{"id":611862,"date":"2026-09-02T03:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/611862\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T03:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:46:08","slug":"ariana-grande-steps-out-of-the-spotlight-with-gratitude-at-tour-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/611862\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande steps out of the spotlight with gratitude at tour closing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ariana Grande\u2019s<\/a> final words, before she stepped offstage and out of the spotlight, were for her fans.<\/p>\n

Addressing the crowd during her last concert in London Tuesday (Sep 1) before she takes a break from the public eye,<\/a> the singer was full of emotion and gratitude.<\/p>\n

Grande thanked the audience and called The Eternal Sunshine Tour one of \u201cmost beautiful, extraordinary, experiences\u201d of her life.<\/p>\n

The music star confirmed in August that she\u2019d be taking time out after the conclusion of her live shows, with the final leg being a 10-date run at London\u2019s O2 Arena.<\/p>\n

On stage, Grande has admitted to being emotional about the tour coming to an end after 41 dates, which also took place in the US and Canada before the UK. On Tuesday, she tried to speak \u201cwithout sobbing completely\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll cherish this experience always. I have the best fans in the entire world and I always have,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A representative for Grande told People magazine in August that the 33-year-old singer \u201cwill be taking a step back from visibility” after the tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe looks forward to finishing the tour and ending it on a high note, both healthily and happily, and then taking a much-deserved break from public-facing work and appearances, which has led to endless, ongoing public scrutiny,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

In a social media post on Monday, ahead of the penultimate night, Grande warned fans that she had to swap out her trademark six-inch heeled platform boots after cutting her foot.<\/p>\n

She reassured them that she was on the mend, even if she was a few inches shorter on stage.<\/p>\n

While Grande wasn\u2019t in her highest heels, her followers still were; the audience dressed up in her style with stilettos, cat ears and ponytails \u2013 something the star noticed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for all of your effort and continuing to make this so special. I have loved every minute of this with you all,\u201d Grande said.<\/p>\n

The concert concludes with Grande summoned back, sci-fi style, to a spacecraft as she ascends to the mothership in a beam of light.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not known when she will next be seen on earth, although Grande\u2019s most recent album Petal will certainly be a fixture at September\u2019s MTV Video Music Awards, where she\u2019s in the running for artist of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande\u2019s final words, before she stepped offstage and out of the spotlight, were for her fans. Addressing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,921,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-611862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}