{"id":514665,"date":"2026-06-28T05:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T05:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/514665\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T05:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T05:17:26","slug":"ariana-grande-spotted-hanging-out-with-ex-ricky-alvarez-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/514665\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Spotted Hanging Out with Ex Ricky Alvarez in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260626_efa706adc0194e07bce862a6c5e39f54\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:d130c0bf-84f1-45fb-9dae-f3fe2fde2f52\" 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\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/efa706adc0194e07bce862a6c5e39f54_md.jpg\" alt=\"main-ariana-grande-ricky-alvarez-getty-ig-1\" 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> was spotted out with her ex Ricky Alvarez in Texas before a concert in Austin &#8230; sending fans into a frenzy and sparking romance rumors online &#8230; but it&#8217;s not what it looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ &#8230; Ari has friends in Austin for her birthday &#8212; she turned 33 today &#8212; and Ricky is one of the friends.<\/p>\n<p>      Ap\u00f3s uma misteriosa mudan\u00e7a na letra de \u201cthank u, next\u201d durante a eternal sunshine tour, Ariana Grande \u00e9 vista saindo com seu ex-namorado Ricky Alvarez. \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HPWpuMYxAs\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/HPWpuMYxAs<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/infoari\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@infoari<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They were snapped at a restaurant Thursday, but our sources insist there is nothing romantic between Ariana and Ricky this time around.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ari&#8217;s in ATX for her &#8220;Eternal Sunshine&#8221; tour, and our sources say she was also seen out and about taking photos with fans.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Twitter Tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Ricky danced backup on Ariana&#8217;s &#8220;Honeymoon&#8221; tour in 2015 and they dated for a bit &#8230; enough that he got a shoutout in &#8220;Thank U, Next&#8221; where she sings that she listens and laughs over the songs she wrote about him.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent performance, Ariana tweaked the lyrics, singing instead &#8230; &#8220;Wrote some songs about Ricky \/ Now they still kinda slap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As you know, Ariana&#8217;s back on the market after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/08\/ariana-grande-and-ethan-slater-split\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breaking up<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/ethan-slater\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Slater<\/a>. Sources told us at the time the split was amicable and they&#8217;re still friends.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like Ari&#8217;s so grateful for at least one ex.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande was spotted out with her ex Ricky Alvarez in Texas before a concert in Austin &#8230;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-514665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}