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<\/p>\nChristie Brinkley reunited with her ex-husband, Billy Joel, for his residency at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and she unexpectedly became part of the show.<\/p>\n
During an April 2024 concert, the former supermodel danced and sang along as her ex performed their signature song, \u201cUptown Girl\u201d 40 years after they collaborated on the music video for the single.<\/p>\n
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Brinkley briefly appeared on \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d in 2019 before suffering an arm injury, She was replaced by her daughter, Sailor Brinkley-Cook.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n
Christie Brinkley Was All Smiles As Billy Joel Sang \u2018Uptown Girl\u2019 to Her<\/strong> \u201cTonight, she watched him sing the song he wrote about her to all of Madison Square Garden,\u201d came a caption on TikTok, 40 years later and your ex man is still grinning at you like that while he sings the song he wrote about how rich and hot you are?\u201d<\/p>\n Brinkley starred with her then new-boyfriend Joel in the 1983 music video for \u201cUptown Girl.\u201d In the video, the supermodel wore a black hat and strapless dress as she galivanted with a blue-collar Joel and his auto mechanic friends. The song was the second single on the five-time Grammy winner\u2019s 1983 album \u201cAn Innocent Man.\u201d<\/p>\n Christie Brinkley There have been rumors about how Brinkley\u2019s \u201cUptown Girl\u201d role came to be. In a 2018 appearance on \u201cWatch What Happens Live,\u201d fellow supermodel Elle McPherson revealed that she was living with Joel in a penthouse in Central Park West when he started dating Brinkley. \u201cSo yeah, I got ousted,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n When asked about rumors that \u201cUptown Girl\u201d was about her and not Brinkley, McPherson shared, \u201cI think it\u2019s [about] all the uptown girls, put it that way. I don\u2019t need to take ownership of that. He liked tall girls.\u201d<\/p>\n Brinkley and Joel wed in 1985 and welcomed their daughter Alexa Ray in December of that year, according to People magazine. The celebrity couple divorced in 1994.<\/p>\n Alexa Ray Joel Also Performed With Her Father<\/strong> Brinkley captioned a snippet of Alexa Ray\u2019s performance with a tribute to her ex and his close relationship with their daughter.<\/p>\n \u201cBefore @billyjoel \u2018s historic residency at @thegarden becomes a souvenir that slowly fades away, one more night to remember! Alexa Ray and her Pop in perfect harmony on, Say Goodbye to Hollywood one last time in this great huge arena that Billy has turned into his own cozy living room.\u201d she wrote. \u201cAnd then as if that charming duo wasn\u2019t enough, the tears welled up when she surprised her Dad with a serenade of To Sir With Love.\u201d<\/p>\n Brinkley added, \u201cThanks for singing us a song @billyjoel and @alexarayjoel You\u2019ve got us feeling alright! \u2026@sailorbrinkleycook I must add we were pretty good backup singers right? \ud83d\ude1c\u201d<\/p>\n According to Variety, Joel\u2019s historic, 10-year residency at Madison Square Garden will end in July of 2024, after an impressive run of 150 concerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christie Brinkley reunited with her ex-husband, Billy Joel, for his residency at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and she unexpectedly became part of the show…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7932,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions\/7932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBrinkley attended Joel\u2019s show at Madison Square Garden on April 26, 2024. TikTok user @gnarcar posted the video of the 70-year-old supermodel singing and swaying from side to side as her former husband performed \u201cUptown Girl.\u201d Brinkley\u2019s smiling face appeared on the big screens at the venue.<\/p>\n
\nSony\/YouTube\u201cUptown Girl\u201d music video.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2024, Brinkley was in the Madison Square Garden audience for an extra special reason. Her daughter Alexa took the stage during the concert to perform Joel\u2019s hit \u201cSay Goodbye to Hollywood\u201d as he played the piano.<\/p>\n