World Music Awards a Crazy Affair For Michelle Williams
By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
Dec 1, 2008
If songstress Michelle Williams looks a little breathless hosting the World Music Awards airing on Fox tomorrow (12/2), there's good reason. "I didn't find out until the day of the show that I was going to be hosting," reveals the former Destiny's Child member. "It was crazy. I knew I was going to be a presenter. Then I got a phone call, like, 'Hey, would you be, like, into co-hosting with Jesse Metcalfe?' So I went from presenting a single award to hosting the entire show with him. They were making the script as I got there, passing out pages.
World Music Awards a Crazy Affair For Michelle Williams (Image: Wenn)
"I don't know if someone else was supposed to be hosting the show before," she adds. "I didn't complain. Hey, it was a blessing. I wasn't doing anything else anyway."
Taped last month in Monaco, the show, which boasts plenty of star power with performances by Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, among others, sounds like a jumbled affair behind the scenes. Michelle says, "I'm kind of glad it wasn't live. There were people walking in front of the teleprompter, and nobody said, 'Yo, sit down.' We had to adlib. It really was an absolute blast."
Michelle says she "literally ran into Alicia Keys. I was trying to climb up to the stage after a wardrobe change. There was so much stuff going on. I was just trying to find my way back to the stage, and I walked smack dab into her and someone else having a conversation. I was like, 'Oh, my God!' It was such an honor to see her, and her performance was awesome."
She also got a chance to reconnect with Beyonce and her sister Solange, "another reunion. Of course we met up and talked. And I talked to Estelle. I thoroughly enjoy her music," adds Michelle, who has her own critically hailed "Unexpected" album in release.
She was so tired by the end of the event, she skipped the after-parties and went straight back to her hotel room, "ordered room service and went to bed. I didn't hear about Jesse falling until I got back to the States," she adds, referring to Metcalfe's 40-foot fall at one of the after-parties. He was rushed to the hospital and is recovering, she was glad to hear. It was another drama of the night, she notes -- "Drah. Mah."
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