CRASHED HIS PARTY

Country Star Whacked in Face by Flying Object Mid-Concert

A fan took aim at the “Crash My Party” singer while he sang one of his biggest hits.

Luke Bryan loves his fans—but not all of them seem to love him back. On Saturday, a fan threw a ball that hit the American Idol host in the face as he sang his 2011 song “Country Girl (Shake It For Me)” at a concert in North Dakota. Remarkably, the singer seemed unfazed: After shaking his head and staring into the audience momentarily, Bryan jumped back into the song and closed out the concert. The projectile attack came during a performance that was part of his “Country Song Came On” tour. The fan who captured the bizarre moment on video posted a 17-second clip to TikTok captioned, “Poor @Luke Bryan got hit in the face during his encore, carried on like a champ though.” Commenters immediately came to the defense of the Georgia-born singer, with one wondering, “Who throws something at someone they paid to see?” Bryan isn’t the only country crooner who’s had a stage performance interrupted by a disruptive fan recently: a fan hit Kelsea Ballerini in the eye with a bracelet in July 2023. More recently, in a slick but unplanned moment, Morgan Wallen caught a fan’s thong that was tossed at him during a show last summer.