Ariana Grande hints of return to Manchester bomb attack venue

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Ariana Grande is planning a return to the site of a bomb attack that cost 22 fans their lives last year (17), if a mysterious new Snapchat post is to be believed.

The singer posted a list of U.K. tour dates on the app early on Friday (24Aug18) and then quickly removed it, but not before some eagle-eyed fans spotted it.

One fan, who took a screen grab of the dates, wrote: "This was posted on Ariana’s snapchat regarding tour dates but she deleted it quickly after, did she do it on purpose?"

The venues listed included a to-be-confirmed date at Manchester Arena, where fans were killed in a terrorist bomb explosion in May, 2017, prompting a brief halt to Ariana's Dangerous Woman Tour.

Grande returned to the city a month later to host and headline a tribute concert to the victims of the tragedy.

The God Is a Woman singer's Snapchat post appears to have surprised bosses of some of the venues on the 2019 tour list, with a spokesman for Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena stating, "Obviously we’d love to host Ariana Grande here. Unfortunately we've not had any indication that she’s coming here on tour."

Meanwhile, Ariana has told British fans she'll be visiting them next month (Sep18) in a note celebrating the success of her new album, Sweetener, which debuted at number one in the U.K. on Friday (24Aug18).

"Thank you so much! I'm so grateful!" she told OfficialCharts.com. "I can't tell you how appreciative I am. I can't wait to see you in September."

The new album features a tribute to the victims of the bomb attack, titled Get Well Soon, which a includes a long silence at the end of the track and an overall running time of five minutes and 22 seconds (5:22), to symbolise the date of the tragedy - 22 May (17).