The scholar who caught Beyoncé's sun shades throughout her present is auctioning them off for a hopeful $19,000, arguing the singer 'would need' him to 'take this chance'

• Beyoncé twice tossed a pair of sun shades offstage throughout her “Renaissance” tour, igniting a squabble.
• The recipient, TikToker Valentino Rodrigues, advised Insider he made the “troublesome” determination to promote the designer specs.
• The public sale home merchandising the glasses estimates they might fetch between $12,800 and $19,200.

A Beyoncé concertgoer who caught a pair of designer sun shades tossed into the viewers by the songstress — not as soon as however twice — is auctioning them off, with the public sale home estimating a price ticket of $12,800 to $19,200 for the uncommon memento.

International Valentino, a 20-year-old TikToker and aspiring movie director and whose actual identify is Valentino Rodrigues, advised Insider he attended the primary London cease on Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium final month, the place he was seated in Membership Renaissance, a type of VIP lounge. 

On Might 30, Rodrigues shared a video capturing the second Beyoncé tossed her sun shades into the group, igniting a squabble between Rodrigues’ buddy, Khalid, and one other attendee who caught the glasses, he advised BuzzFeed. Rodrigues additionally had his palms on the specs, although safety subsequently took them from him.

However ten minutes later, Beyoncé saved the day by strolling onstage with the glasses in hand and tossing them on to Rodrigues. “I absolutely misplaced management of my physique in that second,” he wrote in a TikTok remark.

Rodrigues advised Insider that the glasses have been inscribed with the numbers 4-23, which occurs to be his birthday — making the second all of the extra serendipitous.

In a sequence of follow-up movies, Rodrigues confirmed the Off-White glasses up shut and chronicled taking them to an optician to restore a damaged half. 

However somewhat than conserving the glasses, Rodrigues mentioned he finally made the troublesome determination to promote them — a alternative that earned him the ire of some Beyoncé superfans. “Project misunderstood,” one commenter wrote. “The FLEX is saying ‘You want my glasses?! I do know, Beyoncé gave them to me, TWICE!’ Not revenue.”

Rodrigues advised Insider he selected to public sale the glasses as a result of he is graduating from filmmaking faculty in lower than a yr, and he plans to make use of the funds to kickstart his profession. 

“The best way I see it, I used to be given a possibility to show what was the most effective live performance expertise of my life into probably funding the start of my dream filmmaking profession,” he mentioned. Whereas it wasn’t a straightforward alternative, he believes the megastar herself would condone it.

“I’ve little question Beyoncé would need me to take this chance,” he added.

The glasses are being offered on July 4 by Omega Auctions, a UK-based public sale home specializing in music memorabilia and vinyl data. The corporate’s earlier gross sales embody the lyric sheet to David Bowie’s “Starman” (which offered for £203,500) and Elvis Presley’s bible with handwritten notes (£59,000).

Omega Auctions have listed the estimated value the glasses will go for at £10,000 to £15,000, and have allotted a five-hour window for individuals to bid (10 a.m. to three p.m. UK time).

The corporate didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark. Insider has additionally reached out to Beyoncé and her crew.