Internet Sleuths Call Ariana Grande a ‘Homewrecker’ After a Closer Look at Her Dating History
Aug 1, 2023 • Kaira Guererro
Aug 1, 2023 • Kaira Guererro
Ariana Grande finds herself in hot water after splitting with her husband Dalton Gomez and getting into a romance with her Wicked co-star Ethan Slater. After the Internet found out that Slater is actually still married and has a newborn kid, many called the 30-year-old a ‘homewrecker.’ This prompted Grande’s fans and critics to bust out their magnifying glasses, scrutinize her past relationships, and see if they started in the same way hers with Slater did. Is Ariana Grande a “serial homewrecker”? Here’s what they found out:
Ariana Grande and Jai Brooks pic.twitter.com/kRmqoHESfl
— rt ur parent(s) (@rturparents) September 20, 2015
Australian YouTuber Jai Brooks (of the comedy group The Janoskians) and Grande dated on and off between 2012 to 2014. Having met on Twitter, the pair started a long-distance relationship before meeting IRL. However, they broke up in 2013 when Brooks accused Grande of cheating on him with The Wanted singer Nathan Sykes. Brooks and Grande got back together briefly in early 2014 but split for good in July.
Months before Nathan Sykes and Grande collaborated on their hit song “Almost is Never Enough” (released on August 2013), Grande said the singer already caught her eye. In an interview, Grande says she first saw Sykes on a red carpet in March 2013, while she was still in a relationship with Brooks, and they “locked eyes all night” but “nothing happened, obviously.”
In August of the same year, Brooks made a mushy 10-month anniversary post for Grande, amid rumors of her dating Sykes. A week later, Brooks and Grande announced their breakup, and the following month, on September 24, Sykes went on Twitter to confirm that yes, they are in fact dating and they went on to do so for the next five months.
Grande and Big Sean’s relationship which progressed from friends and colleagues to lovers started in 2013. The pair worked together on Grande’s single “Right There” and reportedly had incredible on-stage chemistry. It wasn’t until around August 2014 that they got together. But theirs wasn’t as clean of a start as folks would like to believe. The late Naya Rivera, who was in a relationship with Big Sean from 2013 to 2014, insinuated that her man cheated on her with Grande. Rivera and Big Sean even got engaged in October 2013. Unfortunately, they went through a messy split in April 2014.
In Rivera’s 2016 autobiography, Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up, she recalled that in 2014 when Big Sean returned to LA and didn’t want to see her, she went to his house anyway since she had a key.
“I walk in, go downstairs, and guess what little girl is sitting cross-legged on the couch listening to music? … It rhymes with ‘Smariana Schmande,'” she wrote.
On April 2015, reports said Grande and Big Sean split up because of “conflicting tour schedules” that kept them apart for long periods. But the report also said they remain good friends. A testament to this is Grande giving Big Sean a shoutout on her hit 2018 song Thank U, Next (Thought I’d end up with Sean / But he wasn’t a match).
mac miller and ariana grande are soulmates❣️ pic.twitter.com/F4SFaXCCzm
— k (@musicmovies7) July 21, 2023
Grande and Mac Miller have been good friends and worked on a few projects together before being rumored as a couple. They first met in 2012, did a cover of “Baby It’s Cold Outside” for the 2012 holidays, and worked on her debut 2013 single “The Way” where they kissed in the music video. But it wasn’t until 2016 that the pair got romantically involved. They dated for two years before breaking up in May 2018.
Internet sleuths later found Miller’s ex-girlfriend Nomi Leasure’s now-deleted blog posts that alleged her ex-boyfriend (Miller) cheated on her. “When I was in a committed situation with my boyfriend I said ‘There are so many worse things he could do to me than sleep with another girl’ and ‘I wouldn’t end a relationship if he cheated.’ He did [cheat] and I didn’t. So, I’m a living, breathing embodiment of my own doctrine,” she wrote.
Cazzie David, Pete Davidson’s ex-girlfriend, said that the day after she requested a break from him, she reached out again to tell Davidson she made a mistake. However, he told her the breakup made him “the happiest he had ever been” and David found out that exact same day that he was dating Grande. Two days later, Davidson broke up with her for good.
Davidson and Grande’s whirlwind romance included getting engaged one month after getting together in May 2018 and breaking up in October 2018 after realizing “it happened too quickly and too early.”
Dalton Gomez is reportedly “devastated” by his split from Ariana Grande. pic.twitter.com/BxnzSEjr60
— Pop Hive (@thepophive) July 20, 2023
In December 2020, Grande shocked the world with news about her engagement with real estate agent Dalton Gomez. Reports said they met pre-pandemic when Gomez was hired to help her find a house. Around this time, Gomez’s rumored ex-girlfriend, Rikki Barton, posted a meme on her Instagram stories with the caption: “When you see your ex with the person they told you not to worry about.” Again, Internet sleuths pointed out that this relationship might’ve also started the way Grande’s other relationships began. Be that as it may, the happy pair tied the knot in May 2021.
In July 2023, news about the couple’s romance being on the rocks circulated online and reports later confirmed that they actually split up in January 2023.
Ethan Slater’s estranged wife Lilly Jay feels he ‘abandoned his family’ and ‘feels betrayed’ following the news that he’s dating Ariana Grande, TMZ reports.
TMZ also reports that Ariana “used to hang out with both Ethan and Lilly” while they were still a married couple. pic.twitter.com/iJ2y6Rr1vG
— Pop Base (@PopBase) July 26, 2023
Immediately after news about Grande and Gomez’s split, news about her dating her Wicked co-star Ethan Slater set the Internet on fire. Reports say Grande and Slater got close working together at the London-based set. But it also clarified that they “didn’t start dating until both were broken up with their significant others.” Apparently, up until May 2023, Slater was happily married. He just celebrated his fourth anniversary with his wife Lilly Jay last November 2022, marked with a sweet Instagram post. In May 2023, he also made a sweet Mother’s Day post for her which Grande even double-tapped on.
News reports say Jay was “blindsided” by the relationship. Page Six even wrote, “It’s horrible. They were high school sweethearts. They have a baby! She’s a wreck.”
Last July 26, Cosmopolitan reported that Slater officially filed for divorce in New York. What a mess.
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