{"id":131699,"date":"2024-11-09T20:06:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T20:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/09\/cher-recalls-finding-fame-after-hotel-drama\/"},"modified":"2024-11-09T20:06:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T20:06:30","slug":"cher-recalls-finding-fame-after-hotel-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/09\/cher-recalls-finding-fame-after-hotel-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher recalls finding fame after hotel drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-11-09\" datetime=\"1731182790\" pubdate=\"\">9 November 2024<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/cher\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,cher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cher<\/a> shot to stardom in the UK after being kicked out of a London hotel.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Cher was virtually unknown when she arrived in London<\/p>\n<p>The 78-year-old icon and her ex-husband, Sonny Bono, visited the UK for the first time in the mid-1960s, having already enjoyed some success in the US, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/cher\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,cher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cher<\/a> feels that a confrontation with a hotel employee actually catapulted her to stardom.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/cher\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,cher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cher<\/a>: The Memoir&#8217; &#8211; excerpts of which have been serialised in the Daily Mail newspaper &#8211; she explains: &#8220;Staring at us over the rim of his spectacles, the man behind the desk at the London Hilton gazed at my striped bell-bottoms and my husband Sonny&#8217;s ruffled shirt and caveman-style fur vest as if he had an unpleasant smell under his nose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;I&#8217;m sorry, sir,&#8217; he said. &#8216;We don&#8217;t have any reservations in that name and our hotel is completely full.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As he walked away, Sonny leaned over to look at the leather-bound register and found our names entered in ink.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The man returned. &#8216;As I explained, Mr Bono, the hotel is full.&#8217; He was so dismissive and arrogant, I could have cried.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nDespite this, Cher now considers the incident to be a turning point in her career.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe chart-topping star &#8211; who was married to Sonny between 1964 and 1975 &#8211; explained: &#8220;As far as I was concerned, no one in England even knew what Sonny   Cher was, but by the time we reached the Hilton&#8217;s revolving doors, escorted in person by the manager, there were two reporters standing outside.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;&#8216;Sonny, Cher, did the Hilton just kick you out?&#8217; they asked. &#8216;Was it because of how you look?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Too exhausted to speak, I let Sonny handle everything. When the journalists had what they wanted, he hailed a taxi to take us to another hotel where the bed was lumpy, there was no TV and water trickled out of the shower.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We slept for 12 hours straight and by the time we&#8217;d bathed and dressed, we were famous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/cher-recalls-finding-fame-after-hotel-drama-1408788.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 November 2024 Cher shot to stardom in the UK after being kicked out of a London hotel. Cher was virtually unknown when she arrived in London The 78-year-old icon and her ex-husband, Sonny Bono, visited the UK for the first time in the mid-1960s, having already enjoyed some success in the US, and Cher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[198,9891],"class_list":{"0":"post-131699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-cher","9":"tag-sonny-bono"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}