{"id":765782,"date":"2026-06-28T13:21:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/765782\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:21:32","slug":"ariana-grande-spotted-with-ex-boyfriend-ricky-alvarez-for-her-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/765782\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Spotted With Ex-Boyfriend Ricky Alvarez for Her Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THE RUNDOWN<\/p>\n

A video online showed Ariana Grande spending time with her ex-boyfriend, Ricky Alvarez.They were seated together for lunch in Austin, Texas, on Grande\u2019s birthday.Though rumors of a reconciliation started circulating, the pair is reportedly just friends.<\/p>\n

A video taken of Ariana Grande<\/a> and her ex-boyfriend, Ricky Alvarez<\/a>, started circulating on social media. It was reportedly recorded on Friday, June 26, the pop star\u2019s 33rd birthday, in Austin, Texas, just ahead of Grande\u2019s Eternal Sunshine Tour<\/a> stop in the city.<\/p>\n

The sighting has started rumors of a reconciliation, but a source speaking with TMZ<\/a> said that Grande is celebrating her birthday by inviting friends to the city and Alvarez was included as one of those friends\u2014and nothing else.<\/p>\n

Another source only told People<\/a>, \u201cThey\u2019ve been hanging out recently.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grande and Alvarez dated for about a year beginning in 2015. Since then, she has publicly dated Mac Miller, Pete Davidson, and her Wicked co-star, Ethan Slater, following a brief marriage to real estate developer Dalton Gomez. Slater and Grande were confirmed<\/a> to have split up earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Grande and Alvarez have seemingly maintained a friendly relationship over the past decade, even though he was name-dropped in her 2018 hit \u201cThank U, Next.\u201d At the time of its release, he shared a clip of himself listening to it in his Instagram Stories<\/a>, showing his reaction to the line, \u201cWrote some songs about Ricky, now I listen and laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing but gratitude,\u201d Alvarez wrote in his next post. \u201cThank you, next\u2026 (those songs are fire tho\u2026 you\u2019re welcome).\u201d<\/p>\n

Grande reshared both his Stories, commenting, \u201cHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH IM SORRY U GOT THE WORST LINE. It was meant v lovingly.\u201d<\/p>\n

During her June 26 performance of the track, Grande shifted the line, singing, \u201cWrote some songs about Ricky, I know he\u2019s still got my back,\u201d following another show where she sang, \u201cWrote some songs about Ricky, now they still kinda slap.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 min read THE RUNDOWN A video online showed Ariana Grande spending time with her ex-boyfriend, Ricky Alvarez.They…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,428,364883,430,134,308081,2387,136,257356,364882,255902],"class_list":["post-765782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-7136bb49-d088-4ef4-80c6-60e46e92e332","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-music","tag-read_time-2","tag-shorttitle-ariana-grande-seen-with-ex-boyfriend-ricky-alvarez","tag-subsection-celebrity-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}