{"id":296572,"date":"2025-11-21T01:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296572\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T01:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:06:08","slug":"ariana-grande-gets-covid-on-wicked-for-good-press-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296572\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Gets Covid On ‘Wicked: For Good’ Press Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAriana Grande<\/a> has tested positive for Covid during the global press tour for Universal\u2019s sequel Wicked: For Good<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2x Grammy winner and Oscar nominee posted a story on Instagram today that read \u201cmoments before Covid\u201d with a shot of her appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. <\/p>\n

\n\tBoth Grande and co-star Cynthia Erivo skipped red carpet interviews during the NYC premiere for Wicked: For Good, the latter feeling under the weather as well. Grande reportedly will miss a few press ops due to Covid, including an appearance on the The Kelly Clarkson Show, which Erivo now will do solo.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth actresses tested positive for Covid at separate times during production on the first Wicked. <\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Stage Invader Who Grabbed Ariana Grande On \u2018Wicked: For Good\u2019 Red Carpet Jailed In Singapore<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s been whirlwind for the Wicked: For Good\u00a0posse of Erivo, Grande, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, filmmaker Jon M. Chu, etc., with a global tour that kicked off November 4 in Sao Paolo, Brazil, followed by Paris (November 7), London (November 10), Singapore (November 13) and NYC on Monday night.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlong the way, Grande was grabbed<\/a> by social media influencer\/crazed fan Johnson Wen\u00a0at the Singapore red carpet premiere for Wicked: For Good. Erivo shooed him away, with Australian citizen Wen getting sentenced to nine days in jail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tWicked: For Good is bound to break Wicked\u2018s box office opening record before it as the best debut for a movie based on a Broadway musical. The global start is expected to be well in excess of $200 million<\/a>m with around $150 million coming from the U.S.\/Canada.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Wicked: For Good\u2019 Will Be Popular Around The World With $200M+ Opening, Best Ever For Broadway Feature Adaptation \u2013 Box Office Preview<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Wicked: For Good\u2019 Is Fandango\u2019s Biggest PG Pre-Seller Of All Time & Highest Overall For 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Iconic Wicked Witch Hat And Dorothy Costumes Lead \u2018Wizard Of Oz\u2019 Film Auction \u2013 Oh My!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande has tested positive for Covid during the global press tour for Universal\u2019s sequel Wicked: For Good.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1550,49,48,361,75,99054],"class_list":{"0":"post-296572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ariana-grande","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-wicked-for-good"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}