{"id":394623,"date":"2026-01-06T04:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394623\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:56:13","slug":"ariana-grande-leighton-meester-video-goes-viral-online-from-critics-choice-awards-2026-fans-theorize-about-their-interaction-ariana-grande-leighton-meester-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394623\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande &#038; Leighton Meester Video Goes Viral Online from Critics Choice Awards 2026, Fans Theorize About Their Interaction | Ariana Grande, Leighton Meester | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ariana-grande\/\" title=\"Ariana Grande\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a> fan-girled over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/leighton-meester\/\" title=\"Leighton Meester\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leighton Meester<\/a> on the red carpet at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night (January 4), and it was caught on video.<\/p>\n<p>The video showed Ariana and Leighton crossing paths while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/04\/adam-brody-wife-leighton-meester-look-so-cute-at-critics-choice-awards-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">walking in opposite directions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ariana could be heard saying, \u201cLove you so much. Wow, wow wow,\u201d while walking away.<\/p>\n<p>The camera then panned to Leighton, who repeated Ariana\u2018s \u201cWow, wow, wow\u201d and then laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Some are commenting on the clear fan-girl moment, writing comments like, \u201cSHE MET BLAIR WALDORF\u201d and \u201cI just know she was freaking out on the inside.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Others were wondering why Leighton repeated what Ariana said. <\/p>\n<p>Another commenter explained what they noticed: \u201cthey\u2019ve known each other for a long time. they used to interact a lot on social media and leighton was always very supportive of Ariana, so I guess she\u2019s just being playful hahaha.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another added, \u201cdidn\u2019t you understand why Ariana said the \u2018well well well\u2019? It\u2019s a catch phrase from Gossip Girl. When GG was talking she usually says \u2018well well well\u2019. Leighton understood, repeated and laughed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another then shared, \u201ci think she thought it was cute and did it back to her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just Jared can confirm that Leighton and Ariana have been interacting online for over 10 years \u2013 see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjaredjr.com\/2013\/06\/23\/leighton-meester-ariana-grande-is-adorable\/?photomorehere\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cute exchange they shared back in 2013.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>You can watch the video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@enews\/video\/7591653898524298526\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@enews\/video\/7591653898524298526&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande fan-girled over Leighton Meester on the red carpet at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-394623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}