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Technical Flub Gets Katy Perry Stuck in Giant Hamster Ball

The “I Kissed a Girl” hitmaker was left clinging to the giant metal frame as the lights were cut and stage crews rushed in to assist her during a show in Adelaide, Australia.

Katy Perry just ended the Australian leg of her world tour with an embarrassing on-stage flub that saw the 40-year-old popstar trapped inside a giant metal hamster ball. Footage of the incident shows the “I Kissed a Girl” hitmaker clinging awkwardly to the frame as the structure lurches suddenly forward during her final show in Adelaide. The lights were soon cut as stage crews rushed in to assist her, after which she was swiftly ushered out and helped off-stage. In general, the internet seems more confused as to why she’d wound up in the contraption in the first place. “Wait… Katy Perry is a hamster? Thus the hamster ball?” one person wrote. She’s of course not the only superstar musician to have suffered a performance malfunction in recent days either, with Beyoncé left dangling several feet in the air above shocked onlookers after a wire trick went wrong during her Cowboy Carter tour stop in Texas on Saturday.