Luke Bryan is crediting the additional padding on his physique as the rationale why he wasn’t significantly injured after falling onstage throughout his live performance this previous weekend.
“Whether or not it was a telephone or a slippery stage … after I landed, the very first thing I hit was a telephone,” Bryan, 47, instructed TMZ on Monday, April 22, of the mishap.
When requested if he had “no accidents” and was “all good,” Bryan joked, “Hey, I acquired plenty of meat again there.”
Footage from his efficiency on the Coast Metropolis Nation Competition in Vancouver, Canada, on Saturday, April 20, confirmed Bryan abruptly falling on his again after slipping on a fan’s telephone.
The nation crooner then started laughing as he sat up and held the telephone for the viewers to see.
“Maintain on. Did anyone get that?” Bryan requested the group as he checked himself for potential accidents. “It’s OK. Hey, my lawyer can be calling.”
He then threw the telephone again into the group earlier than asking whether or not anybody filmed his fall. “You’re Snapchatting. You may’t Snapchat this s–t,” he instructed an viewers member. “Oh, sure! Alright, right here we go once more. There I’m, there we go … there it’s! That is viral, alright, that is viral.”
Bryan additionally laughed off his now-viral slip throughout the Sunday, April 21, episode of American Idol after host Ryan Seacrest referenced his tumble.
“I simply need to verify to verify. Luke, you’re transferring OK?” Seacrest, 49, joked. “You seemed alright on the open of the present there. Are you broken in any approach?”
After initially pretending he didn’t know what Seacrest was speaking about, the “However I Bought a Beer in My Hand” singer finally gave followers an replace after Seacrest replayed the clip, which Bryan known as “good old style foolishness.”
“I’m alright, child!” he added. “[It was] really the very best second of the night time.”
Bryan’s Canadian leg of his Thoughts of a Nation Boy Tour is ready to wrap up on Thursday, April 25. The nation star will kick off the subsequent leg of his tour in June in Jacksonville, Florida.
In between tour dates, followers can watch Bryan on American Idol, the place he has been a decide alongside Katy Perry and Lionel Richie since season 16 in 2018.
Although Perry, 39, introduced in February that this season would “most likely” be her final, Bryan admitted that he wasn’t shocked by her determination.
“I had heard whispers that she was fascinated with it — it wasn’t like an enormous shock,” he instructed Style of Nation earlier this month. “I feel she kinda simply acquired caught up within the second with [Jimmy] Kimmel and perhaps introduced that she was performed.”
And whereas Perry thinks Jelly Roll could be a superb substitute for her as soon as she’s mentioned goodbye to the Idol household, Bryan instructed TMZ he “can’t go into” who he’d prefer to see on the judging panel.
“Anyone could be nice,” he shared.
American Idol airs on ABC on Sundays and Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.