Less than two weeks after Wicked: For Good got entirely shut out from the Oscars, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande won a Grammy ... for a song from the first Wicked movie. During the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony prior to the televised awards show, Erivo and Grande won a Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Defying Gravity," which is from the first Wicked film.
ICE, which was formed in response to the terror attacks on 11 September 2001, is a federal agency that enforces the United States' immigration laws by identifying and deporting people who breach such laws, as well as those who are viewed as a threat to national security. Since Trump returned to the White House for his second term, his administration has led a huge campaign to bolster the work of ICE and make good on his anti-immigration campaign promise to carry out mass deportations.
As seen in viral Instagram videos, the interviewer asked about the Wicked sequel's ambiguous ending, and Grande was ready to make her case, warning, "Oh, I'm gonna ruin that for you." She confirmed that Glinda doesn't know Elphaba is alive, even though it seems like they reconnect through magic in the final scene of the film. "She can't. Well, they don't see each other," she said. "You see us, but we don't see each other. She's far as hell."
Cher made her musical return to Saturday Night Live after a 40-year hiatus to help ring in the holidays. The pop icon took the stage at SNL on December 20th, for the show's final episode of the year, and performed her holiday anthem, "DJ Play A Christmas Song." Surrounded by male dancers with faux snow falling in the background, Cher brought the festive cheer before closing the song by holding her fingers up in a heart.
"I have heard it all. I've heard every version of it, of what's wrong with me," she said. "And then you fix it, and then it's wrong for different reasons." As co-star Cynthia Erivo nodded supportively, Grande suggested that the "comfortability" people have with speaking about others' looks is "really dangerous" for all parties involved, adding that the "pressure of that noise" has been present since she was 17 but is no longer "welcome" in her life.
"Nonna was just trying to figure it out," Grande told Poehler. She was "very accepting, very loving, very celebratory. But she was just trying to figure it out. Because she couldn't believe it. You know, in her mind, he had plenty of girlfriends." "So, she goes, 'Frankie, have you seen a pair of breasts?'" Grande continued, imitating her grandmother's Brooklyn accent. "And he was like, 'Yeah. Yeah, Nonna, I've seen breasts, yeah.' And she goes, 'Didn't do anything for you?' He was like, 'No, Nonna. No.' And she's like, 'Well, you're gay.'"
It's that time of year again - Christmas is coming and the release schedules are fattening up with every day. So it's time to watch the contenders gather on the starting line for one of the year's biggest chart races. This year, there is a wide variety of contenders - including children's favourites, charity fund raisers, daytime TV icons and Aussie pop queens, among many more. Within three weeks we'll know the winner. Until then... On your marks, get set, go!
Wicked protagonists Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are at the centre of a case of online misinformation claiming that they are in a "semi-binary" relationship. The duo, who were recently confronted by a "serial intruder" at the premiere of Wicked: For Good in Singapore, have continued to remain close during the promotional tour of the second film. Their intimate friendship, which tends to include a lot of touching, has led to online speculation that the pair are dating, with some even labelling them "creepy" online.
The podcast, which first launched in March of this year, has been applauded time and time again by fans for Amy's easygoing but inquisitive interview style. In a time when so many celebrity interviews feel like a vehicle for clickbait-y headlines and juicy, gossipy clips for socials, it's a refreshing change of pace that earnestly feels like listening to a conversation between friends over drinks, celebrity-status aside. And this week's episode was, of course, no exception.
Grande qualified the story was her favourite about her grandmother, who she said was "so funny," and her brother (Frankie Grande) coming out as gay. "He came out to us and my first question was, 'Do have a boyfriend? Who is he? I want to meet him'," the "Break Free singer said of her personal response. "And Nonna was just trying to figure it out," she continued adding the Grande matriarch was "very accepting, very loving, very celebratory."
Wicked: For Good is Ariana Grande's movie. And the film knows it, bending toward her every chance it gets. If the first Wicked centered Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), the shy outcast whose discovery of her magical powers and the sinister machinery behind the land of Oz led to her being branded the Wicked Witch of the West, Wicked: For Good focuses intently on her opposite number and best friend, Glinda (Grande), now positioned by the powers that be as the good (but secretly powerless) witch who
Video footage shows Wen jumping over a barricade at Universal Studios Singapore and rushing at Grande on the red carpet on 13 November. Grande's co-star Cynthia Erivo immediately stepped in to help protect her and Wen was moved away. The court heard that after after being removed by security staff Wen made a second attempt to jump the barricades, after which security staff stopped him and pinned him down.
A shocking viral video shows the moment Ariana Grande was rushed by a man who vaulted a barricade at the Singapore premiere of Wicked: For Good on Thursday as co-star Cynthia Erivo fought to pull him away. In the clip, the man is seen forcing his way past photographers and lunging at Grande as the cast walked a yellow carpet at Universal Studios Singapore.
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On the Spotify app, listeners can use the "My Top 5" feature to scroll through Grande's seven studio albums (plus the Wicked soundtrack), search for their favorite deep cuts, or choose from her most popular tracks to form their own Top 5 rankings. And given that she has an impressive 21 songs in Spotify's Billions Club, there are many hits to choose from. Fans will unlock two "sharecards" that they can post on their social media accounts, one showing their personal rankings.
It's been 250 days. Now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for virtually everything and live in fear, now that free speech is on the brink of collapse for us all - has your life gotten better? Has the widespread suffering of others paid off for you in the way he promised it would or are you still waiting?
Grande shared a post Sunday from liberal activist Matt Bernstein that included a paragraph that said, It's been 250 days. Now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for virtually everything and live in fear, now that free speech is on the brink of collapse for us all has your life gotten better? Entertainment Weekly received a statement from the White House on the Wicked star's political statement online.
