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Watch Katy Perry Get Stuck Inside Giant Bottle as Crowdsurf Stunt Goes Wrong

Perry was stuck inside an inflatable bottle for several minutes before fans rolled her back to the stage, witnesses said.

  • On July 22, pop star Katy Perry became stranded inside a giant inflatable bottle while crowdsurfing at the Isle of MTV Malta festival in Floriana, as fans failed to roll her back to the stage as intended.
  • During a performance of "I Kissed a Girl," the 41-year-old singer entered the inflatable tube, expecting fans to maneuver the "Katyade" bottle toward the stage, but the crowd guided the prop further away.
  • Inside the bottle, Perry shouted, "Go back to the stage!" before laughing, "Oh my God." Fans online found the mishap humorous, with one user writing, "She always finds herself in some predicament."
  • Concertgoers eventually turned the inflatable around, allowing Perry to safely return to the stage. Speaking after the show, she admitted the stunt was more dramatic than usual, noting, "I was a little bit worried I was not gonna come back."
  • Wrapping up her European Out of Office Tour, Perry is preparing to release new music. Her upcoming track, "Watch It Burn," follows her 2024 album "143" and recent public criticism regarding her song "Firework.
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Artist Katy Perry has become a strange internet phenomenon in recent years. She's traveled to space, released a single that received lousy reviews, and during a performance on the Isle of MTV in Malta the other day, the singer got stuck in a huge, inflatable plastic bottle - and created involuntary comedy.

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It was supposed to be the highlight of the show, the apex of the fusion between pop stars and people. It ended instead with Katy Perry locked up in a bottle of inflatable water as high as a van, tossed by the crowd in the wrong direction while singing The Kissed to Girl and begged for help as a shipwreck on a rock. The scene is [...] The article "Take me to the stage, oh my god!": Katy Perry desperate ends up in a giant bottle and the audience f…

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Kotaku broke the news in New York, United States on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.
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