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 pals after just lately attending to know each performers.

Manheim, who stars alongside Gillies within the off-Broadway manufacturing of Little Store of Horrors, spoke to PEOPLE completely 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 to be able to assist Gillies, whom she’s been near for years.

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

“Ariana got here to see the present,” he added, noting, “It makes such sense that they’re pals. They’re each such sort 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 pictures from Grande’s April 26 go to to the present, jokingly captioning the publish, “THANK YOU FOR COMING TO THE SHOP, MY DINGUS!! 😭♥️🪴.”

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

The supply went on to explain the go to as “lovable,” including, “They had 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 kids starring within the Broadway manufacturing of 13. The pair had been later solid on the favored Nickelodeon sequence Victorious, which ran from 2010 to 2013.

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

The pair continued to stay shut over time, with Grande tapping the Intercourse&Medication&Rock&Roll alum to seem in her “Thank U, Subsequent” video in 2019.

“We’re completely shut. She’s like blood to me, she’s like my sister,” Gillies beforehand instructed PEOPLE of the in 2015. “So except we’ve an enormous falling out, nothing will probably be taking place there. We lived collectively, I’ve recognized her since what looks like the start of time.”

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

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“You have got made my coronary heart so unfathomably joyful and entire these previous 16 years!” she continued. “Completely all the things and in addition, completely nothing has modified. I really like you greater than phrases can presumably categorical and I hope we might be greatest pals in each life.”

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