american idol viewers got more than they bargained for during Monday night’s live shows with the Top 14! Judge Katy Perry wore a custom silver metallic top by Kate Barton for the televised event, but didn’t stay on the entire time.
Midway through the episode, the 39-year-old pop star revealed that her top had burst as she clapped for contestant Roman Collins’ performance of James Brown’s “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World.”
“That song broke my shirt,” Perry joked at the judge’s table, hiding under it and behind a pillow. “I think it’s a woman’s world.”
“Assessments!” judge Lucas Bryan he joked. “Here we go, reviews!”
ET’s Denny Directo spoke with Bryan after the live show, where he joked about the incident.
“Tonight, her blouse flies, almost flies. At this point in the game, I’m like, ‘What do you need? What do you need? Do you need pliers? Do you need a towel? A bathrobe? The what do you need?’”, joked the country singer.
However, judge Lionel Richie was telling a different story about Bryan’s involvement in the incident.
“Luke ripped the lid off, I’m going to tell you the whole truth,” Richie insisted to ET. “And then Luke spent the rest of the time saying, ‘I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.’ But he definitely apologized and then tried to make it right and that seemed worse than anything.”
Perry herself set the record straight, calling the incident a “television moment.”
“Yeah, he’s always setting me up,” she joked about Bryan. “It wasn’t really a flaw. It was just a television moment. Every season it feels like I tear my pants… I think it’s the physical comedy, the physical expression side of me that just wants to burst at the seams.”
New episodes of american idol airs Sundays and Mondays at 8pm ET on ABC and streams the next day on Hulu.
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