Barbra Streisand Cancels on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' When He Refused to Show Her Best Side

Published: 1/24/2019, 4:12:37 PM EST
Barbra Streisand Cancels on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' When He Refused to Show Her Best Side
Singer Barbra Streisand arrives for the 2011 MusiCares Person of the Year Dinner honoring Barbra Streisand, Los Angeles, Feb. 11, 2010. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

Barbra Streisand cancelled her plans to star on talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! when he refused to rearrange the entire set in order to focus on her desired angle, according to Kimmel.

"If a guest wants you to swap around your set so the camera gets their best side, do you refuse? I've had to switch seats for Mariah Carey four times," Andy Cohen asked Kimmel on "What Happens Live" this week.

Kimmel responded with: "I've had a guest ask for that and I said no."

Cohen then asked if it was Streisand.

"Yes," Kimmel confirmed. "It was the condition. The condition was we couldn't talk about the fact that we'd switched around [our seats] and I was like, 'I just don't see how this will work.'"

Streisand didn't hesitate to cancel her appearance on the show when her conditions weren't met.

Previously, during an interview with Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show in 2014, she made the host sit in the guest chair while she took the anchor's seat, according to The Sun.

Last November, Streisand took the driver's seat instead of James Corden during a Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke slot, in order to showcase her favored side.

In another unusual incident, it was revealed that the singer and actress reportedly cloned her dead dog twice, according to Variety.

Her pets Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett were cloned from cells obtained from the stomach and mouth of her 14-year-old dog Samantha, she said. The dog died in 2017, but the two clones live on.

"They have different personalities," Streisand said of the dogs. "I'm waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have her brown eyes and her seriousness."

Streisand didn't take the death of her dog Samantha well. She told The Associated Press that her dog Samantha "was at every performance. It was like losing a child. It was kind of awful."

In either report, she didn't reveal any other information about the cloned dogs, including what the procedure cost.

According to Viegen Pet, the company can "produce a genetic twin to your beloved cat for $25,000 or your faithful dog for $50,000." Dogs are twice as expensive to clone as cats "because of the reproductive restrictions in the estrous cycling of a dog."

"Furthermore, the process of cloning cats and dogs is relatively new, so the technology is constantly under improvement. Cloning requires a very unique skill set."