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Beyoncé has surprised fans in France by bringing out Jay-Z to perform a number of songs together – check out footage of the moment below.
Last night (June 22), Beyoncé performed her third and final concert at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France to close out the European leg of her ongoing ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour. To make the moment even more special, Beyoncé surprised audience members by bringing out her husband and rapper Jay-Z.
Besides marking the final show of the European ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour, it also served as the first time that the couple have performed onstage together in seven years. They last performed together back in 2018 as part of their co-headlining ‘On The Run II’ tour.
Together, the couple performed their duet ‘Crazy In Love’, and Jay-Z’s ‘N***** In Paris’. The latter track notably removed any mentions of the highly controversial Kanye West, as Jay-Z rapped over all of his former collaborator’s verses, and swapped out the lyric “Just might let you meet Ye” to “Just might let you meet me“.
Following ‘N***** In Paris’, Jay-Z disappeared offstage, while Beyoncé transitioned into ‘Drunk In Love’ and ‘Partition’. Check out fan-shot footage of the performance below.
Just days before Jay-Z’s surprise appearance, Beyoncé surprised fans in the same venue by bringing out Miley Cyrus to perform their collaboration ‘II Most Wanted’ together for the first time ever.
“I’m so excited because I wanted to do something very special for you guys,” Beyoncé said. “I could not do it without this young lady’s help, so I want you to scream as loud as you can. I wan’t y’all for this icon. I’m your biggest fan. I’m so grateful to watch you, to sing with you, Miss Miley Cyrus.”
Beyoncé’s first London date at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium earlier this month earned her a glowing five-star review, with Nick Levine writing for NME: “As a performer, she remains pretty much flawless – who else can sing from a bucking mechanical bull without missing a note? And as a creator of stadium spectacle, she keeps getting better. No one leaving this show will be removing their cowboy hat on the ride home.”
Madonna revealed that she saw her late mother "on the other side" while she was in a medically induced coma in 2023.
In a conversation on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast on Monday, the Queen of Pop explained that she was treated in intensive care and remained in a coma for two days after doctors discovered a "serious bacterial infection" that developed after a mild fever.
Thinking back to the health scare, Madonna shared that she experienced a vision of her mother, also named Madonna Ciccone, who lost her life to breast cancer in December 1963.
"I was almost there on the other side, and I had a conscious moment," she said. "My mother appeared to me, and she said, 'Do you want to come with me?' And I said, 'No.'"
She added that her assistant was present in the room and heard her say the word, "No."
"And then, when I did eventually wake up, I realised that the 'no' was about me needing to forgive and make good with people that I still held grudges against," the 67-year-old explained.
One of the long-standing conflicts she chose to release was her troubled relationship with her brother Christopher Ciccone.
The artist passed away from pancreatic cancer at 63 in October 2024.
"For my brother, I didn't speak to him for, you know, for years, years, and years. And it was him being ill (and) reaching out to me and saying, 'I need your help.' And me having that moment like, 'Am I going to help my enemy?' You know, that's how it felt. And I just did," the Ray of Light singer said. "And I ended up (helping) and I felt so relieved. And it was such a load off my back, such a weight that was removed, baggage that I could put down to finally be able to be in a room with him and holding his hand, even if he was dying and saying, 'I love you and I forgive you.' That was really important."
