Idina Menzel celebrates the 10-year anniversary of John Travolta flubbing her name at the 2014 Oscars: ‘Happy 10th Birthday, Adele Dazeem!’
Idina Menzel hilariously commemorated the 10th anniversary of John Travolta botching her name at the 2014 Oscars.
Ten years after the Pulp Fiction star, 70, introduced her to the public as ‘Adele Dazeem’ after she struggled to read the teleprompter, the actress and singer, 52, celebrated her alter ego’s birthday on TikTok.
“Hey, Adele Dazeem, it’s Idina Menzel. I just want to say, happy birthday,” she said in the clip.
“Sending you so much love and positive energy, I hope you have the best day,” she added, before continuing to sing “Happy Birthday.”
In the caption, she wrote, “Happy 10th birthday, Adele Dazeem!”
Idina Menzel, 52, hilariously commemorated John Travolta’s 10th anniversary, 70, by ruining her name at the 2014 Oscars
Ten years after the Pulp Fiction star (pictured at the 2014 Oscars) introduced her to audiences as ‘Adele Dazeem’, she celebrated her alter ego’s birthday on TikTok
Her fans raved about the clip, with one writing: ‘Already 10 years? Adele Dazeem is growing up so fast!’
“I think about Adele Dazeem at least once a day,” another added.
“How come our little Adele Dazeem is already in double digits?!!” someone else asked.
“Happy birthday too, “The incredibly talented,” Adele Dazeem,” someone else chimed in, quoting Travolta.
Menzel, who voices Elsa in the hit Disney franchise Frozen, was at the Oscars to perform the film’s hit, “Let It Go,” when Travolta made his viral blunder.
“There will always be a special place in my heart for the movie musical and for the songs that create their most memorable moments,” he said during the introduction.
“Here to perform the Oscar-nominated, beautifully powerful song ‘Let It Go’ from the Oscar-winning animated film Frozen, I welcome the extraordinarily talented, one and only Adele Dazeem.”
After the moment went viral on social media, Menzel and Travolta were invited to present together at the 2015 ceremony next year.
And Idina got the chance to get revenge on John when she jokingly introduced him as ‘Glom Gazingo’.
“Hey, Adele Dazeem, it’s Idina Menzel. I just want to say, happy birthday,” she said in the clip. ‘Sending you so much love and positive energy, I hope you have the best, best day’
In the caption, she wrote, “Happy 10th birthday, Adele Dazeem!”
Menzel, who voices Elsa in the hit Disney franchise Frozen, was at the Oscars to perform the film’s hit, “Let It Go,” when Travolta made his viral blunder
After the moment went viral on social media, Menzel and Travolta were invited to present together at next year’s 2015 ceremony (pictured)
Idina got the chance to get revenge on John when she jokingly introduced him as ‘Glom Gazingo’
The Grease star then walked on stage and hugged her before patting the Wicked star on the face and embracing the joke.
“I deserve that, but you, my darling, my beautiful, my incredibly talented Idina Menzel,” he added, finally pronouncing correctly the sentence he should have said the year before.
“You got it, it’s not like it’s going to haunt me for the rest of my life or anything,” she jokingly commented, to which John replied, “Yeah, tell me about it.”
This isn’t the first time Menzel has joked about the iconic moment on social media.
During the 2022 TikTok ‘Not My Name’ challenge, she shared Adele with her other famous alter egos, including Elphaba in Wicked, Nancy in Enchanted, Rachel’s mother in Glee, Elsa in Frozen and Maureen in Rent.
In 2015, Travolta admitted that he partly blames actress Goldie Hawn for the unforgettable flub.
Speaking to Jimmy Kimmel, he revealed the series of events that led to his confusing and hilarious mistake.
“The truth is that I was expected backstage and the time for me to go on was getting very close, and suddenly a page – an assistant of yours – grabbed me and said it will be your turn soon,” he said.
“I thought, ‘What happened to 15 minutes?’ and they didn’t explain. I later found out that my actual page was stuck in an elevator and couldn’t communicate with anyone, so the backup came and got me.”
‘When I get backstage I run into Goldie Hawn. She is sexy, charismatic, beautiful and I was completely in awe as I hugged and loved her, forgetting that I had to do this bit.”
This isn’t the first time Menzel has joked about the iconic moment on social media. During the 2022 TikTok ‘Not My Name’ challenge, she shared Adele along with her other famous alter egos
“Then they said, ‘Okay, you’re on’ and then they said, ‘Oh, by the way, we changed Idina’s name to a phonetic spelling and I was like, ‘Wait, what do you mean?’ ‘To go!’ he said, with mock panic.
“So I go outside and I get to her thing and I’m like, ‘Huh?’ In my mind I’m going ‘What? What is that name? I don’t know that name.” And it was this phonetic spelling, and I didn’t rehearse it that way.”
Jimmy then jokingly asked if that meant it was “Goldie Hawn’s fault,” to which John laughed and replied, “Maybe.”
Despite the blunder, John insisted the singer holds no grudges and even credits him for her career success.
He added: “The great news, and Idina agrees, is that she has had one of the best years of her life and career. And she gives me the credit!’