Ariana Grande gushes over Barbra Streisand tribute: ‘Made my day, my 12 months, my life’

'Tis the season for queens celebrating queens.

Ariana Grande is gushing about Barbra Streisand after the EGOT winner shared a touching tribute to her on social media within the wake of the "Thank U, Subsequent" singer's Saturday Evening Stay internet hosting stint.

It began Tuesday, when Streisand shared a candy throwback image with Grande and listed her many abilities within the caption on Instagram.

"Ariana is a younger lady with a tremendous expertise," Streisand started. "She has a fantastic voice like nobody else, and a lot extra."

Referring to her current album The Secret of Life: Companions, Quantity 2, Streisand added of Grande, "She will act, she will be able to dance, she could be humorous! She's additionally candy, form and considerate. I'm very happy with you Ariana and thanks for singing with me on my album…"

The "Evergreen" singer ended her observe with a candy postscript. "P.S. you have been fantastic on Saturday Evening Stay and seemed so fairly @arianagrande," she wrote.

Shortly after the publish went up, Grande commented on it with a plethora of exclamation factors and emojis to precise her obvious pleasure. "Barbra !!!!!!!! what !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh my goodness, thanks a lot for this kindest shock at this time!" she wrote. "You made my day, my 12 months, my life! this implies a lot, coming from you. i simply love you so. i miss you and that i hope i get to hug you quickly… all my love and appreciation. thanks."

Per Rolling Stone, the picture that went together with the Instagram publish was taken in 2019, in the course of the Thank U, Subsequent period, when Grande made a shock look at Streisand’s live performance on the United Heart in Chicago. Collectively, the 2 carried out Streisand and Donna Summer time's 1979 duet "No Extra Tears (Sufficient Is Sufficient)."

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Along with their musical performances collectively, Grande and Streisand have one other attention-grabbing upcoming challenge linking them: Grande is starring within the fourth Meet the Mother and father movie, Focker In-Legislation. Streisand, in fact, joined the franchise for the second movie, Meet the Fockers, in 2004, and reprised her function of Roz Focker within the 2010 follow-up, Little Fockers. It's unclear if she'll even be becoming a member of Grande within the fourth movie.

In actual fact, particulars are nonetheless largely below wraps on the plot of the fourth film, although producer Jane Rosenthal told Variety earlier this 12 months, "[Ben] Stiller is now the identical age that [Robert De Niro] was once we did the primary one, and his children have grown up, they usually have to return residence and meet the dad and mom."

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For Grande, the half within the comedy will mark her first appearing function since filming the 2 Depraved motion pictures. The second installment, Wicked: For Good, arrived in theaters Nov. 21. The brand new Meet the Mother and father film is then scheduled to hit theaters Nov. 25, 2026.

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