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How Ariana's romance with munchkin co-star cast a dark cloud over box office mega-hit Wicked, reveals KATIE HIND

Thanks to a love triangle involving pop singer Ariana Grande and her co-star Ethan Slater - who plays a munchkin named Boq - there is now a dark cloud hanging over the £120million production.

Nearly a decade in the making, the film version of the Broadway musical was intended to recreate the magic of the 1939 classic The Wizard Of Oz, by telling the backstory of its two witches Elphaba and Glinda. But thanks to a rather unseemly love triangle involving pop singer Ariana Grande and her co-star Ethan Slater – who plays a munchkin named Boq – there is now a dark cloud hanging over the £120million production. adding far more personal fuel to the burgeoning fire, Lilly this week described the breakdown of her marriage as ‘the saddest days of my life’ in an article she wrote for US publication The Cut.

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