Katy Perry warns drivers: don’t stare at me in mirror

It isn't easy being a 26-year-old Grammy-nominated platinum-selling recording artist: sometimes chauffeurs look at you. Or, and this may shock some readers, there can be carnations in your dressing room flower arrangement.

Katy Perry's backstage rider document has been leaked to Thesmokinggun.com, presumably by a disgruntled roadie – and it's a peach. In a staggering 45 pages, Perry's requirements are spelled out in eye-watering detail.

First, the star's dressing room. Draped in pink or "soft cream" fabrics, it must contain two cream-coloured "egg" chairs, one with a matching footstool, a "perspex, modern style" coffee table and two standard lamps in "French, ornate style".

Bizarrely the singer specifies that her dressing room fridge must come with a glass door. Could this be to help her work out where it is?

The specifications for fresh flowers are worth reproducing in toto:
"Arrangement of fresh flowers – consisting pink. White and purple hydrangeas, pink & white roses and peonies. OR if the above is not available selection of seasonal white flowers to include white orchids - ABSOLUTELY NO CARNATIONS."

'Absolutely no carnations' is both in block capitals and underlined.

But the most lavishly detailed section of the rider is advice to chauffeurs. Demands include: "The driver will not start a conversation with the client", "Do not ask for autographs or pictures", "Always use the far left lane" (one hopes they'll forget to change that one for UK dates), "The driver's windows must be down half way at every pick up and drop off".

And whatever you do when driving Katy Perry, do not – repeat, DO NOT – look at her. "Do not stair [sic] at the backseat [sic] thru [sic] the rearvieuw [sic] mirrow [sic]," writes a minion. ·