Michael Bublé attends press conference for 2024 NHL All-Star Media Day on Feb. 1 in Toronto.Photo:Nicole Osborne/NHLI via Getty
Nicole Osborne/NHLI via Getty
Michael Bubléis “Feeling Good!”
The Grammy-winning singer, 48, took part in a 2024NHL All-StarGame press conference, where hejoked with reportersthat he microdosed mushrooms before he hit the Scotiabank Arena ice for the All-Star Game mock draft in Toronto.
“My buddy told me this is just a microdose of mushrooms and he was lying,” Bublé quipped on Thursday. “So, I’ll be honest, I thought I was inBlades of Gloryfor most of the time that I was out there until it sort of settled down and then I realized, ‘Holy s—, I am at the NHL All-Star Game.’ "
Bublé’s reference to the 2007 ice skating comedy came after he detailed his fantasy hockey knowledge and how it played a role in his picks as a celebrity captain. Responding to his elaborate answer, fellow captainWill Arnetttook a playful jab at Bublé.
Michael Bublé appears on stage in Mexico in October 2023.Adrian Monroy/Medios y Media/Getty Images
Adrian Monroy/Medios y Media/Getty Images
“It just occurs to be that through all the incredible songs that you’ve done over the years and all the hearts of women that you’ve won over around the world, with all that talk about fantasy hockey you lost them all in one sentence,” Arnett, 53, joked. “It all just evaporated. Years of building it up, and it’s just gone.”
“The mushroom talk cost me all of my contracts, too,” Bublé said, before Arnett asked reporters if they wanted to “follow up on the mushrooms.”
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“It was a joke,” Bublé said. “Of course I wasn’t! I’m sitting here at dinner. I do have a problem with bread.”
“I wish they would call me the ‘Great One,’ but they already use that for [Wayne]Gretzky, so I’ll take the ‘Good One’ or the ‘Adequate One,’” he said.
Bublé added that “we’re like 12-year-olds getting to do this,” referring to himself and Arnett. “This is like every kid’s dream… Are you kidding me? Every kid who loves the NHL,” he said.
The singer then explained, “Imagine you get to go and sit with the greatest players in the world. We get to be part of choosing the All-Star team that is going to be competing against each other? That’s crazy!”
source: people.com
