Selena Gomez surprises highschool volleyball staff at Telluride recreation

An indication from the universe — or a few excessive schoolers — is greater than sufficient to encourage a shock from Selena Gomez.

On Saturday, the Solely Murders within the Constructing star revealed a candy second she shared with the scholars of a Colorado highschool who requested her to spin by their volleyball recreation.

Gomez posted a sequence of photographs and movies on Instagram, together with a shot of a shiny orange signal she noticed after touching down in Telluride, Colo., for the 2024 Telluride Movie Competition. “Selena Gomez, please sing the Nationwide Anthem @ one in every of dwelling video games,” learn the signal — which supplied the dates and instances of two matches — from the staff.

Subsequent got here a clip of Gomez strolling into the highschool gymnasium to greet a shocked crowd of scholars. “I noticed the signal, so I needed to come by,” Gomez stated within the video.

Leisure Weekly can verify that Gomez didn’t carry out the nationwide anthem on the recreation, however primarily based on the photographs followers have been very happy simply to have her there. The remainder of the photographs present the actress posing for photographs with the staff and signing autographs within the fitness center.

“They requested!!” she captioned the put up. “Could not assist it. It is my first time in Telluride!”

Gomez is visiting Colorado for this weekend’s Telluride Movie Competition as one of many stars of Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez, a musical crime comedy that additionally options Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Adriana Paz, and Edgar Ramirez.

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Her costar Saldaña was amongst those that commented on Gomez’ go to to the highschool, writing, “The kindest coronary heart certainly.”

Her buddy Ashley Park additionally chimed in, saying, “That is so candy,” whereas Gomez’ boyfriend, Benny Blanco, commented with heart-eye emojis and hearts. Followers praised the previous Disney star, writing, “Ain’t no one cooler than you” and “The folks’s princess fr.”

Gomez’ large weekend additionally marked the premiere of Solely Murders within the Constructing season 4, wherein she groups up once more together with her fellow true-crime obsessives Steve Martin and Martin Brief to unravel new mysteries. In the meantime, Emilia Pérez is ready to hit theaters for a restricted run on Nov. 1 earlier than touchdown on Netflix on Nov. 13.