Elton John left the stage briefly during a weekend concert in Brisbane after being struck by a bout of nausea, according to a news report Monday.

John left the stage without a word about two hours into his Sunday concert. He was gone for about five minutes, the Australian Associated Press reported.

When he returned, the 59-year-old pop star used an Australian colloquialism to explain that he had left the stage to vomit. "I thought I’d better chunder in the toilet (rather) than all over the front row," he was quoted as saying.

Apparently feeling better, John closed the show about 45 minutes later.

Simon Cowell and Elton John attended a charity performance of Billy Elliot the Musical in London last night. Guess who wore the tutu?

Organized religion fuels anti-gay discrimination and other forms of bias, pop star Elton John said in an interview published Saturday.

“I think religion has always tried to turn hatred toward gay people,” John said in the Observer newspaper’s Music Monthly Magazine. “Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays.”

“But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion,” he said. “From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organized religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it’s not really compassionate.”

John also criticized religious leaders for failing to do anything about conflicts around the world.

“Why aren’t they having a conclave? Why aren’t they coming together?”

John said those in his own field have been similarly lax.

“It’s like the peace movement in the ’60s. Musicians got through to people by getting out there and doing peace concerts, but we don’t seem to do them any more,” he said. “If John Lennon were alive today, he’d be leading it with a vengeance.”

Apparently the claws are out as a nasty cat fight broke out between Elton John and George Michael. George said something like, I’m going to slap you silly b * ach, and Elton said something like, go to hell you old whore. Then George started crying like a little baby, and asked if his mascara was running. A hot dog might cheer him up. Continue reading after the jump…

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