Ariana Grande has arrived on the EE BAFTA 2025 Awards red carpet! The 31-year-old looked ethereal in a plunging black and pink gown with a full skirt, custom by Louis Vuitton - a fitting look for her nomination for best supporting actress as Glinda in Wicked.
Grande walked the red-carpet solo, without her BFF Cynthia Eviro who is also up for a BAFTA for best leading actress for her performance as Elphaba in Wicked.
Notably absent was Grande’s boyfriend Ethan Slater, who recently praised the singer and actress for her role on the film that has also landed her an Oscar nomination. ‘I’m unbelievably proud of her,’ Slater told Us Weekly. ‘She worked so hard. She and Cynthia worked so unbelievably hard to not only make this movie and be the best versions of Glinda and Elphaba, but to promote it. They’re incredible. I’m unendingly proud.’
'I think people have seen already how Ariana and Cynthia have given such emotional depth to their characters and Ari in particular; her comedy is so good, and yet there’s a real truth and grounding to it,’ he continued. The pair began dating in 2023 after meeting on set of the film, in which Slater plays munchkin Boq.
Of course, Google Trends is awash with queries about the pair, most notably whether they’re expecting a baby with ‘Is Ariana Grande pregnant?’ a breakout search term. On the entire other end of the spectrum ‘Ariana Grande weight loss’ and ‘Why is Ariana Grande so slim’ are also both breakout searches. What can we learn from this? That you can always count on internet sleuthers to obsessively investigate about a woman’s body, of course!
In fact, the commentary around Ariana Grande’s weight loss recently became so invasive that she was forced to publicly comment on it. In December, she posted a video on TikTok saying, ‘I don’t do this often, I don’t like it and I’m not good at it, but I just wanted to address your concerns about my body and talk a little bit about what it means to be a person with a body and to be seen and paid such close attention to.’
‘The body that you've been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body,’ she explained. ‘I was on a lot of antidepressants, and drinking on them, and eating poorly, and at the lowest point of my life when I looked the way you consider my healthy, but that, in fact, wasn't my healthy.’
She went on to say that we, as a society, should work towards not publicly discussing peoples bodies. ‘I think we should be gentler and less comfortable commenting on peoples bodies,’ she said. ‘No matter what, if you think you’re saying something good or well-intentioned, whatever it is. Healthy or unhealthy, big or small, sexy not sexy, we just shouldn’t – we should really work towards not doing that as much. There are ways to compliment something or ignore something that you see that you don’t like.’
So, if anyone needed a polite reminder ahead of her BAFTAs looks inevitably landed on social media – heed a warning from the icon's mouth herself!