{"id":2135106,"date":"2025-11-04T18:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2135106"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:27:19","slug":"why-ariana-grande-missed-the-wicked-for-good-brazil-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-ariana-grande-missed-the-wicked-for-good-brazil-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ariana Grande Missed the &#8216;Wicked: For Good&#8217; Brazil Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<hr data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"1.0\">THE RUNDOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-kw9lqy emevuu60\">\n<li data-node-id=\"2.0\">A flight maintenance issue prevented Ariana Grande from traveling to S\u00e3o Paulo for the <em data-node-id=\"2.0.2\">Wicked: For Good<\/em> premiere. <\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"2.1\">In an emotional message, she told fans she was \u201cso heartbroken\u201d to miss the event. <\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"2.2\">Grande praised her co-stars, saying, \u201cPlease shower my incredible castmates with all of the love that I wish I could be showering you with.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/movies-tv\/a69229675\/american-horror-story-season-13-ariana-grande-news-date-cast\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/movies-tv\/a69229675\/american-horror-story-season-13-ariana-grande-news-date-cast\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Ariana Grande\" data-node-id=\"4.0\" class=\"body-link css-inlxvj emevuu60\">Ariana Grande<\/a> revealed she was unable to attend the <em data-node-id=\"4.2\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/movies-tv\/a69193913\/jon-m-chu-wicked-for-good-gold-house-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/movies-tv\/a69193913\/jon-m-chu-wicked-for-good-gold-house-interview\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Wicked: For Good\" data-node-id=\"4.2.0\" class=\"body-link css-inlxvj emevuu60\">Wicked: For Good<\/a><\/em> premiere in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, after a last-minute flight issue grounded her plans.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">The singer and actress, who plays Glinda in Universal\u2019s highly anticipated sequel, shared the news in an emotional Instagram Story late Monday night. \u201cBrazil, I can\u2019t believe this is happening and I am beyond devastated to be sending this message,\u201d Grande wrote. \u201cA few hours ago, my team and I had to deplane our flight, as they had to do maintenance on the plane due to a safety issue and it will not be taking off until tomorrow, which means that I would not be making it in time for the <em data-node-id=\"5.1\">Wicked: For Good<\/em> S\u00e3o Paulo premiere.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"watch-next\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-12\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<section data-embed=\"body-image\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-13\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"embed\">\n<div size=\"large\" data-embed=\"body-image\" class=\"align-center size-large embed css-1vw1yg0 e1fodxfw4\">\n<div class=\"css-uwraif e1fodxfw3\"><\/p>\n<p><figcaption data-theme-key=\"photo-credit-figcaption\" class=\"css-1am3yn9 e1g9hcy40\"><span data-theme-key=\"photo-credit-creditor\" class=\"css-biwqk8 e1geg53v2\">Ariana Grande\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Grande explained that her team explored every possible solution to get her to the event. \u201cWe\u2019ve searched every other flight, overnight, early morning, connecting flights, commercial and also private options and absolutely nothing was available or possible that would get us there in time,\u201d she wrote. \u201cEven in attempting a private option, there is a permit necessary in order to fly from here that takes time to attain.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"recirculation\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-14\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">The premiere marked the first international stop in <em data-node-id=\"10.1\">Wicked: For Good<\/em>\u2019s global press tour, and Grande emphasized how disappointed she was to miss it. \u201cI am so heartbroken that I\u2019m unable to be there with you all,\u201d she said. \u201cWe sincerely tried everything we could and I apologize from the bottom of my heart. Please shower my incredible castmates with all of the love that I wish I could be showering you with and have the most beautiful celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Grande\u2019s absence comes shortly after she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a69191922\/ariana-grande-brunette-hair-transformation-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a69191922\/ariana-grande-brunette-hair-transformation-details\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"debuted a new brunette look\" data-node-id=\"11.1\" class=\"body-link css-inlxvj emevuu60\">debuted a new brunette look<\/a> on Instagram. \u201cIt\u2019s good to see me, isn\u2019t it? \ud83e\udee7,\u201d she captioned the photo, tagging her longtime colorist, Francesco De Chiara.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.elle.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE RUNDOWN A flight maintenance issue prevented Ariana Grande from traveling to S\u00e3o Paulo for the Wicked: For Good premiere. In an emotional message, she told fans she was \u201cso heartbroken\u201d to miss the event. Grande praised her co-stars, saying, \u201cPlease shower my incredible castmates with all of the love that I wish I could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2135107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[274717,406611,285977,285684,406610],"class_list":["post-2135106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-f864e951-6cde-486a-9c64-07c13ac3be42","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-shorttitle-why-ariana-missed-her-films-brazil-premiere"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Why-Ariana-Grande-Missed-the-Wicked-For-Good-Brazil-Premiere.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135108,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135106\/revisions\/2135108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2135107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}