Jason Derulo took a tumble down a small flight of stairs while performing in London on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
The “Slow Low” singer was performing a ballad on stage at the Summertime Ball when he tripped, slid down a few steps, and picked himself back up, saying, “I survived!”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Derulo has long been the subject of false claims that he slipped down the stairs at the Met Gala.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Life doesn’t imitate art anymore, it imitates memes.<\/p>\n
Jason Derulo<\/a> took a tumble down a set of stairs while performing at the Summertime Ball in London on Saturday. Videos<\/a> taken by audience members show Derulo crooning a series of soft notes during a stirring ballad, thoughtfully looking up at the sky, smiling at his cheering fans, nodding, and sensiblly looking down to see where he was about to step.<\/p>\n It didn’t help.<\/p>\n Derulo reeled backward after his foot gave way on the step below, sending him tumbling to the ground. With a beaming smile, he then held a finger up, asking for the audience’s patience as he recovered. “I survived!” he announced, leading to another volley of cheers.<\/p>\n Jason Derulo performs during the Summertime Ball 2026 in London If reading all that kicks off a wave of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, you aren’t alone. Hordes of netizens, including many of Derulo’s own fans, have become convinced that the award-winning singer, songwriter, and dancer took a memorable spill down the Met Gala steps. Not during any particular year \u2014 an image<\/a> described as Derulo falling at the annual New York City-set fashion gala has circulated every year, for years online.<\/p>\n The image is actually an attendee executing a stunt<\/a> on the steps at Cannes’ Palais des Festivals et des Congr\u00e8s in 2015. But it still has half the internet convinced that Derulo is just that accident-prone.<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our\u00a0<\/strong>EW Dispatch newsletter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Derulo addressed the misidentification at the time, writing<\/a> on the social media site then known as Twitter, “Lmao I’m at rehearsal in LA. Fuq ya’ll! Lol.”<\/p>\n Nearly a decade later, a case of mistaken identity had become a rampant meme that Derulo had to address again. “There’s still people on the planet that think that I’d fall down the steps. Somebody that’s living under a rock that hasn’t seen [it] before,” he told PEOPLE<\/a> in 2023. “I’ve definitely seen some messages like, ‘Are you OK?’ But yeah, every single year, a couple of times a year… it’s not even just the Met Gala anymore! It’s kind of inching its way onto other events, but it’s hilarious.”<\/p>\n Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Jason](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/eb17ae4f0057607f73aaf1524a6a82c0.jpeg\"\/)
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