Jackie ‘O’ Henderson and Kyle Sandilands have revealed their wild theory about why international superstars keep falling through trapdoors in Melbourne.
On Sunday night, Coldplay’s Chris Martin fell through a door on the stage floor, echoing a similar incident with Olivia Rodrigo just weeks earlier.
On Monday’s The Kyle and Jackie O Show, the radio duo drew a line between the incidents.
“Can I just open the hatch that keeps being left open… it’s left open again?” said Jackie, 49.
She detailed how Chris Martin, 47, was performing the band’s fourth and final Melbourne date on their Music of the Spheres tour when he tripped during the sold-out show and fell in front of the packed audience at Marvel Stadium.
The Coldplay frontman was reading crowd signs and walking backwards during a break in the show when he fell down a hole in front of the shocked crowd.
Co-host Kyle Sandilands joked that the reason the accident happened again is because interns were filling in for stage managers.
‘Do you think it’s the same guy? Or worse yet… the old guy got fired for it, and then it turns out it may not have been his fault,’ Jackie said, before wondering if there’s only one staging company that puts on international concerts.
Jackie O. Henderson has revealed a wild theory about why international superstars keep falling through trap doors in Melbourne. On Sunday night, Coldplay’s Chris Martin (pictured in August) fell through a door on the stage floor, echoing a similar incident with Olivia Rodrigo.
The Coldplay frontman was reading crowd signs and walking backwards during a break in the show when he fell down a hole in front of the shocked crowd. in the photo
‘Wouldn’t you believe we have a great staging company that everyone uses?’
Kyle then speculated: ‘What if it was two staging companies? The guy got fired because of Olivia Rodrigo, went to work at the new place and left the door open again?
Later in the segment, Kyle and Jackie received a call from a professional stage manager, Ryan, who shed some light on what might be going on.
Jackie (pictured) theorized that the same stagehand responsible for Olivia Rodrigo’s trapdoor fall last month was responsible for Coldplay’s mishap.
‘There are some things that could be happening. “Usually when you work on a show like that in a stadium, there’s a stage manager who gives all the cues: the lighting cues, everything, all the movements that you see happening,” he said.
“A lot of times, at the stage door, it’s a local crew that’s hired for that show and they follow instructions from someone else who’s wearing headphones.
“It could be a lot of things… either the stage manager said ‘stage door, come in’ and Chris Martin wasn’t supposed to be there at the time or talking to the crowd, or the stage guys opened it too soon.” Ryan explained.
In images shared on social media from Coldplay’s Sunday show, concertgoers can be heard gasping as Martin falls out of sight.
The Yellow singer is then heard reassuring fans: “That’s not planned,” before adding: “Thanks for catching me” to a production worker below the stage.
After the incident, Martin continued with the show and so far no injuries have been reported.
Rodrigo’s eerily similar fall occurred at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena last month.
