When the SAG-AFTRA strike was called in July, the London production of Wicked was put on hiatus. Ariana Grande stayed in town, hung out with friends, went to Wimbledon and then began rolling out her relationship with Ethan Slater. The problem? Um, Ethan Slater was married to Lilly Jay, and Ariana and Ethan’s affair had been happening for months while they were both married. Soon enough, Ethan was back in New York to deal with Lilly, while Ariana returned to her home in LA. The past few months have been pretty quiet, and I honestly keep waiting to hear about Ethan and Ariana breaking up. It hasn’t happened – they’re apparently living together now.
Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater are allegedly waking up next to each other every day, as a new report from Us Weekly claims the “Thank U, Next” singer and her new boyfriend are living together in New York City.
“Ethan informed his friends and soon-to-be ex-wife [Lilly Jay] that he’s living with Ariana full-time in New York,” a source told the news outlet.
“They’re really happy and really good for each other,” the insider continued. “All of her friends love him.”
Reps for Grande and Slater did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
This surprising development in Grande and Slater’s relationship comes less than a year after they met while filming “Wicked” in London.
If this is true – and I have no idea – then I have to give it to Ariana, because there have been zero paparazzi photos of her in New York. She has been in New York this week though, we know because she took in a Broadway show and took a selfie with Max Martin (the songwriter). So… did she buy a place in New York? When she was with Pete Davidson, she had a big, ritzy condo, but she sold it after they split. Hm. As for Ethan and Ari living together… we’ll see. I would imagine Ethan wants to be New York-based because of whatever joint custody situation he worked out with Lilly.
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They are so f!cking gross.
Well I guess he needed a place to live and she does like to go hard and fast on relationships.
It really is such a trashy move. And I like Ariana. Don’t get married if you’re gonna cheat. If want to cheat, break up first. Don’t be a cheater, omg.
The header photo is burned in my brain. I predict that it will be one of those pop culture photos people will share decades later like Julia Roberts’s home-made “a low vera” shirt, which means his child will see it eventually too.
I wasn’t aware of that Julia Roberts shirt thing. I just googled and read this in an article:
She commented briefly on the shirt when questioned by Oprah, only saying: ‘You know what that was about? It was private’, finishing with a short but sweet, ‘I stand by my T-shirt.’
The nerve of her to claim it was private when she deliberately sat on a public sidewalk where she knew she’d be papped in that shirt. SMH
Yes, Julia is very classy attacking her boyfriend’s wife with a home-made shirt.
The ex-wife was refusing to divorce years after Moder left her, allegedly for Julia. She’d also spent months feeding the press with reports on Moder trying to win her back afterwards; which were disproven by himself and even her own close relatives. It’s curious how there’s all this focus on how cruel Julia’s shirt was, and not on the actual cheating person’s failure to end a marriage respectfully and amicably. I’m meh on Julia and Moder, particularly bc of how dutifully she used to sound when refering to their home as ‘Moder-land’ -I don’t know if she’s still doing that. But truth is after many yrs where she’s mostly focused on her family and loving a pretty average life; they’re still together and loking happy. With the rare caveat of almost non-existent rumours of marriage trouble.
That header photo tho…They really look alike now? WTF
Ariana proves she is a needy little girl to have someone anyone with her at all times. She will bounce from one to another without a care or without closing the relationship ship she is in properly. Until and unless she gets some therapy for this she will continue with this behavior. I won’t hold my breath because she doesn’t see the need to fix herself.
To be fair, there are 40, 50 and even 60+ year old women out there driven by the same need to not be alone for a second.
Lady D . Yes there are but we shouldn’t use that excuse for her just because older women do too. She needs to grow up and understand responsibility in relationships. Yes she is young but that’s no excuse either. Call me old school but you end one relationship before starting another.
Exactly, Susan. She won’t find the sense of safety she’s searching for, or be a capable partner to anyone, until she’s been able to process the mass shooting, Dan Schneider, and whatever else she’s endured. There are plenty of tools someone in her position can afford, but no actual shortcuts.
She’s a serial monogamist and she’s invested in this relationship lasting because of the movie and bad publicity, so I predict they’ll be together for at least a year…maybe 18 months before she starts feeling that itch to look for greener pastures.
Yeah, I’m not sure the word “monogamist” is best descriptor.
No, she isn’t. Monogamy by its definition does not include cheating. What she has done here is antithetical to monogamy. She has a history of cheating. She also has a history of getting involved with men who are involved with other women. There is nothing about her behavior overall that tracks with the practice of monogamy.
There is no greater crush than a theater crush on the rare straight, male lead. Oh, I remember mine with intense fondness.
But that was high school, and this is so disrespectful to their exes. I have a high tolerance for “people change,” but this is just trashy.
Enjoy it while it lasts, Spongebob. How you get them is how you lose them.
I believe they’ll (she’ll) stick it out for a while because breaking up makes it look even worse.
Through the movie premiere no doubt if the reports that they started their relationship on set and the cast was okay with it are true, then they’ll be back in that supportive bubble until other work engagements take them separate ways.
He looks like Carrot Top! 🤢
Him?
Right? It defies logic
That’s the way she rolls… thank you next…
Ariana is probably gonna make the celebrity split list twice this year. I give it xmas max. She’s gonna start fresh 2024 because there are too many celebrities available during this divorce boom!
If they do it with you, they’ll do it to you. My only question is which one of these bozos will cheat on each other first… I’m going to guess Ariana since SpongeBob has waaaay more invested in this than she does.
It is not just trashy. It is cruel. They are forcing his soon to be ex wife to have to send the baby not just away to dad’s but also with the late poacher who wants to play house with what was rightfully her life/spouse/off limits. It’s so sad. It’s evil even.