Who Bit Beyonce And Other Awkward Celeb Encounters With Queen Bey

We'll start with the awkward celeb encounter that rocked the world — well, maybe just social media, if we're being honest. Of course, we're referencing comedian Tiffany Haddish's crazy story about the mystery actress who allegedly bit Bey's face.

According to The Telegraph's exhaustive timeline of each time Haddish spilled a bit more tea about the incident, it went down like this: At the December 2017 party Beyoncé threw to celebrate the end of Jay-Z's 4:44 Tour, Haddish observed an actress "touching Jay-Z's chest." This allegedly evoked a fierce response from Beyoncé, who later informed Haddish that the chest-toucher also bit her face. Haddish threatened to defend her Queen's honor by "beating [the biter]'s a**," but Bey insisted that she just "have fun" instead, because she knows the biter, and dismissed her behavior on account of her being "on drugs."

After Haddish finally dished the full details of Bitegate, the internet immediately spun into private detective mode, which resulted in two possible culprits as the biter: Sanaa Lathan and Sara Foster, who have both denied their teeth ever came anywhere near Beyoncé's flawless face.

Haddish herself even came under scrutiny from the rest of the BeyHive, who weren't happy with the details of their infamously private Queen's life being splashed all over the place. "Y'all forgot I am in the hive too and just know this I will always speak my truth," Haddish replied to her haters on Instagram, repeating that she will continue to defend Bey's honor with brute force if necessary.

While Haddish's Beyoncé encounter is undoubtedly wild, we absolutely cannot wait for the biter's side of the story, including the likely detail that she no longer has to brush and floss thanks to whatever amazing magic happened to her mouth when it touched Beyoncé.

You'd think even Beyoncé, in all her glory, would be slightly awed by meeting Magic Mike in the flesh, but that simply wasn't the case when the "Formation" singer laid first laid eyes on Channing Tatum. There's a pretty good reason for that: He was in drag as her at the time.

It's not as weird as we just made it sound, however, because Tatum was only in full Queen Bey regalia for his Lip Sync Battle performance, during which he danced to "Run the World (Girls)." Beyoncé surprised everyone by showing up at the end of Tatum's performance, which unfortunately for him, was the first time they ever met.

"That was definitely the most terrifying thing I've ever done," Tatum later told Ellen DeGeneres of the introduction. Making the encounter even more awkward for Tatum was the fact that Beyoncé didn't stick around backstage so he could meet her, you know, not looking like a nightmare version of herself. "She did text afterwards and was like, 'Hey, I would love to meet you guys and hang out when you're not looking like me,'" Tatum said. 

That just goes to show what a legend Beyoncé truly is, because we know many women who wouldn't turn down the chance to hang out with Channing Tatum even if he was dressed like Charles Manson.

Supermodel Chrissy Teigen has interacted with Beyoncé a number of times, thanks in part to the fact that she's married to fellow musician John Legend, and the fact that she is, well, incredibly famous in her own right. But none of that means she's immune to the paralyzing power of Beyoncé's presence.

In fact, Teigen has told of at least two awkward encounters with the "Drunk in Love" singer. First, she told Cosmopolitan of an epic fail the time she tried to "be caj" (casual) around Beyoncé at a party, by asking her, "What were you up to today?" So, what's wrong with that? Teigen had already run into Beyoncé earlier that day at a luncheon. Palm, meet face.

Another time Teigen goofed up a gathering with Bey was at the 2018 Grammys when — for some odd reason — she took both of Beyoncé's hands, got on her knees, and said, "Sorry to bother you, my Queen." Not only was her husband, who was cool as a cucumber chatting up Jay-Z, perplexed by her behavior, Teigen herself couldn't believe what she was doing in the moment. "It was so weird!" she told Jimmy Fallon, recalling the embarrassment during an interview on The Tonight Show. 

Eh, neither of those sound so bad, and besides, it's not like Teigen has fanned the flames of #WhoBitBeyoncé with a cryptic series of tweets claiming she knew the biter's true identity, right? Oh, wait.  

Comedian Kevin Hart is a personal friend of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, but like Chrissy Teigen, even repeated exposure to hip-hop's First Couple hasn't stopped him from having more than one awkward encounter with them. For starters, Hart was caught on camera in the front row of a Beyoncé show back in 2013, and to say that he lost his mind fangirling out would be an understatement.    

Describing his experience at the show on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Hart said that even though he knows Beyoncé personally, he didn't understand the impact she had until he saw her perform. What that translated to for Hart was him screaming at the top of his lungs, dancing along with Bey's signature moves, and having his mind blown when she flew across the crowd on wires. "She flew in like Tinkerbell!" Hart can be heard excitedly yelling. So, okay, that's questionable behavior for a grown man, but not exactly mortifying. That brings us to the second incident.

In an interview on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Hart recalled the time he spilled a giant bottle of pineapple juice all over Jay-Z's pants and Beyoncé's feet in the VIP section of a nightclub. Making matters infinitely worse, Hart said he then slipped Jay-Z a $20 bill, as if that amount of money would even cover the cost of a single hangar upon which the superstar couple's soiled clothes would hang. Oof.

Orange is the New Black star and card-carrying Beyhive member Laverne Cox also chose to channel Beyoncé for her Lip Sync Battle appearance. Cox tore down the house down with her version of Destiny's Child's "Lose My Breath," but unlike Channing Tatum, she did not have to face her idol immediately after pantomiming her.

Cox lost an opportunity to meet Beyoncé when she had to turn down a role in Lemonade due to a scheduling conflict because of her role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show reboot, according to BET. Fortunately, Cox finally got to meet Beyoncé at the 2017 Grammys, which she immortalized on Instagram with the caption, "This finally happened. I was so beside myself with joy, wonderment and awe of the majestic that is the queen I forgot to hold in my stomach and give you face. But I met #QueenBey y'all."

We know what you may be thinking: That wasn't really that awkward at all. And you're right, but not everyone goes around tossing fruit juice all over pop music royalty, now do they?

We're ending on what was the most brief awkward celeb encounter with Beyoncé — literally just a moment of eye contact. Speaking with Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet at the 2017 Grammys (via Us Weekly), Paris Jackson recalled locking eyes with Queen Bey at the same award show seven years earlier when she accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award for her late father, Michael Jackson.

"I was really nervous, and I made eye contact with Beyoncé who was in the first row and I, like, almost peed myself," Jackson said, adding, "I was so excited and then I, like, couldn't think of what to say. But that was like my main focus."

It should be noted that the King of Pop's daughter is also on record later in the year citing Beyoncé as her "first crush." So while it may have been slightly unbelievable that just a brief glance of one's musical idol could incite such bladder-disrupting panic, keep in mind there was a possible romantic attraction element mixed in there. And on the bright side, at least in her story there were no soiled garments and no hilariously insulting attempts at a low-ball payoff. Yep, we're looking right at you, Kevin Hart.