Anderson Cooper has recalled a ‘mortifying’ second on stage with Madonna.
Throughout the newest instalment of Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Speak Off Digital camera podcast, the journalist stated he’s nonetheless “mortified” about being spanked by the pop star throughout her Insurgent Coronary heart live performance in Brooklyn, New York in 2015.
“That (second,) I select to neglect. I am mortified,” the 56-year-old informed Kelly. “I imply, I beloved the entire thought, I really like the expertise of it. I do not love the video that exists of it, the truth.”
In the course of the live performance, Madonna jokingly invited the CNN host onto the stage and started spanking him as she sang her hit tune Unapologetic B**ch.
The political commentator additionally famous that his dancing expertise had been less than the identical requirements of the performers on stage.
“I did not know what the hell was occurring,” he stated. “I used to be horrible. I danced terribly. It was mortifying.”
The journalist added, “All of us watch folks carry out at these phases and so they make it appear to be it is all so pure and regular… Even the best way they’re like dancing, working, strolling down the stage. I (was) like, ‘I do not, do I skip?'”
Anderson then recalled Madonna handing him a single banana in entrance of the viewers.
“Hastily you end up like… you are standing on this factor, after which she palms you a banana, and proper earlier than that she pushed me over and humped me. Which I did not count on all of it,” he remembered. “So I open it up and I begin to peel it and eat the banana, after which unexpectedly I begin decreasing down on this little digital elevator disappearing on the stage identical to consuming this banana.”