{"id":518504,"date":"2026-07-10T01:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/518504\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T01:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:21:16","slug":"ariana-grande-impersonator-paige-niemanns-dm-from-the-pop-star-is-legit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/518504\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Impersonator Paige Niemann’s DM from the Pop Star is Legit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It turns out Ariana Grande<\/a>‘s message to her viral look-alike is legit … TMZ has confirmed its authenticity.<\/p>\n

Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … the message is real … meaning Ari DID reach out to Paige Niemann<\/a>, the girl who’s made a name for herself by making herself up to look like the pop star.<\/p>\n

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As we previously reported, Paige shared the DM<\/a> she got from AG in her new “Turning The Paige” docuseries.<\/p>\n

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In the message, Ariana told Paige she’s “flattered,” but encouraged her to embrace her own beauty, writing … “you’re very beautiful as YOURSELF. without all the make up and trying to make your face look more similar to someone else’s and whatnot.”<\/p>\n

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She added … “Always do what makes you happy of course but if I didn’t say that to you, I’d regret it.”<\/p>\n

In the docuseries, Paige wants to move on from the internet fame that came with impersonating Ari in favor of an actual career in entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It turns out Ariana Grande‘s message to her viral look-alike is legit … TMZ has confirmed its authenticity.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-518504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}