{"id":776480,"date":"2026-07-02T22:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776480\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T22:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:59:09","slug":"panthers-mascot-hangs-backstage-with-ariana-grande-before-south-florida-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776480\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers mascot hangs backstage with Ariana Grande before South Florida show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley gifted Grande a custom bedazzled Panthers jersey that featured sparkly tassels on the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>The pop singer then linked arms with the mascot and took him on a tour of her backstage area. Grande showed Stanley where she made her costume changes during the show and even put some lip gloss on the mascot.<\/p>\n<p>After, Stanley met Grande\u2019s backup dancers then showed off his own dance moves before saying goodbye to the singer with one last hug.<\/p>\n<p>Grande, who grew up in the Boca Raton area, is an avid Panthers fan and sung the \u201cStar Spangled Banner\u201d before a game when she was eight years old in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Grande <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/short-shifts\/ariana-grande-cheers-florida-panthers-at-game-1-stanley-cup-final\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attended Game 1 and Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final<\/a> between the Panthers and Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley and Grande can totally be friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stanley gifted Grande a custom bedazzled Panthers jersey that featured sparkly tassels on the bottom. The pop singer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-776480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776480","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=776480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}