Shilpa Shetty declines a whopping Rs 50 lakh wedding coverage deal

Spicezee Bureau

Mumbai: Shilpa Shetty has decided not to sell her special day! While most celebrities market their marriages in an attempt to recover their wedding costs, Shilpa Shetty has declined a whopping Rs 50 lakh deal with UK`s Hello magazine. Refusing to sell exclusive coverage rights of her wedding to Raj Kundra on November 22, the actress has set the bar high for her contemporaries to live up to. Confirming the news a source told a daily, "It`s the first time that an Indian actress has been offered so much money for coverage of an event. This is more than what Aishwarya Rai was offered for her wedding. Shilpa is a big celebrity in the UK (thanks to her winning the reality show ‘Big Brother’) and Raj Kundra too is a well-known industrialist, so they were keen to cover this wedding." But the actress was firm about not giving away exclusive rights for the coverage to her shaadi. In fact if source are to be believed, the actress decided not to tie the knot in Raj`s lavish 10 million-pound mansion at Surrey, in UK to avoid the paparazzi. Talking about the clauses in the contract, the source further added, "One of the clauses in the contract offered by the international magazine was that no other photographers would be allowed at the event. Also they didn`t want any of the guests to carry their cell phones in case someone leaked the pictures to other media. And Shilpa wasn`t comfortable with both these conditions." As for the last high profile Indian wedding of Eliizabeth Hurley and Arun Nayar where exclusive rights were sold, guests were frisked and their cell phones were taken away by the representatives of the magazine. Well, looks like Shilpa doesn’t want to harass her guest at any costs.