Huge music star lands major part in new animated film after massive success of her last movie
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THE wait will continue for a new album from Ariana Grande as she’s just signed up for another new film.

The pop star and actress, who blew away critics in last year’s Wicked, has been cast in an animated adaptation of the Dr Seuss classic Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

Ariana Grande at the Wicked Part One European Premiere.

Ariana Grande has just signed up for another new film – an animated adaptation of the Dr Seuss classic Oh, The Places You’ll Go!Credit: Getty

But, in what might give her fans some comfort, it will be a musical, so audiences will get to hear her singing again when it hits screens in March 2028.

It is being made by Jon M. Chu, who also directed Wicked, so it’s not hard to see how she got the part.

She will star alongside Josh Gad, who is best known for voicing Olaf in Frozen, so she’s in good company.

Ariana will be back in cinemas in November for sequel Wicked: For Good.

SZA hits back at Minaj

NICKI Minaj has rowed with Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion and Taylor Swift, to name just a few.

And she’s now decided to come for R&B singer SZA.

SZA at the iHeartRadio Music Awards.

SZA, above, is in a row with Nicki MinajCredit: Getty
Nicki Minaj performing onstage at Madison Square Garden.

Nicki has beefed with many pop starsCredit: Getty

Late on Tuesday night, Nicki started by accusing rapper Punch – who is signed to the same label as SZA – of “bullying me on Twitter for no reason”.

In a cryptic message, SZA tweeted: “Mercury retrograde . . .  don’t take the bait lol. Silly goose.”

But that was like a red rag to Nicki who posted a series of disses about the former Glastonbury headliner’s appearance, before saying she sounds like a “fkng dead dog”.

Then she questioned SZA’s achievements including the recent news that her 2022 album SOS had gone nine-times platinum in less than three years.

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She wrote on X: “Does Sza think she’s more successful than me? Sza, if every song you’ve ever done vanished right now the music business wouldn’t even miss you.”

But SZA insisted she wouldn’t be getting involved.

She wrote: “I’m the most successful I ever been. GET SOME F***ING PERSPECTIVE n BARK AT THE WALL.”

Hear hear.

Busy Katy smugs off Orlando

HER former partner Orlando Bloom might have been branded the “worst boyfriend ever” after he was seen gallivanting around the world with a massive grin on his face.

But Katy Perry isn’t letting the pain of their heartbreak, or Orlando’s smug mug, get in the way of her world tour.

Katy Perry performing on stage in a futuristic costume.

Katy Perry isn’t letting Orlando Bloom get in the way of her world tourCredit: Getty

The Piece Of Me singer wore this futuristic outfit as she made her homecoming at the Kia Forum in California on her Lifetimes tour.

The mammoth run of shows will see her playing a gig in San Francisco tomorrow before polishing off 19 more concerts in the US before she heads to South America.

Just one look at Katie‘s jam-packed schedule, which gives her barely more than a few days off at a time, is enough to make us mere mortals quake.

But given what’s happening in her personal life, being busy, maybe for the best.