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THE RUNDOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n Last night, Ariana Grande fueled her own dating rumors when she changed a lyric about ex-boyfriend Ricky Alvarez on \u201cThank U, Next\u201d during her Eternal Sunshine Tour show in Brooklyn. She shifted a line in the original verse, \u201cWrote some songs about Ricky \/ Now I listen and laugh,\u201d to \u201cWrote some songs about Ricky \/ We always find our way back.\u201d<\/p>\n Grande is relatively newly single. In June, news broke that she and Ethan Slater had quietly broken up<\/a> \u201cseveral months\u201d ago. She and Alvarez, her backup dancer whom she originally dated from 2015 to 2016, were first seen getting lunch together on June 26, her birthday. A source told People<\/em><\/a> that day, \u201cThey\u2019ve been hanging out recently.\u201d<\/p>\n During the July 4 weekend, they were photographed out<\/a> at Whole Foods together in Boca Raton, Florida. On July 7, a source gave more detail on their relationship to People<\/em><\/a>, though the insider didn\u2019t describe them as dating at that point.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s having a great time on tour. She loves having close friends join her for parts of the tour,\u201d the source prefaced. \u201cRicky has always been a friend and confidant. She really trusts him. He has such great, positive energy, makes her laugh, and she enjoys spending time with him.\u201d<\/p>\n The insider said Grande was \u201cdoing really well.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHer relationship with Ethan is 100 percent over,\u201d the source added. \u201cShe\u2019s focused on her tour and spending time with the people who have always been there for her. Ariana is having the best time reconnecting with fans and loves being onstage.\u201d<\/p>\n Grande has tweaked her \u201cThank U, Next\u201d lyric about Alvarez three times now during her tour. On her June 26 birthday show, she sang, \u201cWrote some songs about Ricky \/ I know he still got my back.\u201d<\/p>\n At her concert two days earlier, Grande made her first tweak to the line, singing, \u201cWrote some songs about Ricky \/ And they still kinda slap.\u201d<\/p>\n This marks Grande\u2019s first rumored romance since her Ethan Slater breakup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.elle.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE RUNDOWN Ariana Grande fueled rumors that she and ex-boyfriend Ricky Alvarez are dating again during her July 13 Eternal Sunshine Tour show in Brooklyn. She changed her \u201cThank U, Next\u201d lyric about him to \u201cWrote some songs about Ricky \/ We always find our way back.\u201d A source detailed their dynamic to People on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2501683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[274717,492985,285977,466866,285684,441834,492984,488699,436397],"class_list":["post-2501682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-454bbd81-8a48-484a-8be6-38dc33148058","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-2","tag-shorttitle-inside-ariana-grande-and-ricky-alvarezs-dynamic","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-celebrity-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ariana-Grande-Sparks-Reconciliation-Rumors-With-Ricky-Alvarez.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501684,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501682\/revisions\/2501684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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