Ariana Grande Recreated Old Hollywood's Most Iconic Feud For Halloween

It's not every day that Ariana Grande ditches her signature ponytail — so when she does, you know it's a special occasion.

Grande shared a video of her Halloween costume on Instagram, and her famous pony is nowhere to be found. Instead, she's sporting a parted, curly 'do — which looks like it might be a wig, though it's hard to tell — to channel Bette Davis. She also completed the look with a sequined dress.

It's a Halloween costume that would make Ryan Murphy proud, considering he's behind Feud: Bette and Joan. Grande worked with Murphy on Scream Queens, so the costume might be a nod to the TV mogul.

Grande simply captioned the video "Bette." But to get the full costume effect, you should watch at least part of it. Grande perfectly mouths Davis' lines from All About Eve, all while holding a wine glass.

Grande also shared a photo of herself with friend Doug Middlebrook, who's dressed as Joan Crawford, Davis' nemesis in Feud. Their outfits are, honestly, everything, and Middlebrook's expressions are totally on point.

Grande shared several photos of Middlebrook and the Crawford costume inspiration, too.

Between her epic Halloween costume and her ability to make fun of herself, Grande has been keeping us very entertained lately. It's not even October 31 yet, but the "Dangerous Woman" singer is already an early contender for best celebrity Halloween costume of the year. The only thing that would make the costume even more full circle is if the stars of Murphy's other properties dressed up as each other, too. Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange as the Scream Queens Chanels? That's a Halloween costume we'd never forget.

Ariana Grande suspends European concert tour after Manchester bombing

Ariana Grande’s European tour has been suspended following the terror attack at her show at the Manchester Arena on Monday.

The American pop singer had been due to perform two concerts at the O2 Arena in London on Thursday and Friday. “Due to the tragic events in Manchester, the Dangerous Woman tour with Ariana Grande has been suspended until we can further assess the situation and pay our proper respects to those lost,” the tour’s promoters said in a statement on Wednesday.

Cancelled concerts include those in London this week, as well as all others until the one planned for 5 June in Switzerland.

The promoters added: “We ask at this time that we all continue to support the city of Manchester and all those families affected by this cowardice and senseless violence. Our way of life has once again been threatened but we will overcome this together. Thank you.”

Grande returned to her home town of Boca Raton in Florida on Tuesday.

Grande had left the stage after performing at the Manchester Arena when the bomb exploded as fans were leaving the sold-out venue, which has a 21,000-person capacity. At least 22 people were killed and 59 injured, with many more walking wounded.

While the O2 said an announcement would be made as soon as it had clear information, many concluded from Grande’s return home that the tour was off.

Hours after the attack, she tweeted: “Broken. From the bottom of my heart, I am so so sorry. I don’t have words.”

Musicians have continued to pay tribute to Grande and her fans. During a performance on the US season finale of The Voice on Tuesday night, Miley Cyrus dedicated her song to Grande and “everyone who experienced that horrific attack”. “Our hearts are with you,” she said.

In a statement on Monday, Grande’s manager, Scooter Braun, said: “Tonight our hearts are broken. Words cannot express our sorrow for the victims and families harmed in this senseless attack.

“We mourn the lives of children and loved ones taken by this cowardly act. We are thankful for the selfless service tonight of Manchester’s first responders who rushed towards danger to help save lives.

“We ask all of you to hold the victims, their families, and all those affected in your hearts and prayers.”

Take That, who were playing a show at the Liverpool Echo Arena when the attack happened, cancelled the following night’s show in the city and postponed the dates they were due to play in Manchester on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Blondie cancelled a concert in London on Tuesday “as a mark of respect for the victims of the terrible attack”.

But other gigs went ahead as planned. Simple Minds played at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, telling fans: “We would have felt cowardly just leaving town, especially Manchester, a place that has been great to us since the early days.”

Grande’s brother, Frankie Grande, is due to perform in Bush Hall in west London on Saturday night, and the venue believes the event will go ahead. 

Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Harry Styles, Lorde, Justin Timberlake and Rihanna were among the other celebrities and pop stars who reacted to the attack.

Social media users have been sharing an image of bunny ears – often worn by Grande – in solidarity for the victims.

“Many of you won’t have ever been to Manchester but you will definitely have heard of it. It’s famous all over the world for so many wonderful things,” he said.

“Great football teams: Man City; Man United. Incredible music: Oasis and Joy Division. It was the birthplace of the leader of the suffragettes; it’s the home of the inventor of the first computer. It’s a place full of comedy and curries and character.

“But when I think of Manchester, the place that I know, I think of the spirit of the people there, and I’m telling you a more tight knit group of people you will be hard-pressed to find.

“Strong, proud, caring people with community at its core, and if it was even possible, the spirit of the people of Manchester will grow even stronger this evening.”

Ariana Grande's break into tears rendition of 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'

Ariana Grande triumphant One Love Manchester benefit concert was an emotional affair for all involved, many tears being shed by audience members and performers alike. 

Perhaps the most moving moment came during Grande’s rendition of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ in tribute to the 22 who died in a terror attack. 

Towards the end of the song, the 23-year-old began breaking into tears, managing to finish The Wizard of Oz song after cheers from the crowd. 

Other performers at the concert included Coldplay, Liam Gallagher, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Black Eyed Peas, and Mac Miller, who all played their various hits.

The benefit concert will help the Manchester fund raise over £10 million to help those affected by the attacks less than two weeks ago. 

"Well, the fantastic news is we've already raised around £7 million," Mike Adamson of The Red Cross told the Associated Press. 

"And we expect to raise another one and half million pounds from ticket sales tonight and then further funding from the TV rights and merchandising. So, we're really looking to appeal that's going to move towards 10 million pounds.”

The event — which sold out within 20 minutes — took take place at Manchester’s 50,000 capacity Emirates Old Trafford cricket ground. All proceeds will go towards the We Love Manchester emergency fund, set up by Manchester City Council and Red Cross.

One Love Manchester: Nearly 11 million watched Ariana Grande concert on BBC 1

The pop-singer was joined by Coldplay, Liam Gallagher, Justin Bieber, and more

Ariana Grande performs during the One Love Manchester benefit concert for the victims of the Manchester Arena terror attack at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester Reuters

Ariana Grande’s One Love Manchester tribute concert was an emotional affair, for both the audience and performers. 

With a star-studded line-up, millions watched from home. According to the latest figures, the concert averaged 10.9 million viewers on BBC One alone, peaking at just under 15 million.

The concert was also streamed over various commercial radio stations and broadcast in over 50 countries around the world. Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube also hosted various steams.

Due to so many platforms airing the concert, a figure for how many people around the world watched will likely take some time to calculate. 

While the concert took place, over £2 million was donated to the British Red Cross's We Love Manchester Emergency Fund, taking the total raised to over £10 million. 

Artists who played the concert include Coldplay, Liam Gallagher, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Black Eyed Peas, and Mac Miller. The event — which sold out within 20 minutes — took place at Manchester’s 50,000 capacity Emirates Old Trafford cricket ground. 

All proceeds will go towards helping those affected by the bombing that took place following Grande’s Manchester Arena concert on the 22 May. Twenty-two people were killed and dozens more injured following the terrorist attack. 

Earlier on in the week, Grande visited victims of the tragic attacks in hospital, the 23-year-old telling them: ”I’m so proud of you. You are so strong. You are doing really well.”

Snigger if you will, but Ariana Grande's One Love Manchester concert is proof of the healing power of pop

Many of us knew already of the healing power of pop. Following last night’s Ariana Grande “One Love Manchester” concert, I’ll wager many more cynical souls may bend to this notion.

Tiny, glorious Ariana, a magical, elfin pop pixie, in her baggy One Love jumper and platform stiletto boots, took to the stage at the end of a hellish weekend and performed first aid on the nation’s hearts. As the opening bars of “Be Alright” played, she met her audience, for the second time in Manchester and for the second time in a fortnight, with an expression of serene, uptilted chin defiance.

Yes, she’s a pop star, not a politician or a ruler. But, she’s a pop star with young fans who were murdered two weeks ago, who probably feels rather emotionally bedraggled right now. Because how does a person deal with that? In fact, how do we deal with any of this ongoing abject cruelty in Manchester, at London Bridge, in Paris? The answer is we simply do, because we must. 

Thus, Ariana plus her revolving cabaret troupe of pop’s biggest and best – Chris Martin, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and many other people you’re possibly too cool to admit liking – did the thing they do. They performed light-as-air pop tunes and made things, albeit temporarily, feel softer and clearer.

 That is what pop does. It soothed me in the 1980s when I pirouetted to Toto Coelo’s “I Eat Cannibal” on Top of The Pops. It soothed me in the 1990s via En Vogue’s close harmony singing. It soothed me last night when Pharrell changed the lyrics of “Happy” to inform us Manchester would be “just fine”.

There is restorative power in Liam Gallagher showing up to honk through “Rock ’n’ Roll Star” in an orange Paddington Bear fishing jacket or Katy Perry performing her divorce anthem “Roar” dressed like a Snow Queen channelling Sesame Street’s Big Bird. There is goodness in Niall, the Irish, affable one from One Direction, plink-plonking through innocent pop on a guitar. Or Justin Bieber’s sweetly petulant break-up ballad “Love Yourself”. Indeed it will be a cold day for humanity whenever Coldplay perform “Viva La Vida” and mankind simply refuses to assist with the big roaring “wooooo-aaaahh-oooo” chorus.

Pop does not solve the world’s pain, it simply tunes us for a small time to a different frequency. “Only when I’m dancing can I feel this free,” sang Madonna many years ago, wearing a fishnet vest and bangles. In Manchester last night, Ariana Grande’s backing dancers wriggled and pranced freely, meanwhile kids did ring o’ roses-style dancing with police officers.

We are still free, even if right now, for some of us, it feels hard to leave the house. Every single one of those fans last night who narrowly missed death two weeks ago, yet still signed up for a free ticket to see their pop hero once again, is nothing short of remarkable. 

Reactions to the One Love concert were not all resoundingly charitable, of course. Social media was alive with snark and sniggering. But, in its own way, this told me that everything was OK with the world. What is pop, for crying out loud, if we cannot laugh at Little Mix’s leotards and wonder if their stylist hates them? Or if we cannot wince at the Gallagher/Martin “Live Forever” duet that sounded a bit like two middle-aged men doing karaoke after exuberant wine tasting? Or at blown-up screen grabs of Martin’s trousers that made it look like he had wet himself? 

Or Robbie Williams performing in tracksuit bottoms, resembling someone in a 5am stag-do easyJet queue? Or Justin Bieber attempted to tell the audience that God loves them, burbling on about the big fella above being here, there and everywhere and in their midst. It sounded like a Radio 4 Thought For The Day written in a panic en route to Broadcasting House. What is life if Imogen Heap cannot perform a slice of her famous fairytale screaming on prime time TV and dads up and down the country cannot tut over newspapers?

Liam Gallagher makes surprise appearance at One Love Manchester

Pop is full of magical moments of daftness, high-ego, syrup-sweet sentiment and just plain wrongheadedness. No one wanted to hear Liam Gallagher’s new single “Wall of Glass”, aside from Liam himself and probably his record company. Gallagher came on preaching love, tolerance and other Zen-like statements, before leaving the stage to continue haranguing his brother Noel on Twitter. (Liam is completely fine, everyone, about not being included in Noel’s big 50th birthday bash. That’s fine, everyone. He’s breezy.)

One moment that appeared to melt everyone’s hearts was Ariana performing “You Are My Everything” with the choir from Parrs Wood High School. The song began in great gusto led by a little girl, who dissolved into tears at the appearance of Ariana. There was lots of hugging. Lots of high-swoopy lyrics and a determined line about the power of unconditional love. It was pure pop magic and many of us wept buckets.

We must carry on dancing, singing and loving. The other option is to make our worlds tiny, dark and untrusting. I think we all know deep down that this simply won’t do. 

Ariana Grande set to receive honorary citizenship from Manchester after One Love benefit concert

Ariana Grande meeting Evie Mills at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital ward PA

Manchester council members want to set up a new system to Ariana Grande can receive an honorary citizenship from the city. 

The singer has been praised after she arranged the One Love Manchester benefit concert just weeks after the Manchester Arena bombing, which raised millions for victims of the terror attack. 

Salman Abedi, 22, detonated a homemade bomb in the venue foyer, killing 22 people and injuring dozens more.

Grande was joined by some of the biggest names in music for the event, including Liam Gallagher, Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry, Robbie Williams, Take That, Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. 

Around 50,000 people attended an the event raised almost £3 million for victims.

Council leader Sir Richard Leese told BBC News: "Many people already see Ariana as an honorary Mancunian. This seems a fitting moment to update the way we recognise those who make noteworthy contributions to the life and success of our city.

"We've all had cause to be incredibly proud of Manchester and the resilient and compassionate way in which the city, and all those associated with it, have responded to the terrible events of 22 May - with love and courage rather than hatred and fear... [Ariana] exemplified this response."

Manchester City Council is also planning to hold an event to recognise the "great many selfless acts and demonstrations of community spirit in the aftermath of the atrocity".

After the benefit concert Grande released a cover of 'Over the Rainbow' and a re-release of her song 'One Last Time' in aid of Manchester victims. 

Manchester bombing: Ariana Grande pays tribute to terror attack's youngest victim Saffie Roussos

Ariana Grande set to receive 'honorary citizenship' from Manchester

US pop star Ariana Grande has paid tribute to Saffie Roussos, the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing.

The eight-year-old was with her family when suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device, killing 22 people including seven children.

Following a concert in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, Grande tweeted: “Saffie, we're (thinking) of you baby” alongside a birthday cake emoji.

The youngster, from Leyland, Lancashire, would have celebrated her ninth birthday on 4 July.

To mark the occasion her family chose to speak out, paying tribute to Saffie and remembering how she had looked forward to the concert.

Her older sister, Ashlee Bromwich, said the super fan was “elated” as she watched her idol on perform on 22 May.

“She was Ariana Grande-obsessed, so to see how happy she was, it was just... obviously I had to go with her,” she told the BBC.

Her father, Andrew Roussos, said: “You couldn't be out with Saffie without having fun, but her dream was to be famous. It was her everything and we bought her the tickets for Christmas.

“She was just counting the days, the seconds and it was just Ariana Grande until nine, 10 o'clock at night. And she would sing and dance every single song.”

The explosion ripped through the arena foyer as thousands of fans, mostly young girls, left the venue following Grande's performance.

Mr Roussos, who said “all hell broke loose” after the bombing, was later told by a police detective that Saffie had died.

“We've lost everything. We have, we've lost everything, because life will just never be the same,” he said.

Ariana Grande Emotional in 'Dangerous Woman World Tour' Hong Kong

Ariana Grande wrapped up her Dangerous Woman World Tour on Friday (Sept. 22) at AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong. For her very first show in Hong Kong, security was tight following the tragic events in Manchester, England, on May 22.

But nothing was going to spoil this incredible night as the Arianators turned out in force to support Ari, wearing their Dangerous Woman signature bunny ears.

The tour was Ariana's biggest to date, and Hong Kong fans had high expectations for the closing show. Ariana more than delivered with her impressive vocal range, sultry dance moves, unstoppable energy and a whirl of costume changes performing all the songs from her latest studio album, with her Billboard Top 5 hits "Problem," "Break Free," "Bang Bang" and fan favorites "Love Me Harder" and "Focus."

During "One Last Time," the One Love Manchester anthem, emotion overcame the singer as she paused in mid-song. Fans exploded with love and support to carry her through, and once again, during "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," while the dancers stood holding hands and Ariana started to cry, Hong Kong stood up to embrace her.

While the night was filled with tears as Ariana, her dancers and fans hugged each other, the overwhelming message was to stay strong. It was also a celebration of women everywhere as the interlude video montage of Ariana posing seductively cut to words like "wild," "free," "playful," "gentle," "sensual," "strong," ending with the word "FEMALE."

"Thinking Bout You" also came out in support of the LGBTQ community with the video featuring colored silhouettes of opposite and same-sex couples, expressing that "Love Is Love."

As this final concert came to a close with an encore performance of "Dangerous Woman," it was clear to everyone that the Dangerous Woman World Tour was not just a pop concert tour. Ariana Grande has brought people together through music to love and support each other. The One Love Manchester benefit concert has raised over $22 million USD for the victims of the terror attack.

To use Ariana's own words, "We plan to honor them with courage, bravery and defiance in the face of fear. The kind of love and unity that you are displaying is the medicine that the world really needs right now."