Post Malone Mistakes His New Madame Tussauds Wax Figure For a Real Person: ‘Are You F–king Kidding Me?’
It takes a lot to surprise Post Malone. But the typically unflappable “I Had Some Help” singer seemed genuinely surprised last weekend when he ran into a rather stiff doppelgänger backstage at the Governors Ball festival in New York. In a video posted by Consequence of Sound, Posty is seen making his way backstage after his headlining set when he runs into his new figure that is headed to the Madame Tussauds wax museum in Las Vegas.
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Initially thinking it was just another hipster hanging around backstage, Malone walked right by at first, saying “I’m so lost right now,” before turning around and realizing that he was looking at a waxy mirror. “Are you f–king kidding me?” he says with a look of shock as he ducks away. To be fair, the paraffin Post does bear an uncanny resemblance, down to the signature face tattoos, gold teeth, wide smile and beer pong accessories in its hand.
“I literally thought that was a person,” Post says as he grins at the double who is throwing up the devil horn hand sign. “Is this real hair?” he asks. “Who’s hair is it? Mine? That was y’all in my shower?” Malone professes to be “blown away” by the level of detail, down to his diamond-encrusted grill, thanking the Tussauds folks for the “help down there… I appreciate it.”
He then marvels at how they captured his many tattoos perfectly, asking how the detail work is done and wondering if his new bust friend could do his shows for him. “I’d love to catch up on sleep,” says the rapper/singer who famously has the phrase “Always Tired” inked under his eyes. The clip ends with Post putting his arm around the figure and then flipping it off for good measure.
Malone is currently riding high with No. 1 hit with Morgan Wallen (“I Had Some Help”) and his at Gov Ball was larded with his many hits, including “Congratulations,” “Wow,” “Circles” and “Better Now,” among others.
Check out the meet cute video below.
Gil Kaufman
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