{"id":163618,"date":"2025-11-05T04:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/163618\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T04:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:43:07","slug":"influencer-connor-gowland-confirms-ariana-grandes-flight-issues-reveals-he-was-sitting-next-to-her-video-ariana-grande-connor-gowland-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/163618\/","title":{"rendered":"Influencer Connor Gowland Confirms Ariana Grande\u2019s Flight Issues, Reveals He Was Sitting Next to Her (Video) | Ariana Grande, Connor Gowland | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An influencer is coming to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ariana-grande\/\" title=\"Ariana Grande\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ariana Grande<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s defense amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/11\/04\/ariana-grande-will-miss-wicked-brazil-premiere-due-to-flight-issues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her flight issues that led to cancelling her appearance<\/a> at the Sao Paulo premiere of Wicked: For Good.<\/p>\n<p>Content creator <strong>Connor Gowland<\/strong>, known for his fitness and lifestyle videos, was sitting next to <strong>Ariana <\/strong>on that ill-fated flight from New York to Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ariana <\/strong>revealed in an Instagram post that everyone on the flight was forced to deplane because of a safety issue and the flight was rescheduled for 11am on Tuesday morning, which would have forced her to miss the premiere. No other flight options were available to get her to Brazil in time for the event, including private ones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connor<\/strong> talked about the flight delays in a TikTok video and he was also posting about the delays on his Instagram Stories before <strong>Ariana <\/strong>ever made the statement, confirming his story.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\">Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Ariana Grande<\/strong> was right next to me on this flight yesterday before it got canceled. I was going to keep it low-key, but once seeing people coming after her, saying she was lying about missing her flight to Sao Paulo\u2026 that\u2019s not true. Because she was with me right here and we both got texts at the same time about our flight being delayed multiple hours and then finding out it wasn\u2019t going to happen until today at 11am,\u201d <strong>Connor <\/strong>said. <\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI don\u2019t have any proof because I didn\u2019t take a picture. I was trying to be chill. But I did tell her I would make her a friendship bracelet. Because when we got off the plane, she was like, \u2018I hope we sit next to each other!\u2019 So if anyone knows how to get these friendship bracelets to her, let me know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ariana<\/strong> released a second statement on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/11\/04\/ariana-grande-reiterates-why-she-couldnt-make-it-to-brazil-wicked-premiere-please-dont-wish-danger-on-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asking fans to stop wishing danger<\/a> on her because of what happened. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An influencer is coming to Ariana Grande\u2018s defense amid her flight issues that led to cancelling her appearance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-163618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115495266286248001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}