{"id":35062,"date":"2022-12-08T16:20:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=35062"},"modified":"2022-12-08T17:14:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T01:14:37","slug":"celine-shares-medical-diagnosis-las-vegas-residency-a-longshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/celine-shares-medical-diagnosis-las-vegas-residency-a-longshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Celine Shares Medical Diagnosis, Las Vegas Residency a Longshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Las Vegas icon Celine Dion (yes, she&rsquo;s ours) shared some unfortunate news about her health leading some to wonder if she&rsquo;ll ever be able to return to the stage, at Resorts World or beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Dion says she has Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS), a rare neurological syndrome with a fairly terrible name. How rare? Dion says it affects &ldquo;one in a million people.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/stiffperson.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The condition, she says, is responsible for her previously-reported muscle spasms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35068\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35068\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-35068 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/celine_dion1.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celine Dion has always seemed like more of a hope person than a realism person&mdash;one of the reasons we love her&mdash;so, let&rsquo;s go with hope.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The singer shared the news in true Celine Dion fashion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cl5xJY1AjAO\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Dion says, &ldquo;The spasms affect every aspect of my daily life, sometimes causing difficulties when I walk and not allowing me to use my vocal cords to sing the way I&rsquo;m used to.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Dion announced her tour dates will be &ldquo;postponed.&rdquo; Her spring 2023 dates have been pushed back to 2024, her summer 2023 shows have been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>More relevantly, Dion&rsquo;s long-awaited Resorts World residency is now a giant question mark. She was originally scheduled to start her residency in Oct. 2021.<\/p>\n<p>It was recently reported Resorts World was holding dates for Dion, but as we said at the time, wishful thinking.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wishful thinking, but Vegas was build on wishful thinking. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1vgUZ4ZUOM\">https:\/\/t.co\/1vgUZ4ZUOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalVegas\/status\/1598528551393046528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Our sources say Dion&rsquo;s condition has been much worse than she&rsquo;s shared publicly for some time now, and it&rsquo;s unlikely she&rsquo;ll ever do another Las Vegas residency. They actually said she won&rsquo;t be able to do it, but our sources aren&rsquo;t fortune tellers, and Las Vegas was built on hope. We tend to believe the adage &ldquo;never say never&rdquo; (except when it comes to financing for All Net Arena) and Celine could potentially still do one-off performances or special appearances, but a residency or extended tour seem out of the question for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>Celine Dion changed Las Vegas residencies forever.<\/p>\n<p>When she started &ldquo;A New Day&rdquo; at Caesars Palace, in March 2003, she was, frankly, a punchline to many outside her hardcore fans.<\/p>\n<p>Dion&rsquo;s vindication came in the form of two of the most successful residencies in Las Vegas history. Dion crushed attendance and revenue records.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A New Day&rdquo; earned $296 million. &ldquo;Celine,&rdquo; starting in March 2011, generated $385 million. That&rsquo;s just ticket sales, mind you.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, everyone stopped laughing.<\/p>\n<p>Dion arguably paved the way for all the divas who followed, including Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Cher, Elton John (yes, he&rsquo;s a diva) and, most recently, Adele. Celine qualifies as a &ldquo;diva,&rdquo; but without all the high maintenance behavior, from everything we&rsquo;ve heard.<\/p>\n<p>Celine Dion&rsquo;s news is especially tragic because, while she has the resources to retire, performing isn&rsquo;t just what Celine Dion does, it&rsquo;s who she is.<\/p>\n<p>She has lived a bizarre life. She met Rene Angelil, who would become her husband, when she was 12. He was 38. Angelil died in 2016, and Dion has always seemed a bit lost ever since. Celine&rsquo;s family tree is, well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thethings.com\/celine-dion-stepdaughter-anne-marie-angelil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complicated<\/a>. Here&rsquo;s a photo of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1330237\/see-celine-dions-3-sons-all-grown-up-in-rare-family-photo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Celine with her sons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her incredible talent has meant living in bubble. Her world has gotten much smaller since her medical issues have worsened. She&rsquo;s rarely seen in public, and it&rsquo;s clear she is distressed to be disappointing so many of her fans by show &ldquo;postponements.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;re using quotation marks, because it remains to be seen if they&rsquo;re delays or cancellations.<\/p>\n<p>Stiff Person Syndrome is incurable, but drugs (like Valium) can help control the symptoms. The question is whether they can help enough to get Celine back onstage again.<\/p>\n<p>In her message to fans, Dion said, &ldquo;All I know is singing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>If you don&rsquo;t get a little misty-eyed hearing that, you are probably a robot.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Power of Love&rdquo; can accomplish a lot, but in Celine&rsquo;s case, it will have to perform miracles for her to have a third residency in Las Vegas. We wish her all the best.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas icon Celine Dion (yes, she&rsquo;s ours) shared some unfortunate news about her health leading some to wonder if she&rsquo;ll ever be able to return to the stage, at Resorts World or beyond. Dion says she has Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS), a rare neurological syndrome with a fairly terrible name. How rare? Dion says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegas","category-lasvegasshows"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Celine Shares Medical Diagnosis, Las Vegas Residency a Longshot | Vital Vegas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Las Vegas icon Celine Dion (yes, she&#039;s ours) shared some unfortunate news about her health leading some to wonder if she&#039;ll ever be able to return to the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta 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