Ariana Grande groped at funeral

If anybody was in any doubt, and judging by comments elsewhere online a fair few are, you only have to look at her facial expression and body language. Clear discomfort and “what the fuck are you doing” written all over her.

What a disgusting man.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-45381687

Totally disgusting.

He's clearly touching the side of her breast very firmly.

Her face and leaning away says it all.

And on National TV at a high profile funeral. WTF does he do off camera.

Feel so sorry for Ariana

Ugh I feel so sorry for her. You can see what she thinks all over her face on the BBC video. His fingers are dug hard into her breast in plain sight while he’s talking bollocks about his 20 year old daughter saying he’s old and poor Ariana’s having to laugh along..

Fucking disgusting behaviour.

Thsy poor woman has been through a lot. Now this.

Just sick.

Oh god!! That brought me right back to a time I’d rather forget.

Make a fuss Ariana! I support you. I’ll fuss with you. We all saw it. Everyone.

Yuk! She is a very slim woman. You know the difference between firm ribcage and soft breast fgs!

God

we've all been there.

Poor lass.

Poor Ariana. You can tell by her body language she found it horrible.

So much victim blaming, it's awful. Not her fault.

Used it to show my sons what not to do. Ever.

My guess is he didn't do this 'knowingly', rather that - worse - it's habitual.

He said he hugged all the performers during Friday’s eight-hour service. “I hug all the female artists and the male artists,” Ellis said. “Everybody that was up, I shook their hands and hugged them. That’s what we are all about in the church. We are all about love.

Christian love doesn't require a lack of respect for other people's physical boundaries.

Urgh. I've just watched the video

And this is what he does when the world is watching...

And he knows she can't and won't make a fuss, and that he can just apologise and move on.

That’s the worst part isn’t it, knowing that she can’t/won’t make a fuss, even though Aretha herself probably would have smacked the fucker in the face! The power he has in that knowledge is the problem.

She looks so uncomfortable with it.

Wow @ guardian coverage

they do seem to have a certain, um, misogynist perspective these days don't they

and this
"Images of the moment showed Ellis’s hand holding Grande well above her waist, with his fingers pressing "against one side of her chest.
BREAST Guardian he was touching (squeezing, feeling) her BREAST.

Let's stop calling it groping. That has semi comedic, Benny Hill-esque connotations. She was sexually assaulted.

That's much worse than the photos.

I hope he doesn't get away with it. It's been in the news and nowadays we are so much more sensitive to this type of thing. I do t know what can happen but...something.

upstartcrow's link has clear video

OMFG that video
She is leaning as far back as she can, his arm around her with fingers dug in physically prevents her from getting away further without it being obvious and she can't do that as she's on a stage at a fucking funeral
He has a good old feel and then when she moves really grabs at her tit
Dirty old bastard
and
WTF
Who do these men think they are that they can do this shit, with TV cameras on them, the world watching? That they think it's oK / no one will notice / no one will care?

So fucking disrespectful to aretha feeling up a young woman at her funeral, revolting

I tried to watch the video but ended up with the Guardian one. Which, true to fucking form, featured a few seconds of the actual event and loooots of his shitty false apology.

Poor woman. He's a dirty perve.

The video is even worse. He should not have touched her at all. She's leaning away from him, clearly uncomfortable. He then grips her harder. Vile man

I remember someone saying that when she had her picture taken with Obama, he asked if he could put his arm around her. Simple things men can do so that arseholes like this stand out. Don't touch without permission. FFS.

Poor woman. And we've all met one of these

Jimmy Savile did this on TOTP to one of the Nolan sisters (who was 14 at the time). Clearly these perves get off on doing it on camera.
If you feel the need to hug a woman then you just put your arm around her shoulder or waist, it's not hard to miss her breast..

Poor Arianna