bon jovi has sex fantasies of about lady di


News Of The World, July 7 1996

Rock heart-throb Jon Bon Jovi walks into his luxury hotel bedroom exhausted after yet another pulsating night on stage in front of thousands of adoring fans.
And there, naked on the four-poster, waiting patiently for him, is the leggy blond of his dreams.
Princess Diana beckons to him, her blue eyes burning into his. And Jon starts to peel off his tight black T-shirt......
“Wow, what a challenge that would be,” says the 34-year-old pin-up, breaking off from his daydream for a moment. “I mean, Princess Di. She’s certainly worth thinking about, isn’t she?”
Hunky Jon, on the verge of a sell-out UK tour is describing the woman he most fantasises about having sex with.
The News Of The World can reveal that pop fan Diana is top of the Bon Jovi league - followed by an altogether different blonde.
“The thing about Madonna is,” drawls the 5ft 8in Jon, “I wouldn’t have to throw her down on the bed. She’d probably do that to me. I think that’s the way she is. She wouldn’t really be a conquest.
But Diana, she’d be totally different, wouldn’t she? You couldn’t find two more different women.”
What his wife Dorothea would make of all this is unclear. After all, she is 3,500 miles away, back at the family home in New Jersey with their two children, Stephanie Rose, three, and 18-month-old Jesse James.
But her sex-symbol husband is quite sure the childhood sweetheart he married six years ago would take his fantasies with a pinch of salt.
Which is just as well for Jon because Dorothea is a black belt in karate.
“One of the reasons I love her so much is she’s so cool about everything,” he says.
Like when he French kissed Cindy Crawford in a sizzling video for his single Please Come Home For Christmas.
Dorothea was in the studio, just yards away, not batting an eyelid, according to the singer.
Is Cindy Crawford in the Bon Jovi fantasy league?
“Cindy was a great kisser but Dorothea never gets worked up about things like that,” he says, “She knows it was all in a day’s work.”
And a day’s work is big bucks to Jon Bon Jovi, who makes an estimated £90 million a year from the band that bears his name.
If he realises just how much his looks have contributed to that success - coupled of course with such blockbuster hits as Livin’ On A Prayer and Keep The Faith - then he is unwilling to admit it.
His first date at Milton Keynes Bowl last night featured three hours of sexy moves in those famous tight trousers and skin-tight T-shirts. Tonight’s gig at the Bowl will be no different. But Jon claims he is baffled by what thousands of his female fans see in him.
“When I look in the mirror, I just see this normal guy and when I see posters with my face on, I look at them and think, ‘that’s him. He’s the star, not me’.
”I understand some people consider me a pin-up but I don’t believe that’s what sold the records.“
Over the last 14 years, Bon Jovi have sold around 100 million. Jon reckons it’s down to the songs - not his tight buns which are made much of in his debut film Moonlight And Valentino.
”I accept that some people like the overall package,“ he says modestly.
”However, if you come to a show at one of the stadiums, after the third or fourth row, you’re not going to see us very well anyway. People are there for the music. That’s what has made us so successful - not just an image.“
But for all Jon tries to make light of his looks, the subject always seems to get back to that body of his.
He would like to flash more of it off, he says - and admits he was extremely disappointed when fashion king Versace chose him for an advert but neglected to ask him to strip. ”Versace asked me to do some advertising shoots after he saw the band play a show in Buenos Aires,“ says Jon. ”He said I would be great for a campaign and I thought, here’s a chance to do something different. But when I got to the studio, I was handed a pair of black trousers and a black T-shirt and, I have to admit, it wasn’t what I expected.
If Stallone does an advert, he gets to take his clothes off - but I was just told to do a straight picture and I think I’d really quite like to be able to strip. It would be a lot more fun and I certainly don’t have any problems about showing my body.“
At least the movie makers have spotted what Versace didn’t and indulged Jon in his naked ambition.
In his new film, The Leading Man, he finally had the chance to get all his kit off - a step further that the decorator he plays in Moonlight And Valentino, which has just opened in Britain.
In this one, it is his bottom that makes the initial impact - for all he would like to be taken as a serious actor.
The first scene sees Kathleen Turner, Whoopie Goldberg, Gwynneth Paltrow and Elizabeth Perkins ogling at his shapely bum as he strolls around a kitchen.
To steal the show from his rear in the rest of the movie took lots of hard work. Jon had secret acting lessons. ”I’ve always been comfortable in front of the camera after years of making videos and being filmed in the group and I’ve always thought I’d like to make a substantial film. But I was always worried whether I could succeed so when I took my lessons, I kept it very quiet - in fact it was a complete secret to everyone but my wife.“
Jon hired coaches who had helped Michelle Pfeiffer and Kevin Kline’s careers.
They flew out to meet him when he was on tour with the band but he never let on to the other guys who the visitors were.
When it came to The Leading Man however, Jon decided there simply wasn’t enough of him to make an impact. And so he started bodybuilding, spending hours each day at the gym.
Oh, and he had to have his chest waxed too.
”That was the part my wife really liked. After my chest was waxed she felt it and said I reminded her of a 15-year-old. She liked that,“ he says.
”I had to get everything looking right because you do see quite a lot of me in the film. I probably did a couple of hours a day at the gym. As soon as I’m on the road with the band and start drinking, all that will go wrong again.“ As with all rock bands, bingeing goes with the territory. When you’ve been ripping it up for three hours, a backstage Perrier before bedtime is not quite on.
”I like to drink quite a lot because sometimes there’s not much else to do,“ says Jon.
”I’m the sort of man who can enjoy a bottle of Martini or maybe a bit more in a go and I can’t pass a good bottle of wine. If I see a bottle of wine standing there I have to drink it because if I don’t, I know someone else in the band will whisk it away.“
His hangovers, he says, feel like they’ve come from hell. ”They seem to last for two days now and the only thing I can do is eat chips to get rid of it.“
But Jon’s drinking habits have yet to play havoc with his good looks - or his passion for music.
Now he’s ready to record a solo album after writing nearly 15 songs. However, fans needn’t worry about him leaving Richie Sambora and the rest of the gang.
”I’m not quitting Bon Jovi but we all like to do our separate things,“ he says.
”I just wanted to write about more personal private stuff and this is the perfect opportunity.
Presumably though, his personal thoughts on Princess Di will not feature in the lyrics.