{"id":629128,"date":"2026-06-09T11:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629128\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:54:08","slug":"ariana-grande-and-ethan-slater-wicked-co-stars-split-after-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629128\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater: Wicked co-stars split after three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last weekend, Grande began her long-awaited Eternal Sunshine tour &#8211; her first since 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The live shows come three years after the Eternal Sunshine album was released, and ahead of Grande&#8217;s forthcoming album Petal, which drops next month and has been preceded by a new single, Hate That I Made You Love Me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pop star, also known for hits including Twilight Zone and Side To Side, has focused more on acting in recent years and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cjekqqjl9qqo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said in November that the tour would be her last for a &#8220;long time&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress for her role in the first Wicked movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow actor and singer Slater was nominated, along with the entire Wicked ensemble, for outstanding performance by a cast in the same movie at the Actor Awards, formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was also nominated for a Tony Award for his Broadway debut as SpongeBob SquarePants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last weekend, Grande began her long-awaited Eternal Sunshine tour &#8211; her first since 2019. The live shows come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-629128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}