Ethan Slater Says Ariana Grande Is “Amazing” for This Specific Reason

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Ethan Slater Addresses His Relationship With Ariana Grande for the First Time

Ethan Slater thinks Ariana Grande is wickedly hilarious.

Indeed, the SpongeBob SquarePants stage actor—who began dating the “One Last Time” vocalist aft gathering connected the acceptable of Wicked—said that her wit is portion of the magic she brought to their upcoming movie.

“She’s truthful funny,” Ethan said connected the Nov. 4 occurrence of The Jennifer Hudson Show. “She’s a drama genius. I mean, she’s astonishing successful this film.”

But Ariana—who stars successful the philharmonic adaptation alongside Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh and more—isn’t the lone fashionable subordinate of the cast.

“Everyone’s astonishing successful this film,” Ethan continued. “Cynthia and Ari bring extent to these roles. The women who person played these roles connected signifier are incredible. But erstwhile you’re doing a film, you’re truthful close.”

And Ethan explained to Jennifer Hudson—who won an Oscar successful 2007 for Dreamgirls, different stage-to-screen adaptation—the quality of watching Ariana and Cynthia bring the Broadway amusement to the large screen. 

“You know, the quality betwixt erstwhile you’re doing a relation onstage and connected movie and you’ve conscionable got to deliberation those thoughts,” helium shared. “They were truthful beauteous and nuanced and unbelievable.”

“And Ari’s hilarious,” helium added. “I can’t hold for radical to spot the takes that didn’t marque it in.”

Although Ethan—who shares a 2-year-old lad with ex-wife Lilly Jay—has kept mostly nether the radar since his narration with Ariana was made public successful July 2023, this isn’t the archetypal clip he’s praised his girlfriend’s enactment connected the film. 

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“I’m conscionable really, truly arrogant of Ari and the enactment she’s done connected this,” helium told GQ in a illustration published successful October. “She’s poured herself into it. I’m truly excited to beryllium present for this adjacent measurement of erstwhile the satellite gets to spot the astonishing happening that she did.”

Ahead of Wicked’s Nov. 22 release, work connected to spot different couples who person recovered emotion connected set.

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Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes

No alien to dating co-stars aft romances with Sandra Bullock and Rachel McAdams, Gosling fell for Mendes connected the acceptable of The Place Beyond the Pines. But the brace person managed to keep their narration backstage since they began dating successful 2013.

The mates person since welcomed 2 daughters, Esmeralda, 8, and Amada, 6, and Mendes opened up astir however ending up with The Notebook star changed her sentiment connected motherhood

"I was fortunate capable to enactment my bum disconnected for 20 years," the New York & Company designer said on Sydney's Nova 96.9 successful October 2020. "I ne'er wanted babies earlier until I fell successful emotion with Ryan, and past it conscionable benignant of worked retired to wherever I was 40 and having my archetypal babe and past I deliberation I was 42 with my 2nd one, truthful it worked retired successful that mode that I had a vocation and past I changed my absorption to my family."

And she's not ruling retired a aboriginal on-screen collaboration with Gosling. 

"I truly privation to enactment with Ryan again. My astir amusive acquisition was being connected acceptable with him erstwhile helium was directing," she told E! News. "It was truly truthful creatively satisfying being successful it unneurotic and he's specified an astonishing director. I would emotion that acquisition again, for sure."

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Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton

The singers, who met connected the acceptable of The Voice, person been astir inseparable ever since they archetypal started dating backmost successful November 2015.

While Shelton and Stefani both admitted that they had initially bonded implicit the ending of their respective marriages, it seems arsenic though their emotion matter had lasting powerfulness from the get-go.

In an interrogation with Billboard, Shelton recalled falling caput implicit heels for the vocalist and however the 2 yet helped each different done their heartache. "Gwen saved my life," helium said. "Who other connected world could recognize going done a high-profile divorcement from different musician?"

After 5 years of dating, Shelton popped the question successful October 2020 and the mates got joined successful an intimate ceremonial successful July 2021.

According to Carson Daly, who officiated their wedding, the nuptials were "a cleanable blend of state and glamour."

"It was arsenic elegant and refined and chill arsenic Gwen is, and it was state and down-home and amusive arsenic Blake is," helium told Today, adding, "They conscionable work. They're an improbable pair. They're similar if you paired delicious fried chickenhearted with a solid of champagne. On paper, connected the menu, it doesn't look to work, but it works. They're comfortableness nutrient with class, and everybody roots for that."

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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos

The beloved mates archetypal met successful 1995 erstwhile they played emotion interests on the fashionable soap opera All My Children. The morning speech amusement personality and the Riverdale prima then eloped to Las Vegas connected May 1, 1996.

Consuelos knew "pretty aboriginal on" Ripa was the 1 for him, erstwhile telling Andy Cohen connected Watch What Happens Live, "We would spell retired with groups of radical from enactment and dilatory each day would spell that the groups started getting smaller and smaller until it was conscionable america two. I was shy, I wasn't precise assertive that way."

But Ripa revealed the mates astir divided earlier their wedding.

"We broke up and we got backmost unneurotic the time earlier we went disconnected and eloped," she elaborate connected the Comments By Celebs podcast successful 2018. "Yeah, we eloped. We went to Vegas and got married."

More than 27 years and three children later, their matrimony is inactive going strong. And, successful a full-circle moment, Ripa and Consuelos are sharing the surface together, with Consuelos officially replacing Ryan Seacrest arsenic her imperishable Live co-host this past April. 

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Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly

From the moment the Jennifer's Body star met the rapper connected their shared movie acceptable successful 2020, she knew their narration was destined to go what she called a "once successful a lifetime" romance.

Chatting with their Midnight successful the Switchgrass director Randall Emmett on his and his then-fiancée Lala Kent's podcast successful July 2020, Fox recalled inquiring who was going to capable the bare seat connected set. "And [Emmett] was like, 'Oh, we conscionable got Machine Gun Kelly,'" she said, "and immediately, I was like, 'Uh oh.' Because I knew, I could consciousness that immoderate chaotic s--t was going to hap to maine from that gathering but I wasn't definite what. I conscionable felt it successful my star plexus that thing was going to travel from that."

Fox, who quietly separated from hubby of 9 years Brian Austin Green successful precocious 2019, went connected to telephone MGK her "twin flame," explaining they are much than psyche mates. 

And they haven't been shy astir showing their emotion for 1 another: Fox starred successful Kelly's euphony video, they got tattoos to people their romance and made their reddish carpet debut arsenic a mates earlier getting engaged successful January 2022

While breakup rumors surfaced successful February aft Fox addressed allegations of Kelly's infidelity in a since-deleted Instagram post, the mates is inactive together.

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Kit Harington and Rose Leslie

Just arsenic his quality Jon Snow couldn't defy falling for Ygritte, Harington fell successful emotion with his Game of Thrones co-star aft she joined the HBO phantasy bid successful its 2nd season. In an interrogation with Vogue Italia, helium recalled shooting those episodes arsenic his favourite representation from the show.

"Because the state is beautiful, due to the fact that the Northern Lights are magical, and due to the fact that it was determination that I fell successful love," helium said. "If you're already attracted to someone, and past they play your emotion involvement successful the show, it becomes precise casual to autumn successful love."

While their onscreen romance proved ill-fated, Harington and Leslie got joined successful June 2018 and person since welcomed 2 children whose names person not been made public. 

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Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song

The Home Alone histrion and the erstwhile Disney Channel prima met making 2019's Changeland and their romance amazed their manager Seth Green, who told Esquire, "I didn't spot that 1 coming." 

Song explained to Entertainment Tonight that they bonded over their shared backgrounds arsenic kid actors. "You conscionable look each different successful the oculus and you motion and we know," she said. 

Engaged since 2022, the mates person 2 children: Two-year-old lad Dakota Song Culkin and a 2nd lad who was calved past March and whose sanction has not yet been revealed.

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Sarah Shahi and Adam Demos

The mates met connected the set of Netflix's Sex/Life, successful which they play angsty erstwhile mates Billie and Brad, truthful it's nary wonderment those intimate scenes are truthful steamy: Shahi and Demos went nationalist with their romance successful December 2020, with fans loving their adorable displays of affection connected societal media.

And mixing concern and pleasance has been casual for the couple, with Shahi telling E! News that moving with her fellow is "one of her favourite things." As she enactment it, Adam is 1 of her "all-time favourite country partners."

"With him, it's conscionable that easy," she explained. "I conscionable person to look astatine him and 99 percent of my enactment is done for me. I'm falling successful emotion with the idiosyncratic successful existent life, but I'm falling for the idiosyncratic connected camera. It conscionable created that other spot that seeped done the lens. Maybe that's what radical loved truthful much."

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Emily VanCamp and Josh Bowman

While their characters' emotion communicative didn't person a blessed ending connected ABC's Revenge, VanCamp and Bowman tied the knot connected Dec. 15, 2018, and person been unneurotic for much than a decade. 

In August 2021, the couple announced the commencement of their archetypal kid together. "Welcome to the satellite our saccharine small Iris," VanCamp wrote connected Instagram, revealing their babe girl's name. "Our hearts are full."

In February 2024, Emily announced connected Instagram that she is large with the couple's 2nd child.

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Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick

The 2 met connected the acceptable of the 1988 PBS movie Lemon Sky and joined aboriginal that twelvemonth and are considered 1 of Hollywood's strongest relationships aft much than 35 years together. The mates are parents to 2 children—son Travis Bacon, 34, a composer, and girl Sosie Bacon, 31, who is besides an actress.

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Jared Padalecki and Genevieve Cortese

And the huntsman fell for the irresistible demon—both connected and disconnected screen.

Padalecki and Cortese deed it disconnected erstwhile she joined Supernatural successful its 4th play arsenic Ruby. And aft a two-month engagement, they tied the knot successful her hometown of Sun Valley, Idaho, successful 2010, with his TV bro Jensen Ackles serving arsenic 1 of the groomsmen.

The couple, who erstwhile again co-starred connected the CW's Walker with Cortese playing his character's dormant woman successful flashbacks, person have 3 children, sons Thomas, 11, Austin, 9, and girl Odette, 6.

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Josh Dallas and Ginnifer Goodwin

It was a fairy communicative romance for Dallas and Goodwin erstwhile they co-starred connected ABC's phantasy deed Once Upon a Time, playing Prince Charming and Snow White, of course.

"It deed maine similar a blinding light," Dallas told People successful 2012. "I thought, 'I'm successful occupation now.'"

As for Goodwin, she knew Dallas was the 1 erstwhile they went connected their archetypal day to Disneyland.

"I knew that successful information I was going to wed my hubby Josh astatine Disneyland due to the fact that I took him for his archetypal clip ever and we had conscionable started dating," Goodwin would aboriginal item to Kelly Ripa. "We were connected Big Thunder Mountain and helium threw his arms successful the aerial and helium goes, 'This is the champion time of my life' and I was like, 'We're wholly getting married.'"

He popped the question successful October 2013 and they tied the knot successful April 2014. Dallas and Goodwin are the parents of sons Oliver, 9, and Hugo, 6, and the Manifest prima is hoping to enactment with his woman again aft their six-year stint connected OUAT.

"She's the greatest. I miss moving with her each day," he said connected Live with Kelly and Ryan. "I deliberation she was like, 'look, we've worked unneurotic and we've lived unneurotic six years, springiness maine a break.' But I deliberation we'll enactment unneurotic again, I anticipation so."

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Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys

It wasn't precisely emotion astatine archetypal show for The Americans co-stars erstwhile they met 10 years earlier moving unneurotic connected the acclaimed FX spy drama. 

"We really met a precise agelong long clip ago," he confessed on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. "I precise drunkenly asked her for her fig erstwhile she was a young, single, gaffe of a thing, truthful I benignant of knew past erstwhile I was 26."

But a decennary and plentifulness of wigs later, Rhys and Russell softly began dating successful 2014 portion playing joined KGB spies. They welcomed their archetypal kid together, son Sam, in May 2016. Russell besides has 2 children from her erstwhile marriage, lad River Deary and daughter Willa Deary.

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Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn

While they precocious teamed up to play Santa and Mrs. Claus for Netflix's The Christmas Chronicles, the beloved Hollywood brace archetypal met connected the set of 1968's The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band.

But they didn't autumn for each different until reconnecting portion filming 1984's Swing Shift, despite Hawn telling BBC News, "We some said we would ne'er spell retired with different actor." The mates went connected to prima successful the 1988 rom-com Overboard.

Partners for 40 years, Russell and Hawn share son Wyatt Russell successful summation to each having children from anterior relationships, Oliver and Kate Hudson and Boston Russell.

Asked their concealed for moving good with each other, Russell quipped to E! News, "Do it each 33 years, archetypal of all!"

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Wyatt Russell and Meredith Hagner

Talk astir pursuing successful your parents' footsteps.

Wyatt, the lad of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, fell for Hagner aft they met while moving connected the 2016 movie Folk Hero & Funny Guy. Later, the 2 would spell connected to look unneurotic in Ingrid Goes West.

After getting engaged in 2018, the couple wed the pursuing twelvemonth astatine Goldie's location successful Aspen. "It was Western themed and everyone came successful cowboy hats and boots," a root shared with E! News astatine the time. "It was a large casual gathering of household and friends that lasted each weekend."

Russell and Hanger welcomed their son Buddy Prine Russell successful November 2021.

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Kate Mara and Jamie Bell

Well, astatine slightest 1 bully happening came retired of the universally panned Fantastic Four reboot successful 2014.

Mara and Bell fell for each different connected the acceptable of the superhero flick, though they didn't spark dating rumors until they were spotted holding hands astatine a Met Gala after-party successful May 2015.

After their July 2017 wedding, Bell gushed  to E! News, "It feels similar we've been joined for years. In the champion way. We're having a large time."

In May 2019, Mara revealed the couple welcomed their archetypal child. "We had a babe a mates weeks ago..." the A Teacher prima wrote connected Instagram. "Here are her feet." In November 2022, Mara and Bell announced the commencement of their 2nd child successful akin fashion: "Had a babe a week ago," Mara shared connected Instagram. "Here are his feet." Bell besides shares lad Jack Bell with ex-wife Evan Rachel Wood.

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Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara

Kate isn't the lone Mara sister to find emotion connected a movie set.

In 2013, Phoenix and Mara proved their enviable chemistry erstwhile they co-starred successful the Oscar-nominated movie Her. They past shared the surface successful the 2018 biblical play Mary Magdalene, and according to reports, the couple archetypal realized their attraction to 1 different portion filming the task a twelvemonth anterior successful Italy.

The backstage brace made their reddish carpet debut astatine the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and softly got engaged successful 2019. And, portion accepting the Oscar for Best Actor, The Joker star got affectional while giving Mara a shout-out. Wiping distant tears, helium told his partner, "I emotion you."

In September 2020, manager Victor Kossakovsky revealed at the Zurich Film Festival that the couple had welcomed a babe boy. He besides confirmed that the couple's lad was named River, seemingly successful grant of Joaquin's precocious member River Phoenix, who passed distant successful 1993 astatine the property of 23. 

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Ryan Bingham and Hassie Harrison

Yellowstone fans were twirling their lassos with glee erstwhile the co-stars confirmed their relationship with a fiery photo posted to Bingham's Instagram successful April 2022. In the post, the 2 were seen sharing a buss successful beforehand of an unfastened flame, with the histrion captioning their PDA post, "More than a spark." As for Harrison's reaction? She commented, "I emotion you, cowboy."

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Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer

It was emotion astatine archetypal wound for the couple, who began dating while filming the archetypal play of HBO's True Blood successful 2008. 

"There's nary 1 I'd alternatively enactment with," Moyer told E! News in 2009. "I emotion moving with her and that's however it each started, by falling successful emotion connected camera."

They announced their engagement a twelvemonth later and tied the knot successful August 2010. Moyer and Paquin welcomed twins, Poppy and Charlie, successful 2012.

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Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen

Each having a failed matrimony down them, neither prima was looking for emotion erstwhile they arrived connected the acceptable of Pontiac Moon successful 1993.

"I announced to each my friends—not dramatically, but precise seriously—that I was done with relationships," Steenburgen told Closer. But the brace fell for each different portion playing hubby and wife, with Danson revealing they bonded during a country successful a canoe.

"We paddled successful sync," Danson said. "We went retired arsenic friends and by the clip we came back, we were successful love... Ironic however beingness works successful those moments. Once you propulsion up your arms and surrender, a batch of times things travel your way."

In October 2020, the mates celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary, with the Book Club histrion gushing to Closer, "I'm ridiculously successful emotion with him. I find him endlessly fascinating. He surprises maine each the clip and astir of each helium makes maine laugh."

The Good Place histrion admitted successful the aforesaid interview, "I get tense astir her due to the fact that I privation to impressment her—I americium the luckiest."

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Grace Van Patten and Jackson White

After viewers binged the Hulu drama Tell Me Lies, they couldn't assistance but wonderment if Van Patten and White's onscreen chemistry had trickled implicit into real-life, with the brace afloat playing into their are-they-or-aren't-they dynamic successful interviews and connected societal media. And successful November of past year, we yet got the answer: No, we're not fibbing, the problematic onscreen brace is unneurotic successful real-life and, fortunately, toxin-free.

White confirmed their romance with several photobooth snaps from the 2022 CFDA Awards, including a representation of the co-star mates kissing.  He past posted a photograph of himself and Van Patten touching tongues with the caption, "if we buss tin we get a s2 @hulu." Spoiler alert: It worked! Tell Me Lies is acceptable to instrumentality aboriginal this year. 

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