The daytime TV big was serving the shade with the astir for the Halloween occurrence of The Kelly Clarkson Show. Dressed decaying caput to toed arsenic Michael Keaton’s Beetlejuice, the “Stronger” vocalist was unrecognizable arsenic the villain from the Tim Burton deed films, rocking a achromatic and achromatic striped suit and Beetlejuice’s signature chaotic hairsbreadth and greenish facial accents to marque the ghoulish skin.
And Clarkson’s costume isn’t the lone mode she’s incorporating the cult classical movie into her Halloween episode. The powerhouse vocalist is besides doing a Kellyoke mentation of “Banana Boat (Day-O),” the Harry Belfonte opus that soundtracks an iconic country from the archetypal 1988 movie starring Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and more.
And Clarkson isn’t the lone TV property to instrumentality connected the relation this year.
In fact, the annual Halloween time occurrence of the Today show featured the coanchors recreating immoderate of their household classical movie characters. Meteorologist Dylan Dreyer dressed up arsenic Lydia Deetz, Ryder’s character, calling retired Beetlejuice’s sanction 3 times lone for weatherman Al Roker to look successful each his Beetlejuice glory.
Beetlejuice obsession has had a resurgence this twelvemonth with the film’s sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice hitting theaters successful September, featuring archetypal stars Keaton, Ryder, and O’Hara and immoderate caller faces including Jenna Ortega, Justin Theroux and Willem Dafoe.
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As for whether the shade with the astir is consenting to look successful a 3rd installment of the deed franchise, Keaton precocious told E! News, “Oh, man, I’d bash it each year.”
And Keaton would ne'er fto a antagonistic critique power his sentiment of the sequel.
“I don’t attraction if everyone virtually successful the universe, successful different universes, says to me, ‘This happening is horrible,’” he told E! News backmost successful August. “It ain’t gonna substance to maine astatine each due to the fact that I frickin’ emotion it.”