Ethan Slater Apparently Asked Wife for Divorce ‘Days Before’ Ariana Grande News Broke
We’re on double duty divorce watch, folks! Things are...sus at best.
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After news broke that Ariana Grande had split from her husband, Dalton Gomez early last week, we learned shortly after that Grande has not opted for a single girl summer and is instead diving into a new relationship with none other than a man who starred as SpongeBob Squarepants on Broadway, Ethan Slater. The two met on the set of the upcoming film version of Wicked. Though it is certainly an unforeseen and strange update to Ari’s divorce watch, it seemed the news of her split from Gomez might not be as devastating as we once thought…
The same can’t be said for Slater and his now estranged wife, though. TMZ reported that Lilly Jay, was not in the loop on her husband’s dating-other-people thing and feels that Slater has completely abandoned his family. (Sounds about right, tbh.) The two were high school sweethearts, married in 2018, and had a son in August 2022. Sources close to Jay told TMZ that she is “devastated her family’s been torn apart” and is “upset” that their less-than-a-year-old son “won’t have both his mom and dad around constantly.”