Darts Championships by issuing a long list of demands during his stay at the Best Western Mostyn Hotel.

The Acomb arrows ace kept employees at the Marble Arch venue busy with his diva-like behaviour in the capital, which started at check-in when he asked for twice-daily hand and arm massages to ensure his muscles remained supple and in top condition for competition.

Staff were told, meanwhile, that freshly-squeezed carrot juice had to be supplied three times a day during his stay to keep him in full health and immune from winter flu, and the Minster Law legal executive even called for a dart board to be specially mounted in his room to allow him to practise at all hours.

Ever superstitious, he also wanted room number 180.

A final request saw the Crescent WMC player call for his preferred choice of walk-on music Happy Hour by the Housemartins to be played in the hotel to get him ready for his first-round meeting with Colin Osborne.

Anup Sarin, hotel manager of Thompson’s sponsors at the Mostyn Hotel, said: “We always put our guests’ needs first and have enjoyed trying to accommodate all of Chris’ demands.

“The only thing we couldn’t help with was the dart board in his room as the hotel has recently been refurbished.”

Thompson, nicknamed the ‘Hitman’ and also dubbed the ‘Legal Eagle’ by Sky Sports television, is now hoping to avoid a third moniker, laughing: “I hope the name Chris ‘The Diva’ Thompson does not catch on!”

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THE ‘Hitman’ has asked The Press to clarify that this spoof article on his stay at Best Western’s Mostyn Hotel, detailing a list of fabricated ‘diva-like’ demands, was written as a joke and not intended to be taken seriously as some people have done.