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Shaq Had Some Fun In Home Depot After DMing Viral 'Home Depot Girl'

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By Melanie VanDerveer on June 16, 2023 at 1:00 PM EDT

Shaquille O'Neal AKA Shaq knows how to have fun and recently took everyone along for the ride.

The NBA legend had people talking earlier this week after he slid into a Home Depot employee's DMs, so he decided to have a little fun with it all and visit a Home Depot making light of the funny situation.

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Shaq Visits Home Depot For A Fun Adventure!

Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille O'Neal - Instagram

A few days ago, Instagram user Ariana Josephine caught lots of online attention after posting a selfie in her Home Depot apron. In the midst of all that attention, she received a DM from someone very familiar, O'Neal, who had something to say about the negative comments she had been receiving.

"Last post about Home Depot since the world is illegally doxxing my location and job. Y’all turned something innocent into something crazy, and ruined my way of making money by seriously taking the internet TOO far. Thanks for all the nice people I’ve spoken too and inspired and thanks to the hate because it’s helped me grow closer to God and be more tough skinned," the caption to her photo reads.

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Ariana Josephine
Ariana Josephine - Instagram
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After seeing that post, O'Neal jumped into action and slid right into her DMs. (But it's probably not exactly what you're thinking.)

Ariana shared her DM conversation with the NBA great, and of course, everyone's talking. She captioned her story, "When Shaq text you know you doing something right okay!"

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O'Neal reached out to her to just remind her to not let people bother her and to not read the comments. He ended his DM exchange in flirty O'Neal fashion, "Have a great day tell all your boyfriend I said hello lol."

Shaq Wasn't Going To Let This Story End There!

Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille O'Neal - Instagram

O'Neal being his fun-loving self, wasn't going to just let this interesting story die after a DM. He decided to have some fun with it and visit Home Depot jokingly in search of Ariana.

One Home Depot got the surprise of its life with O'Neal visiting and basically taking over. O'Neal danced, rapped, talked to people, and posed as a Home Depot employee for a hilarious video that he shared on Instagram. See the full video HERE.

He captioned his video, "JUST LAUGH PEOPLE, and have a wonderful day @shaqtinafool @homedepot #justjokes."

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Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille O'Neal - Instagram

The video starts out with O'Neal pulling up to the store and walking in with a smile on his face. A Home Depot employee simply says, "She's in the back," before O'Neal has a little fun around the store.

While in the store, he signed autographs, took pictures with shoppers and employees and even reportedly bought a washer and dryer for someone.

At the end of the video, he says, "I'm in Home Depot. I'm looking for somebody," with a smirk on his face. He told an employee that he didn't find her, before he went outside singing, "Tell me have you seen her, tell me have you seen her."

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'We Love you and appreciate you Big Man'

Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille O'Neal - Instagram

In the comments of the Instagram video, O'Neal shared a message for one of the Home Depot employees he interacted with, "Shout to my boy JP."

Many of his followers had something to say about his little Home Depot adventure. And it seemed that not many fully understood the reason for his impromptu visit to the store.

"Looking through the comments, and no one knows the real reason why he playing around at Home Depot. And it's funny to me," one person wrote. Another added, "Shaq is really actin a fool.. looking for that one home Depot girl lol..."

One follower shared a thought about appreciating Shaq for who he is saying, "Super Shaq!!! Even more of a hall of famer as a Person! We Love you and appreciate you Big Man!"

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