John Travolta mistakes drag queen Jade Jolie for Taylor Swift, which is really just a testament to Jade Jolie
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Last night’s VMAs proved to be a big night for Taylor Swift, who just dropped an excellent new LP in Lover. She opened the show with a dual performance of “You Need To Calm Down” and “Lover,” and doubled down on her recent promise to use her platform to speak out against inequality. While accepting the award for Best New Video, she even called out the White House’s lack of response to the Equality Act, a bill that aims to make “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” protected classes under federal civil rights law.
While that certainly got people talking, so, too, did the moment that preceded it. For some ungodly reason, John Travolta was chosen to join Queen Latifah in handing out the award, reminding everyone of his enduringly strange “Adele Dazeem” gaffe from the 2014 Oscars. Wisely, he acknowledged his awards show past, telling Latifah that he’d “just mispronounce shit and fuck it up.” (That language! We blame a former Limp Bizkit singer.)
Still, the eager masses found a chance to pile on the actor once again when he mistook Rupaul’s Drag Race alum and famed Taylor Swift impersonator Jade Jolie for the pop star, going so far as to actually try and hand them the award.
It’s easy to dunk on Travolta, a 65-year old man who’s probably only seen Swift in passing on TV, but it’s perhaps healthier to celebrate Jolie, whose Swift drag is about as on point as it gets. Just look at the below clip and tell us that, in the chaos of Swift’s entourage storming the stage, you wouldn’t also susceptible to mixing the two up?
And, of course, we can’t write about Jolie without also acknowledging her role (no pun intended) in one of the most memorable Drag Race memes of all time.
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I realize that it’s quite en vogue to bag on Quentin Tarantino for his myriad crimes against humanity. I’m not on those bandwagons, but when can we break out the pitchforks for his actual greatest sin – elongating the career of one John Travolta? Why he is known to youths of America and, say, Mickey Rourke is not is beyond me. Both are awful people but Mickey has talent.
anyone who has seen Phenomenon could never say that Travolta isn’t the most talented actor of any generation.
Was that the movie where he can’t figure out how the bunny keeps getting into his garden until he sees a flash of light that gives him magic tumor powers and then swaps faces with Nicholas Cage and then shoots John Malkovich because he would not put the aforementioned bunny back in the box? Or is it the one where he is an angel named Michael who swaps faces with Nicholas Cage and then goes on to play an angel in City of Angels?
His movie “Michael” is what inspired me to pursue acting. I will be graduating from the Yale School of Drama next spring.
“AWFUL”LOL
I believe he has been confronted on that, and his official stance on the matter is “Up your nose with a rubber hose.”
Mickey butchered his face and imploded in his heyday. Travolta is likely a mess but has managed to hide it a bit better. Rourke did have a comeback about a decade ago, anyway.
Which he then squandered with his bizarre performance in Iron Man 2.
A testament to Robert Downey Jr cuz Ironman II and III were not that good.
The youths of America prefer Moment by Moment over Wild Orchid. Yeah, I don’t get it either.
I mean, their relationship to Keanu and Nicholas Cage is beyond confusing.
Don’t sleep on Two of a Kind.
“And closes Saturday December 17th.”
saturday night fever is amazing. the travolta hate is tired. let him be the b actor he was destined to be.
“Mickey Rourke is not is beyond me”
We youths totally know Mickey Rourke from being the worst villain Tony Stark had to fight.
Ha. Whiplash, RIP. I just know Mickey Rourke in the Wrestler was a better performance than anything Travolta has done in the past 30 years, maybe ever.
And that is saying something: Iron Monger and Killian, geez.
Good Goy!
Travolta deserves a Swift kick in the balls.
Adele Nazeem! So great to see you. Loved “Wrecking Ball.”
Glad to see someone was quick with this.
But did he giddily describe Jade as being WICKEDLY talented?
Maybe he should have just asked how that video won an award…
Is it possible he’s just got lousy vision and refuses to do anything about it? I put off getting reading glasses as long as possible. Just sayin’.
Optometry is another medical doctrine at odds with Scientology.
“A woman is safer in a park at midnight than in an Optometrist’s chair with that weird lens thingy” – David Miscavige (probably)
Only because it’s Wednesday (GMT+10)
“Which is really just a testament to Jade Jolie” Lol…no it isn’t. John Travolta is a crazy person who hasn’t been a participating member of the human race for a decade or so now. And she looks nothing like Taylor Swift, or a woman in general.
She looks like her to me
You must be a pretty miserable shit.
Yeah that’s something you could reasonably know.
Just consider me an excellent guesser.
Or a guy who thinks working as a grip is something to brag about online. Lol.
That’s not what I do (though there’s nothing wrong with being a grip), but that’s some sick effort put in to looking at my most recent comment and taking a stab in the dark at being insulting. Fortunately for me I didn’t have to do any legwork to figure out you’re a bigoted shitheel. 🙂
That would be interesting if your opinion mattered at all. Have fun striking the set!
I’m sorry you have so little going on that you felt the need to be transphobic in a comments section, and then be obstinate about it. And I run a production office, but I’ll be sure to let the PAs know that they should be having fun. Enjoy working the drive-thru! 😉
Yeah I work a drive through. Lol
Travolta’s attraction to Jade Jolie is actually more believable when you remember just how deeply closeted Travolta is.Here come the pitchforks.
Gay men aren’t really attracted to drag queens or trans women since, y’know, they look like women.
That would be true, if they did. But, in reality, 1 in 20 is considered “passing”.
Please shove your statistics right back up your ass where they came from
You’re absolutely right, I was 100% wrong. Now, if Jade wants to take off the outfit and makeup…
So, John Travolta hasn’t been hashtag cancelled?The uneven application of phony internet outrage is confusing.
Jade Jolie: “Eh heh heh heh.”