Paula Abdul Slays In Sequin Jumpsuit During Her First-Ever Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Performance

Paula Abdul dazzled parade watchers with her first-ever Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade show successful New York City. The 60-year-old performed her deed “Straight Up” adjacent to a glitter-covered turkey. Paula looked radiant successful a golden sequin jumpsuit.

Paula Abdul up of her Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade performance. (Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock)

Paula showed disconnected her sensational creation moves and started disconnected her show with a small pat dancing. She was joined by the St. John’s creation team. Paula took her show to a caller level with unthinkable lifts.

The time earlier the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Paula stopped by the TODAY amusement to speech astir her performance. “This is simply a puerility bucket database for me,” she told Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager. Paula reposted the interrogation connected her Instagram and wrote, “This [is] thing I’ve dreamed of since I was a small girl.”

“I’m thrilled to beryllium making my Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade debut connected the fabulous Jennie-O interval and I can’t hold to execute ‘Straight Up” for the parade’s worldwide TV audience. I anticipation that everyone has a happy, healthy, and peace-filled turkey day!” Paula said successful a statement up of the parade.

Ahead of the parade performance, Paula posted a behind-the-scenes Instagram video of a rehearsal. The vocalist got each bundled up to signifier her show successful beforehand of the Macy’s section store successful New York City. Paula was accompanied by each of her dancers for the rehearsal.

Paula Abdul and Jimmy Fallon astatine the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. (Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock)

Paula wasn’t the lone prima to grace america with their beingness astatine the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Lea Michele, Mariah Carey, Big Time Rush, Blanco Brown, Dionne Warwick, and more.

Back successful September 2022, Paula attended Kelly Clarkson’s Walk of Fame ceremonial with fellow American Idol judges Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson. “I couldn’t miss her prima connected Hollywood Boulevard,” Paula said during an interrogation on TODAY. She besides added, “I ever accidental I signed connected her partition the archetypal time of her show, ‘Remember, I’m your 2nd mama, who’s truthful arrogant of you.’”