We've Been Pronouncing Ariana Grande's Last Name Wrong ... - ELLE

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Ariana Grande is on a press tour roll, providing interesting tidbits about her personal life. Most are about her predicted engagement to Pete Davidson, but during an interview with Beats 1, Ari dropped a fact nobody saw coming: we've been pronouncing her last name wrong literally this entire time.

The conversation started when host Ebro Darden asked Grande if she was going to have the hyphenated last name Grande-Davidson when she gets married, and what would happen to her professional name.

Grande said yes to the hyphenated name, but wasn't too sure about changing her professional name. She actually confessed to wanting to drop her last name altogether and go by the mononymous name Ariana. But the singer quickly backtracked once she started talking about her grandfather who was very proud of their last name Grande, which she clearly pronounces as Gran-DEE around the 0:40 mark.

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Wait, WHAT.

According to Ari, her brother Frankie changed the pronunciation to Gran-DAY. "My grandpa said Gran-DEE. Gran-DEE was kind of the Americanized version of it, made it more chill," she explained. "And then my brother was like, we should say Gran-DAY. It's so fun to say it. It's a funny name. I grew up saying Gran-DEE and I think of [my grandpa] and I wish I said Gran-DEE more."

She went on to make fun of her super Italian name. "Literally, my name is like 'Ariana Grande-Butera!'" she exclaimed with a thick Italian accent. "Literally, that's my name. I'm like a pizza. I'm a f*cking meatball."

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