Ariana Grande spotted with ex in her hometown of Boca. What gives?
While America rang in its 250th birthday on July 4, Ariana Grande was celebrating something old, too. An ex.
The pop princess’ love life is apparently moving right along after her break-up with “Wicked” costar Ethan Slater.
Paparazzi snapped her in her hometown of Boca Raton on Saturday with someone from a few relationships ago. Hint: Not former husband Dalton Gomez.
Grande’s semiquincentennial date was none other than choreographer Ricky Alvarez, who used to be her backup dancer (and briefly more) over a decade ago.
The two were pictured doing a grocery haul with a bodyguard-type gentleman outside a Whole Foods, reportedly headed to her family compound nearby.
The night before, Grande wrapped up the last of three dates on her Eternal Sunshine Tour at the Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise.
It’s unclear which parent she was hanging with as her businesswoman mom, Joan Grande, and graphic designer dad, Ed Butera, divorced a while back. Here’s to hoping she got to see both as the exes are still cordial co-parents, thanks to their daughter.
“It took 18 years ... and me forcing it. I forced them to communicate again. I really did,” the Grammy winner, 33, told “WTF” podcast host Marc Maron last year. Now “I can’t separate them. It’s the best thing in the whole world.”
Speaking of exes: Think Alvarez is back in the Kodak? Because fans, aka Arianators, spotted the San Diego native, 34, in the crowd at the star’s concert in Austin on her birthday, June 26.
Alas, according to TMZ, there is no smoke where there was once a fire.
Sources told the outlet they’ve just reconnected as friends and apparently, healthy food shopping buddies.
Grande is on the Atlanta leg of the Sunshine tour, after recently wrapping in Broward, with a show on Wednesday night. Our advice, if you don’t have tickets, is to stalk the Whole Foods closest to State Farm Arena.
