Elton John despatched followers a winking clarification about his eyesight whereas showing on the 2025 Golden Globes on Sunday.
As he took the stage alongside Brandi Carlile, John proved he hasn’t misplaced his humorousness whereas cracking a joke about his latest imaginative and prescient points.
“I don’t know if you already know, however there’s been loads of tales going round about my regressive eyesight. I simply need to reassure all people that it’s not as unhealthy because it appears,” he quipped. “So I’m so happy to be right here with my co-host, Rihanna!”
He and Carlile then introduced the award for Finest Authentic Rating to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for “Challengers.”
Watch Elton John and Brandi Carlile on the 2025 Golden Globes under.
John revealed in September that he had developed a “extreme eye an infection” over the summer season that left him with restricted imaginative and prescient in his proper eye, however urged he was on the mend.
“I’m therapeutic, however it’s a particularly gradual course of and it’ll take a while earlier than sight returns to the impacted eye,” he mentioned on social media on the time.
He gave a brief update whereas showing on “Good Morning America” in late November, saying, “It’s been 4 months now since I haven’t been capable of see. And my left eye’s not the best.”
Days after his “Good Morning America” look, the five-time Grammy winner turned up at the London premiere of the musical adaptation of “The Satan Wears Prada” in London, the place he indicated he’d had issue viewing the stage manufacturing.
“I haven’t been capable of come to lots of the previews as a result of, as you already know, I’ve misplaced my eyesight,” John, who co-wrote the musical’s rating with Tony Award winner Shaina Taub, mentioned. “So it’s exhausting for me to see it, however I like to listen to it, and, boy, it sounded good tonight.”
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It’s unclear if John’s eyesight is anticipated to return, however it hasn’t slowed him down onstage or within the studio.
Although he retired from touring following his 2023 Farewell Yellow Brick Street Tour, he appeared at Walt Disney World last month to carry out his 1972 traditional, “Tiny Dancer,” through the Florida resort’s Christmas celebrations.
He and Carlile are additionally closely rumored to have teamed up for a brand new album, however the standing of that venture stays unknown.
