Love is within the air — defying gravity, one may say — on the set of Depraved. In keeping with a number of stories, Ariana Grande is courting her 31-year-old costar Ethan Slater following her lately reported break up from husband Dalton Gomez.
Slater, who starred on Broadway because the titular character within the SpongeBob SquarePants musical, can also be reportedly break up from his spouse, singer Lilly Jay, with whom he celebrated his four-year marriage ceremony anniversary in November 2022. Each TMZ and Folks report that he and Grande began courting after each of their earlier relationships had been over; the “Thank U, Subsequent” singer reportedly referred to as it quits with Gomez in January, although they’ve but to announce their break up.
Billboard has reached out to reps for Grande and Slater for remark.
Grande performs Glinda reverse Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba (aka, the Depraved Witch of the West) in Jon M. Chu’s upcoming pair of live-action movies primarily based on the Broadway present Depraved, which itself was impressed by the best-selling novel of the identical title by Gregory Maguire. Slater is taking part in Boq, a munchkin boy who, satirically, harbors a crush on Glinda. He was noticed with Grande and others in a photograph posted on Instagram in March by Michelle Yeoh, one other Depraved costar.
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The reported romance comes simply days after stories surfaced that Grande and Gomez, who married in 2021, had been separating. In the future prior, the pop star was noticed at Wimbledon with Andrew Garfield, Tom Hiddleston and fellow Depraved star Jonathan Bailey, her left hand visibly lacking her marriage ceremony ring.
The pop star is reportedly on good phrases along with her soon-to-be ex-husband.