In the past year alone, Beyonce Knowles said to have earned $80 million (£54 million) from record sales, film appearances and endorsements. Yet in the flesh, it all seems a galaxy away from her disarmingly open body language and megawatt smile.
Two days previously, and it's that lack of celebrity airs that the Strictly Come Dancing warm-up comic picks up on as Beyoncé prepares to perform her new single If I Was A Boy. “You know, Beyoncé,” he leers, “you're the kind of girl I could take to McDonald's and let you go large.” Her vulnerability is compounded when he inquires the whereabouts of Jay-Z, whom she apparently married two months before his momentous Glastonbury performance last June, though they have studiously avoided discussing this with the media. The gleam of her diamond-studded heels finds an echo in her eyes. “He's looking for you,” she replies. For a second, the Amazonian Beyoncé of Destiny's Child is resurrected.
Two days previously, and it's that lack of celebrity airs that the Strictly Come Dancing warm-up comic picks up on as Beyoncé prepares to perform her new single If I Was A Boy. “You know, Beyoncé,” he leers, “you're the kind of girl I could take to McDonald's and let you go large.” Her vulnerability is compounded when he inquires the whereabouts of Jay-Z, whom she apparently married two months before his momentous Glastonbury performance last June, though they have studiously avoided discussing this with the media. The gleam of her diamond-studded heels finds an echo in her eyes. “He's looking for you,” she replies. For a second, the Amazonian Beyoncé of Destiny's Child is resurrected.
