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Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Lady Gaga had no idea she copied Midler's mermaid stunt

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Lady Gaga says she had no idea she was copying Bette Midler's mermaid in a wheelchair stunt during a performance last week in Australia.
The pop star performed wearing a mermaid tail and sitting in a wheelchair and Midler took to Twitter to remind fans and Gaga she came up with the gimmick way back in 1980.
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Gaga has now spoken about it to Billy Bush of "Access Hollywood," "I had no idea that she did that and I'm a huge Bette Midler fan. ... [It was] not [a Midler tribute] in the beginning ... because I didn't know that she'd done [it], but I do now and I think it's great. Obviously I feel connected to women in theatre and women from the past."
"Maybe we're just cut from the same cloth," she adds. "I couldn't hop around in that tail so I just stuck myself in a wheelchair. All I'll say is that I ... admire her and find her to be one of the most brilliant and incredible performers, so that's all I'll say."
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