Pop superstar Ariana Grande and music producer DJ Khaled did not tweet on Twitter saying he was wearing too much makeup, and she compared him to a crappy character. Alleged screenshots of such tweets are not real.
Social media reports making this claim are available here and here .
According to reports, DJ Khaled Grande’s selfie tweeted again with the caption “Maybe it’s just me, but when I see a female with a cake of makeup ‘it’s a no to me’ (here).
The reports claim that Grande responded with a tweet saying “you’re just a no to me and everyone else in general”, along with a photo of a shirtless DJ Khaled, along with a cloak Krabs from Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants”. (here).
Grande tweeted the photo of herself with winged eyeliner on April 3, 2020, which has since received more than 473,000 likes and 46,000 retweets (here).
Reuters Fact Check could not find any evidence of this alleged feud on Ariana Grande or DJ Khaled’s Twitter feeds (twitter.com/ArianaGrande and twitter.com/djkhaled). There were also no reports of this alleged virtual interaction by any major entertainment venues, although Grande was one of the biggest pop stars in the world.
The alleged screenshots do not have timestamps next to the two celebrities’ handles, indicating that they are not real.
VERDICT
Untrue. Screenshots of a suspected Twitter dispute between Ariana Grande and DJ Khaled are false.
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