John Travolta had a few slightly disconcerting moments at yesterday’s Academy Awards ceremony where he got up rather close and personal with stars Scarlett Johansson and Idina Menzel.
After John famously mispronounced the name of Frozen star Idina Menzel as “Adele Dazeem” when introducing her onstage at last year’s Oscars, he was this year given the chance to redeem himself as the pair took the stage together.
This time, Idina, who famously voiced the Oscar winning Frozen theme song “Let it Go”, took her turn to pay John back, mispronouncing his name as “Glom Gazino” as she welcomed him to the stage.
“I deserved that,” said Travolta as he took his turn to redeem himself by laughing at himself.
It was then that things got a bit bizarre as he awkwardly touched Idina’s face, saying: “But you, my darling, my beautiful, my wickedly talented Idina Menzel … is that right?”
It led to a very awkward moment on stage in front of millions of viewers.
As it turns out though, it wasn’t the first awkward moment John had had that night. Earlier when he walked the red carpet, he leaned in for a kiss with actress Scarlett Johansson which lead to a very awkward photo.
Thanks to social media, the image has since gone viral as the mischief-makers of social media sites Imgur and Reddit have reworked the image into multiple memes.
Click through the gallery to see the internet’s various hilarious takes on the incident!
John Travolta had a few awkward moments at this year’s Oscars – not least this rather stiff thumbs up at the Vanity Fair after-party.
It was when he took to the stage with Idina Menzel though that things got a bit uncomfortable for everyone watching. John awkwardly touched Idina’s face, saying: “But you, my darling, my beautiful, my wickedly talented Idina Menzel … is that right?”
The moment came after Idina introduced John to the stage as “Glom Gazino” as payback for his infamous mispronunciation of her name as “Adele Dazeem” at last year’s Oscars. It was his chance to redeem himself by poking fun at himself but instead the face-touching just led to quite an awkward moment for all those watching.
Earlier in the moment he had another rather disconcerting moment on the red carpet, when he leaned in for a kiss with actress Scarlett Johansson which lead to this very awkward photo.
Thanks to social media, the image has since gone viral as the mischief makers of social media sites Imgur and Reddit have reworked the image into multiple memes, including these ones of John kissing himself…and himself in drag from the movie Hairspray.
Another Redditor transformed John into ScarJo’s rather touchy-feely makeup artist using the power of retouching.
Other Redditors saw a patriotic John getting intimate with the Statue of Liberty while another person imagined him being very handsy indeed.
Others took the opportunity to insert John Travolta into another image that went viral after Kanye West made out with Kim Kardashian on the red carpet at the Grammys.
Another Redditor retouched the pair into the famous ‘Kiss’ image from the front cover of Life magazine when WWII ended… the John/Scarjo kiss seems less romantic somehow!
SO MANY TRAVOLTAS!
Clearly keen to make up for their earlier awkward moment, John tracked down Scarlett backstage… where he seemed to create yet another awkward moment as he put his hand around Scarlett’s waist – ScarJo doesn’t look too comfortable there Travolta!
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