John Travolta has history of not quite getting things right on awards show and even joked about that while presenting the award for Video of the Year with Queen Latifah he jokingly asked her to read the winner’s name for fear he’d “f- it up.”
Although that went smoothly, when Taylor and her crew came on stage to accept Travolta leaned in to give her the award before realizing it was Jade Jolie and not the real Taylor, and immediately laughing over the mixup. He appeared to give a little apology before handing the statue over to the actual Taylor.
Jade Jolie or Taylor Swift? John Travolta isn’t sure #VMAs https://t.co/skonL8i38i pic.twitter.com/KasFYPCycL
— Variety (@Variety) August 27, 2019
Jolie apparently loved the moment, and wrote on Instagram that, “Almost got my first award tonight thanks to @johntravolta.”
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😂😂🤷♀️❤️Almost got my first award tonight thanks to @johntravolta 😂😂😂😘😘😘