{"id":806994,"date":"2026-07-17T03:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806994\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T03:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:18:10","slug":"ariana-grande-ricky-alvarez-cozy-up-during-central-park-stroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806994\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande &#038; Ricky Alvarez Cozy Up During Central Park Stroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Ariana Grande<br \/>\n                          Parades Ricky Romance Through Central Park<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              July 16, 2026<br \/>\n                            5:46 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260717_41489aa2c8fe4f7ba064dbc4d7bd55d0\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:9a33874f-f4d7-42fc-ac35-3bdb8f8807d1\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/41489aa2c8fe4f7ba064dbc4d7bd55d0_md.jpg\" alt=\"Ariana Grande and Ricky Alvarez walking in Central Park tmz wm 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/ariana-grande\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a>&#8216;s putting her rekindled romance with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/ricky-alvarez\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ricky Alvarez<\/a> on display as they stroll through Central Park with their arms wrapped around each other.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ obtained photos from Thursday that show the pint-sized pop star and her former backup dancer cheesin&#8217; in NYC.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260717_62573178507b4655bb9bfbd57c7f927e\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:9a33874f-f4d7-42fc-ac35-3bdb8f8807d1\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/62573178507b4655bb9bfbd57c7f927e_md.jpg\" alt=\"Ariana Grande and Ricky Alvarez walking in Central Park tmz wm\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ricky&#8217;s arm is draped over Ari&#8217;s shoulder and hers is around his waist, while she walks a dog that looks like it could be her pup, Toulouse.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As we previously reported &#8230; the singer and her former flame are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/07\/14\/ariana-grande-ricky-alvarez-back-together\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">back together<\/a> after weeks of speculation.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260717_dc02a7a561054a4a8f4b941ddccf4deb\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:9a33874f-f4d7-42fc-ac35-3bdb8f8807d1\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dc02a7a561054a4a8f4b941ddccf4deb_md.jpg\" alt=\"Ariana Grande and Ricky Alvarez walking in Central Park tmz wm 3\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was snapped out with her while she was on tour in Texas last month, and she&#8217;s since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/07\/14\/ariana-grande-changes-ricky-alvarez-lyrics-again\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">changed<\/a> the lyrics in &#8220;Thank U, Next&#8221; to paint him more positively during her shows.<\/p>\n<p>The two also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/07\/06\/ariana-grande-ricky-alvarez-grocery-shopping\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spent<\/a> Fourth of July together &#8230; picking up food from a Florida Whole Foods.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like now she&#8217;ll be writing more songs about Ricky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Parades Ricky Romance Through Central Park Published July 16, 2026 5:46 PM PDT Ariana Grande&#8216;s putting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-806994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}