Michael Jackson...Thrilled to Cancel

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Jacko Faces Countdown
Michael Jackson is on notice this morning. In 48 hours, he’s got to show up for the World Music Awards and perform "Thriller."
Think it will happen? The odds are against it. Here’s why.
For one thing, Jackson has a "HIStory" of not going through with promises to do shows. For another, he just doesn’t have the team to get him through this event.
Jackson famously backs out of shows, in fact. Eleven years ago next month, Jackson collapsed backstage at the Beacon Theater in New York while rehearsing a show for HBO. He was taken to the hospital and the show was cancelled.
But sources close to Jackson told me recently that the pop star never considered going through with that show, and the whole "collapse" was contrived so he could get out it.
"He called me and said, 'You don’t think I’m really doing it, do you?'" the source recalled.

If Jackson pulls such a stunt on Wednesday, though, the odds are higher on the chances of ruining what’s left of his career. But staging "Thriller" for an international audience, with no actual manager or production company? That doesn’t seem likely. Currently, Jackson’s only managers are his publicist, Raymone Bain, and his children’s nanny, Grace Rwaramba.
"He has no one who’s ever put on a show around him," one critic says.
Watch for Jackson to invoke a bad back or exhaustion, his two most frequent excuses. But don’t expect him to say he had a spider bite. Jackson used that one three years when he was testifying in a breach of contract lawsuit in Santa Maria, Calif. Later, those close to him admitted that the spider bite was concocted to cover for a home injection that had gone badly.

Yeah, the spider bite story really blew up in his face seeing how the nearest spider that could have inflicted a bite like that was around 2000 miles away. Jackson needs better fact checkers.