Billie Eilish is reportedly set to carry out on the Paris 2024 Olympics closing ceremony. (Getty/Canva)
There’s no must “Guess” which pop famous person is about to carry out on the Paris Olympics closing ceremony, it’s reported to be Billie Eilish.
The 2024 Paris Olympics will formally come to an in depth on Sunday (11 August), a bit of greater than two weeks on from the lavish opening ceremony. Based on Selection, “Lunch” hit-maker and sapphic songstress Eilish might be one of many famous person names making an look.
“Drop It Like It’s Scorching” rapper Snoop Dogg and “Californication” rockers Purple Scorching Chilli Peppers are additionally reportedly set to carry out.
The closing ceremony will act as a handover between this yr’s host Paris, and Los Angeles, the place the Video games might be staged 4 years from now.
All three rumoured artists have shut connections to the Metropolis of Angels, with Eilish and Snoop Dogg being born within the space, and the Purple Scorching Chilli Peppers having fashioned there.
All three artists might be performing in Los Angeles stay or in pre-recorded movies.
Representatives for the Olympics and the artists in query declined to remark when approached by Selection.
After the information broke, fellow pop famous person and Brat Summer time originator Charli XCX briefly despatched the gays of the web right into a spiral, seemingly teasing that she could be performing her Eilish collaboration “Guess” in Paris.
Nonetheless, she swiftly clarified that she had been joking.
If Eilish does find yourself taking to the stage, she’s going to go some approach to making Paris 2024 the gayest Video games in Olympic historical past. Properly, other than the unique ones in Historic Greece, that’s.
On the opening ceremony in July, bisexual famous person Girl Gaga and LGBTQ+ fan favorite Celine Dion delivered separate however equally mind-blowing performances, with the previous performing French cabaret track “Mon Truc en Plumes” (My Feather Factor) and Dion taking to the Eiffel Tower to sing “L’hymne à l’amour” (Hymn to Love), made well-known by Edith Piaf.
It marked Dion’s first public efficiency since she was identified with the uncommon neurological dysfunction, stiff individual syndrome, in 2022.
The opening ceremony additionally featured a recreation of a bacchanalian feast, that includes Drag Race France host Nicky Doll, and a number of other different drag stars, together with Paloma, and lesbian French DJ Barbara Butch.
The sporting spectacular adopted within the opening ceremony’s footsteps, offering some tremendous queer moments.
Certainly one of our favourites was when Staff GB’s Noah Williams kissed his diving accomplice Tom Daley, who’s homosexual and married with a husband and two sons, after they’d gained silver within the males’s 10m platform synchronised occasion, with the latter taking to the rostrum with a rainbow towel in hand.
Then there was Italy’s Alice Bellandi grabbing her girlfriend Jasmine Martin and getting into for kiss after profitable judo gold within the 78kg division.
And lesbian Cindy Ngamba made historical past by profitable the Refugee Olympic Staff’s first-ever medal, a bronze within the 75kg boxing.
General, a record-breaking 193 out queer Olympians took half within the Paris Video games, whereas Staff LGBTQ+ is at the moment in seventh place on the chief board.
The manager director of the closing ceremony, Thierry Reboul, has mentioned he has needed to revise the script “umpteen instances” for the occasion on the Stade de France, to keep away from any repeat of the misunderstanding that surrounded the opening extravaganza, The Guardian reported.
The Paris Olympics closing ceremony is scheduled for 8pm (UK time) on Sunday (11 August), with BBC1’s protection starting at 7pm.
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