Are Ariana Grande & Ethan Slater Still Together? Look What They Did On the Wicked Red Carpet

December 2022: Wicked begins filming

Wicked began filming in December 2022 in England, but was paused from July until November 2023 due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Ethan Slater stars as Boq, while Ariana Grande stars as Glinda the Good Witch.

July 17, 2024: Ariana Grande & Ethan Slater are confirmed to be seeing each other

Sources confirmed to multiple outlets that Grande and Slater were dating in late July 2023, and that both of them had separated from their marriage partners. “She and Ethan recently began dating, and he is separated from his wife,” a source told People. 

July 26, 2023: Ethan Slater files for divorce from Lilly Jay

Slater officially filed for divorce on July 26, 2023, per TMZ. A source told Entertainment Tonight that Jay was “devastated” by the breakup. “This is not the future she had in mind,” the source said, “She’s doing her best to get back on her feet. She’s incredibly smart and driven” and “she is truly the best mother.” While another source told Page Six that Jay was “completely blindsided” by the relationship. “It’s horrible. They were high school sweethearts. They have a baby! She’s a wreck,” the source said.

July 27, 2023: Lilly Jay breaks her silence about Ethan Slater split

Ethan Slater’s ex-wife Lilly Jay spoke to Page Six about how she felt “betrayed” by the split. She told Page Six that “[Ariana’s] the story really. Not a girl’s girl. My family is just collateral damage.” She explained that she’s focusing on raising her and Slater’s baby and being “a good mom.” She added to TMZ that “I’m focused on my son and doing my best to navigate a spotlight I have never wanted or experienced before.” She added that she’s “watching with horror as stories are published speaking to my experience.”

September 2023: Ariana Grande & Ethan Slater are spotted at Disneyland

In photos obtained by TMZ, Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater were spotted hand in hand at Disneyland. Ariana’s mother and brother Frankie Grande tagged along as well.

October 7, 2023: Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez settle their divorce

According to the divorce settlement obtained by TMZ, Dalton received $1,250,000, tax-free and would be getting the money upfront, as there will be no spousal support.

Dalton will also receive half of the net proceeds from the sale of their L.A. home, and Ariana will pay up to $25,000 of Dalton’s attorney’s fees.

“There is still a strong mutual love and respect between Ariana and Dalton and they wanted to make sure everything was done right in lockstep with one another,” a source told the gossip site.

October 2023: Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater are reportedly moving in together

A source told Us Weekly that Ethan and Ariana moved in together in New York City. “Ethan informed his friends and soon-to-be ex-wife that he’s living with Ariana full-time in New York,” the insider explained. “They’re really happy and really good for each other. All of her friends love him.”

October 31, 2023: Ariana Grande is spotted at previews for Ethan Slater’s Spamalot

Ariana Grande went on to support Ethan Slater in his leading role on Broadway. According to People, Grande had already seen tech rehearsals for Spamalot and “has plans to go again.”

“She was so sweet last night, taking pictures with fans and gushing about how much she was enjoying the performances,” a source says. “She’s a theater kid at her core, so you see she really feels at peace being around Broadway.”

December 25, 2023: Ariana Grande subtly nods to her relationship with Ethan Slater

In an Instagram carousel, Ariana Grande posted a photo of a Spam ornament on her Christmas tree which may refer to her relationship with Slater.

December 28, 2023: Ariana Grande responds to “assumptions” made about her life

 The “Thank U, Next” singer took to her Instagram Story to reflect on the rollercoaster that was 2023 and address some of the lingering “assumptions” about her personal life.

“One of the most transformative, most challenging, and yet happiest and most special years of my life,” Grande began her Instagram Story, which she shared on December 29, 2023. “There were so many beautiful and yet polarized feelings.” This year, the 30-year-old pop star landed a role in the forthcoming Wicked film alongside her now-boyfriend, Ethan Slater. She touched on her career, writing, “I’ve never felt more at the mercy of and in acceptance of what life was screaming to teach me. I’ve never felt more fulfilled by or present in my work, being able to cherish every moment.”

She continued, “I gave everything I could have possibly given of my heart and of myself to the projects I was fortunate enough to be a part of and learned so much from every brilliant, beautiful, soul that I had the privilege of creating art with and crossing paths with this year.”

Despite the excitement these new projects brought her, Grande opened up about feeling “misunderstood” throughout the year. “I have never felt more pride or joy or love while simultaneously feeling so deeply misunderstood by people who don’t know me, who piece whispers together and make what they want out of me and their assumptions of my life,” she wrote

January 12, 2024: Ariana Grande releases “yes…and?”

Ariana Grande released her first single in over seven years with “Yes…and?” A line from the song, that particularly got all the gossip sites talking is a line in one of the verses: “Why do you care so much whose — I ride?” According to them, it’s a sly reference to her relationship with Ethan Slater.

February 2024: Ariana Grande mentions cheating rumors

In an interview on the Zach Sang Show, she talked about the way people assume about her love life. “I feel like we don’t need to go into any specifics, but, of course, there’s like an insatiable frustration, inexplicable, hellish feeling with watching people, misunderstand the people you love and you and anything,” she said.

She was asked if her album, Eternal Sunshine, might set the record straight, she responded, “I hope so. I think it does. I think it’s the absolute worst idea. Pieces of it touch on things that are real and then pieces of it are part of the concept. So, what is that separation? It’s scary to leave it up to these selective memory people to decipher.”

November 14, 2024: Ariana Grande & Ethan Slater appear on the Wicked Red Carpet

Ariana and Ethan appeared on the Wicked red carpet in Los Angeles. She even helped him fix his tie!

October 2024: Ethan opens up about his relationship with Ariana

Ethan Slater talked to GQ about his private life, saying “Obviously, it was a really super big year and I think there was something that was really difficult about things in your private life being commented on and looked at by the public. There were a lot of big changes in private lives that were really happening, so it’s really hard to see people who don’t know anything about what’s happening commenting on it and speculating, and then getting things wrong about the people you love. So just to address that part of it, that feels really hard.”

He continued, “But, of course, it was an amazing year and a really beautiful thing, and I’m just really excited. I’m just really, really proud of Ari and the work she’s done on this. She’s poured herself into it. I’m really proud that I got to be there for that part of it, and I’m really excited to be there for this next step of it when the world gets to see the amazing thing that she did.”