It appears Ariana Grande wished to pay homage to Ariana pequeña.
Throughout a latest interview, the “Thank U, Next” singer defined to Australian radio station Hit 104.7 Canberra why she determined to make use of her full authorized title — Ariana Grande-Butera — within the credit for her upcoming movie, “Wicked,” through which she’ll play “good witch” Glinda.
“Technically, it’s my little girl name!” she defined. “It’s little Ari’s name.”
“I just feel like this experience was such a homecoming for me,” she continued. “I feel like I came home to myself in a lot of ways through what I learned from Glinda, from Elphaba.”
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She then added a really cute element.
“That was my name when I went to see [“Wicked” the play] once I was 10 years previous. It felt like a very pretty manner of honoring that. It felt actually full circle. It simply felt like one thing I wished to do.”
The sentiment could be very candy, though Grande’s romantic relationship along with her “Wicked” co-star Ethan Slater has left some followers bitter.
Final summer season, Grande divorced her husband after two years of marriage and Slater separated from his highschool sweetheart, with whom he’d been married for 5 years.
Sources near Slater and Grande informed Individuals that the 2 didn’t start courting till they had been each formally single, however Slater’s ex, Lilly Jay, urged in any other case to Web page Six final July.
In an interview with Vainness Truthful this month, Grande “dispute[d] specific allegations” about her relationship with Slater, however saved issues comparatively imprecise — saying solely that “there couldn’t be a less accurate depiction” of Slater than the dishonest rumors coming from the tabloids.
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Slater, a Tony Award-nominated Broadway actor, informed GQ in an interview printed final week that the net hate spurred by his relationship with Grande has been “really difficult.”
“There were a lot of big changes in private lives that were really happening,” Slater informed the journal. “So it’s really hard to see people who don’t know anything about what’s happening commenting on it and speculating, and then getting things wrong about the people you love.”
