Milo Manheim on Liz Gillies and Ariana Grande’s Friendship (Unique)

Milo Manheim says it makes a lot “sense” that Ariana Grande and Liz Gillies are such good associates after not too long ago attending to know each performers.

Manheim, who stars alongside Gillies within the off-Broadway manufacturing of Little Shop of Horrors, spoke to PEOPLE solely on the Disney 2025 Upfronts in New York Metropolis. Throughout the dialog, the actor defined that he met Grande when she got here to the present with a view to assist Gillies, whom she’s been near for years.

“They’re each such sweeties,” Manheim, 24, stated. “I imply, I’ve spent a lot time with Liz and she or he’s like household now at this level. We have been via a lot collectively. I’ve realized a lot from her, and the extra I get to know her, the extra unbelievable I feel she is.”

“Ariana got here to see the present,” he added, noting, “It makes such sense that they’re associates. They’re each such variety souls, each such theater girlies. Prefer it was, it was very nice to see Ariana there supporting Liz, and I may see them simply being like little women once more having fun with being within the theater.”

Gillies, 31, posted images from Grande’s April 26 go to to the present, jokingly captioning the put up, “THANK YOU FOR COMING TO THE SHOP, MY DINGUS!! 😭♥️🪴.”

Grande, 31, attended Little Store of Horrors with boyfriend Ethan Slater, and a source told PEOPLE that they arrived about an hour early “and frolicked backstage with the solid.”

The supply went on to explain the go to as “lovely,” including, “They have been each so pleasant and heat with the solid, and so supportive of the manufacturing. Ariana gave everybody hugs and introduced Liz a potted plant for the ladies’s dressing room.”

Grande and Gillie met as youngsters starring within the Broadway manufacturing of 13. The pair have been later solid on the favored Nickelodeon collection Victorious, which ran from 2010 to 2013. 

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The present, which adopted a bunch of teenagers who attend a highschool for the performing arts, was Grande’s first tv position and served because the launching pad for her music profession.

The pair continued to stay shut over time, with Grande tapping the Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll alum to look in her “Thank U, Next” video in 2019.

“We’re completely shut. She’s like blood to me, she’s like my sister,” Gillies beforehand advised PEOPLE of the in 2015. “So until we now have a large falling out, nothing might be occurring there. We lived collectively, I’ve identified her since what appears like the start of time.”

Grande shared a heartfelt birthday tribute to Gillies on her Instagram Tales for her thirtieth birthday in 2023, writing, “Glad birthday to essentially the most stunning, good, proficient, funniest individual I’ve ever met in my life @lizgillz,” over a candid selfie of the pair.

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“You’ve got made my coronary heart so unfathomably pleased and entire these previous 16 years!” she continued. “Completely every little thing and likewise, completely nothing has modified. I really like you greater than phrases can presumably categorical and I hope we may be greatest associates in each life.”

Little Shop of Horrors is taking part in on the Westside Theatre in N.Y.C.