Grande and Ricky Álvarez’s love story started in 2015 after he joined the popstar on her Honeymoon Tour as a background dancer.
“We’re pleased,” Grande advised Billboard of her romance with Álvarez in a Could 2016 interview. “I’m a really pleased woman. I’ve a wholesome life proper now, and I believe that’s all anybody cares to know. The tip.”
Their romance proved to be brief and candy, with the musician and the skilled dancer calling it quits simply months later in July 2016.
However there have been brighter days forward for the couple, who have been seen collectively throughout a June 2026 group lunch at De Nada Cantina in Austin.
Sooner or later later, Grande switched up the lyrics to her 2018 hit “thank u, subsequent.” Although she normally adopted the lyric, “Wrote some track about Ricky,” with, “now I pay attention and snicker,” at her Austin present she stated, “They nonetheless actually slap.”
Weeks later, she was again at it once more, this time singing at her July 13 live performance, “We all the time discover our manner again.”
Quickly after, he discovered his manner onto her grid, with Grande showing to delicate launch their romance on Instagram July 27 forward of the discharge of her eighth album Petal.
As she captioned the submit which included a clip of herself clinking olives with Álvarez, “petal season continued …….. !”
