Radio hosts’ wild theory about why international superstars keep falling through trapdoors on Melbourne stages – after Chris Martin and Olivia Rodrigo mishaps went viral
Jackie ‘O’ Henderson and Kyle Sandilands have revealed their wild theory about why international superstars continue to fall through the hatches in Melbourne.
On Sunday night, Coldplay’s Chris Martin fell through a door in the stage floor, following on from a similar incident with Olivia Rodrigo just weeks earlier.
On Monday, the radio duo drew a line between the incidents on The Kyle and Jackie O Show.
“Can I just bring up the trapdoor that keeps staying open… it was open again,” Jackie, 49, said.
She told how Chris Martin, 47, was performing the band’s fourth and final date in Melbourne on their Music of the Spheres tour when he tripped during the sold-out show and fell in front of the packed audience at Marvel Stadium.
The Coldplay frontman was reading audience signs and walking backwards during a break in the show when he tumbled through a hole in front of the shocked audience.
Co-host Kyle Sandilands joked that the reason the accident happened again is because interns replaced stage managers.
‘Do you think it’s the same man? Or worse… the old man got fired for it, and then it turns out maybe it wasn’t his fault,” Jackie said, before wondering if there is only one performing company that puts on international concerts.
Jackie O Henderson has revealed a wild theory about why international superstars continue to fall through the hatches in Melbourne. On Sunday night, Coldplay’s Chris Martin (pictured in August) fell through a door in the stage floor, echoing a similar incident with Olivia Rodrigo.
The Coldplay frontman was reading audience signs and walking backwards during a break in the show when he tumbled through a hole in front of the shocked audience. Pictured
“Don’t you think we have one big stage company that they all use?”
Kyle then speculated, “What if it was two theater companies? That guy got fired for Olivia Rodrigo, went to work at the new place and left the door open again?”
Later in the segment, Kyle and Jackie received a call from a professional stage manager, Ryan, who shed some light on what may have been going on.
Jackie (pictured) theorized that the same stagehand responsible for Olivia Rodrigo’s fall was responsible for the Coldplay accident last month
‘A few things could happen. Normally, when you work an arena show like that, there’s a stage manager who calls all the cues: the lighting cues, everything, all the movements that you see happening,” he said.
‘Often at the stage door it is a local crew that is hired for that one show and they follow the directions of someone else who has headphones on.
“It could be a lot of things… either the stage manager said ‘stage door go’ and Chris Martin wasn’t supposed to be there or talking to the audience at that time, or the stage guys opened the door too early ,” Ryan explained.
In footage shared on social media from Coldplay’s Sunday show, concertgoers can be heard gasping as Martin falls and stumbles out of sight.
The Yellow singer can then be heard reassuring fans, “That’s not planned,” before adding “Thanks for catching me” to a production hand under the stage.
After the incident, Martin continued with the show and has not reported any injuries to date.
Rodrigo’s eerily similar fall took place at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena last month.