Ariana Grande didn’t hold back from fawning over her boyfriend, Ethan Slater, in the comments section of his latest Instagram post.
Slater, 32, shared photos from a recent shoot with Schön! magazine to his social media account Tuesday.
The actor posed in a long overcoat and scarf in the black-and-white images taken by fashion photographer Tyler Patrick Kenny.
Upon seeing the new photos of her “Wicked” co-star and partner, Grande, 31, rushed to the comments section of the post and made her feelings known.
“the Buster Keaton of today !” she wrote, referring to the late actor known for his silent films and physical comedy and stunts in the 1920s.
In another comment, the pop star expressed her love and enthusiasm, simply writing, “!!! ♡.”
Slater did not touch on his relationship with Grande in his interview with the London-based fashion publication, though he did mention Keaton while discussing his own experience with physical comedy while starring in “The SpongeBob SquarePants Musical.”
“I was obsessed with Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Danny Kaye — these comedians in early film that I fell in love with and I’ve always emulated. So even doing SpongeBob was sort of hearkening back to that,” he said.
“I’ve always loved film, and I’ve done film, just never to this scale. I would like to say I’m a student of film, but when people say they’re a student of film, it means that they really know what they’re talking about — I’m more of a student who I like learning. I want to learn more — you know I read books about it, I watch a ton of movies and I have my whole life. It’s definitely something I’m passionate about doing more of.”
The “Wicked” co-stars fell in love on the set of their film after both experiencing failed marriages.
News broke in July 2023 that Grande had split from her then-husband, Dalton Gomez, while Slater filed for divorce from his high school sweetheart, Lilly Jay, with whom he shares a 2-year-old son named Ezra, later that same month.
Jay blasted Grande at the time, telling Page Six exclusively that the Grammy winner was “not a girl’s girl,” but a source insisted the new couple “didn’t do anything wrong” and had been quietly separated from their respective spouses for months.
Slater admitted in October that going public with Grande was difficult to manage.
“I think there was something that was really difficult about things in your private life being commented on and looked at by the public,” the Broadway star told GQ. “There were a lot of big changes in private lives that were really happening, so it’s really hard to see people who don’t know anything about what’s happening commenting on it and speculating, and then getting things wrong about the people you love. So just to address that part of it, that feels really hard.”
Grande defended their love a month prior and denied speculation that they had an affair.
“The most disappointing part was to see so many people believe the worst version of [our relationship],” she told Vanity Fair in September.
“There couldn’t be a less accurate depiction of a human being than the one that the tabloids spread about him. No one on this earth tries harder or spreads themselves thinner to be there for the people that he loves and cares about.”
The “7 Rings” singer went on to gush about her beau’s character, saying, “There is no one on this earth with a better heart. And that is something that no bulls–t tabloid can rewrite in real life.”
