Ariana Grande Has Canceled Her New Year's Weekend Show Due to 'Health Issues'
Ariana Grande fans will have to wait until a little later in 2019 to hear her sing live: The “Thank U, Next” singer has had to cancel her New Year’s weekend show, scheduled for Saturday night (December 29), in Las Vegas. Tickets for the performance, which would have seated just 3,200 concertgoers, were reportedly selling for more than $1,000 each. According to TMZ, Grande has been battling bronchitis all week and is still working on recovering from it.
The scheduled concert would have been her first since her breakup with her former fiancé, Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson, in October and, preceding that, the death of her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller. Both exes had a role in inspiring two of Grande’s newly released songs: “Thank U, Next” and “Imagine.”
On Friday, December 28, Grande herself put up a post announcing the concert’s cancellation: “Vegas, I’m currently working through some health issues and am beyond sorry I won’t be able to see u this weekend. I love u and so look forward to seeing u and making it up to u next year,” she wrote.
“Due to unforeseeable health reasons, Ariana Grande has canceled her show at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Saturday, Dec. 29,” the venue confirmed to Us Weekly. “Guests are able to receive a full refund on tickets through their specified point of purchase.”
As of now, no makeup dates have been released, but Arianators won’t have to wait too long as her Sweetener tour kicks off in Albany, New York, on March 18. Until then, however, we’ll just keep watching her recent performances on The Tonight Show and at Billboard‘s Women of the Year event. Fingers crossed she feels better soon.
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