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There have been loads of memorable highlights on the 2026 Grammy Awards on Sunday evening.
However there was one second that music legend Cher would in all probability fairly neglect.
Earlier than presenting the award for File of the 12 months, Cher delivered a speech about her profession and the Lifetime Achievement Grammy she’d acquired the day earlier than.
“I don’t do that half very effectively,” she started, including:
“I first need to thank the Recording Academy for giving me this lifetime achievement award. And it’s an excellent factor that they did it now, as a result of I’ve good genes and I wouldn’t have been right here that for much longer.”
“I’ve been on this enterprise for 60 f–king years, however I simply need to inform you, by no means surrender in your dream, it doesn’t matter what occurs. Stay it, be it, and if it’s not occurring now, it’ll occur quickly.”
At that time, Cher started to wrap issues up.
“That’s all I’ve to say,” she concluded, whereas trying across the stage in obvious confusion. “I assume I’m purported to stroll off now. All proper, I’ve to stroll off.”
Sure, she appeared to have forgotten that she was purported to current an award. Fortunately, host Trevor Noah was in a position to name her again to the stage in time.
“Cher, earlier than you go, might we get you to announce the nominees?” Noah shouted as she walked off stage.
“I might do it, however it’s not the identical. I don’t have the monitor file. Welcome again Cher, all people.”
Disaster averted. However the awkward moments weren’t over.
First, Cher was unaware that she wanted to open the envelope in her hand in an effort to discover out who received.
She defined that she thought the winner’s identify would seem on the teleprompter. Comprehensible.
However then the state of affairs deteriorated additional when Cher introduced that the winner was Luther Vandross.
Vandross, after all, handed away in 2005, and File of the 12 months was really received by Kendrick Lamar for his music “Luther.” Whoops.
Fortunately, the recipients had been capable of finding the humor within the state of affairs.
“At the start,” producer Sounwave stated whereas accepting the award, “let’s give a shout out to the late nice Luther Vandross.”
Any single a type of flubs might have occurred to anybody. However the truth that so lots of them befell in such fast succession created concern amongst some viewers.
“Cher must be checked for earlier dementia. Mama is far and wide,” one X person wrote (through Radar On-line).
“Any individual please verify Cher in for a dementia verify please, she is stressing me out,” one other added.
The very fact is, Cher is 79 years previous, and reside TV is at all times a high-wire act.
There’s no actual motive to be frightened about her cognitive well being — so perhaps we should always all simply be glad about the unintentional comedy.
