Pop singer Joe Jonas is playing in Auckland's Vector Arena on Saturday night, opening for Selena Gomez on her Revival World Tour. Photo/ Tess Nichol.
Joe Jonas and Selena Gomez are gearing up for a high energy show in Auckland tonight, wrapping up the Pacific part of her Revival World Tour.
Jonas arrived in the country yesterday and will open for Gomez with his band DNCE at the Vector Arena.
Gomez is battling illness ahead of her first big New Zealand concert.
The Slow Down singer was worried she was going to have to cancel her show in Brisbane on Thursday because she was so sick - but the show went on and so did the after party.
On Snapchat, the 24-year-old singer told her fans that she wasn't feeling well and was concerned she may not be able to perform in Brisbane.
Today the singer posted a video of herself while en route to Auckland from Australia in which she is seen sneezing into a handkerchief and appears to be still suffering from the effects of the cold.
"What is sneezing?" Gomez asks a female member of her her entourage, to be told "It's a tiny orgasm"
An incredulous Gomez replies: "Where is this information coming from?"
Addressing concerns Gomez might be unwell and unable to perform, Jonas said he'd seen her last night and "she seemed fine."
Speaking to the Herald, Jonas said this was his second time in New Zealand, the being first a "life changing" holiday in which he almost took a drunken tumble into Lake Wakatipu.
"I remember having a night where we went to a five star dinner and we spent good money to enjoy a 12 course meal," he remembered.
"I was just kind of coming into the age of learning how to really drink so I was pairing everything with wine and I almost fell in the lake on the way back to the hotel.
"It was a memorable trip."
There could be a repeat this time, he reckoned, with his birthday, the band's one year anniversary and a wrap of the first leg of the world tour.
"Selena's putting a little thing together, a party of some sort," Jonas said.