Idina Menzel celebrates 10th anniversary of John Travolta’s ‘Adele Dazeem’ Oscars blunder
She won’t let it go.
Idina Menzel jokingly took to TikTok to wish her alter ego — Adele Dazeem — a happy birthday nearly a decade after John Travolta’s flub during the 2014 Oscars.
“Hey, Adele Dazeem, it’s Idina Menzel. I just want to say happy birthday,” Menzel, 52, said in the Saturday video. “I’m sending you so much love and positive energy, I hope you have the best, best day.”
The “Glee” star then belted out a rendition of “Happy Birthday.”
“Have a great one, lots of love, bye,” concluded the actress.
The video, which has since gained 1.6 million views, was greeted with much enthusiasm from fans.
“10 years already? Adele Dazeem is growing up so fast,” one user joked.
“How is our little Adele Dazeem already double digits?” said an equally flummoxed user.
“She had the opportunity to do the funniest thing and my god did she take it. Icon,” commented a third person.
“Quite literally peed my pants from laughing so hard seeing Adele Dazeem & I kept rewinding it until I couldn’t breathe,” a fourth person stated.
This is not the first time Menzel has poked fun at Travolta’s flub online.
In 2022, Menzel included the name when she took part in the viral “Not My Name” trend on TikTok where she listed all the iconic roles she had ever played, ranging from Elphaba in “Wicked” to Dinah Ratner from the Adam Sandler-led “Uncut Gems.”
The “birth” of Menzel’s alter ego came midway through the 2014 award show when Travolta, now 70, attempted to introduce the “Rent” actress, who was performing the ballad “Let It Go” from Disney’s “Frozen.”
“There will always be a special place in my heart for the movie musical and for the songs that create their most memorable moments,” the “Grease” star said during the ceremony. “Here to perform the Oscar-nominated, gorgeously empowering song ‘Let It Go,’ from the Oscar-winning animated movie ‘Frozen,’ please welcome the wickedly talented, one and only Adele Dazeem.”
Following the ceremony — which saw the film take home two awards for Best Original Song and Best Animated Feature — Travolta revealed that he had been “beating himself up” over the snafu.
“I’ve been beating myself up all day,” the “Saturday Night Fever” star said in a statement to Today at the time. “Then I thought what would Idina Menzel say, She’d say, ‘Let it go, let it go!’ Idina is incredibly talented and I am so happy ‘Frozen’ took home two Oscars Sunday night!”
The blunder went viral instantly with one netizen creating a parody X (formerly Twitter) account.
Despite the botching of her name, Menzel – who was thrown for a loop by the mistake — later appeared beside Travolta during the 2015 Oscars ceremony where she jokingly botched his name.
Menzel later said that Travolta’s mistake “was the best thing that ever happened.”
“He’s written so many nice, apologetic emails. He’s so kind,” the Tony Award winner told James Corden while promoting her film “Cinderella” during an appearance on the “The Late Late Show” segment “Carpool Karaoke” in 2021.
“To make up for it, he would just fly wherever at this point, he’s so sweet,” Menzel continued. “I just always say, ‘No worries because it was the best thing that ever happened!’ ”
