In January 2026, Bertinelli, 65, shared a nearly 50-year-old ODAT throwback clip on Instagram. In the scene, she and co-star Mackenzie Phillips were performing the Elton Johnand Kiki Dee song “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.” Bertinelli channeled John by wearing oversized glasses, a fur coat, and platform boots as she dueted with Phillips on the 1976 hit.
“50 years later, I can look back at this without being embarrassed anymore by my lack of musical ability and appreciate how brave I was,” Bertinelli captioned the clip. “Joking aside, this was scary, nerve-racking, and at the same time, exhilarating and so fun to do with @mackphillips. The epitome of (even as a 16-year-old girl) feel the fear and do it anyway.”
She also noted that it all worked out for her and John’s future husband, David Furnish.
In 2011, Bertinelli told Extra she first saw John in concert one year before impersonating him on One Day at a Time. "I really want to see him on the show!” she added of her TV series at the time, Hot in Cleveland. “I want him to sing to me. I've loved him since I was 13. I saw him at the Troubadour in 1975... I saw him at the Forum for The B---- is Back."
The actress also told AARP that John was her “first celebrity crush. “I adored him, him, still adore him,” she said. “The last time I saw Elton John live, it was on my birthday,” Bertinelli added that John stopped the show to announce he had a very special guest in the audience celebrating a birthday—then called up comedian George Lopez to the stage.
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