Beyonce Knowles made a dramatic misstep when she fell face-first down a flight of stairs during a concert. Ever the stage professional, she got right up and continued her performance as if nothing had happened.
The 25-year-old singer - flipping her hair dramatically and wearing a long red trench coat and high heels - was performing her song "Ring the Alarm" during a concert Tuesday in Orlando, Fla., when she tripped and stumbled down several stairs.
And like a true professional she just pops back up and starts lip-syncing away like nothing happened. I'd blame the convulsing she does afterwards on some sort of head injury, but she was doing that even before she fell.
Two front row fans were sent to the hospital Sunday when the pyrotechnics for Beyonce's St. Louis concert went terribly wrong and spilled into the front row. The injuries were reportedly minor, but Beyonce made a surprise visit to the emergency room after the concert ended to see the injured fans. You can check out the footage of the accident above. And you can check out footage of me bench pressing a truck, well, pretty much anywhere. It's a world record, you know.
Knowles' world tour opened in April in Tokyo and runs through early September. Other stops include New Orleans, Dallas, New York City, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
Beyonce Knowles captured awards at this years BET Music Awards, for best female R&B artist and video of the year for "Irreplaceable." She delivered a show-stopping performance of her own with her dance anthem, "Get Me Bodied," appearing on stage in gold robot gear, which she whittled down to sleek gold lame pants and a matching bra top. Her fellow Destiny Child member Kelly Rowland appeared moments later to perform her solo hit "Like This" with Eve, and later the Destiny's Child reunion was complete when Beyonce and Michelle Williams appeared onstage.
Other winners included T.I., who was named best hip-hop artist. He not only offered thanks, but apologies after getting involved in a scuffle with members of Ludacris' camp earlier in the week.
Beyonce is apparently in talks to play Maggie the Cat in a new Broadway revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." The revival was originally supposed to begin performances later this year, but it's been pushed back to accommodate her schedule. The all African-American production will be directed by Debbie Allen. Oh shit, loved her ass in "A Different World."
In addition to Beyonce, Danny Glover is in talks to play Big Daddy, Phylicia Rashad is in talks to play Big Momma and LL Cool J is pretty much set as Brick.
Broadway star Audra McDonald had agreed to play Maggie, but apprently producers wanted a bigger name. Audra said, "I think Beyoncé's an incredibly beautiful, talented singer. But the stage is a very difficult beast . . . a lot of people don't understand how difficult it is not just to do it right once, but do it right eight times a week and keep it up."
Elizabeth Taylor was nominated for her an Oscar for the film version of the Tennessee Williams play.
Can you imagine this shit?! I would be front and center, because you know this is going to be some campy shit. Beyonce as Maggie the cat?!!! Death to the theater!
According to reports, Beyonce's younger sister, Solange, is to take over as her manager once their father, Matthew Knowles, steps down in five years. The singer/songwriter has revealed that she is the heiress to her dad's Music World empire - which also includes a music label. She has been quoted as saying "In five years I'll be answering those calls. I'll be the president and CEO."
I can imagine most of you are thinking 'what the hell has Solange ever done?'...me too. I personally don't think Beyonce will be around in five years, if she keeps pissing people off like she has been. My advise to Solange: "Don't quit your day job girl."
While TMZ's valiant efforts to reveal the list of industry parties possibly tainted by Wolfgang Puck's hepatitis-infected pre cook have so far been stymied by the combination of a tight-lipped Health Department and the shadowy Hollywood Event-Catering Industrial Complex, their TV-based corporate siblings at Extra have managed to advance this important work: According to a press release, they've received confirmation from a publicist that Beyoncé passed on all the tempting--but possibly dangerous!--trays of hors d'oeuvres waved under her nose at Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue bash at the Pacific Design Center on February 14th, the Party Zero of the ongoing hep-A pandemic that's terrorizing the city. She's safe! There's still no update on the status of Visual Effects Society awards banquet attendees George Lucas and John Landis, but TMZ's earlier story about the at-risk directors seems to have disappeared; hopefully, the site's warnings about the scare reached them before its deletion and they've taken the necessary medical precautions.
Saved by poor eating habits! And look Beyonce isn't flashing her arm pit! Enjoy the pic, there's not many like-em.
Sorry, I could'nt resist. Here is the Sports Illustrated Photo Shoot...Check out those arm pits!
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