Call it Adele Dazeem, spherical two.
Five years after John Travolta incorrectly pronounced Idina Menzel’s identify on the 2014 Oscars, the singer took the stage on the 2019 VMAs to current the Video of the Year award to Taylor Swift.
And whereas Swift’s identify was simple sufficient for him to deal with, it was her face — or quite, that of Swift-impersonating drag queen Jade Jolie — that gave him hassle.
Twitter had a discipline day when the cameras captured Travolta handing the Moonman award to Jolie, who appeared in Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down” video and took the stage to simply accept the award together with a number of of the video co-stars, quite than the pop star herself.
“John Travolta just gave the VMA to ‘Drag Race’ alum Jade Jolie in Taylor Swift drag, FULLY not knowing that it was NOT Taylor Swift, thinking that it was IN FACT Taylor Swift,” GQ editor Brennan Carley tweeted. “I am….reeling.”
”John Travolta pulling one other Adele Dazeem ” author/podcaster/social media character Ira Madison III wrote, with Entertainment Weekly author Joey Nolfi sharing, “John Travolta mistaking Jade Jolie for Taylor Swift. DRAG RACE EXCELLENCE”
Jolie, an alum of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” informed the USA TODAY Network in June that she was thrilled to play Swift’s drag doppelganger within the “You Need to Calm Down” video.
”It was even higher than I imagined,” she mentioned. “She came in our dressing room while we weren’t scheduled to do anything, she just like came in and hung out with us. She made sure she came over and talked to each one of us individually. It was so awesome.”
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