{"id":118347,"date":"2024-09-03T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T03:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/03\/selena-gomez-pays-surprise-visit-to-colorado-high-school-volleyball-team\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T03:00:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T03:00:50","slug":"selena-gomez-pays-surprise-visit-to-colorado-high-school-volleyball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/03\/selena-gomez-pays-surprise-visit-to-colorado-high-school-volleyball-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez pays surprise visit to Colorado high school volleyball team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-02\/Getty_SelenaGomezandteam_090224.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Selena Gomez and Telluride, CO volleyball team;  Vivien Killilea\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC\"><strong>Selena Gomez<\/strong> popped into a high school gym to give a warm greeting to students in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">The singer and actress, in Colorado for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C_ba9rryS-x\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Telluride Film Festival<\/a>, shared photos and a video on Aug. 31 showing herself popping into a high school volleyball game, to the surprise of players and students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Her visit was inspired by a photo she posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C_WJkGVSmlv\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">showing a sign<\/a> that read, &#8220;Selena Gomez, please sing the national anthem @ one of the home games,&#8221; and listing the times for the weekend volleyball games. &#8220;They asked!! Couldn&#8217;t help it; it&#8217;s my first time in Telluride,&#8221; wrote Selena in the caption of her post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C_WJkGVSmlv\/?img_index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a video showing her entrance to the volleyball court<\/a>, shrieks could be heard from the background as onlookers covered their mouths in surprise, filming the star as she walked onto the court. &#8220;I saw the sign,&#8221; she can be heard telling the onlookers gathering around her in the gym.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Telluride Middle\/High School <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C_WHe7txIyL\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also posted photos<\/a> on the school&#8217;s social media account showing Selena posing with multiple teams.\u00a0 The caption reads, <span>&#8220;Thanks <\/span><a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz notranslate _a6hd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/selenagomez\/\" tabindex=\"0\">@selenagomez<\/a><span> for visiting TMHS and giving [love] to our volleyball teams!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\"><span>Celebrity friends of Selena&#8217;s celebrated her arrival at the school: Her boyfriend, <strong>Benny Blanco<\/strong>, posted heart emojis in the comments, while her <\/span><em>Emilia P\u00e9rez<\/em> co-star <strong>Zoe Salda\u00f1a<\/strong> commented, &#8220;The kindest heart indeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\"><strong>Ashley Park<\/strong> of <em>Emily in Paris<\/em> also commented, &#8220;This is so sweet&#8221; on the post, which has garnered more than 4 million likes to date.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selena Gomez and Telluride, CO volleyball team; Vivien Killilea\/Getty Images Selena Gomez popped into a high school gym to give a warm greeting to students in Colorado. The singer and actress, in Colorado for the Telluride Film Festival, shared photos and a video on Aug. 31 showing herself popping into<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/03\/selena-gomez-pays-surprise-visit-to-colorado-high-school-volleyball-team\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}