Elton John Jokes About Eyesight Issues At Golden Globes

Elton John despatched followers a winking clarification about his eyesight whereas showing on the 2025 Golden Globes on Sunday.

As he took the stage alongside Brandi Carlile, John proved he hasn’t misplaced his humorousness whereas cracking a joke about his latest imaginative and prescient points.

“I don’t know if you already know, however there’s been plenty of tales going round about my regressive eyesight. I simply need to reassure all people that it’s not as dangerous because it appears,” he quipped. “So I’m so happy to be right here with my co-host, Rihanna!”

He and Carlile then introduced the award for Finest Authentic Rating to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for “Challengers.”

Watch Elton John and Brandi Carlile on the 2025 Golden Globes beneath.

John revealed in September that he had developed a “extreme eye an infection” over the summer season that left him with restricted imaginative and prescient in his proper eye, however prompt he was on the mend.

“I’m therapeutic, but it surely’s a particularly sluggish course of and it’ll take a while earlier than sight returns to the impacted eye,” he mentioned on social media on the time.

He gave a brief update whereas showing on “Good Morning America” in late November, saying, “It’s been 4 months now since I haven’t been capable of see. And my left eye’s not the best.”

Days after his “Good Morning America” look, the five-time Grammy winner turned up at the London premiere of the musical adaptation of “The Satan Wears Prada” in London, the place he indicated he’d had issue viewing the stage manufacturing.

“I haven’t been capable of come to most of the previews as a result of, as you already know, I’ve misplaced my eyesight,” John, who co-wrote the musical’s rating with Tony Award winner Shaina Taub, mentioned. “So it’s laborious for me to see it, however I really like to listen to it, and, boy, it sounded good tonight.”

It’s unclear if John’s eyesight is anticipated to return, but it surely hasn’t slowed him down onstage or within the studio.

Although he retired from touring following his 2023 Farewell Yellow Brick Street Tour, he appeared at Walt Disney World last month to carry out his 1972 basic, “Tiny Dancer,” in the course of the Florida resort’s Christmas celebrations.

He and Carlile are additionally closely rumored to have teamed up for a brand new album, however the standing of that undertaking stays unknown.