Rebel Wilson joins The Kooks on stage at Reading Festival to sing Gangsta’s Paradise

Rebel Wilson surprised fans at Reading Festival on Friday when she jumped on stage to perform for the crowd.

The Australian actress, 45, joined English rock band The Kooks to perform a rendition of Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise.

The band’s frontman Luke Pritchard welcomed her to the stage at the famous festival as the crowd burst into cheers.

Watch the video above.

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“We’d like to welcome to the stage the incredible Tassie Young, otherwise known as Rebel Wilson,” Pritchard said as Wilson walked out onto stage.

Wilson, wearing black parachute pants and a distressed white tee, took to the stage with a microphone in her hand.

“All right what’s up Reading?” she said to the crowd.

“I thought I should sing with you a classic Kooks song, Gangsta’s Paradise,” she joked as the crowd cheered.

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The band began to play the famous tune then Wilson joined in singing the opening lines.

She rapped the verses of the well-known song as the crowd sang along with her.

Then Pritchard joined in to sing the chorus.

As the song came to an end she sprayed a bottle of champagne to the crowd and blew them a kiss goodbye before walking off the stage.

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Afterwards, Wilson shared photos of her surprise performance to her Instagram.

In one of the photos Wilson posted, she can be seen drinking from a bottle of champagne as she holds hands with an excited fan. In another she poses backstage with the band members.

“Can’t give away too much but thank you to the gorgeous fellas of The Kooks and the epic crowd,” Wilson wrote in the caption.

She added the hashtag #tassieyoung which appears to be Wilson’s popstar alter ego and perhaps the name of her character for an upcoming film.

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On her Instagram stories, Wilson shared a behind the scenes look at the surprise appearance.

She explained that while she was set to perform in front of a real life crowd, it was all for an upcoming movie.

”About to go on, there’s the stage out there,” she said in the video which she filmed backstage.

“Let’s do this and by the way this is all for a movie so it’s kind of real because there [are] 90,000 people out there but it’s kind of not real as well.”

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