Who is Ethan Slater? Learn all about the star dating Ariana Grande at the moment.
Just days after Ariana Grande’s separation from her husband of two years, Dalton Gomez, was widely reported, news broke that Grande found love again…on the set of Wicked. Grande and her co-star Ethan Slater, who is also separated from his wife, started dating recently, as People, Entertainment Tonight, and TMZ reported on July 20, 2023.
Slater and Grande’s commonalities go beyond their work in Wicked, though: Both are Broadway alumni (Grande for her work in 13: The Musical, Slater for his in the Spongebob musical).
Slater is a Gemini and celebrated his 31st birthday on June 2; he grew up in Washington, D.C. and attended Vassar College. His most high-profile role so far was starring as Spongebob in Broadway’s SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical. It was a project he was involved in for years, starting when he was just 19.
“Working on SpongeBob changed the way that I approach everything because I started working on it when I was 19, and it was seven years of development—from starting development until closing on Broadway,” he told Pop-Culturalist.com in August 2021. “So it was like my full education, which is awesome. “We approached it from this perspective, which came from [director] Tina [Landau], that this isn’t a show that is talking down to kids. This is a show that is funny; it’s funny, it’s visually stimulating, it’s physical humor.”
What happened to both the celebrities’ last relationships?
Both Slater and Grande are newly single after being married.
People reported that Slater and his wife Lilly Jay were separated after news of his dating Grande broke on July 20. Jay and Slater started dating in 2012 and got married in November 2018. They welcomed their first child, a son, in August 2022.
Slater had a public Instagram account when reports initially broke of his and Grande’s dating. But shortly after the news stories spread, Slater went private on his Instagram. He had already limited comments on some posts beforehand.
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