Ariana Grande was not happy about Pete Davidson’s “joke” in this SNL promo. She tweeted-and-deleted some shade. [LaineyGossip]
The children will hate Theresa May as well. [Jezebel]
Rep. Mark Sanford passed out pocket constitutions for Halloween. [Dlisted]
Barbra Streisand did Carpool Karaoke, I’m surprised. [Towleroad]
These photos of Benedict Cumberbatch are so bad. [JustJared]
Gasp, I think Emma Roberts looks cute in this dress. [Go Fug Yourself]
Chrissy Teigen vs. Jacob Wohl is actually really funny. [Pajiba]
This screencap of Snooki is really disturbing. [Reality Tea]
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— rachel (@yoncechanel) November 2, 2018
Both of them dodged a bullet. Someday they’ll look back and realize how fortunate it was that they didn’t get married right away.
Truth!
i love that Pete made fun of himself, he seems like a sensitive person who could be shattered otherwise. Seems like sour grapes that AG is poisoning an otherwise healing gesture.
Yeah, I found his willingness to go there kinda charming.
If I was in Ariana’s shoes, though, & the pain was raw, I’d probably feel he was trivializing the relationship & lash out, too. That’s just pain, though.
Public relationships/breakups must be tough. I can’t imagine it.
In good news: Can’t wait for Maggie on SNL. 😉
She knew he was a comedian who took from his own personal traumas as the basis for his comedy. I don’t know why she is taking this as anything other than Pete just doing his job and dealing with his own difficulties. He obviously is not happy about the breakup and this is his way of dealing with it. It’s therapeutic for him and he seems to aim directly at himself as the butt of the jokes.
Maybe she didn’t know Pete as well as she thought, she may have been blinded by his obvious adoration of her. Maybe this is all just due to the traumatic shock of her ex-bf’s death and she needs a lot of time to grieve and heal.
Maybe someone had a long talk with her about this, though, since she did delete the tweets. The best thing for her is to just not respond to such things. If she doesn’t want to be with Pete, that’s ok. But she seems to be making some wrong assumptions about his behavior. It was just a mistake for them to move so fast, not a sign of awfulness in either of them.
Yes @MyBlackCat @Newmoon @jwoolman to all your POVs. Pete, in whatever he’s in always makes me laugh and it’s a process. They’ll work it out through their art and he was pointing at himself. Just like her response is part of the process. I’m not mad at her, but it was probably unintentional that her hurt showed up.
Maybe the part she didn’t like was their engagement being part of a list. It drew attention to the fact that he had asked his other ex to marry him as well and created headlines saying he had asked her repeatedly and she didn’t accept.
Can someone please spell out to me what Pete is saying at the end? “Over 3”. “Now its’s 3…”. ..???
I am not a native english speaking person…sorry. 🙂
Yeah Ariana seemed pissed.. then deletes them. To me, they both seem a bit passive aggressive and petty.
And her friend tagged in, trying to sound “hard” by threatening Davidson physical harm. They’re all ridiculous.
Clearly these two are way too immature for a relationship let alone marriage.
He is allowed to speak about his life, he is a public person as well and she can’t control him after their break up. She’s immature. Reminds me about her little donut incident and her snotty attitude.
We all go through tough experiences in life (I also had a beloved exboyfriend die tragically young from addiction at the beginning of my new and next relationship) and it’s just not an excuse to be a snotty petty person. If anything it SHOULD teach you to take the high road and treat people better with more compassion every day because you never know when they will be gone.
He’s allowed to speak about portions of her life that converge with his, sure, and she isn’t invited to share her thoughts on that as well? He’s being so mature because studio executives are paying him to air this stuff, but she’s immature for making it clear she doesn’t consent? Why don’t you just admit your sad crush on….pete….davidson?
I totally agree meme, and then the hypocrisy of her shading him for indirectly referencing their relationship whilst doing his job then releasing a song which actually names him?!
The relationship was a car crash from start to finish and they have both dodged bullets, but like you said meme you would think that after what happened with Mac she would show some compassion. While I am not suggesting she has any responsibility for his death, she treated him poorly publicly following their break up yet he never said a bad word about her. She was very quick to throw him under the bus with that statement about their toxic relationship and his sobriety issues (even though if the rumours are to be believed she is also big into drugs too) and then rubbing her new relationship in his face, and now says she wishes she could say thank you to him as he was an angel.
I feel bad for Pete even though he has been a fool throughout this whole thing and treated Cazzie David horribly. But he made a self deprecating joke which is what he does and how he deals with trauma, which is how she justified his manchester bomb joke when she was still with him. He is likely still hurting very much from the break up, particularly as he has spoken of his issues with abandonment that come with his BPD and the death of his father.
@Eva: Her pointing out the fact that a relationship was toxic isn’t ‘treating her ex poorly’ though. Neither is quickly moving on to someone else publicly. She wasn’t obligated to stay single for some set amount of time or wait for some set amount of time before going public with a relationship just because she had broken up with somebody else.
I find her reaction overblown and nasty. He’s a comedian and, whether through her or not, a public figure now. What does she expect? Addressing the situation with some self-deprecation is really the best and only choice for him to make at this point. He’s not attacking her in any way. It would benefit her to take it all a little less seriously too – it is, after all, a silly situation they were both caught up in. A self-directed eye roll and a joke or two is absolutely the right response.
You said it perfect
Thanks 😀
I don’t understand her reaction at all. I mean she broke up with him, right? He was making fun of himself and his failed relationships.
Please. Davidson is so transparently thirsty he’s going out of his way to beat a dead horse. Who the hell was he before he started dating Grande? SNL’s least talented cast member, that’s who. For some reason the SNL producers have been trying for some time to make Davidson happen (as if he had the talent or appeal of Bill Hader or Andy Samberg) but it never took because he’s totally unfunny. And he’s trying to be a star-f**ker, but that failed too. He’s gross.
Found the Arianna Grande Stan.
I agree, it’s more like he’s attacking himself.
The only thing I can figure is that she takes offense at the idea that she just ‘didn’t want to’ get married and it was just that simple. I think she obviously did want to, and unfortunately is going through way way too much for a normal human to deal with easily over the last yearish so she needed to remove herself from the situation for everyone’s benefit. It wasn’t just like “nah, I don’t love you, I don’t want to marry you” and she’s bothered that his joke made it seem much more simple than it was.
And honestly? She’s probably a bit more sensitive with everything that’s been going on, and I can’t really blame her.
I think she’s always been overly sensitive and this isn’t the first time she’s taken offense to his jokes. It might have even been the real reason they broke up. Pete Davidson’s humor has always been self deprecating and personal. That’s his thing. If she didn’t like it, she shouldn’t have dated him in the first place.
Yes, she looks like a petty idiot. She should keep the shade to herself
I mean…she’s had a lot go down over the past two years, and she literally just had to deal with an ex pass from drug abuse and getting blamed for it because of their break. It was an immature response, and she needs to shut down the twitter for awhile and walk away, but she is human. Sometimes, people just…snap. Which is why social media is not the best for some of us.
I agree, Ariana is hardly my favorite person but I think people are being way too hard on her for these Tweets. Plenty of twenty-somethings Tweet and delete shade.
Totally agree.
She has no ground to stand on because she defend his joke about the Manchester victims. She cant be upset about a very tame joke that wasnt even specifically about her when she defended a joke about fans of hers getting killed.
So Pete is not answering her texts ? Lol
The shade was good and the tea was hot! 🙂
He was joking on himself on how he rushed to propose. I don’t even think the joke was on her at all.
Thats exactly how I read it too. There was no shade on Ariana.
I agree. I guess she lacks a sense of humor when it comes to herself.
But he also drew attention to the fact that he had repeatedly proposed to someone before her as well. I don’t think he meant to at all, but it trivializes their engagement (to be able to look at it objectively as he seems able to).
It’s a little bit childish to get upset at a joke like this. Especially when you’re the one ended things. I think Pete is allowed to joke a little and make fun of the situation. It is part of his job after all. Also anyone who had followed his career knows he jokes about his life, even on snl his jokes are about himself. I feel like Ari’s response would be similar to a guy who dates Taylor Swift and is shocked that she wrote a song about their breakup.
EXACTLY
“It’s a little bit childish to get upset at a joke like this.” Especially when she defended his joke about the Manchester victims.
I find her response childish and unsympathetic. He’s was just being self deprecating. The joke was on him not her
Also he’s a comedian it’s his job. The other people in the cast joke about themselves all the time.
I find her response childish…but slightly sympathetic. I mean, break-ups are hard, ya know? At least she deleted those tweets. Chica’s gotta save her response for her music – just like Pete is expressing himself with comedy. Also, these two are so exhausting at this point.
She broke up with him though didn’t she? I just don’t find it sympathetic because her fans are already trying to villify him, and her going after him like this is giving her fans the signal to do the same. He has mental health issues and seems vulnerable. She’s older than him too. I know she’s going through things but she needs to think about how her fans take their lead from her.
Agreed. And apparently she ,released a song 30 minutes before SNL aired called “Thank u, next.” So he can’t talk about it, but it is OK for her to sing about it. Childish…
Her brother was so mean and petty on BB. He would just be so vicious to other HGs if he felt slighted or felt someone slighted Ariana. He was straight up obsessed with his own sister. She seems the same way. But I have to admit the “3” was a burn.
You mean the “0-3” part? Is that why she’s upset? Like she wasn’t the only girl he proposed to, so she’s not special or something? Because I didn’t get how it was a burn on her at all, but I guess that would make sense.
I had never heard of her before Big Brother, and for a long time, I associated the Grande name with him. As you mentioned, he is an awful person, and so I thought the same of her for ages. I had a real change of heart when I was stuck at my MIL’s watching the Manchester concert. Now I really do have a soft spot for her. I hope she has good people around her. ♡
Frankie can get lost, though. Is he still a thing?
I don’t even like him, but he was just being self-deprecating. She got more mad about this harmless joke than about the nasty stuff he’s said while they were together. And please, we all know she’s gonna milk that relationship when she promotes her next album.
let’s be honest….we were all waiting for this epic fall out since the day they got together
Kate – Exactly!!! Perfectly said. IMO, she is making herself look petty
Welp…if the rumor that Pete sent an…ahem…intimate photo of he and Ariana to Mac before he died is true…
I OVERSTAND her reaction….
He didn’t, it was just trolls.
Team Pete. I still hate Ariana for that donut licking BS.
metoo!
Unrelated but Alec Baldwin was just arrested for punching a guy because of a parking spot.
Ooh. I thought he was a family man now.
Ha. Does having 5 kids automatically make one a family man?
It might just be me, but I get major Britney 2007 war flashbacks from this whole thing. The overexposure, clickbait, paparazzi, over-the-top relationship, and Ariana often saying how sad and anxious she is. Being petty on twitter is probably her exercising great restraint during a terrible time. I’m like seven headlines away from going full Chris Crocker.
I don’t see it like that, really. At least not in the same way. I think she could benefit from shutting down on social media and getting away, and working things through in therapy. But I don’t see it as being a long-lasting thing like Brit. Like – I guess I just see Britney as such an extreme case – where something was majorly wrong mental health wise beyond depression and anxiety, that I can’t see it ever getting that bad for AG.
Oh no, with the conservatorship and everything – I didn’t mean the whole enchilada. Not trying to minimize Britney’s issues, that’s why I said 2007 strictly, with the insane media coverage and everything. You are absolutely right about social media and therapy, and oddly, that’s what everyone said when Britney was leaving her house everyday: stop going out on these wild pap journeys and seek some help.
I sort of agree with both of you. She’s going through a lot right now on top of the crazy schedule. The way she handled Pete’s tame joke (especially compared to other things he’s said) is kind of petty and OTT. But she’s allowed an off moment- I’m not going to judge harshly since we also don’t know how their break-up went down.
The way she handled him publicly disrespecting their relationship by tweeting with comments not even directly linked to him, is petty?
Can someone explain to me how him being rude about their relationship on national tv for financial gain is okay, but her saying she didn’t like what he said is ‘petty’?
Wtf. And from some ostensible feminists too.
@ detritus
I don’t get it either. I don’t like her for that donut licking crap either but isn’t she an ex-Nickleodeon kid? Between that, the terrorist attack at her concert, people keep alluding to a past relationship but I’m not familiar with that, and the groping pastor at Aretha’s funeral she must be fed up with this joker.
It was a tiny bit of clapback and she deleted it. He should find something else to be funny about instead of hoping to instigate drama, so he can situate himself as the “bigger” person.
I actually like Ariana a lot and am not particularly a fan of Pete Davidson. But I’d say the same thing if the genders were reversed and a male ex of a female celebrity like Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, or Jennifer Lawrence reacted like that to one of them making this comment in a skit or a song. Probably even more so, since none of those women’s exes have been through what Ariana has been through recently.
Just to clarify, Chris Crocker was willing to do anything for attention.
Before the fake crying video he had done many other click-bait stuff like claiming he was having sex with his brother and dancing almost naked.
I think she’s being a bitch. He is relevant, he is on SNL and just dated a pop star for months. I don’t know why they broke up but he’s a comedian, she can’t really think he will never mention the relationship again. It was okay for her to sing about him… I hope she backs off because this is making her look really mean.
Look at you, calling a woman who stands up for herself and doesn’t want to be exploited that kind of mess. Typical. Remember how little air time he got until this season? He himself liked to make fun of that.
Pete got little airtime earlier because he was in therapy and rehab…. They brought him back more when he was demonstrably clean. My bet is that they routinely test him as part of the deal. I don’t think it had to do with Ariana. His little comeback started before he was with her.
@jwoolman “Demonstrably clean”? From weed? Is this 1940? He said he only went as far as rehab because weed is so easy to get. He is a stoner, big deal. He’s also said that few people there like his sketches. His standup isn’t bad, which is why they put him on Update.
Babahahahahahaa that Teigan tweet to wohl was hilarious !!!!! 😆
She is really great on Twitter
I don’t know. Break-ups suck whether you’re a civilian or a public figure so I’m not going to judge either one of these two too harshly for their actions/reactions.
This is terribly rational, Grant. 😉
It’s obvious there’s more behind the scenes. Funny how a bunch of middle aged white women are coming to his defense now (poor baby, he is sick and sad!) instead of pausing to consider why she is so angry. They’ve both obviously been through an intense time together.
Thank you. This young woman has been through hell the last couple years. And then the past couple months her ex dies of an OD, and some creep, a preacher no less, gropes her on national tv at a funeral for one of the most talented women in history.
And her people still expect her to work her butt off and stay on schedule no matter what. I don’t understand how people aren’t allowed to makes mistakes, grow, and change. I mean, someone upthread called her a b@#$&, and other people are still bringing up the donuts? What year is it?
@bruja
You are way to invested in this. People are just expressing their opinions. You don’t need to attack randoms online over a pop star.. Seriously.. I don’t get this type of behavior..
And I don’t know about the rest of the commentators but I am a 28 year old woc who thinks ari is childish and petty in this instance. Not sure why you brought up race btw these are two white people so what has race got to with anything? Also you are being ageist while calling out people because feminism.. that’s a bit hypocritical.
@jessica Twitter is clogged with middle aged white women smacking her down because they think he’s a tender angel, that’s why I said that. It’s not ageist to point out someone’s age. In fact, at that age you think their wisdom would preclude them from being so invested.
And yeah, I get kinda hot when women dealing with trauma publicly are judged and called names because somewhere along the way, a dude might have gotten his feelings hurt.
They are young, immature and echoing the poster above…..thank god they dodged the marriage bullet.
He’s a comedian, that’s what he does. I mean she sure didn’t have a problem with all the other jokes he’s made about their relationship, but she gets upset about this one (which was poking fun of HIS 3 failed engagements).
2 proposals. His ex Cazzie who didn’t accept, Arianna, and the 3rd which was just a self-deprecating joke (which actually drew attention to the fact that he repeatedly proposed to someone before Arianna).
lmao, it’s like everyone learned the term “self-deprecating” in the same week. Get real. He wanted a reaction from her, and she paid up.
Remember, though, SNL is a team sport. Pete had to go along with the idea, sure, but it’s probable it didn’t originated with him.
Actually, given that he is a writer and performer on that team, as well as an adult, it’s not improbable it originated with him. He said what he said, and for reasons that are and aren’t known to the public, she thought it was cheap.
I feel like Ariana must be in a really sensitive place and not ready to exactly joke about anything… She was on a super high with Pete, her album, their apartment together, her pet pig… only to be brought super low with Mac’s tragic death. I don’t think Pete was taking a jab at her or being disrespectful to her with the joke, but I’ve definitely been in that heartbroken place myself where anything and everything my ex says can so easily be misconstrued by my own sadness-addled heart and mind. Maybe she thought he was saying, “See how easily I can move onto the next?” though I do not think that’s how he meant it.
💓 yeah.
From someone only following this and not knowing much about them it seems she broke up with him citing toxicity; then he says she’s the clingy one and he had to change his phone number (lol, I don’t believe that). If he was an irresponsible partner and she tolerated his crap for longer than she should, and he’s making light – any kind of it – or using her/their relationship for self-promotion, a little shade on twitter sounds like a mild response. I get the impression she’s trying (and failing a little) to not go petty but he’s low key ticking her off.
I’m on the side of judging his behaviour now as it probably was then.
Even if she’s being immature she was sure mature enough to end it. Sounds like she did him a favour by bothering with him at all – he comes off as a mess and messy – and probably the type to ‘lose’ his condom during sex. She is better off away from him, he seems to just aggravate her – at least she recognized it.
At the end of the day she gave him a chance and he did not capitalize on it.
@FF – I personally think you nailed it.
Pete has a serious personality disorder that he refuses to actually address and manage healthily. I’ve had a lot of upclose experience with Cluster B personality disorders, through close family and friends (and two exes), and that is just plain exhausting.
Ariana is trying to take care of herself, and I don’t think she’s trying to be petty. But Pete is going to keep pushing to get reactions from her, even if he has to annoy or even anger her to do that.
I don’t know how well Pete manages his mental disorder, but he definitely talks about it in public and as part of his comedy. He freely points out that he has a mental illness as well as dealing with addictions. He also talks about support from his family, I think he was living with family at one point.
I get the impression from what I’ve heard him say that he is in serious therapy and is indeed working on it. I’m not a dedicated Pete watcher, so I don’t know everything about him, but I’ve seen him on SNL and on independent YouTube stuff.
It is generally considered a mistake to get into a relationship so fast after rehab, though.
Ariana needs to chill. What did she expect?! He’s on SNL and of course the writers are going to write jokes about them. It’s Pete’s job to deliver the jokes and be on SNL. I thought the joke was funny and Pete is just being light-hearted and making fun of the whole situation.
Everyone saying that Pete’s comment doesn’t disrespect Ariana… I mean… it does.
He’s basically saying he’ll propose to any girl he meets. Yes, it’s self deprecating, but it’s also shade on Ariana, suggesting he can move on easily and that she wasn’t special, it could have been any pretty girl. I can understand why his comments upset her.
Agreed. I also think that he gets to slide his shade past as part of his job and ‘oops I just have to use it for comedy material’ while being low key provocative, hoping she’ll react and justify his sneaky sympathy and ‘look what I had to put up with’ stance, is deliberate button pushing.
Hope he’s cured any need she ever had for drama or fixer uppers because it seems like she’s had enough to deal with recently.
The problem with the idea that he shouldn’t use his private life as material is that one it’s nave because that’s what most comedians do and he was doing it before he met her. And second that she’s already got a song called Pete on her new album and like most musicians she’s not shying away from using her private life as inspiration
So it seems like a double standard to judge him or comedians for something musicians do all the time.
Also she broke up with him. Meaning she realised it was a mistake( even covering up her tatoos a couple of days after the break up) but it’s not ok for him to say that?
I think they are both hurting and it’s not easy to handle a break up in public. But read malice in to things he does when she’s been doing exactly the same
I can see both sides of it. He probably thought he was just being self-depreciating , but no one wants to be told that your ex fiancé proposed because he’s a head case with no impulse control rather than because he wanted to spend the rest of his life with you.
agreed!