Who Is Ethan Slater Meet Ariana Grande's New Boyfriend _ E! News

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00:00 Meet Glinda's new munchkin lover boy.

00:03 News of Ariana Grande and her Wicked co-star Ethan Slater dating, which a source close

00:09 to the situation confirms to E! News on July 20, comes just days after it was revealed

00:16 Ariana and husband Dalton Gomez had split after two years of marriage.

00:22 In director Jon M. Chu's upcoming adaptation of the beloved musical, Ethan portrays Bach,

00:29 a munchkin who has an infatuation with Glinda the Good Witch, the role portrayed by Ariana.

00:36 E! News has reached out to Ariana and Ethan's reps for comment but has not immediately heard

00:42 back.

00:43 The 31-year-old is best known for playing the main role in SpongeBob SquarePants The

00:49 Broadway Musical, which garnered him his first Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actor

00:54 in a Musical in 2018.

00:58 As for Ethan's relationship history, the actor married Lily Jay in 2018, and the two

01:05 share a young son.

01:07 A source close to the situation tells E! News on July 20 that the two have since separated.

01:14 Lily has not commented on their breakup or news about Ethan and Ariana.

01:20 A native of Silver Spring, Maryland, he and Lily were both high school classmates at Georgetown

01:26 Day School in Washington, D.C., according to Bethesda magazine.

01:31 They both graduated in 2010 and began dating in 2012.

01:37 Ethan tells Georgetown Days magazine in 2017, "Just this past summer we got engaged, and

01:45 I have GDS to thank for being the place I first got to know and fall in love with my

01:50 future wife."

01:52 Ethan celebrated his fourth wedding anniversary back in November, writing on Instagram alongside

01:58 photos of himself and Lily, which Ariana liked, "My best friend.

02:04 Four years married, ten years together."

02:07 Ethan concludes his post, noting, "And this is easily the best and most bizarre year yet."

02:14 And in May, Ethan returned to social media to honor Lily with photos of their first child,

02:20 which they welcomed in 2022, saying, "Happy first Mother's Day to the most loving, caring,

02:28 and wonderful mom person in the world."

02:30 He captions the photos, citing the post, "From me and this little guy."

02:36 "From me and this little guy."

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