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Ariana Grande Responds to Elvira’s Claim That Singer Declined a Photo Op

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Ariana Grande responded this week to Elvira‘s latest declare that the singer as soon as declined a photograph together with her.

Horror hostess character actress Elvira, actual identify Cassandra Peterson, not too long ago went viral for saying at a a Knotts Berry Farm occasion that considered one of her worst superstar encounters occurred when Grande introduced a big group of family and friends to an Elvira efficiency after which refused to take a photograph with Peterson.

“I’ll let you know briefly… she got here and she or he introduced 20 visitors, so she wished 20, 21 tickets,” the actress, who additionally goes by Mistress of the Darkish, says in a video shared on-line and later posted by Peterson. “We’re like, ‘OK,’ and we give her the tickets. She comes backstage and she or he asks if I might take photos with all of her buddies and kinfolk she introduced.”

Peterson continues within the video by saying that she complied with the request, and signed autographs for the group as properly. “Then I say to her, ‘Can we take a photograph collectively?’ She goes, ‘Nah, I don’t actually do this,’” she says. ⁠Peterson went on to say that Grande left the present earlier than Elvira’s set, leaving the remainder of the group within the viewers.

In a social media touch upon Elvira’s submit, Grande responded to Peterson’s declare, writing, “i’m so disheartened to see this. i truly don’t even keep in mind getting the prospect to fulfill you as a result of i had an anxiousness assault and to my reminiscence, left earlier than the remainder of my household (this was round 7 years in the past and on the time i used to be actually not nice with being in public crowds or loud locations)… but when i’m misremembering this second, i sincerely apologize for offending you so.”

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Inside the Academy Museum Gala With Paul Mescal, Ariana Grande, More

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The Academy Museum of Movement Photos held its annual gala on Saturday night time honoring Paul Mescal, Rita Moreno and Quentin Tarantino whereas elevating over $11 million to assist the exhibitions, training initiatives and public programming on the L.A. museum, which opened in 2021.

The fourth annual occasion, one in every of Hollywood’s most star-studded nights, was co-chaired by Dr. Eric Esrailian, Salma Hayek Pinault, Nicole Kidman, Eva Longoria and Tyler Perry. The night time’s visitor checklist ranged from Hollywood icons — Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Meg Ryan, Joaquin Phoenix and Julia Louis-Dreyfus — to relative newcomers, together with Anora‘s Mikey Madison, Queer‘s Drew Starkey, Babygirl‘s Harris Dickinson, current Emmy winner Anna Sawai and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story stars Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez.

There have been additionally loads of appearances from those that could land a spot amongst this yr’s Oscar nominees, together with Depraved‘s leads Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo (with co-star Jeff Goldblum and director Jon M. Chu), the forged of Emilia Pérez (Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Édgar Ramírez), Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve, The Apprentice‘s Sebastian Stan, Sing Sing‘s Colman Domingo and The Substance‘s Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.

Jon M. Chu, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande

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Cooper Koch, Kim Kardashian, Niecy Nash-Betts and Nicholas Alexander Chavez

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On the gala, Mescal acquired the Vantage Award, which toasts an rising artist who contextualizes and challenges dominant narratives round cinema; on Saturday, it was offered by his Foe co-star, Saoirse Ronan.

The Gladiator II star informed The Hollywood Reporter on the crimson carpet that the popularity is “an enormous, big honor. When the provide got here in, it’s not one thing I used to be anticipating and truthfully was considerably reticent as a result of I didn’t perceive the context of it, that it was about somebody sort of on the infancy of their careers and sort of attempting to determine what their profession means to them. It made extra sense and I’m simply actually proud to get to specific what this job and this trade means to me.”

Paul Mescal with ‘Gladiator II’ co-star Fred Hechinger

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Ariana DeBose, Rita Moreno and Steven Spielberg

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Spielberg was available to current the Icon Award, which celebrates an artist whose profession has had a major world cultural impression, to Moreno, who starred in his replace of West Aspect Story; the award now provides to the EGOT winner’s already full trophy mantle. John Travolta rounded out the trio of awards by presenting Tarantino with the Luminary Award, which is given to an artist whose contributions have expanded the artistic potentialities of cinema.

Throughout his acceptance speech, Tarantino introduced he was donating his first handwritten draft of the script for Pulp Fiction to the museum.

Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta and Uma Thurman

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Cara Delevingne, Quinta Brunson and Selena Gomez

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Grande closed out the night by bringing Erivo to the stage, because the star carried out renditions of “I’m Right here” from The Coloration Purple, Diana Ross’ “Residence” from The Wiz, “Someplace Over The Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz and Prince’s “Purple Rain.” The occasion was offered in partnership with Rolex, the founding supporter and official watch accomplice of the Academy Museum.

Nicole Kidman and Jeff Goldblum

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Joshua Jackson, Tony Goldwyn, Kerry Washington and Sterling Okay. Brown

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Drew Starkey and Ayo Edebiri

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Dana Carvey Had to Learn Jennifer Coolidge Impression Last Minute

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Dana Carvey is revealing how he ended up enjoying a 100-year-old model of Jennifer Coolidge throughout a Saturday Evening Stay sketch final week.

The comic, who has been portraying Joe Biden since season 50 of the NBC sketch comedy present kicked off final month, just lately stated on Superfly, the spinoff sequence of his and David Spade’s Fly on the Wall podcast, that he has to be taught his impression of the beloved actress final minute.

“They threw it at me Thursday night time,” Carvey, who was initially a castmember on SNL from 1986 to 1993, stated. “They defined to me that the character was like a Snow White factor, that my Jennifer Coolidge had been trapped within the mirror for 100’s of years.”

The sketch titled “Maybelline” noticed Chloe Fineman‘s Jennifer Coolidge getting assist placing on “Maybelline Tremendous Keep Lengthy Put on Liquid Lip Coloration” from the Jennifer Coolidge reflection in her mirror, performed by host Ariana Grande. After which a 3rd Coolidge (Carvey) was revealed in one other mirror after Fineman asks, “Hey, I’m wondering what our lips appear like from the facet?”

“Thank God you opened the mirror,” Carvey stated. “I’ve been trapped in right here for years!”

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On the podcast, the comic described the skit as “type of an acid-y, esoteric sketch.” He added, “I nonetheless don’t fairly perceive it, however that was enjoyable.”

He additionally shared that resulting from timing, “they needed to take away about 4 beats” between the costume rehearsal and the dwell present. “One was we eat corn. It was rather a lot wilder, it was wonderful. It was a non sequitur like, ‘Hey. Wow. Let’s eat some corn,’” Carvey stated in his Coolidge voice. “They abruptly have corn. ‘Can I’ve your corn?’”

Carvey additionally performed a video (under) for Spade that his former SNL co-star Jon Lovitz filmed backstage of him rehearsing his strains for the Jennifer Coolidge sketch.

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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris Face Off on Family Feud

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Donald Trump might have refused to do a second debate with Kamala Harris, however Saturday Evening Dwell had one other thought for them to face off yet another time earlier than the election.

Maya Rudolph’s Harris and James Austin Johnson’s Trump met as soon as once more on NBC’s sketch comedy present, solely this time it was on the Household Feud stage with Kenan Thompson’s Steve Harvey.

“I’m Steve Harvey and I’ve spent the previous 20 years internet hosting each present on TV as my alibi for them Diddy events,” Harvey says. “Now tonight, we bought two political rivals.”

He then proceeded to introduce the Democrats’ facet, which included Harris (Rudolph), Tim Walz (Jim Gaffigan), Joe Biden (Dana Carvey) and Douglas Emhoff (Andy Samberg). On the Republicans’ facet, it was Trump (Johnson), J.D. Vance (Bowen Yang), Donald Trump Jr. (Mikey Day) and a lacking Melania Trump.

“It’s great to be right here, Steve. I like to see a person getting paid tens of millions of {dollars} at his black job,” Harris says after being launched by the host, who additionally identified her all-out media blitz this week, reserving a variety of high-profile interviews. “It’s been a hell of every week. I went on Howard Stern to succeed in the sexy cab drivers. I went on The View for the sexy mothers and I additionally went on the podcast Name Her Daddy as a result of I’ve a message for younger ladies: you’ll want to go to the poll field if you’d like the federal government out your poll field.”

Thompson’s Harvey later moved over to introduce the contestants on the Republican facet, the place he questioned the place Melania Trump was. “It’s so unusual,” Trump says. “I may have sworn she was standing proper beside me about two years in the past.”

They lastly transfer on to the sport, with the primary query being “one thing that you simply maintain in your glove compartment.”

“Steve, look, I used to be raised in a middle-class household. My mom raised my sister and me, all proper. She labored onerous and saved up and we had a second mom too,” Harris says as Harvey makes an attempt to get her again on observe: “OK, did that mom have a glove aside?”

Rudolph’s Harris lastly answered the query, saying, “Oh, a Glock, Steve. An enormous ole Glock.” And the Democrats bought management of the Household Feud board.

Samberg’s Emhoff was subsequent and in some way bought their workforce one other level, saying, “I can’t prime that. It was so good. I’ll go along with the identical reply. Steve, a Glock.” Nevertheless it went downhill after with Gaffigan’s Walz and Carvey’s Biden’s solutions.

The Republicans then had an opportunity to steal, with Harvey going to Trump first. “Properly, Steve, I’ve by no means ridden within the entrance seat of vehicles so this query could be very unfair,” the previous president says earlier than occurring an extended rant.

Thompson’s Harvey lastly yells, “Present me dementia,” however that wasn’t one of many solutions on the board, so the Democrats gained the sport.

Ariana Grande returned to Studio 8H on Saturday to host SNL for the second time after making her internet hosting debut in 2016. She was additionally the musical visitor on Josh Brolin’s episode final season. Stevie Nicks was this week’s musical visitor.

The Depraved star kicked off her monologue by emphasizing that she was “simply internet hosting. I’m not gonna make this about me. I’m simply gonna have enjoyable, take it straightforward and, yeah, I’m simply gonna maintain it low key.”

However Grande, in truth, didn’t maintain it low key and broke out in music, with included impressions of Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and Gwen Stefani. Yang additionally joined her onstage at one level, carrying a basic Wizard of Oz costume of Glinda. “Bowen, didn’t anyone let you know? We minimize the Depraved sketch,” Grande says.

“The opposite very last thing I’m not gonna do is deliver out some scorching dancers to do some insanely excessive kicks,” Grande sings as dancers be part of her onstage. The “We Can’t Be Buddies” artist continues to flex her vocals, singing, “In the event you’re in search of a diva, don’t look over right here. ‘Trigger tonight, I’m protecting it low key.”

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Cynthia Erivo Lead, Ariana Grande Supporting

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The 2 actresses on the heart of Depraved — Jon M. Chu’s highly-anticipated film adaptation of the smash-hit Broadway musical, which Common will launch nationwide on Nov. 22 — will not be going head-to-head in the identical appearing class this awards season, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered.

A choice has been made to push Cynthia Erivo, the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated actress who will probably be portraying Elphaba (who turns into the Depraved Witch of the West), within the lead actress class, and Ariana Grande, the Grammy-winning and SAG Award-nominated actress who will probably be enjoying Glinda (who turns into the Good Witch), within the supporting class.

This path differs from the one enforced upon the unique Broadway manufacturing by the Tony Awards Administration Committee 20 years in the past. Again then, Idina Menzel, who created Elphaba, and Kristin Chenoweth, who originated Glinda, each competed within the class of finest actress in a musical; each obtained nominations; and Menzel ended up profitable.

Nonetheless, the technique for the upcoming movie makes a variety of sense, on condition that solely 5 movies have ever managed to land noms for a number of actresses alongside one another in the perfect actress Oscar class — solely All About Eve (1950), Out of the blue, Final Summer season (1959), The Turning Level (1977), Phrases of Endearment (1983) and Thelma & Louise (1991) — and the way aggressive this 12 months’s feminine appearing classes are shaping as much as be.

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Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo Channel ‘Wicked’ Characters at Olympics

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Depraved stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo channeled their characters’ signature colours for the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony crimson carpet.

Grande opted for a Fifties-esque sleeveless pink ankle-length robe, from designer Thom Browne, in keeping with WWD. The stylish costume featured a pink bow within the entrance. The Grammy Award-winning singer completed the ensemble off with white gloves and a protracted pink bow in her tied-back hair.

Erivo, additionally in a Fifties-esque robe, dazzled in her character Elphaba’s signature emerald shade. The Tony Award-winning actress wore a strapless costume with an angular skirt. Erivo added a dramatic aptitude to the outfit with an identical wide-brim hat. Not like her co-star, she opted to skip gloves and as an alternative color-coordinated her lengthy, intricately embellished nails.

The pair are set to star in Jon M. Chu‘s adaptation of the Tony-winning musical Depraved, hitting theaters this fall. Erivo and Grande have been vocal about their love for his or her characters Elphaba and Galinda or Glinda, the Good Witch, respectively.

The co-stars have additionally been vocal about their appreciation for each other. Erivo and Grande every posted a photograph on their Instagram story of them holding arms of their coordinated seems to be from the Opening Ceremony.

Along with their a number of coordinated seems to be earlier than the Depraved press tour has even formally began, Erivo and Grande made their friendship everlasting with matching tattoos. From Instagram Tales, the co-stars acquired matching “For Good” tattoos, a nod to their characters’ well-known Depraved duet, together with one other matching flower tattoo.

Earlier this month, Common Footage introduced that the musical function will now hit theaters Nov. 22, shifting up from its beforehand scheduled launch on Nov. 27.

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Monica on Brandy Reunion for Ariana Grande’s ‘The Boy Is Mine (Remix)’

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Monica and Brandy reunited onscreen earlier this month for Ariana Grande’s music video “the boy is mine,” her tackle their hit 1998 tune of the identical title.

The previous creative collaborators reunited as soon as once more on Grande’s “the boy is mine (Remix),” which was launched on Friday. The up to date model of the tune options Monica and Brandy’s vocals and helped the singers come again collectively.

“The method of the brand new collaboration did lots of closing the gaps,” Monica instructed Leisure Tonight about working with Brandy once more. “Once you correctly talk one thing, yow will discover not solely the resolutions and options to issues. However typically you discover that there weren’t ever issues, simply constant miscommunications,” including, “It made it quite a bit simpler simply to speak.”

Since working collectively on Grande’s remix, Monica famous she and Brandy have talked extra in latest weeks than they’d in within the final twenty years.

“We acknowledged that the important thing was to maintain different folks out of our relationship, each enterprise and private, and let or not it’s between she and I, and that has modified every little thing,” Monica instructed the publication. “It’s modified the trajectory of it in its totality. My son was within the hospital the opposite day, and he or she was who I used to be chatting with whereas he was there, so I feel that’s what Ariana has performed that she might not even notice.”

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Now that Monica and Brandy have labored collectively once more, there’s no stopping them from persevering with to collaborate on music in any case this time, with Monica noting there’s definitely an opportunity.

“It’s workforce ‘The Boy Is Mine‘ at present, tomorrow, and for the final 25 years,” she added. “We have now lots of catching as much as do within the sense of giving the viewers what they actually needed from us even again then. We didn’t discover a approach to do it then, however we’re discovering a approach to do it now.”

Previous to the discharge of the remix, Monica had been very vocal about not wanting her and Brandy’s 1998 observe to be touched or remade by anybody however them. Nevertheless, she revealed that when she heard Grande and producer Max Martin’s model, she instantly fell in love with it. She and the “we are able to’t be associates” singers even had FaceTime classes whereas they have been engaged on the tune, which ended up together with their households.

Regardless of rumors that Monica and Brandy have been at odds, Monica beforehand instructed The Hollywood Reporter that she and her former collaborator have been “greater than good” and had been for fairly a while.

She famous that lots of what folks might have heard about them was from once they have been youngsters however as a grown lady now, she has nothing however love and admiration for Brandy. She additionally admitted she wished the rumors would go away.

“I want folks would cease placing the 2 in opposition to one another,” she instructed THR throughout a dialog celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of “The Boy Is Mine.” “I want folks would cease making an attempt to check who sings higher, who seems higher, who outdid the opposite one, as a result of I by no means got here into the area with a spirit of competitors anyway. … I want folks would simply let or not it’s that and never even evaluate the 2 or create any animosity, even inside our fan teams.”

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Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo Soar in Jon Chu’s Movie

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are able to defy expectations within the new trailer for the film adaptation of Depraved.

On Wednesday, Common Footage launched the primary full promo for the preliminary installment of the two-part movie model. Jon M. Chu‘s movie, which stars Grande as Glinda and Erivo as Elphaba, hits theaters Nov. 27.

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Depraved’s teaser trailer aired throughout Tremendous Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11 and offered the primary take a look at the film that adapts the Tony-winning Broadway musical of the identical title, which is itself based mostly on writer Gregory Maguire’s 1995 e book, Depraved: The Life and Occasions of the Depraved Witch of the West. The challenge adapts characters that originated in L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Fantastic Wizard of Oz and have been delivered to life within the Oscar-winning 1939 movie musical The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland as Dorothy.

The Depraved movie follows green-skinned Elphaba and her interplay with Glinda previous to Dorothy’s arrival within the Land of Oz. Within the preliminary trailer, Glinda tells Elphaba, “Don’t be afraid,” to which Elphaba responds, “I’m not afraid. It’s the Wizard who must be afraid of me.”

Marc Platt and David Stone produce the film. Castmembers embody Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Jeff Goldblum and Bowen Yang.

An intensive quantity of Depraved footage was shared to attendees final month at CinemaCon, the place Chu and Grande have been each moved to tears in the course of the presentation.

“We dreamed very, very, very massive for Depraved,” the director instructed the group on the occasion in Las Vegas. “A magical land of sights and sounds that may astonish, and performances that may elevate your spirits and infrequently break your coronary heart.”