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And Finally
Gaga’s mermaid antics not a Midler rip off
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 20 July 2011
Lady Gaga doesn’t steal routines off Bette Midler, OK? And besides, she’s a big fan of Midler. Which I’m sure will mean a lot to the singing actress, who I bet loves being referred to as a “woman from the past”.
This all began when Gaga took to a stage in Australia recently dressed as a mermaid and sitting in a wheelchair, seemingly a logistical move on the pop queen’s part, as it’s quite hard to walk in a mermaid costume. But Midler recognised that routine, having done the same in 1980, and she took to Twitter to say so.
But Gaga insists she had no idea about Midler’s mermaid act, though is happy to see her own mermaid routine as a tribute to that “woman from the past” now she does know.
Gaga told Access Hollywood: “I had no idea that she did that and I’m a huge Bette Midler fan. It was not a Midler tribute in the beginning … because I didn’t know that she’d done it, but I do now and I think it’s great. Obviously I feel connected to women in theatre and women from the past”.
