Tongues were wagging yesterday after Bishop Charles H. Ellis III shockingly groped Ariana Grande on live TV after her performance at Aretha Franklin's 6 and 1/2 hour funeral in Detroit.
Bishop apologizes for getting handsy with Ariana...
Bishop Ellis tells the AP
“It would never be my intention to touch any woman’s breast. … I don’t know I guess I put my arm around her. Maybe I crossed the border, maybe I was too friendly or familiar but again, I apologize.”
“I hug all the female artists and the male artists. Everybody that was up, I shook their hands and hugged them. That’s what we are all about in the church. We are all about love.”
“The last thing I want to do is to be a distraction to this day. This is all about Aretha Franklin.”Bishop also apologized for saying when he saw Ariana's name on the program he thought it was a new menu item from Taco Bell.
“I personally and sincerely apologize to Ariana and to her fans and to the whole Hispanic community. When you’re doing a program for nine hours you try to keep it lively, you try to insert some jokes here and there.”
