{"id":214299,"date":"2023-09-12T08:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T08:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=214299"},"modified":"2023-09-12T08:28:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T08:28:02","slug":"diana-ross-honored-to-sing-for-beyonces-birthday-lionel-richie-just-jokingly-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/celebrities\/diana-ross-honored-to-sing-for-beyonces-birthday-lionel-richie-just-jokingly-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Ross Honored to Sing For Beyonc\u00e9&#039;s Birthday, Lionel Richie Just Jokingly Angry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/78\/4by3\/2023\/09\/11\/789b4555373b4dff819d91ba06ddc34a_md.jpg\"          loading=\"lazy\"          alt=\"diana ross lionel richie\"        ><\/p>\n<p><strong>Diana Ross<\/strong> had no hesitations in joining <strong>Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong> onstage for some birthday fun &#8230; and we&#8217;re told the so-called shade <strong>Lionel Richie<\/strong> threw at Diana was simply a friend joking around.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to Diana tell TMZ &#8230; the legendary singer was honored to <strong>sing &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; to Bey<\/strong> at her packed SoFi Stadium concert last week, adding she simply was returning the favor.<\/p>\n<p>You might recall, Beyonc\u00e9 jumped on the mic a few years ago to do the honors at Diana&#8217;s 75th birthday bash &#8230; so it was only fitting for Ms. Ross to be the one selected to grace the stage for Bey&#8217;s bday concert.<\/p>\n<p>As for Lionel&#8217;s apparent anger over Diana&#8217;s Bey-day serenade &#8230; sources with direct knowledge tell us he was just joking around when he went off about it during one of his concerts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/e1\/16by9\/2023\/09\/11\/e1bb6bd25f3b4429aee5b2088416ce37_md.jpg\"            loading=\"lazy\"          ><\/p>\n<p>If ya haven&#8217;t seen it, Lionel said he&#8217;s been trying for 3 decades to get Diana to sing their classic duet &#8220;Endless Love&#8221; live on stage, but she&#8217;s shot him down every time.<\/p>\n<p>He got a laugh from the crowd when he groused &#8230; Diana opting to sing for Beyonce &#8220;pissed me off!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/37\/16by9\/2023\/09\/05\/37fb76296c9849b2aa3c8abc1f062953_md.jpg\"            loading=\"lazy\"          ><\/p>\n<p>Some folks online weren&#8217;t sure if that was real rage or not, but we&#8217;re told it certainly wasn&#8217;t &#8212; he&#8217;s got lots of love for Diana and the 2 have a history of publicly jabbing at each other like that.<\/p>\n<p>Mystery solved.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2023\/09\/12\/diana-ross-honored-sing-beyonce-birthday-lionel-richie-joking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana Ross had no hesitations in joining Beyonc\u00e9 onstage for some birthday fun &#8230; and we&#8217;re told the so-called shade Lionel Richie threw at Diana was simply a friend joking around. Sources close to Diana tell TMZ &#8230; the legendary singer was honored to sing &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; to Bey at her packed SoFi Stadium concert last week, adding she simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Diana Ross Honored to Sing For Beyonc\u00e9&#039;s Birthday, Lionel Richie Just Jokingly Angry - Best World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/celebrities\/diana-ross-honored-to-sing-for-beyonces-birthday-lionel-richie-just-jokingly-angry\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Diana Ross Honored to Sing For Beyonc\u00e9&#039;s Birthday, Lionel Richie Just Jokingly Angry - Best World News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Diana Ross had no hesitations in joining Beyonc\u00e9 onstage for some birthday fun &#8230; and we&#8217;re told the so-called shade Lionel Richie threw at Diana was simply a friend joking around. 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