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To think there's something really off about this woman?

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BelatrixLestrange · 17/11/2025 18:22

Sorry for the Daily Fail link, but this is the third video I've seen over as many weeks with this woman acting oddly possessive over Arianna.

AIBU to think her behaviour is off?

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo cause a stir with ANOTHER 'ridiculous' red carpet moment | Daily Mail Online https://share.google/sqbD37a6vMwwNNn8m

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo cause stir with red carpet stunt

The Wicked: For Good co-stars have had multiple 'bizarre' red carpet exchanges when promoting the first Wicked film, with yet another clip now resurfacing.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15297173/Ariana-Grande-Cynthia-Erivo-red-carpet-necklace.html

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Augarden · 18/11/2025 18:43

They look like aliens.

tommyhoundmum · 18/11/2025 18:41

Justlostmybagel · 17/11/2025 18:24

I agree, it's strange behaviour from both of them. Ariana looks so ill too.

and so vulnerable.

PrizedPickledPopcorn · 18/11/2025 18:34

I didn’t know who Cynthia was until she was on Strictly. I haven’t seen Wicked. I knew who Ariana Grande was from the awful bombing and older scandals. I was shocked when I saw her after Wicked as she so clearly looks like a shell of her former self.
I can’t comment on Cynthia as I don’t know how she used to look/usually looks. I would say I would struggle to remember her name as it’s only through one appearance on Strictly that I know her. She’s clearly well known to others, given her reception on Strictly. I would only probably only recognise her on Strictly or with Ariana Grande. Though if Ariana changed her hair and put on weight I wouldn’t recognise her either.

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AlwaysTheRenegade · 18/11/2025 18:18

I've thought the same the last few days. They both keep crying during this press tour aswell. They're probably exhausted.

I read Ari has PTSD, I'm sure she doesn't mind Cynthia touching her so much as I presume it would have stopped by now.

I thought Arianna's speaking voice was really different aswell, but read she speaks softly like that to protect her vocals.

they both seen really sweet to the fans.

Bollihobs · 18/11/2025 17:42

FlayOtters · 17/11/2025 19:14

Just to clarify, this is from the last film promo tour. It's an old clip that the daily fail are dragging up for no reason.

Doesn't make it any less weird.

I mean it is very, very weird behaviour. Those nails, clawing around and around with the necklace.....bizarre.

User5306921 · 18/11/2025 17:34

BatshitOutofHell · 17/11/2025 23:14

That is really sad.

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It is sad as she’s obviously traumatised by what happened.

FWIW I think far more people know who Arians is, sadly because of Manchester.

I didn’t have a clue who Cynthia was.

ohyesido · 18/11/2025 17:04

Pair of skeletons, I cannot relate to them at all.

dick27 · 18/11/2025 16:49

wow - just googled them both as I was curious about their ages. I had v wrongly assumed a decent age gap but no - 6 years. I agree that every interview bar none is creepy as

NoDramaJustDistance · 18/11/2025 16:22

AgnesXNitt · 17/11/2025 21:24

Ariana Grande getting named in the OP when the at least equally (and imo more) talented Cynthia Erivo gets "this woman" speaks volumes.

The marketing for Wicked has admittedly been strange - they are clearly LARPing as their characters.

Exactly. I called her out. Referring to the very much talented black woman as “this woman” and disparaging her. Yet can name Ariana clearly and act like she’s some little lamb. How vile.

The OP clearly has an issue with Cynthia particularly and black women.

KimberleyClark · 18/11/2025 07:31

Lampzade · 18/11/2025 03:33

I think that Michelle Obama looks great with the weight loss .
Not sure if the weight loss is due to jabs ( as another poster suggested) or the death of her mother which she ( Michelle O) admitted has devastated her

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She didn’t need to lose the weight though. She has always looked great.

Mafsing · 18/11/2025 07:19

They both seem unhinged to me. I would assume some sort of OCD with the necklace thing. Cynthia is incredibly talented but obviously a bit kooky. Or they just do slightly odd things on the press rounds because they know it will garner attention. It's like they are both slightly in character still.

RocknRollBand · 18/11/2025 07:14

That woman and Ariana. Like you know her.

To me, it looks like something that they have decided to do. Let’s go to all of these promotional events together and be interviewed together and do the photos together. It’s a bit of a novelty.

Ariana Grande looks and sounds awful. She just used to be an ordinary confident and healthy woman.

SlothMama14 · 18/11/2025 07:12

“That woman”. Wow. Micro aggression much?!

heartofsunshine · 18/11/2025 07:09

Its all PR and they are working wonders for the coverage the film gets.

Rubinia · 18/11/2025 06:55

Why are you calling her that woman? So weird and rude!! You clearly read the article.

Francestein · 18/11/2025 04:51

Well weird seems to work… it’s getting everyone talking about them.

Lampzade · 18/11/2025 03:33

FrodoBiggins · 17/11/2025 23:59

She looks healthy and radiant, as always

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I think that Michelle Obama looks great with the weight loss .
Not sure if the weight loss is due to jabs ( as another poster suggested) or the death of her mother which she ( Michelle O) admitted has devastated her

Ponoka7 · 18/11/2025 00:52

LemaxObsessive · 17/11/2025 22:46

I saw a video of Ariana on the red carpet saying she’d been to a clinic to have her memory erased….. 🤨

She was play acting her then new album. It was creative marketing and allowed for a lot of fan revisitation of her old work and fan fiction etc.
She's spoken at length about her MH struggles, she first started therapy before she became famous, at the age of eight because of her parents toxic relationship and bitter divorce. So has her brother, about his addictions and MH. In that industry, eating disorders go hand in hand with MH struggles. Plus she's naturally small, dances, so is going to easily look unwell.

Harveysabrina · 18/11/2025 00:39

every interview or press interaction from the pair, from both this one and the last movie, is absolutely unhinged, very attention seeking and just so strange.

EmeraldShamrock000 · 18/11/2025 00:33

It's an act. Anything for extra attention for the movie.

TheCheekySloth · 18/11/2025 00:31

Its not new news but they both need to stop taking skinny jabs.

2021x · 17/11/2025 23:59

I think its time the PR machine needs to recognise Arianna's fragility as it is overshadowing the Wicked PR.

I suspect that Cynthia is just (over) reacting to that.

FrodoBiggins · 17/11/2025 23:59

BlueBarnOwl · 17/11/2025 19:03

Michelle O:

She looks healthy and radiant, as always

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