John Travolta is speaking out to explain what happened at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards during that moment where he appeared to hand an award to a Taylor Swift lookalike.
The 65-year-old actor presented the award for Video of the Year to Taylor for “You Need to Calm Down” and she was joined on stage by her co-stars, including Jade Jolie whose drag persona looks just like the pop star.
“There’s so many people that bombarded the stage, that I was looking for [Swift]. So the video has me trying to find her, and you know, I thought it was so funny the way it was interpreted. And it’s cool, I didn’t care,” John said in an interview with Dallas-Fort Worth radio station Hot 93.3. “If I shave my head, it’s headlines. If I mispronounce something, that’s headlines, and I know that about me.”
“Sometimes I fantasize, what if I had given it to [Jolie]? That would have been awesome. I should have just gone all the way with it,” he added. “I have a sense of humor about all of that — I always have — because, look, we’re in pretty good shape on any given day that that kind of thing could make headlines.”
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