Wicked star suffers painful-looking fall at rainy London premiere

Ethan Slater, Ariana Grande’s boyfriend, had a slippery infinitesimal astatine the London premiere of Wicked.

The highly anticipated event, held astatine The Royal Festival Hall, saw Slater and the remainder of the Wicked formed walking the greenish carpet amidst a classical London drizzle.

The 32-year-old actor, champion known for originating the rubric relation successful SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical,was greeted by cheering fans arsenic helium made his mode wrong the venue.

But the rain-soaked level turned hazardous, causing Slater to suffer his footing and concisely defy gravity.

Caught connected video by fans, Slater slipped and began to autumn backward, wheeling his arms successful a mode that tin lone beryllium described arsenic cartoonish.

He managed to drawback himself earlier hitting the ground, narrowly avoiding what could person been an embarrassing oregon adjacent injurious incident.

The assemblage gasped, but Slater rapidly enactment them astatine ease, flashing a wide grin and giving a thumbs-up to guarantee everyone helium was unharmed.

The heart-stopping infinitesimal didn’t spell unnoticed connected social media, wherever fans uploaded footage of the incidental to platforms similar TikTok.

Many users couldn’t assistance but necktie the near-mishap backmost to Slater’s iconic Broadway role, quipping astir however SpongeBob whitethorn person handled the situation.

k_younggg wrote: ‘Can idiosyncratic edit this with Spongebob footwear noises.’

alexbeenlikethis posted: ‘This is truthful Spongebob coded.’

Others were impressed by however gracefully Slater caught himself, with influencer Trisha Paytas writing: ‘Wait he’s truthful graceful similar how’

taylorswiftjetfuel wrote: ‘Omg helium caught himself truthful effortlessly.’

Wicked the movie musical, starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey alongside Slater, has been receiving rave reviews.

Metro’s ain movie professional Tori Brazier wrote: ‘Wicked the movie philharmonic has flown past my precocious expectations with the undeniable prime of its scope, imaginativeness and imaginativeness – this is precisely however you accommodate a signifier amusement for the large screen.

‘That it builds this connected arsenic singular a instauration arsenic it does acknowledgment to the towering endowment of its formed and creatives means it doesn’t enactment a ft wrong.’

Erivo and Grande looked stunning astatine the premiere successful Glinda and Elphaba inspired looks – and managed to debar immoderate stumbles oregon falls.

Set earlier the 1939 Judy Garland movie we each cognize and love, Wicked picks up arsenic Elphaba Thropp (Cynthia Erivo) meet’s Ariana’s Galinda Upland astatine Shiz University.

Wicked tells the communicative of Elphaba and Galinda’s improbable relationship and explains however Elphaba came to beryllium known arsenic the Wicked Witch – implicit with immoderate of the champion and astir memorable songs successful philharmonic theatre history.

The film’s accumulation gained monolithic media attraction successful 2023 when Ariana and Ethan met each different connected the London set and began to date.

It was aboriginal confirmed that both Wicked stars had left their erstwhile partners, with the pair’s divorces both finalised earlier this twelvemonth up of the film’s large unveiling.

As a result, determination has been tons of involvement successful Ethan, who was antecedently lone truly known among Broadway enthusiasts – meaning it truly was the gaffe seen astir the world.

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