Ariana Grande Dating Wicked Co-Star Ethan Slater (Source)
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00:00 New couple alert! Ariana Grande is dating her Wicked co-star Ethan Slater. A source
00:07 telling ET they have a lot in common and have a lot of fun.
00:12 "It's just very exciting."
00:14 Ethan plays Bach in the upcoming adaptation of the Broadway musical, a character who is
00:19 deeply in love with, but ultimately rejected by, Glinda, played by Ariana.
00:24 "And since you're a Broadway girl, of course you must love Wicked."
00:27 "Yeah."
00:28 "And I'm sure that you have dreamed of playing one of the two roles. Would you be Elphaba
00:32 or Glinda?"
00:33 "Glinda."
00:34 "You'd be Glinda?"
00:35 "For sure."
00:36 But it looks like IRL, these two might just defy gravity.
00:39 "This is like a thing."
00:41 TMZ was first to report the news on Thursday, just one week after Ariana and her husband,
00:47 Dalton Gomez, called it quits after two years of marriage. Our source says the couple tried
00:53 to make things work.
00:55 But at the end of the day, they were not a good fit.
01:00 The source added that Dalton's been private and low-key about their split.
01:05 Which is sort of how the Grammy winner and the realtor approached their entire relationship.
01:10 They quietly dated for a year before tying the knot in 2021 with an at-home wedding.
01:15 Now ET's source says the two remain friends.
01:18 "No matter what, I'm grateful."
01:21 As for Ethan, he married his former high school classmate, Lily J, in 2018.
01:27 The same year, he was nominated for a Tony for his role in SpongeBob SquarePants The
01:32 Broadway Musical.
01:33 "These past two days, the world's been closing in on me.
01:34 When I'm feeling down, I can use that frown.
01:35 Stick my head out the window and I won't go around."
01:48 It felt like a really big moment just to get my first Broadway show.
01:51 But we've been recognized with a bunch of nominations and everyone from top to bottom
01:56 in SpongeBob is sort of being recognized for their work.
01:58 And so it feels really special to be able to celebrate that with the rest of the theater
02:02 community and all of these artists who have been working so hard all year.
02:05 It does feel like a really big, momentous occasion."
02:08 Another momentous occasion, Ethan and Lily welcomed their first child, a baby boy, last
02:13 year.
02:15 Back in May, Ethan shared these snaps on Instagram, writing, "Happy first mother's day to the
02:20 most loving, caring, and wonderful mom/person in the world."
02:25 And while both Ariana and Ethan are fresh off other relationships, our source says they
02:31 didn't start dating until they were both broken up with their significant others.
02:35 "I am the can't really go anywhere, do anything now without like people seeing and knowing.
02:43 So it's like I need to just kind of be okay and be like, 'Hey, that's okay.'"
02:49 Now we'll just have to wait and see how their love plays out in real life.
02:53 But fans can look forward to seeing them on the big screen when Wicked Part 1 premieres
02:58 November 2024.
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