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Last night at MTV’s Video Music Awards (VMA) Taylor Swift won Video of the Year for her pro-gay anthem “You Need to Calm Down.” But before she came onstage to accept the award along with her entourage of performers, the award presenter John Travolta mistakenly tried to give the award to Jade Jolie, a drag queen who appeared on season five of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
That’s not Taylor Swift — that’s a man, man!
To be fair, one can’t completely blame Travolta because Jolie is a professional Taylor Swift impersonator. So being confused for her onstage is probably the highest professional compliment one can pay her. Swift wasn’t even onstage yet; she was still making her way there.
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Here’s video of Travolta making the mistake. It’s a small moment, but it totally happened:
John Travolta mistaking Jade Jolie for Taylor Swift. ?DRAG ?RACE ?EXCELLENCE https://t.co/zVLgsbHhD7
— Joey Nolfi (@joeynolfi) August 27, 2019
You may recall that Travolta became infamous at the 2014 Oscars when he mistakenly called singer Idina Menzel “Adele Dazeem.” Before they announced the winner for Travolta self-effacing
As Travolta presented the award for Video of the Year at last night’s VMAs, he joked that his co-presenter Queen Latifah should open the envelope and announce the winner, “because I’ll just mispronounce sh*t and f*ck shit up.”
But this wasn’t the only queer moment in last night’s VMAs.
Lil Nas X became the first LGBTQ artist to win “Song of the Year” at the VMAs, and he accepted the award by rolling out a massive scroll of everyone he wanted to thank.
Bisexual singer Halsey also rocked the red carpet with a rainbow streak in her hair.
Lizzo performed, Jonathan Van Ness from Queer Eye presented an award, Marc Jacobs won a “fashion trailblazer” award and many other queer moments happened as well.
And then of course, Swift performed her song “You Need to Calm Down” alongside Todrick Hall, a bunch of queens — including Drag Race alumn Trinity the Tuck, Tatianna and Akeria C. Davenport — and several huge rainbows. Check it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIRCskNRTDY
When accepting the award, Swift urged fans to sign her petition supporting the Equality Act, a federal law which would make anti-LGBTQ discrimination illegal nationwide.
Dan Renzi
John Travolta is a national treasure.
ShiningSex
Travolta is a fool. We all know he’s gay, but his idiotic religion is keeping him in the LOL closet.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Its 2019 when are he and Tommy gonna come out???
curiobi
Tommy? You mean Cruise? Because I don’t think that weirdo scientology cult will let either of them this side of death!
ShiningSex
Oh yes! Both Cruise and Travolta are SO closeted. It’s sad at this point.
ShiningSex
I remember Mimi Rogers (Tom’s ex) hinted he was gay during an interview on Letterman or one of those shows.
ShiningSex
He knew exactly who he was giving it to. He watches RPDR…queen!!!!
Josh in OR
At least he didn’t mangle her name. “Adele Dazeem”…
xanadude
Honest mistake! You’d think Swifty would be the first one up there. But why would he even know her? (She’s better looking than Taylor anyway! 😉
bonbon
The drag queen can probably sing better.
MISTERJETT
just because you want John to be gay doesn’t mean he is gay. he’s not gay.