(He made it to the podium and good-naturedly performed, soaking wet.
His appearance in 2010 was splashier still, as he rode (and toppled) a jet ski with a flight attendant riding shotgun across Bellagio’s lake to a podium, where he proceeded to “conduct” the orchestrated fountains. In 2007, he rappelled off the tower of the Palms to promote Virgin America. Richard Branson arrived in Las Vegas on the first Virgin Atlantic nonstop flight from London in 2000 dressed as Elvis Presley.
