Ariana Grande’s alleged new boyfriend Ethan Slater has filed for divorce from his estranged spouse, Lilly Jay.

The Spongebob Squarepants: The Musical actor is believed to have sparked a relationship with Ariana after the pair met filming the Wicked film within the UK.

It is believed that each events have been single on the time of them getting romantically concerned, with Ariana splitting from husband, Dalton Gomez, firstly of this yr.

While no celebration has spoken out concerning the claims as of but, court docket data obtained by TMZ state that Slater has now formally requested the dissolution of his marriage to Lilly Jay.

Slater, 31, began relationship Jay - his highschool sweetheart - in 2012 with the couple getting married in 2018.

The pair welcomed their first baby, a child boy, in 2022.

It’s not identified after they formally cut up, nonetheless news broke in late July that Ariana had been seeing Slater for ‘a few months’.

According to TMZ, who broke the story, Jay was left ‘heartbroken’ when she was informed concerning the new relationship simply days earlier than it went into the general public eye.

In the rapid aftermath of the reviews, Slater set his social media accounts to personal and is but to make them public once more.

The web site additional claims that Ariana and Slater are attempting to ‘lay low’ out of respect to their exes as they pursue their new relationship.

Filming for Wicked, which is basically happening in Hertfordshire, England, is at the moment on pause as a result of SAG-AFTRA actors strike.

The strike is at the moment in its third week, with 160,000 actors refusing to work till they get higher pay, residual agreements and reassurance round synthetic intelligence throughout the trade.

Filming ceased on July 14 - simply 10 days earlier than they have been on account of wrap up.

The movie will star Ariana as Glinda the Good Witch alongside Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, within the origin story of how she grew to become referred to as The Wizard of Oz’s ‘Wicked Witch of The West’.

Slater will play Boq, a resident of Munchkinland who turns into mates with Glinda and Elphaba throughout their time at school.

The movie will likely be cut up into two elements, with the primary scheduled for launch on November 27, 2024.

Wicked: Part Two is ready for launch on November 26, 2025, nonetheless it’s unknown if the strike will impact this.