Ariana Grande has donated Christmas presents to child patients at Manchester Hospital.
Yesterday (December 23), The Manchester Foundation Trust Charity revealed that the singer and actress had made a donation of toys to the children being treated in their hospital system.
Writing on Twitter/X, the charity said: “We are so grateful to Ariana for thinking of our young patients this Christmas.” They shared the news alongside a series of photos of children with the wrapped presents.
“The gifts she has donated are being distributed to babies, children and teenagers across Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Trafford General Hospital, Wythenshawe Hospital and North Manchester General Hospital,” they wrote.
Grande has continued to support the city of Manchester since a terrorist attack that occurred at her concert in May 22 2017, when a homemade explosive device was detonated in the foyer, killing 22 people.
The singer returned to the city on June 4 for the One Love Manchester benefit concert, which featured performances from Coldplay, Liam Gallagher, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Robbie Williams, Niall Horan, Stevie Wonder and more. The live-streamed concert raised more than £10 million for The British Red Cross in just 12 hours.
In other news, last night (December 23), Grande shared a new live performance of ‘Santa Tell Me’, right in time for Christmas.
The release of the performance comes just days after Spotify declared Grande’s ‘Santa Tell Me’ as the most-streamed Christmas song from the 2010s, as well as the third most-streamed Christmas song of all time behind Wham!‘s ‘Last Christmas’ and Mariah Carey‘s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’.
Following the release of Grande’s ‘Eternal Sunshine’, she has only made two live performances: one for Saturday Night Live, and one at the 2024 Met Gala. She recently revealed that she doesn’t foresee herself returning to music “anytime soon”, although she said that “music will always be a part of my life”. For now, she plans to focus on her acting career, and is gearing up for Wicked: For Good in 2025.
In a four-star review of Wicked, Nick Levine wrote for NME: “Erivo and Grande are both vocally extraordinary. Crucially, they also have crackling chemistry punctuated by Erivo’s bursts of intensity and Grande’s slick comic timing. By the end, you won’t quite be levitating off your seat but you’ll definitely be enchanted enough to stream the soundtrack on the way home. Funny, colourful and full of empathy for outsiders, this film really is the Shiz.”
