Ariana Grande gave a cheeky shoutout to Botox while accepting the Rising Star Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Friday. Grande’s prize was presented to her by actress Jennifer Coolidge. “I can’t tell you what it means to me. Your comedic genius and your brilliance has inspired me my entire life. I just love you,” Grande told Coolidge in a clip shared on X by The Hollywood Reporter. Grande, already a bonafide pop megastar, wowed audiences as Galinda alongside Cynthia Erivo in the Broadway musical turned-film Wicked. After thanking Coolidge, Grande poked fun at the award’s title. “I’ve been performing since I was a child, so I never thought at the age of 31 I would be hearing the words ‘rising star’ again,” Grande joked. “So I want to start by thanking my good friends Botox and Juvéderm. I thought I’d be hearing, you know, ‘slightly withering star’ or ‘drooping star’ by now,” she added. This isn’t the first time the star has gotten candid about injectables. Back in 2023, Grande revealed in a Vogue YouTube video that she had stopped doing lip filler and Botox because it was “too much.”
Ariana Grande is honored by Jennifer Coolidge at the #PSFilmAwards2025 and jokes about receiving the “Rising Star” Award at 31 pic.twitter.com/7Z1PEHL3yM
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 4, 2025
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