Tag: Celebrity OOPS!

Lady Gaga Takes A Spill, and A Rebound

Posted by Kat – January 16, 2010

You have to give Lady Gaga credit: That woman loves her fans. She was supposed to perform at Purdue University earlier this week, but when she apparently fainted backstage, it was no dice. While Lady Gaga wanted desperately to go out there and perform, her agent and her security made the call that the show couldn’t go on. Given the amount of technical aspects to her show, there were too many concerns that whatever had struck her down the first time could easily hit her during the show. Unfortunately, cancelling the Thursday night concert didn’t occur until the opening acts of the night, Jason Derulo, as well as Semi Precious Weapons, had performed. That meant that the police had to be sent in to announce the cancellation, much to the audience’s dismay.

But, Lady Gaga was more upset that she had to let down her fans, and she was Tweeting about it that night, stating that she felt she’d let her fans down horribly and that she would definitely make it up to them. How is she doing that? She’s rescheduled her concert for January 26th and plans on giving her fans the concert they paid for.

But, that didn’t stop Lady Gaga from getting right back on top of things as she performed for “The Oprah Winfrey Show” Friday morning. She seemed fine, so let’s hope that whatever her illness was, it wasn’t a permanent situation and that she’s going to be just fine. There have been no reports if the illness was serious, and she seems to be functioning again, so it might have just been exhaustion, given that this is her first solo tour. As even Cher knows, sometimes, exhaustion hits and you just need to take a break. But, seriously, Lady Gaga? Cut yourself some slack! You’re only human, girl!

Mariah Carey Goes A Little Heavy On the Bubbly

Posted by Kat – January 8, 2010

For the most part, when you think of the weird, nonsensical, or downright bizarre, and sometimes drunken speeches, the Golden Globes or the MTV Music Awards come to mind. Well, it turns out for Mariah Carey, she decided to give everyone her drunken speech an entire week early! The famous R&B artist known for the insanely high vocal range has been dipping her feet back into the wading pool of film acting once more. I think we all remember the snafu that was Glitter, so to be honest, when we all found out she was starring in the film “Precious,” where she would be playing a social worker… we were all a bit skeptical. And that’s putting it nicely.

But, apparently, she did what Keanu Reeves could not before deciding to do Shakespeare, and that is actually get lessons and apply herself. In the film “Precious,” Carey actually turned out quite a performance, enough that at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, she won the award for Breakthrough Actress. Unfortunately, the singer didn’t seem to be aware that when preparing to give an awards speech, it helps to be sober.
According to Carey, her official story is that after a whirlwind day, she hadn’t had a chance to eat before the award shows. She and a companion had been in the back celebrating the success of the film and, according to her, her award, and had had “a few splashes of champagne.” So, unless she’s the biggest lightweight to alcohol in the entirety of stardom, her story isn’t quite adding up how completely buzzed she was during her speech. Her speech didn’t make much sense at all, and she kept stopping and starting sentences that altogether made her seem like her brain was off somewhere else completely. Or that she was just too emotionally touched to be coherent. Either way, good job, Mariah. You made an otherwise half-way boring Film Festival super-interesting.