The friendship between Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo is not dead, despite the gossip mill working overtime again. In a new interview at Paris Fashion Week, Erivo said she is set to attend one of Grande's Eternal Sunshine tour shows in London in August, a detail that directly undercuts the idea that the former Wicked co-stars have quietly fallen out.
The news came after weeks of online chatter suggesting the pair were barely speaking once the Wicked promotion machine finally wound down. The speculation has been fed by fan sleuthing, tabloid reporting and a familiar celebrity habit of turning ordinary distance into a full-blown relationship autopsy, which is mad but hardly new.